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  • Concept illustration of data annotators. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Building reliable AI models requires understanding the people behind the datasets

    Social media companies are increasingly using complex algorithms and artificial intelligence to detect offensive behavior online.

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  • Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Image credit: Todd Marsee, Michigan Sea Grant

    New guiding principles urgently needed for Great Lakes stewardship, U-M researchers say

    The tools and policies that worked to significantly reduce threats to the Great Lakes over the past century are ill-equipped to handle today's complex and interrelated challenges.

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  • Concept illustration of Histotripsy. Image courtesy: Histotripsy Group

    U-M team that developed noninvasive surgical treatment to receive highest honor for innovation

    A team of researchers from the University of Michigan's College of Engineering and Medical School invented and developed histotripsy, and their efforts to bring it to the clinic to address human disease has earned them this year's Distinguished University Innovator Award.

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  • Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    U-M partners with Zingerman’s to expand access to naloxone

    In an effort to expand the use of lifesaving opioid overdose reversal medication, the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor’s Zingerman’s Community of Businesses are launching a restaurant-based pilot program in Michigan to train employees in the use and administration of naloxone. In partnership with U-M’s Opioid Research Institute and Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network, Zingerman’s Read more

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  • California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) icon.

    U-M researchers play role in creating new California privacy choice icon

    California recently enacted a new online privacy icon designed to empower users with greater control over their personal information.

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  • Friday For Future 23/09/2022. Image credit: Leonardo Basso, Unsplash

    Teens engaged in activism become better critical thinkers, U-M study finds

    Youth involved in community-based activism over time become better critical thinkers and more politically active, according to a new University of Michigan study.

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  • A monitor shows a circle with orange lines, which are microelectrodes, stretching towards the battery particles, which look like black dots on the screen. Two students observe the screen.

    Cracking in lithium-ion batteries speeds up electric vehicle charging

    Rather than being solely detrimental, cracks in the positive electrode of lithium-ion batteries reduce battery charge time, research done at the University of Michigan shows.

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  • Donald Trump. Image credi: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election: U-M experts offer insight

    University of Michigan experts can discuss the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, in which he's been accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election and block the peaceful transition of presidential power.

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  • A cell phone displaying social media icons. Image credit: dole777, Unsplash

    U-M releases data from Facebook, Instagram study on 2020 presidential election

    The Social Media Archive at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research has released data focusing on the impact of Facebook and Instagram on key political attitudes during the U.S. 2020 elections.

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  • Concept illustration of union workers. Image credit: Nicole Smith, Made with Midjourney

    Michigan local leaders’ views on employee unions: Few changes as ‘right-to-work’ comes and goes

    A majority of local government leaders across Michigan say the state's recently repealed "right-to-work" law has had no impact on relationships between the jurisdictions' government and employee unions.

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  • Students who are members of the 2023 Michigan Semiconductor Hands-On Research Experience (M-SHORE) program at the University of Michigan Lurie Nanofabrication Facility pose for a portrait before the tour the space and a training there. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering

    Semiconductor workforce program increases access to hands-on training

    In a program designed to help grow the U.S. semiconductor workforce, a cohort of college students from across the country are spending summer at the University of Michigan learning how to make, study and improve advanced semiconductors.

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  • Concept illustration of a city in a heat wave. Image credit: Nicole Smith, Made with Midjourney

    Record heat, climate change: What experts want us to know

    The extreme heat and weather that's plaguing much of the U.S. and many countries around the world may be just the tip of the iceberg as the world feels the effects, experts say, of accumulating climate change that's leaving humans—and animals—to try to adapt, to stay cool and safe, the most vulnerable people often ending up in hospitals or dying.

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  • Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory (MIBL). Image credit: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering

    $7.5M to advance nuclear energy awarded to U-M

    In an effort to speed the licensing of advanced nuclear reactors, ensure that communities are respected during reactor siting, monitor and limit corrosion in nuclear reactors, and more, the Department of Energy has awarded $7.5 million to Michigan Engineering researchers.

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