Education & Society
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New digital archive preserves Jewish history
U-M recently launched a searchable database containing more than 100 years of digital copies of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Detroit Jewish News.
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Good vibrations
Michigan Shake project measures crowd response during U-M home football games; data could inform earthquake studies.
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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.
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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.
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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?’