Innovation
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Alumni’s filmmaking startup showcases Michigan businesses
New filmmaking venture, Snowday, focuses on local economy, homegrown ventures.
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Mayday machine
If a plane is in trouble, a computer won’t panic. So, is it time for humans to leave the cockpit? Plus: An alum’s new film, Pilot Error, strikes a timely chord.
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World's smallest computer
Breaking the millimeter barrier, U-M engineers have designed and are testing the world’s smallest computers. The future is now.
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Potential to restore hearing?
U-M scientists restore hearing in mice partly deafened by noise, paving the way for new treatments in humans.
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Probing links to autism
Researchers building database to study how environmental stressors may impact brain development.
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Life, engineered
Lynn Conway has been called the hidden hand in the movement that enabled the fabric of Silicon Valley. She’s also one of the nation’s first modern transgender women.
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Under the D
A vacant house in Detroit seems an unlikely site for a shrimp farm – until you think “urban revitalization through sustainable aquaculture.”
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Helping buildings work smarter, not harder
How big data could mean big savings in economy, environment.
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Boosting the brain's appetite to fight disease
New findings hold promise for victims of dementia, Lou Gehrig’s disease.