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The Opportunity is all yours
LSA’s Opportunity Hub offers companies a creative approach to student engagement and recruiting The Opportunity Hub at U-M’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts has been a fascinating young program to watch develop. What began as student internship...
U-M student project helps reduce time to market for new pharmaceuticals
The Challenge Pfizer is currently addressing two industry-wide disruptions: an increasing difficulty to deliver blockbuster drugs and a shift towards precision medicines for cancers and rare diseases. These shifts led to two bold initiatives by CEO Albert Bourla. The...
deBedout helps U-M aerospace students soar
Collins Aerospace, a division of United Technologies, is on campus a lot these days. With a five-year Master Research Agreement at the College of Engineering, the company is pursuing research partnerships with U-M faculty in a variety of departments. While faculty...
The secret advantage on campus that we want you to know about
Companies often ask us for ways to find a competitive advantage in recruiting U-M students. While our advice is tailored to the needs and priorities of the company, some of our general advice is for companies to brand themselves to specific student "customer segments"...
Corporate Partner Profile: Dave Harwood, DTE Energy
DTE Energy is one of U-M’s closest corporate partnerships. Our executive champion and alum, Dave Harwood, works tirelessly to build a deep, strong, mutually beneficial relationship with the university. And sometimes he comes to campus to join the band and teach a...
Ford Day @ U-M
Hundreds of students, dozens of Ford recruiters, and top leadership and engineers from the Ford Motor Company were on hand this week for the annual Ford Day on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus.Events and activities were held at the College of...
What makes a good partnership? Key advice from Toyota’s executive champion at U-M.
U-M alum Jeff Makarewicz is passionate about U-M, helping students find their passion (hopefully in engineering), and how Toyota can live their values through U-M partnerships. We sat down with him recently to learn more about what makes a good industry partner, how...
Toyota inspires Wolverine Pathways interns
On a gorgeous Friday afternoon in the peak of Michigan vacation season, a group of high school students weren’t at the beach or at home playing video games, they were hard at work in a corporate conference room at Toyota Research & Development’s Ann Arbor...
Shared Priorities: Corporate Support for the Michigan Engineering Zone
Companies and campuses both recognize the need for a diverse talent pool in STEM fields, and the Michigan Engineering Zone (MEZ) is doing something about it. Leveraging industry mentors, funding partnerships, community engagement, and University of Michigan students,...
U-M funding helps precision dentistry startup GreenMark Biomedical make its mark
By Tess Postema Cavities are the great unifier. According to a comprehensive study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 90% of adults in the U.S. have or have had a cavity, while 1 in 4 has untreated cavities. What if there was a way to simultaneously...
It’s a Match: PNC Foundation and the Ginsberg Center
A matchmaking mechanism identifying connections between U-M resources and community needs gets funding from a like-minded organization to maximize local impact. Nonprofit organizations play an important role in helping to address a host of related challenges...
3D Modeling Representations, David Fouhey, TRI and a Cat
David Fouhey wants your computer to be as smart as your cat. He’s working pretty hard to make it happen, and he’s got a big group of U-M students on board in his Computer Vision class in the College of Engineering and some great research collaborations to help make...
Global CO2 Initiative Workshop spurs climate solutions with support from KPMG
One of the most critical strategies to fight climate change is to capture and remove carbon from the environment. Researchers at U-M are exploring various methods to do so and are identifying viable revenue generating opportunities as possible outcomes. The...
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...
NEWS
Rebecca Cunningham appointed vice president for research
Rebecca Cunningham, an emergency medicine physician whose research addresses critical issues ranging from firearm violence to opioid abuse, has been appointed vice president for research. Rebecca Cunningham Cunningham, who has served in an interim capacity since June...
Zero Emissions Bus Ride
It’s not common to see a double bus in Ann Arbor, certainly not one that is a battery-powered one. A group of students, faculty and staff got a chance for a very cool bus ride around campus to check out the technology and learn about potential applications at the...
Rich Strader on mobility, research, and connecting campus to Corktown
The Ford Motor Company and the University of Michigan have been integrally entwined for over 100 years. Today, dozens of Ford leaders engage with U-M on a weekly basis. Rich Strader, the Vice President at Ford Mobility Platforms and Products, is one of them. Rich...
U-M Students Engaged in DTE Energy Contest
By Ann Zaniewski The University Record and Lou Blouin UM-Dearborn University of Michigan senior Morgan Provax has been researching energy policies at different universities. Soon, she’ll visit and evaluate three Ann Arbor campus buildings — George G. Brown...
