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  The Southwest’s drought is shrinking wildlife’s suitable habitat

  As people in the United States are coping with historic drought conditions, the country's wildlife is also facing problems because of the extreme aridity.

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  U-M alum Gabriela Lena Frank wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for music

  Gabriela Lena Frank, the 2026 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music, credits her mentors at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance with cultivating the passion that fuels her creative sense of adventure.

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  AI outperformed humans in a prediction tournament featuring technology ventures

  For decades, the idea that artificial intelligence can beat humans at number-crunching tasks like high-frequency trading has been widely accepted.

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  Flip the switch: 2 more Maize Rays solar sites now operational

  Two additional solar arrays on the University of Michigan North Campus are now generating power, continuing the expansion of the Maize Rays initiative and bringing total on-campus solar generation to 2.5 megawatts across seven locations on U-M's Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses.

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  Consumer confidence falls as gas prices, inflation worries climb

  Consumer sentiment fell for the third straight month as supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz continue to lift gasoline prices, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

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  Complexity isn’t subjective. The right amount results in new nanomaterial properties

  Complexity may seem subjective, but a quantitative measure of the complexity of nanomaterials was recently developed by a team of researchers from the University of Michigan Engineering, the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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  Legal pressure key to removing nonconsensual nudity online

  Online platforms often fail to act on reports of non-consensual intimate images submitted through safety or abuse systems—but remove the same material far more quickly when it is framed as a copyright violation, according to new University of Michigan research.

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  Mothers in silence: 1 in 5 experience perinatal mental illness, yet most go untreated

  Twenty percent of women experience mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, during pregnancy and the first year of parenthood.

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  Immigration enforcement fears are reshaping daily life for Michigan immigrants, study finds

  A new report documents widespread immigration enforcement fears among immigrant Michiganders in Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids and Ypsilanti.

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  U-M law professor Ekow Yankah: If you’re worried about your vote, don’t be

  Ekow Yankah is associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Michigan Law School, the Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law and a professor of philosophy. His work focuses on questions of political and criminal theory and, particularly, questions of political obligation and justifications of punishment.

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  Death-defying protein found in tardigrades preserves synthetic cells

  A protein found only in microscopic tardigrades, one that allows them to survive extreme conditions like dehydration, can convey similar durability in synthetic cells, according to new research from University of Michigan Engineering and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

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  Michigan’s local governments make progress on budgeting, but many lag on long-term planning

  In a time of economic volatility, relatively few local governments in Michigan report they are doing long-term financial planning—though many say they'd like to be doing more.

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  Can a tweet become a job offer? U-M research suggests yes

  Social media promotion can boost visibility and job outcomes for early-career scholars, especially women.

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