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Nearly three dozen teams of business and engineering students at the University of Michigan's Tauber Institute for Global Operations will present ways that some of the world's largest corporations can save money in their operations during Spotlight 2011, being held Friday, Sept. 16 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton in Ann Arbor.
Ann Arbor Police are reporting another sexual assault near the University of Michigan campus.
Authors and authors' groups are suing the University of Michigan and four other universities, hoping to stop the creation of online libraries made up of as many as 7 million copyright-protected books they say were scanned without authorization.
A new $13-million National Science Foundation center based at the University of Michigan will develop high-tech materials that manipulate light in new ways. The research could enable advances such as invisibility cloaks, nanoscale lasers, high-efficiency lighting, and quantum computers.
An abnormality discovered by University of Michigan researchers in mice with Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 3 could represent a target for therapy.
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While driving a fuel-efficient vehicle is the best way to save gas, motorists can still cut fuel consumption nearly in half by driving slower and less aggressively, properly maintaining their vehicles and avoiding congested roads, according to University of Michigan researchers.
People who volunteer because they want to help others live longer than people who don't volunteer at all, University of Michigan researchers found.
With the start of the school year quickly approaching, physicians from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital are urging parents and drivers to do their part to keep kids safe as they walk to school.
A crime alert has been issued on the University of Michigan campus. Police say a man was punched and kicked to the ground by a group of four men on Friday night.
After an athlete takes a big hit on the playing field or a blow to the head, it's difficult for coaches to know how to respond. But more and more evidence is mounting that it's dangerous for athletes to try to shake off what could be a concussion.
The University of Michigan will receive a $250,000 grant from Alcoa Foundation to support UM's Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research and Transformation project.
Returning University of Michigan students should be on guard after a series of summer attacks on women, the city's police chief said. Two women were raped in July and four others were grabbed or fondled before breaking free.
A laser developed at the University of Michigan is designed to melt fat without burning surrounding tissue. It could potentially be used to treat acne, researchers say.
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Conflicts over tight budgets could be one reason 56 percent of local leaders have told a University of Michigan survey that unionized workers have had a negative effect on their community's fiscal health.
Figures compiled by the University of Michigan show the price tag for traffic crashes and index crimes in Michigan in 2009 exceeded $6.7 billion.
The University of Michigan has finalized a deal on compensation for signs and city traffic signal services during football games.
University of Michigan researchers believe they have made a significant breakthrough in determining why some people get the flu and others don't.
This fall, more than 4,000 University of Michigan students in nearly 20 classes will be utilizing LectureTools, an interactive presentation tool being commercialized by UM that harnesses the potential of laptops and cell phones to serve as learning aids rather than distracting devices.
A delicate balance of atomic forces can be exploited to make nanoparticle "superclusters" that are uniform in size -- an attribute that's important for many nanotech applications but hard to accomplish, University of Michigan researchers say.
Aileen Huang-Saad of the College of Engineering and Bill Lovejoy of the Ross School of Business have been named co-directors of the University of Michigan's new master's degree in entrepreneurship.
Skewed skulls may have helped early whales discriminate the direction of sounds in water and are not solely, as previously thought, a later adaptation related to echolocation. University of Michigan researchers report the finding in a paper to be published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of Aug. 22.
