A student taking a large course load next semester wants to know how much work will be involved with the classes she tentatively has mapped out. Another wonders if other…
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March 21, 2016
Plastic patients: Life-like mannequins teach students nursing skills
Allison Lewin, a University of Michigan nursing student, is working hard to talk her patient—an expectant mother with preeclampsia—out of a full-blown panic attack. “Is this going to hurt?” the…
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March 15, 2016
Living Lab: Involving kids, parents in real-time child development research
During a recent visit to the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Liz Hill and her daughter found themselves unexpectedly participating in a University of Michigan child development research study. Liz watched…
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March 15, 2016
Spring break students return with tales of service, career connections
In Washington, D.C., during spring break, Belleville senior Amanda Humpich said she got a push in the right direction by networking with recent Michigan graduates to spark her job search….
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March 8, 2016
How To Give the Talk of a Lifetime
It was a slightly bizarre scene. On a recent Thursday, students stood facing—and talking engagingly to—the blank wall in classroom 2011 in the University of Michigan Modern Languages Building. “Is…
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March 7, 2016
Students hail research experience on real legal issue
Students that worked on a research project at three different times over five years all had pretty much the same thing to say: tackling a “real life” legal issue was…
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March 7, 2016
“Me-search”: U-M undergrads analyze their own biological samples to study how microbes affect human health
A “me-search” lab for University of Michigan biology undergraduates gives students a close look at what might be the most compelling study subject of all: themselves. The lab focuses on…
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March 1, 2016
Better gender balance at latest MHacks hackathon
Wearing a Google Glass, Keeley Erhardt sits with her teammates in front of a window on which they’ve scrawled ideas in red dry-erase marker. All around her in the atrium…
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February 12, 2016
Desilting ponds in India benefit farmers, environment
Students from the University of Michigan are developing a low-cost way to increase crop yield and reduce the use of fertilizers for Indian farmers. In a year-long study in India’s…