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Northwestern University Professor Chad Mirkin Earns Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad Mirkin has been awarded The 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Mirkin is the first Northwestern scientist to receive the prestigious award.…
Federal Funding Milestone: University of Michigan Retirement Study Awarded $195M
With about $195 million in new federal funding—the largest research grant in University of Michigan history—the Institute for Social Research will extend its long-running and influential Health and Retirement Study through 2029.
The…
University of Michigan’s Africa Oceanography School Receives Funding from Schmidt Sciences
A University of Michigan-led summer school for oceanographers in Ghana and Nigeria is part of a project to receive funding from Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic organization started by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt.…
University of Michigan Partners in Consortium Building New Instrument to Investigate Universe
The University of Michigan Department of Astronomy is part of an international consortium of institutions that will take part in the design and construction of ANDES, a powerful instrument set to be used on the largest…
University of Michigan’s New AI Method Poised to Transform Tissue and Tumor Analysis
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Brown University have developed a new computational method to analyze complex tissue data that could transform our current understanding of diseases and how we treat them.
Integrative and…
$6.7M Grant Boosts University of Michigan Research on Flu Immunity in Children
No parent wants to see their baby sick. But a child’s first exposure to influenza is actually very important—it can impact their natural protection against future flu viruses.
This process, called imprinting, in which…
University of Michigan Discovers Exceptional Organ Preservation in Brazilian Fossil Fishes
Fossils in Brazil indicate a more complex evolutionary history for ray-finned fish brains than previously anticipated, according to new research.
Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa, a Brazilian doctoral student at the University of Michigan, and…
University of Michigan Explores “Machine Dazzle” and the Sustainability Cycle
There is nothing small about Machine Dazzle. A self-proclaimed “queer maximalist,” Dazzle is an artist and designer whose stories come alive through his work, and at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, his latest story is … verbose.…
Cost Barrier to Naloxone Access Highlighted in Recent Study
Patients are less likely to fill prescriptions for naloxone when they face increases in out-of-pocket costs, according to research by the University of Michigan.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study …
Scientists Forecast Above-Average Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone,” University of Michigan…
A team of scientists, including a University of Michigan aquatic ecologist, is forecasting an above-average summer “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico covering about 5,827 square miles—an area roughly the size of Connecticut. This summer’s…