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Quick-Cook Method Turns Algae into Oil
Video: Engineering researchers have discovered how to “pressure-cook” algae for as little as a minute and transform an unprecedented 65 percent of the green slime into biocrude.
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Gaming for the Greater Good
Video: Engineering students are developing video games as therapeutic tools to benefit children with autism. Game play helps improve motor skills, focus, and social interaction.
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Eureka! More Inventions than Ever in 2012
U-M Tech Transfer recorded more agreements with commercialization partners than ever before in fiscal year 2012. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs launched 11 new startups last year, eight of which are headquartered in Michigan.
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Sisters in law
Sisters Cornelia Kennedy, ’47, and Margaret Schaeffer, ’45, have always called each other Nealie and Margie. For decades, however, they went by Your Honor.
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Media Coverage of the University of Michigan: Nov. 2012
Stem cells and nanofibers stimulating nerve research; Cancer center receives $29-million grant; Study finds fuel economy at all-time high; Researchers to lead food security study; Athletes sign social media policy as Twitter incidents multiply; Does the Fed favor Republican presidents? Six campus construction projects to watch; Mary Sue Coleman counted among most popular university presidents.
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From the crossroads to the classroom
As a professor, musician, and founding curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Conforth has established an award-winning career sharing his passion for performance and American culture.
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Who was Alice Lloyd?
Most of us know her as a name inscribed on one of Michigan’s residence halls. Meet Alice Lloyd: feminist, registered nurse, and for 20 years U-M’s highest-ranking woman.
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Cager for the ages
Cazzie Russell: Two words that evoke a near-mythic tale of rebirth and transformation in Wolverine athletics that started in the ’60s and still resonates today.
