Innovation
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U-M offers road-saving formula: free
Ultra-high-performance concrete promises more durable roads and bridges, not to mention budgets.
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Self-awareness class inspires new app
U-M grads’ new intention-tracking app will mesh with Amazon’s Alexa to nudge people toward goals, desires. Its tentative name? Iris.
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Getting smart about opioids
Alumni entrepreneurs create iKeyp, a “smart safe” for meds that promises security, deterrence, and adherence.
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Gonna fly now
With its outdoor fly lab for drone testing, U-M now hosts advanced robotics facilities for land, air, sea, and space. Plus: Robotics building breaks ground.
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Catalyzing cures
Richard and Susan Rogel’s record-breaking gift to Michigan Medicine — at $150 million — will transform cancer research.
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Noble Nobel in space
In 1976, Samuel C.C. Ting discovered a particle that changed physics. In 2018, he’s working on the most sophisticated particle physics experiment in space.
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Helping to explain how the brain regulates body weight
Diverse perspectives drive discovery in Roger Cone’s lab at the Life Sciences Institute.
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SkySpecs: A 10-year overnight success
Alumni startup takes off in the drone space with an autonomous solution for inspecting wind turbines.
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Life's a beach
Researchers are working in Lake Michigan communities to shore up effects of beach erosion as threats intensify from fluctuating Great Lakes water levels.