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  • Concept illustration of the links between agriculture, biodiversity and the spread of pathogens. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Incubator or barrier? Exploring the links between agriculture, biodiversity and the spread of pathogens

    Many pathogens, including the virus that causes COVID-19, are thought to have originated in wild animals before spilling into human populations.

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  • Concept illustration of a diverse group of students studying physics in a lab. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    U-M collaboration to receive DOE grant to diversify physics

    The University of Michigan, Black Hills State University in South Dakota and Benedictine University in Illinois have received a $1.125 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to recruit students of diverse backgrounds into the field of physics.

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

    U-M receives CDC grant to establish center to help fight disease outbreaks, protect public health

    The University of Michigan is among 13 institutions that will receive funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be part of a national network of centers focused on predicting and responding to future disease outbreaks.

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  • Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study logo

    COVID-19: U-M report explores link between state’s geographic regions and impact of the pandemic

    The latest report from University of Michigan public health researchers studying how COVID-19 affected Michiganders found that the severity of illness or negative impact of the pandemic is strongly linked to where one lives.

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  • Concept illustration of a runner wearing a smart watch. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    U-M, Samsung team up to bring advanced smartwatch tech to runners

    The University of Michigan Exercise & Sport Science Initiative has launched a research partnership with Samsung Electronics Co. to explore smartwatch technology in an effort to help runners manage their health and physical activity by providing more reliable and accurate data.

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  • Closeup pharmacist hand holding medicine box in pharmacy drugstore. Image credit: MJ Prototype, iStock

    Lifesaving addiction medications are rarely started following opioid overdose emergencies

    Could future opioid overdoses, fatalities and other harms of opioid addiction be prevented if hospital emergency departments made better use of effective medications for opioid addiction?

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  • Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art pictured at dusk with lights on and 3 banners between columns. Image credit Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography

    Cannupa Hanska Luger ‘GIFTS’ U-M campus with public art installation

    Across the facade of Alumni Memorial Hall—a neoclassical building that opened in 1910 to commemorate U-M students and staff who served in the Mexican-American, Civil, and Spanish-American wars, and home to UMMA—is the experimental installation, "GIFT," commissioned by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger.

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  • The new Global Center will draw on relationships and policies from transboundary watersheds and Indigenous Territories along the entire US- Canada border (orange and green regions, respectively). The Great Lakes basin (blue) serves as an initial area of focus. Directly funded project partners are identified as black dots, with Indigenous partners highlighted by a purple ring. All of North America's transboundary basins are highlighted in light grey for reference Image credit: University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Office of the U-M Vice President for Research

    U-M-based center awarded $5M grant to study climate change impacts on water resources across borders

    University of Michigan researchers will lead a new effort to strengthen the climate change resilience of vulnerable communities that span international boundaries and jurisdictions. The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $5 million to U-M to establish the Global Center for Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters. Partners in the project include Cornell University, the College of Menominee Nation, the Red Lake Nation and the University of Wisconsin.

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  • Concept illustration of a diverse group of college graduates. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Context counts: Holistic admissions boosts college success and diversity, U-M study shows

    Indicators of high school grades and standardized test scores that consider the levels of school, neighborhood and family resources available to students are strongly associated with students' success in college, according to new University of Michigan research.

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  • Groups of people mingling around tables at a Celebrate Invention event. Image courtesy: Celebrate Invention

    U-M reports record number of inventions in FY ’23

    Research led by the University of Michigan generated a record 580 new inventions last year and launched 25 startup companies ranging in scope from innovative therapies for the treatment of fibrosis to technologies that aid in substance abuse monitoring.

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  • A clerk at a gun shop. Image credit: Getty

    Mental health problems, political extremism found in many who bought firearms during COVID pandemic

    People who bought firearms during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic have much higher rates of recent suicidal thoughts, self-harm behaviors and intimate partner violence, compared with other firearm owners and people who do not own firearms, a new study suggests.

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  • An artist's representation of matter in the early universe slowly coalescing into large cosmic structures in the late universe. Image credit: Minh Nguyen, University of Michigan and Thanh Nguyen (spouse)

    The universe caught suppressing cosmic structure growth

    As the universe evolves, scientists expect large cosmic structures to grow at a certain rate: dense regions such as galaxy clusters would grow denser, while the void of space would grow emptier.

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  • Unhappy confused woman with empty wallet think of monthly payment. Frustrated female distressed with bills and taxes pay suffer from financial crisis or debt. Bankruptcy. Vector illustration. Image credit: Aleksei Morozov, iStock

    US Census Bureau poverty statistics: U-M experts can discuss

    University of Michigan faculty are available to discuss the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 report on poverty and income statistics, to be released Sept. 12. The official poverty rate in 2021 was 11.6%, with 37.9 mil­lion people in poverty.

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