U-M and the Center for Global Health are co-sponsoring two research projects addressing water-quality impacts on public health.
Mar 222012
Mar 132012
A U-M cell biologist and his colleagues have identified a potential drug that speeds up trash removal from the cell’s recycling center, the lysosome.
Mar 112012
The fate of nearly half a million immigrants hoping for U.S. citizenship may have been determined randomly, at least in part, according to a new study by a Michigan State University researcher who found the high-stakes civics test isn’t a reliabl…
Jan 252012
Why is the universe magnetized? It’s a question scientists have been asking for decades. Now, an international team of researchers including a University of Michigan professor have demonstrated that it could have happened spontaneously, as the prevailing theory suggests.
Dec 122011
Under the cold clear waters of Lake Huron, University of Michigan researchers have found a five-and-a-half foot-long, pole-shaped piece of wood that is 8,900 years old.
Nov 222011
Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects to monitor hazardous situations before sending in humans.
Oct 282011
As the world’s biodiversity hotspots are increasingly stressed by their human neighbors, zoning is becoming a common strategy to balance environmental protection and human needs. But a recent study conducted by MSU researchers shows zoning for conservation demands reality checks.
Oct 132011
One of the nation’s foremost journalists, a world-renowned scientist who specializes in pharmaceutical chemistry, a former U-M provost and the current chancellor of Syracuse University, and a Harvard professor and author whose work focuses on community
Oct 122011
Central Michigan University’s Office for Institutional Diversity (OID) recently received a citation for outstanding diversity initiatives at the Minority Access Twelfth National Role Models Conference in Washington, D.C. The annual award honors colleges and universities committed to diversity best practices. CMU is among 17 institutions named to the American Colleges and Universities Committed to Diversity Year 2011 list.
Oct 062011
Under a first-of-its-kind proposal by two Michigan State University law professors urging states to adopt distance marriage, same-sex couples, elderly and ill couples and those deployed could enjoy the ceremonial rituals of a wedding without worrying about geographical boundaries.
Oct 052011
Charlie Kraiger, a junior majoring in international relations at Michigan State University, will spend the fall semester interning at the White House.
Oct 052011
New evidence supports the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth’s oceans, which scientists believe formed about 8 million years after the planet itself
