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  Creativity and connection across prison walls: 29th annual exhibition features Michigan artists

  One of the world's largest and longest-running exhibitions of incarcerated artists returns this spring with new programming designed to foster connection and deepen public understanding of incarceration in Michigan.

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  Technology journalist Kara Swisher to join U-M’s Ford School faculty this fall as visiting professor

  Kara Swisher is joining the University of Michigan as a visiting professor, adding her expertise as a top journalist and podcaster covering the tech industry—something she has been doing for most of her career.

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  Time is not the driving influence of forest carbon storage, U-M study finds

  It is commonly assumed that as forest ecosystems age, they accumulate and store, or "sequester," more carbon. A new study based at the University of Michigan Biological Station untangled carbon cycling over two centuries and found that it's more nuanced than that.

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  Abnormal menstrual bleeding, a likely culprit in menopausal fatigue, rarely discussed as cause

  Fatigue and lack of energy are as much a part of menopause as hot flashes, interrupted sleep and mood swings. However, the abnormal or heavy menstrual bleeding that commonly occurs during menopause and perimenopause seldom enters the conversation on treating the symptoms that negatively affect women's quality of life.

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  A crisis without borders: U-M Wallenberg fellow to improve climate disaster responses

  From Nepal to North Carolina, climate disasters are wiping entire communities off the map, leaving survivors with nowhere to rebuild.

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  Podcast: U-M scholar explores the importance of truth through research, financial reporting and AI

  The world is awash in information, but the technological tools we use to gather and process all the data in our personal and work lives could lead to more confusion, disinformation and distorted perceptions.

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  U-M study uncovers secret color language of snakes

  In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see.

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  Want to preserve biodiversity? Go big, U-M researchers say

  Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to University of Michigan research.

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  Michigan Debate team captures national tournament win

  The University of Michigan Debate program has won the 38th annual American Debate Association National Championship. The three-day tournament, held March 8-10 in Houston, featured nearly 200 competitors from 25 institutions.

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  Efficiency, success of Social Security threatened by planned layoffs, U-M expert says

  A University of Michigan professor offers insights on the Trump administration's plans to cut the Social Security Administration workforce. Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn professor of social policy at the Ford School of Public Policy and a faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research's Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, aging and policy.

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  Small, faint and ‘unexpected in a lot of different ways’: U-M astronomers make galactic discovery

  A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we thought we had learned from our own galaxy.

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  U-M astronomers peer deeper into mysterious Flame Nebula

  Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, a team of researchers, including astronomers from the University of Michigan, are closing in on the answer to a looming cosmic question.

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  Clothes dryers and the bottom line: Switching to air drying can save hundreds

  Researchers from the University of Michigan are hoping their new study will inspire some Americans to rethink their relationship with laundry. Because, no matter how you spin it, clothes dryers use a lot of comparatively costly energy when air works for free.

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