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Technology is changing science — and scientists.
Education professor and dean Deborah Ball knows the real secret for teaching kids math.
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U-M's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) has become a vibrant part of campus, drawing more cadets every year. What does it take to be a student who's also training to become an officer in the Army, Air Force, or Navy/Marines? In this video, Michigan Today introduces you to some of the university's brightest stars—U.S. Army cadets.
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A U-M study finds that children who got less shut-eye—fewer than 9 hours each day—were at an increased risk of being overweight. The good news is that putting kids down early enough that they get sufficient sleep drastically reduces the chance they'll become obese.
As war and security issues change, the Navy needs to adapt just as much as soldiers do. New Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter is guiding the overhaul of US methods for waging maritime war and peace.
Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests. What's more, the talk doesn't have to be "intellectual" or even on the test topic. Simply socializing with others, says this U-M study, boosts memory and mental processes.
In recent years, there's been a growing concern within the religious community about the spiritual and ethical dimensions of climate change. To explore this topic, Andrew Hoffman, a professor of sustainable enterprise at the University of Michigan, organized a conference titled "Religious Perspectives on Climate Change: Turning Faith into Action."
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A recent study shows Big Ten football will pump $177 million into the state economy this fall, more than triple the impact of the Super Bowl.
Across disciplines as varied as social work, education, natural resources, the social sciences and medicine, you'll find U-M faculty members driven by their desire to protect and bolster children.
The New Jersey-size Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" will likely grow in coming years unless federal policies to control it change, in part because the demand for corn-based ethanol fuel will worsen the problem, U-M scientists say.
Fixing design bugs and wrong wire connections in computer chips is a tedious, trial-and-error process that often costs companies millions of dollars and months of time-to-market. U-M engineering researchers say it doesn't have to be that way. They've developed a new technology that reduces parts of the process from days to hours.
