Education & Society
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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.
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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.
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Emeritus professor wins Nobel Prize
Gérard Mourou advanced ‘chirped pulse amplification,’ pushing the limits of optical science.
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Bentley digitizes records for Afroamerican and African studies
Archive includes audio, video, and other historic assets documenting black activism and academia.
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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?’
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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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U-M, Harvard join forces
New partnerships maximize expertise to spur economic mobility in Detroit and mitigate the nation’s opioid crisis.
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Strangers when we meet
Patrick Anderson, BA ’91/MPP ’83, survived the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in NYC, thanks to a perfect stranger. Nearly two decades later, Ann Curry reunited them.
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‘Fake news’ detector outperforms humans
Algorithm identifies telltale linguistic cues and could serve as an effective weapon against misinformation.