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Education & Society

  1. U-M geologist Ben van der Pluijm in Michigan Stadium

    Good vibrations

    Michigan Shake project measures crowd response during U-M home football games; data could inform earthquake studies.

  2. U-M tool measures ‘iffy’ news

    U-M’s Center for Social Media Responsibility analyzes news on Facebook and Twitter, just in time for 2018 election.

  3. New business startups

    U-M delivers record 21 startups in FY2018

    U-M researchers reported a 10-percent rise in new inventions with 484 for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

  4. U-M raises $5 billion

    U-M shatters fundraising records

    Some 382,000 donors have given more than $5 billion to U-M — a campaign high among the nation’s public universities.

  5. Video game helps kids avoid predators

    UM-Dearborn undergrads and a UM-Ann Arbor librarian teamed up to help young people with autism stay safe online.

  6. Gérard Mourou

    Emeritus professor wins Nobel Prize

    Gérard Mourou advanced ‘chirped pulse amplification,’ pushing the limits of optical science.

  7. Stephen Ward, associate professor of Afroamerican and African studies, and a student examine archived materials from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. The materials have been newly digitized and made available online for U-M students, faculty and staff. (Image: Lon Horwedel)

    Bentley digitizes records for Afroamerican and African studies

    Archive includes audio, video, and other historic assets documenting black activism and academia.

  8. Captain Class graphic

    The captain class

    As leadership crises rock our world, Wall Street Journal columnist and veteran sports reporter Sam Walker, BA ’92, takes a counterintuitive route to answer: ‘What creates sustained success?’

  9. Cherish Fields mentors Blavin Scholars.

    From foster care to fulfillment

    Blavin Scholar Cherish Fields, BA ’09/MSW ’11, emerged from the state’s foster care system to earn two U-M degrees. Now she’s on a mission to help others.

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