When Mariam Boakye-Gyasi was 3 years old, she caught a severe case of malaria that caused her small body to convulse so violently that her parents were afraid she would break…
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August 11, 2014
Common Reading Experience encourages engineering students to think about roles in society
From the Diag to Pierpont Commons, Michigan Engineering has installed a series of posters featuring the cover of a book, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.” The posters ask engineers…
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August 1, 2014
U-M helps Detroit’s comeback
As Detroit seeks to rebound from bankruptcy and other issues, University of Michigan students are tirelessly using their research skills and enthusiasm to help the city’s nonprofit agencies. These students…
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July 17, 2014
UM awards $3M global sustainability grant
Electricity for rainforest villages in Gabon. Tent fabric that harvests solar energy for nomadic people in Kazakhstan. A modular greenhouse and fish farm in an unused industrial building in Highland…
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July 17, 2014
Resolving court cases online
The University of Michigan is spearheading the development of what is believed to be the first-of-its-kind technology to help people who have been charged with minor offenses interact with courts…
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July 15, 2014
Students take on book scanning challenge
Book scanning technology has seen many advances in the two decades since the U-M Library began to digitize its collection. But the world has yet to see a low-cost, automatic…
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June 24, 2014
Students help Indian villages with water problems
More than 100,000 people die in India each year from waterborne diseases, but a group of University of Michigan students is hoping to make a difference. The students, who call…
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May 29, 2014
A lesson in sustainable nourishment
A group of students from University of Michigan will travel to Golden Temple in northern India to learn about sustainable nourishment and to bring lessons back to their own communities.
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May 22, 2014
Sayles Pitch: Filmaker and producer partner share collections with students
Author, Auteur, Independent Imagine allowing a class of undergraduate students — perfect strangers – to comb freely through your entire life’s work: childhood school papers, magazine articles, drafts of your…
