For Walter Aguilar, there’s nothing quite like walking into an empty Michigan Stadium. “This is the way it was the first time I walked into it almost four years ago,” said Aguilar, a University of Michigan senior and the Michigan Marching Band’s 56th drum major.

As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise in the U.S. and around the world, dozens of University of Michigan experts across a wide variety of disciplines are conducting research and using their expertise to address COVID-19 and its impact on public health, the economy, the environment, education and more.

FACULTY Q&A The recent alleged attempt by anti-government militias to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has put a spotlight on domestic terrorism in the United States. And the violence could get worse with the November elections less than a month away, says Alexandra Minna Stern, a University of Michigan expert who studies far right extremism. Read more

First-time voter Riley Friedman wasted no time casting his ballot in this year’s presidential election, which is still three weeks away. A junior at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology, Friedman knew the process of casting a ballot could be daunting, so he decided to seek help on campus and voted in person at Read more

Five University of Michigan professors have been elected to the highest honorary society in the United States for researchers in medicine and health. They study everything from the brain to health care policy and cancer care, and all have demonstrated decades of expertise and achievement. Today, F. DuBois Bowman, Justin Dimick, Christopher Friese, Karin Muraszko Read more

The revenue model that has sustained the newspaper industry for centuries no longer works in the digital age, but another age-old concept with some modern adaptations could be the answer to profitability, says a University of Michigan researcher. As newspaper and other similar content has gone digital over recent years, publishers have tried several funding Read more

A new study provides strong evidence that exposure to light pollution alters predator-prey dynamics between mule deer and cougars across the intermountain West, a rapidly growing region where nighttime skyglow is an increasing environmental disturbance. The University of Michigan-led study, published online Oct. 18 in the journal Ecography, is the first to assess the impacts Read more

FACULTY Q&A Got your grinning kid or smiling spouse in a frame on your desk? You’re less likely to lie to your boss or pad that expense report. That’s the key finding of a study co-authored by Dave Mayer, a business ethics professor at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. It’s certainly among the Read more

Fruit flies may be able to teach researchers a thing or two about artificial intelligence. University of Michigan biologists and their colleagues have uncovered a neural network that enables Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to convert external stimuli of varying intensities into a “yes or no” decision about when to act. The research, scheduled to publish Read more

Results from the nation’s first driverless shuttle project to focus primarily on consumer acceptance and data collection show high levels of trust and satisfaction among both riders and nonriders of the Mcity Driverless Shuttle. Mcity at the University of Michigan completed its driverless shuttle research project in 2019 with a safety record free of major Read more

Previous research seems to show the tendency of women to sabotage themselves in order to earn less than their husbands. But a closer look at the data reveals that might not be the case. A 2015 paper, now well known in economics research, details a graph that appears to show women’s behavior in marriage reinforces Read more