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UM Social Media Study: Conservatives Top Tweeters In 2010
The results of a study on candidates’ use of Twitter in the 2010 midterm elections suggest that Republicans and Tea Party members used the social medium more effectively than their Democratic rivals....
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UM Event Explores Safe, Sustainable Tech Innovation
ANN ARBOR — Technology innovation is critical to economic revitalization, but to implement new innovations safely and effectively, it is critical that government and industry work in concert to handle...
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ExteNet Systems to Improve Wireless Coverage at University of Michigan
LISLE, Ill. — ExteNet Systems Inc. has been selected to design, build and operate an open distributed wireless network at the University of Michigan for use by multiple carriers, the company announced...
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UM Ecologist: Future Forests May Soak Up More CO2, Buffering Climate Change
ANN ARBOR — North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated. As a result, they could help slow the pace...
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UM Annual Sustainability Report Shows Success In Key Areas
ANN ARBOR — The University of Michigan continues to make progress in key areas of energy reduction, alternative transportation and waste reduction, according to its newly released 2011 annual...
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Student Entrepreneurs Earn Nearly $90,000 In UM Competitions
ANN ARBOR — The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business Monday announced the winners of the 2012...
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Construction Of New Rock Spawning Reefs Will Help Great Lakes Native Fish
ANN ARBOR — The first of nine rock reefs is under construction in the St. Clair River delta northeast of Detroit. The goal of the project, which is led by Michigan Sea Grant, is to boost populations of...
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EMU, UM Students Design No-Power Warming Blankets For Premature Babies Overseas
YPSILANTI — Technology is rapidly changing how medicine is practiced, and nowhere is it more evident than with premature babies, who are surviving longer than in the past. In developing countries,...
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Nano-Origami Project Combines Art, Engineering
ANN ARBOR — Engineers and artists at the University of Michigan will receive nearly $2 million from the National Science Foundation for a four-year research campaign to find out whether the ancient art...
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Event Notices From October 5-7
Oneupweb Hosts 2nd BRIM Leadership Conference for Michigan Businesses with Keynote Speaker Rick DeVos: Traverse City-based Oneupweb says its BRIM conference, an acronym for “Bringing Relentless...
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UM Recruits Harvard Health Care Researcher For New Institute
ANN ARBOR — A Harvard University doctor and leader in health policy research who has devoted his career to making health care better and more fair will head a large new University of Michigan institute...
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Environmental Threat Map Highlights Great Lakes Restoration Challenges
MUSKEGON — A comprehensive map three years in the making is telling the story of humans’ impact on the Great Lakes, identifying how “environmental stressors” stretching from Minnesota to Ontario are...
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C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Sparrow Children’s Center Affiliate
ANN ARBOR — A new affiliation between Sparrow Children’s Center and the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital will provide children and families in the mid-Michigan area with expanded...
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UM Study Finds Inconsistent Scoring Of Newborn Intensive Care Units
ANN ARBOR — Scoring methods commonly used to evaluate Newborn Intensive Care Units are inconsistent, according to new research from the University of Michigan. The research published last week in the...
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Breast Cancer Clinical Trial Targets Cancer Stem Cells
ANN ARBOR — A major reason that breast cancer returns after treatment and spreads to other parts of the body is that current chemotherapy and radiation treatments do not kill the cancer stem cells....
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Grand Angels Invests In Ambiq Micro $10M Series B Funding
GRAND RAPIDS (WWJ) — Grand Angels, a Grand Rapids-based investment group, announced its fifth funding commitment of 2013, investing in Ambiq Micro, a developer of low power integrated circuits. Grand...
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