UM Study Finds Growing Income, Gender Gaps In College Graduation
A new study shows that the gap in rates of college completion between students from high-and low-income families has grown significantly in the last 50 years.
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A new study shows that the gap in rates of college completion between students from high-and low-income families has grown significantly in the last 50 years.
Average fuel economy of all new vehicles sold in the United States is up for the second straight month, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
The University of Michigan football team will face Virginia Tech in the 2012 Allstate Sugar Bowl. And the U-M Ticket Office begins selling tickets today at 8:30am.
Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans', they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to a University of Michigan evolutionary biologist and one of her graduate students.
Childhood obesity and the unhealthy behaviors that contribute to weight gain are more likely among children from lower-income households, according to a study by the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center.
University of Michigan researchers finds patients would rather be on waiting list than accept an organ with higher risk of failure.
A new Master of Health Informatics program at the University of Michigan has been established to develop leaders and solutions in the growing industry.
University of Michigan researchers have found a better way to build compact ultraviolet sources with low power consumption that could improve information storage, microscopy and chemical analysis.
University of Michigan senior Alex Carney is a competitive marathoner, violin concertmaster and math whiz -- and now he's going to the United Kingdom on an exclusive scholarship to continue his studies.
The latest event and meeting notices from Michigan's technology-focused companies, groups and institutions
The game came down to the last play and Michigan ends up on top as the Wolverines beat the Ohio State Buckeyes 40-34 on Saturday.
Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects to monitor hazardous situations before sending in humans.
A carbon nanotube coating developed at the University of Michigan acts as a "magic black cloth" that conceals an object's three-dimensional geometry and makes it look like a flat black sheet.
Research at the University of Michigan Medical School brought hundreds of millions of dollars into the state of Michigan in the last year -- and could have a total economic impact of nearly $1.2 billion, new data show.
A record 19 new companies founded by young University of Michigan student-entrepreneurs will share space in the TechArb student business incubator for the next six months.
The Michigan economy appears poised to continue its recovery, although full economic health is still well in the distance, say University of Michigan economists.
A University of Michigan physics professor who organized job shadowing programs for high school students and a summer science institute for middle school girls has been honored with a national mentoring award.
University of Michigan economists say the state's economy will continue its slow improvement, adding both high- and low-wage jobs over the next two years.
The first openly gay student body president at the University of Michigan has announced that he will be forming a scholarship fund to benefit bullied students.
Although the nation's economy has started to improve this fall, the next two years will bring only moderate economic growth, generating just enough jobs to slowly reduce unemployment, say economists at the University of Michigan.
For the first time, engineering researchers have been able to watch in real time the nanoscale process of a ferroelectric memory bit switching between the 0 and 1 states.
University of Michigan economists are out with their latest economic outlook -- and they're predicting a slow recovery.
The University of Michigan's 'Be a Hero at The Big House' event is taking blood donations and signing-up potential donors to the National Bone Marrow Registry at Michigan Stadium on Wednesday.
Two University of Michigan planetary scientists are vital members of the science team of the Mars Science Laboratory, which will study whether the Red Planet was ever capable of harboring microbial life. It is scheduled to launch next week.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a three-year, $900,000 grant to a University of Michigan School of Nursing-led multidisciplinary team that will develop methods to increase cancer screening by young breast cancer survivors and their high-risk female relatives.
