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  • An artistic rendering of multituberculates from the genus Mesodma — a mother with her litter of offspring — who lived in western North America  60 to 70 million years. Fossil evidence indicates that these creatures were the most abundant mammals in western North American just before and directly after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs. Photo credit:  Andrey Atuchin.

    New study challenges old views on what’s ‘primitive’ in mammalian reproduction

    It’s hard to imagine life on Earth without mammals. They swim in the depths of the ocean, hop across deserts in Australia and travel to the moon. This diversity can be deceiving, at least when it comes to how mammals create the next generation.

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  • Researcher Leslie Decker with a monarch butterfly in a University of Michigan laboratory. Image credit: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography.

    Monarch butterflies now listed as endangered: U-M experts available to comment

    The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for the first time to its “red list” of threatened species on Thursday and categorized it as “endangered.” University of Michigan experts are available to comment. Mark Hunter is the Earl E. Werner Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He Read more

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  • An experiment testing the Aurora plasma thruster. Photo credit: Orbion Space Technology

    Orbion brings a piece of the space age to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

    University of Michigan alumnus Lyon (Brad) King acknowledges that Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is rural—but don’t call it remote.  He chose to build his company, Orbion Space Technology, in Houghton in part because of its vibrant community of innovators connected with Michigan Technological University. The other part? He wanted to continue living near Lake Superior among Read more

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  • Map showing targeted survey areas in green. Blue pins are federally-recognized Native American tribes. Red pins are Kellogg project areas. Image courtesy: Kate Bauer

    U-M, Farm Bureau working together to reduce hunger in Michigan

    For long-time Ishpeming resident Lizzy Nevala, her town is a tale of two cities: The one where those lucky enough to have well-paid jobs in mining are doing great, and the one where residents need to decide whether to pay rent or buy food. “You have people that are doing real well and are living Read more

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  • Santa J. Ono

    University of Michigan appoints Santa Ono as new president

    Santa J. Ono, an accomplished biomedical researcher and the president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia, has been named the 15th president of the University of Michigan.

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  • A Polistes fuscatus paper wasp on a flower. Photo credit: Elizabeth Tibbetts.

    U-M study: Paper wasps form abstract concept of ‘same’ and ‘different’

    In a series of studies over more than 20 years, University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Tibbetts and her colleagues have demonstrated that paper wasps, despite their tiny brains, have an impressive capacity to learn, remember and make social distinctions about others. The researchers showed that paper wasps recognize individuals of their species by variations Read more

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  • The ionosphere and thermosphere (I-T) region sits roughly 50 to 400 miles above the Earth’s surface and will be studied by NASA’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission, which will launch in 2027 at the earliest. Image courtesy: NASA

    Studying Earth’s defenses against solar storms

    University of Michigan researchers will play a central role in NASA’s upcoming Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission—a first-of-its-kind look at a protective outer layer of Earth’s atmosphere and how it interacts with solar weather. Solar weather poses a threat to Earth, with the potential to cause major damage to our power grids and satellites. NASA’s Geospace Read more

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  • Xinjing Huang, a PhD student in applied physics, demonstrates the semi-transparent view through the solar cell. The new manufacturing process could enable meter-scale electricity-producing windows. Photo Credit: Silvia Cardarelli, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan.

    Toward manufacturing semitransparent solar cells the size of windows

    In an important step toward bringing transparent solar cells to home windows, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to manufacture their highly efficient and semitransparent solar cells.  “In principle, we can now scale semitransparent organic solar cells to two meters by two meters, which brings our windows much closer to reality,” Read more

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  • Michael Barr

    Ford School Dean Michael Barr confirmed by US Senate as Fed’s top banking regulator

    The U.S. Senate has confirmed Michael S. Barr, dean of the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, as vice chair for supervision and governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Barr was nominated for the role by President Biden in May. In the role, which was created as part of the Dodd-Frank Read more

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

    U-M awarded $53M to expand federally funded Great Lakes research institute over next 5 years

    The University of Michigan has been awarded a five-year, $53 million renewal agreement from the federal government to continue and expand the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, with the goal of helping to conserve and manage the region's natural resources.

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  • A row of houses in Detroit. Image courtesy: Poverty Solutions

    9 in 10 eviction cases filed during pandemic came from landlords not compliant with rental codes

    DETROIT—Despite pandemic-related eviction prevention measures, thousands of Detroit renters were evicted in the past two years due to loopholes in policies and enforcement. Analysis of court data by University of Michigan researchers shows nearly 90% of eviction cases filed in Detroit during the pandemic came from landlords whose properties were not in compliance with the Read more

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  • Satellite (Landsat) picture of Chesapeake Bay (center) and Delaware Bay (upper right) – and Atlantic coast of the central-eastern United States. Image credit: Landsat/NASA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

    Chesapeake Bay ‘dead zone’ predicted to be 13% lower than average

    This summer’s Chesapeake Bay “dead zone” is expected to be smaller than the long-term average, according to a forecast released today by researchers from  the University of Michigan, Chesapeake Bay Program, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and U.S. Geological Survey. This is due to a below average amount of water entering the bay Read more

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  • Boxes of emergency food and water. Image credit: iStock

    Tool developed by U-M business professor helps prepare aid supplies for typhoons in the Philippines

    FACULTY Q&A Distributing relief supplies to typhoon victims requires storing the goods in the best location before the typhoon hits. The tricky part is knowing where that is. Joline Uichanco, assistant professor of technology and operations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, developed a method to figure it out. As detailed in Read more

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