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Language isn’t just business as usual at local startup realLINGUA
By Tess Postema From language professor to tech company founder If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, a persistent challenge quickly emerges: How to apply what you learn in the classroom - from conjugation exercises to endless vocabulary lists - to real-life...
U-M Students Mapping Ann Arbor Art
Every summer, the Ann Arbor Art Fairs draw artists and art aficionados from around the world to town. While this group descends upon and subsequently leaves town, still here after the crowds disperse is a vibrant and very visible art community in Ann Arbor. Students...
Pushing the limits of autonomous steering for extreme maneuvers
We don’t need to wait for fully autonomous vehicles to benefit from autonomous driving technologies. Life-saving technologies like this one will be preventing accidents in the future even in situations that require extreme maneuvering skills. You’re driving down the...
Etching a Partnership: IMRA America, U-M and A Nobel Prize Winner
Many at the University of Michigan were awaiting Nobel Prize winner Dr. Gerard Mourou’s lecture and reception when he returned to the school where he researched and taught for 18 years. Don Harter and Tak Omitsu, current and former staff at IMRA America, were no...
Glen DeVos on connecting with students, partnering with U-M, and a tech roadmap for the future
Glen DeVos (’83 MSE ME) serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and President of the Mobility and Services Group at Aptiv.He presented an automated driving tech talk to a packed room of U-M students recently. We took that opportunity to...
The Ford Motor Company Fund and U-M Ginsberg Center Partner for Intern and Community Support
Internships are a crucial component of a college student’s experience that provide opportunities to apply classroom learning in the real world. More internships than not go unpaid, making it hard for many students to participate, and putting those that don’t pursue...
Faculty Profile: Rebecca Cunningham wants to make the world safer for kids
Rebecca Cunningham is spearheading a research initiative to make the world a safer place for children. With $5 million in funding from the NIH, she’s undertaking the first firearm safety research in 30 years. A practicing emergency room physician and mother of five...
Polymer Polymath
By Tess Postema For Dr. John Nanos, the future is foaming with possibilities. Dr. Nanos is the owner, CEO, and formerly sole employee of Ann Arbor-based Nanosystems, Inc., a chemical company that develops specialty prepolymer materials used in a variety of consumer...
Accenture connects alumni and company giving to provide Wolverine Pathways room and board scholarships
Dean Brody goes blue. A proud U-M alum and an executive campus champion for the U-M/Accenture partnership, he keeps up with news and events at his alma mater, something made easier by his proximity working as a managing director at the Detroit-based offices of...
Toyota funds professorship in AI at U-Michigan
ANN ARBOR—A $3 million gift from Toyota Motor Corporation endows the first named professorship in artificial intelligence at the University of Michigan and provides additional funding to support AI and robotics faculty. The university’s Board of Regents has approved...
U-M professor’s artificial intelligence startup benefits from U-M grant to assist small Michigan businesses
by Tess Postema In a small, brick-walled office above Arbor Brewing Company, Dr. Jason Corso is quietly at work, converting oceans of raw video into useful metadata -- insights that could help prevent a car from hitting a cyclist in its blind spot, or identify the...
Ross Program Prepares Students for Careers of Tomorrow
Companies are continually looking for creative ways to engage top college students and find resources to solve problems that constrain their business. At the same time, there is a concerted emphasis by schools and colleges to provide students with an opportunity for...
Old National Bank helps U-M build a community of scholars and leaders
Increasing access to a college education is a contributor to developing a strong, dynamic and diverse workforce. Old National Bank is contributing to a program at the University of Michigan that is created to do just that. U-M’s Wolverine Pathways program is designed...
Amazon fulfills student experience
Can you really have too much of a good thing? Amazon may not think so, at least when it comes to working with the Tauber Institute for Global Operations. The behemoth online company previously dabbled with a project or two with the program, until they saw the kind of...
U-M, Toyota Research Institute partner in $2.4M project in hunt for new materials
With a $2.4 million investment from the Toyota Research Institute, University of Michigan researchers will develop computer simulation tools to predict automotive battery performance. The project is part of a four-year, $35 million investment with research entities,...
Bosch Embeds Themselves in Class
It is rare on campus for industry to get involved in the academic experience of an individual class, but in the case of Robert Bosch, doing so provides the real-world access needed to give the students in Mark Brehob’s Advanced Embedded Systems Design course the...
Seeing Your Ideas in Action
Since 2013, over 70 University of Michigan students on multidisciplinary teams have worked on pressing manufacturing issues at Detroit Manufacturing Systems (DMS). Doing so has filled an important role for the company – and for the students – in solving critical...
Harnessing the power of virtual reality to improve medical training
Your son fell on the playground at school and you find yourself in the emergency room with him. Medical staff are bustling around the triage area, and a seemingly large number of people are involved. The quality of care your son receives becomes top of mind. How...
New Projects Represent a Continued Investment and Research Partnership at U-M
TRI made 14 new project awards representing a $6 million investment in the second year of a research program established under the 2016 research partnership between the University of Michigan and Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Under the research agreement, TRI is...
U-M Students Shaping Performance
Connecting with the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor can be a daunting prospect, given its size, breadth and decentralized nature. Shape Corp., a full service, tier-one automotive supplier in Grand Haven, was unfazed by the prospect. Visit campus, leave with new...
From Alumni to Employer: ProQuest CTO Partners with College of Engineering
In 2013, U-M alum Roger Valade fulfilled a dream of returning to Ann Arbor when he took a position at ProQuest, an education technology firm best known for online research resources. ProQuest was founded in Ann Arbor in 1938 and had a long history of involvement with...