U-M astronomers peer deeper into mysterious Flame Nebula

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers, including astronomers from the University of Michigan, are closing in on the answer to a looming cosmic question. In probing the Flame Nebula, they’re finding out what’s the smallest celestial body that can form on its own from clouds of gas and dust in space.
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A sporting chance
At the onset of the 20th century, women’s athletics expanded in the United States and at the University of Michigan. Women students took up tennis, archery, fencing, horseback riding, and more. The sidelines no longer sufficed, and women were determined to be on the field. But which field would that be?
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Michigan Law’s Leah Litman on SCOTUS and the rise of the “New Substantive Due Process”
Substantive due process is the idea that the Constitution protects certain rights not explicitly or specifically mentioned in its text, but which are a component of the liberty that is protected by the due process clause. In addition to abortion, it has been applied to things like criminalizing contraception or intimate relationships between adults.
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U-M lecturer, staffer win Grammy with reed quintet
In February, U-M’s Kari Landry and Andrew Koeppe won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for ‘Strands,” a piece they’d recorded with their reed quintet Akropolis. Some 16 years before they stood on stage with a statuette at LA’s Peacock Theater, the five members of Akropolis were undergrads majoring in music at U-M.
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War of the Worlds fan mail reveals early version of ‘fake news’
The U-M Library recently opened access to a digitized archive of some 1,300 fan letters sent in response to the 1938 broadcast of Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds.” These letters dispel the myth — long perpetuated by the media — that Welles’ broadcast incited panic and hysteria.
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U-M takes proactive measures related to federal funding
The University is instituting new requirements to reduce spending as a “buffer against negative, long-term impacts on operations” stemming from federal funding cuts. The requirements involve hiring, budgets, and spending and are effective immediately.
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U-M astronomy will lead its first satellite mission
The project assembles a team of experts from across the country for a mission called STARI — STarlight Acquisition and Reflection toward Interferometry. The goal is to showcase the viability of a new technique for studying exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system.
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Do you have a rare disease?
After discovering that one of his friends is allergic to water, Victor Katch takes a deep dive into rare diseases.
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Creativity and connection across prison walls
One of the world’s largest and longest-running exhibitions of incarcerated artists is back with new programming designed to foster connection and deepen public understanding of incarceration in Michigan. The 29th annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons, curated by U-M’s Prison Creative Arts Project, showcases 772 artworks by 538 artists incarcerated in 26 state prisons. The Duderstadt Center Gallery on U-M’s North Campus is presenting the artwork through April 1.