April 10, 2025

Michigan Stadium to go smoke-free in 2010 season

The University of Michigan Athletic Department will make Michigan Stadium a smoke-free zone when the 2010 season opens against Connecticut Sept. 4.

"We have allowed individuals to smoke on the concourse in the past but with the new renovations and the university's commitment to become a smoke-free campus in 2011, we decided it was in the best interest of everyone to institute the change now," said U-M Director of Athletics Dave Brandon.

Video: Walking robot navigates bumpy ground

A robot named MABEL with a human-like gait can walk over rough terrain in University of Michigan electrical engineering professor Jessy Grizzle's lab.

 

 

How laptops can enhance learning in college classrooms

Despite the distraction potential of laptops in college classrooms, new research shows that they can actually increase students' engagement, attentiveness, participation and learning.

New nanoscale electrical phenomenon discovered

At the scale of the very small, physics can get peculiar. A University of Michigan biomedical engineering professor has discovered a new instance of such a nanoscale phenomenon-one that could lead to faster, less expensive portable diagnostic devices and push back frontiers in building micro-mechanical and "lab on a chip" devices.

Spring Commencement Saturday, May 1

 

Watch the University of Michigan spring commencement ceremony.
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Video: Most Americans live surprisingly close to their mothers

Most Americans live within 25 miles of their mothers, according to a report issued by the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center.

Animated drawing pad wins U-M toy competition

An electronic doodle pad that animates your drawings is the winner of a toy design competition organized by the University of Michigan College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship.

Trapping giant Rydberg atoms for faster quantum computers

In an achievement that could enable fast quantum computers, University of Michigan physicists have built a better Rydberg atom trap. Rydberg atoms are highly excited, nearly-ionized giants that can be thousands of times larger than their ground-state counterparts.

Pressure-cooking algae into a better biofuel

Heating and squishing microalgae in a pressure-cooker can fast-forward the crude-oil-making process from millennia to minutes.

Professors are working to understand and improve this procedure in an effort to speed up development of affordable biofuels that could replace fossil fuels and power today's engines.

Invasive fish and mussels team up to transfer toxic substances into Great Lakes walleyes

Two notorious Great Lakes invader--the zebra mussel and the round goby--now play a central role in transferring toxic chemicals called PCBs up the food chain and into Saginaw Bay walleyes, one of that region's most popular sport fish.

Michigan will finally snap decade-long streak of job losses

After enduring one of its worst years ever in 2009, Michigan's economy will flounder this year before showing some improvement in 2011, say University of Michigan economists.

Astronomers take close-up pictures of mysterious dark object

For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the mysterious dark companion in a binary star system that has puzzled skywatchers since the 19th century.

 

 

Dinosaur skull changed shape during growth

The skull of a juvenile sauropod dinosaur, rediscovered in the collections of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, illustrates that some sauropod species went through drastic changes in skull shape during normal growth.

 

U.S. economy will continue slow road to recovery

After surging in the last quarter of 2009, the U.S. economy will continue to recover at a fairly steady moderate pace this year before picking up a bit more next year, say University of Michigan economists.

 

U-M scientists win $6.8 million in federal stimulus-fund grants for stem cell research

University of Michigan researchers have been awarded 13 federal stimulus-fund grants to date, totaling $6.8 million, for research projects involving both adult and embryonic stem cells.

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