Meet Umesh: He’d rather listen than talk
The British born, biscuit loving Umesh has a predilection for the BEC’s mission and the people he works with. Umesh has been a critical member of the Business Engagement Center almost since our inception. He initially served in corporate and foundation relations at...
U-M and TRI researchers provide control software to ensure autonomous vehicles stay in their lane
A joint research project between the University of Michigan and Toyota Research Institute was awarded a Best New Application Paper Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for their work developing reliable control systems for Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise...
Campus leaders on the future of education, creative engagement, and rebuilding a vibrant community
Stella Wixom, Senior Executive Director of the Business Engagement Center, sat down recently with the School of Education's Dean Elizabeth Moje to learn more about The School at Marygrove and how and why this should be on the radar of corporate partners in Detroit....
APPLE/U-M HEARING STUDY TO FOCUS ON SOUND EXPOSURE IN DAILY LIFE
Contact: Nardy Baeza Bickel, 734-763-0368, nbbickel@umich.edu ANN ARBOR—Noise exposure has often been associated with occupational activities that lead to hearing loss: the banging noises at construction sites, airplanes lifting off at airports, loud machines in...
New $300 million U-M research and education center to anchor 14-acre Detroit Center for Innovation in the heart of Detroit
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Wayne County Executive Warren Evans joined together with Stephen M. Ross, philanthropist and chairman of Related Companies, Matt Cullen, CEO of Bedrock and University of Michigan President Mark...
U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Guardian Industries announce research partnership
October 29, 2019 Ann Arbor, MI The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Guardian Industries announce a new collaborative research partnership in advanced glass materials. An award from Guardian will result in two...
How does industry inform academia, and vice versa? George Halow shares his vision.
For decades, George Halow worked closely with the University of Michigan to recruit the leaders and best for Ford Motor Company. Now he is a faculty member of practice in the College of Engineering to teach students what he’s learned. Q: Can you speak to your...
U-M researcher partners with Apple to study how noise exposure impacts hearing
Sept. 10, 2019 Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, morganls@umich.edu ANN ARBOR—A University of Michigan researcher is partnering with Apple to learn how noise exposure impacts hearing. The Apple Hearing Study will be available to participate in through a new...
Staff Profile: Amy Bellas on staying positive, the BEC team, and cleaning up Superfund sites
Amy boomeranged back to the University of Michigan after years in industry in environmental engineering. Her familiarity with the inner workings of the corporate world, including running her own business with her fiance, combined with her deep knowledge of the...
Spotlight on Kelly Sexton
Sexton on the changing landscape of technology commercialization, attracting VCs to the Midwest, and what's next for the business environment at U-M. When it was announced that Kelly Sexton would be joining the University of Michigan as Associate Vice President -...
University of Michigan Credit Union is biggest supporter of U-M Hardship Fund
As the largest contributor to the University of Michigan's Emergency Hardship Program, the University of Michigan Credit Union demonstrates their commitment to support financial education, workshops and support for members of the university community. Read more......
Volker Sick is installed as the DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research
In a recent ceremony, Professor Volker Sick was installed as the DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research at the University of Michigan. The DTE Energy Professorship of Advanced Energy Research was established in September 2007 with a $2 million endowment...
The Greening of Gatorade
Inefficiencies in the Gatorade processing lines provided a great target for PepsiCo’s sustainability efforts. A Tauber team dug into the data, modified the process, and coordinated with multiple units to help PepsiCo slash absolute GHG emissions and water usage...
University pilots new partnership for electric scooters on campus
May 3, 2019 By Hanna Quinlan Public Affairs A one-year pilot agreement with Spin, a company owned by Ford Motor Co., has deployed 200 electric scooters throughout campus and surrounding neighborhoods. The pilot involving the University of Michigan, city of Ann Arbor...
UM Engineering Students Take Wraps Off 2019 MRacing Car at PDC
“These students had a full load of classes, and during peak times the team spent nearly 40 hours a week working on the car,” said George Halow, Ford executive champion, UM student vehicle teams. “It’s a real commitment and a labor of love that gets them to this...
New resource for industry: Key Research Initiatives at U-M
We have daily conversations with companies around a myriad of programs, projects and faculty at the University of Michigan every day. What we find is those conversations often involve a handful of primary U-M areas of expertise that are particularly relevant for the...
Staff Profile: Sheila Waterhouse asks a lot of questions
Our staff are central to the mission of the Business Engagement Center. As a means to get to know us and what makes us tick, our staff profile series is designed to offer insight into our team. Next in the series is Sheila Waterhouse, the communications and marketing...