Provost Phil Hanlon talks with E. Royster Harper, vice president for student affairs, during the Division of Student Affairs’ ninth annual research symposium. Hanlon was the keynote speaker at the symposium, held May 16 at the Michigan Union. Photo by Lon Horwedel, Michigan Photography.
The Institute for the Humanities has awarded fellowships to nine faculty and eight graduate students to support research projects they will pursue during 2012-13.
A first-of-its-kind, real-time research funding initiative at U-M puts $15 million into the hands of professors to jumpstart new projects they believe in.
The Board of Regents approved the university’s first undergraduate degree in information at its meeting May 17. The School of Information will offer the bachelor’s degree in information beginning in fall 2014 pending its approval at the June meeting of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan.
The U-M Transportation Research Institute will begin equipping safety technology on vehicles that will allow them to send and receive messages — messages that someday will prevent crashes.
U-M Department of Physics Assistant Professors Junjie Zhu and Lu Li each have been awarded a five-year, $750,000 grant as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program.
A $1.3 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy will help U-M examine one of the major challenges facing nuclear reactors today, and help train the next generation of nuclear engineers.
Returning extra medicine to the pharmacy for disposal might not be worth the extra time, money or greenhouse gas emissions, according to a U-M study that is the first to look at the net effects of so called take-back programs.
David Potter, Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History, on loving graduate school: “Mostly because I had the freedom to develop my own research interests and had intelligent people to talk to about it.”
Research conducted at the U-M Automotive Research Center has helped develop technologies that have saved the lives of thousands of troops. Some of those technologies were discussed this week at the ARC's annual conference.
