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New Nanophotonic Material Can Turn Heat to Electricity
Microscopy images show no discernible degradation before and after heat treating the material. Image credit: Andrej Lenert A new heat…
Durable Antimicrobial Coating Kills Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Minutes
Photo courtesy the University of Michigan. The antimicrobial coating is clear, even when applied in a thick layer to surfaces. News out of…
Report Shows Clean Energy Jobs Could Replace Lost Coal Jobs
Coal-fired power plants in the United States. Bubbles are scaled by plant capacity, which ranges from 5 to 3,500 MW. Image credit: From…
Nano-Engineered Brain Cancer Treatment Might Kill Tumor Cells and Activate Immune System
An extended diagram shows the components that go into each liquid—the human serum albumin that helps cross the blood-brain barrier, the iRGD…
University of Michigan Partners with Meta To Build Social Media Data Archive
The University of Michigan is partnering with Facebook parent company Meta to build a social media data archive. The project intends to make…
How inflation is impacting tech talent and businesses' plans for hiring
With consumer sentiment continuing a downward trend, falling 14.4% in June according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers…
Report: University of Michigan Research Contributes $100M to State Economy
The University of Michigan's enormous research enterprise contributed $97 million to Michigan's economy over the past fiscal year, according…
Breaking U Michigan Research: Harnessing Entropy to Assemble Nanoparticles
Dodecahedron_binary.png Entropy is generally regarded as a force of chaos or disorder in physics. but it's entropy that researchers at the…
University of Michigan Founds New Department of Robotics, a First Among Top Engineering Schools
Students arrange robots for the Robot Garden at the new Robotics building on the campus of the University of Michigan. Photos courtesy…
Students Launch New Venture Fund for Climate Tech Startups
University of Michigan students and faculty have just launched a student-run investment fund focused on supporting early-stage climate tech…
Ann Arbor Startup Salud Brings Wedding Planners As a Subscription Online
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
A New Anti-Inflammatory Treatment Could Aid Sickest COVID Patients
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
University of Michigan School of Information Students Available for UX and Data Analysis Projects
The University of Michigan School of Information is seeking organizations to host student projects in the 2020-2021 school year…
University Budgets Were Hit Hard: Can Software Help?
Universities everywhere are trying to trim budgets and plan for virtual instruction in case of a second wave in the Fall 2020 semester, but…
New Startup Monstrsense Creates Ultrafast Spectrometer For Inspecting New Semiconductor Materials
What is happening with the newest cohort of tech and life science startups spun out of intellectual property invented at the University of…
A Better Graphic Tablet for the Blind
Sure, there are braille tablets these days that are pretty amazing. They translate several words or lines of text from websites into raised…
Attend The University of Michigan Data for Public Good Symposium Feb 25th
The third annual University of Michigan Data for Public Good Symposium, which runs 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Feb. 25, 2020 in Ann Arbor, will…
Send a Valentine to a Patient at Mott's Children's Hospital with Spellbound AR
Happy Valentine's Day! If you'd like to celebrate Valentine's Day with a little tech twist, this year you can send an augmented reality…
Celebrate Invention Marks a Year of Startup Milestones at the University of Michigan
Rebecca Cunningham and Kelly Sexton host a panel on research and startup culture at the University of Michigan, which launched a milestone…
Every Time The Bell Rings, a Startup Gets Its Wings: Venture Accelerator's Diane Bouis Talks Connecting New Ann Arbor Startups
Innovation Program Manager Diane Bouis of the University of Michigan Venture Accelerator stands in the Office of Tech Transfer, where every…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Jim Price of U of M Ross School of Business
Jim Price is a serial entrepreneur who found his passion teaching and coaching young entrepreneurs through the Zell Lurie Institute at the…
A Look Inside The University of Michigan Desai Venture Accelerator
Angela Kujava heads up the Desai Accelerator run out of the Zell Lurie Institute at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. The…
Scavenger Is An Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt For Adults
It's been decades since we did a scavenger hunt, but these days augmented reality seems just the thing to make these old-fashioned games…
Tech Startup hEARt Brings An Empathetic Ear To Students Everywhere
College campuses have been through a number of crises lately, from dealing with increasing academic pressure to a growing number of active…
The Believers Are But Brothers Takes Tech & Theater Down a Dark Web Rabbit Hole
Trigger Warning: The following post contains adult themes and subject matter that may be traumatic or upsetting to some readers. The…
Abaca To Launch 10 Degrees Game To Help With Climate Change & Reforestation
Chris Karounos is the co-founder and creative director of Abaca Games, a new startup out of Ann Arbor that is based in his masters research…
Optimize: The Student-Led Impact Venture Incubator Grows Up
In 2013, a group of University of Michigan students wanted to support each other's startup ventures. Some were tech focused, others social…
What Is It Like To Manage a 65,000-Person Slack Channel?
Jeff Sica sits down with Cronicle on Liberty across from the Michigan Theater. Legend has it that if you sit still long enough in the ITHAKA…
Perch: Indeed.com for Research Labs Launches with Major Universities
Perch engineer Benji Bear (left) and CEO Akira Nishii (right) are part of a diverse team of undergrad and grad students launching Perch in…
Fashion & Technology: Terms & Conditions' Peter Michaelides
Moderator Nate Forbes interviews Nike design VPs Paul Rivera and David Creech. The Ross School of Business, which hosted the Michigan…
Innovate Blue: Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan
Jeni Olney of Innovate Blue at a meeting of Innovation in Action in Ann Arbor in the TechArb work space for student entrepreneurs. Jeni…
Peerstachio: A Student Venture About Connection Connects with A2 Tech
Peerstachio is a social platform for connecting students with peers for academic help. In our recent two-part series on the student…