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  1. Tracking undetectable space junk

    Colliding pieces of space debris emit electric signals that could help track small debris littering Earth’s orbit, potentially saving satellites and spacecraft.

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  2. Can you hear the music: Q&A with Ann Jeffers

    The CEE professor discusses her new memoir and her tortured path to where she is today.

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  3. Nextgen computing: Hard-to-move quasiparticles glide up pyramid edges

    Computing with a combination of light and chargeless excitons could beat heat losses and more, but excitons need new modes of transport.

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  4. Automated shuttle planned for Detroit starts safety testing at Mcity

    The University of Michigan, May Mobility and the City of Detroit look to boost public trust in self-driving vehicle technology.

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  5. 200-year-old geology mystery resolved

    To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive lesson could help make new defect-free semiconductors and more.

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  6. Green chemistry award: Professor recognized for sustainable silicon metal production method

    Richard Laine is the academic category winner in a national EPA contest.

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  7. Material simulation with quantum accuracy wins Gordon Bell Prize

    The prestigious award offered by the Association for Computing Machinery goes to the team of U-M mechanical engineering professor Vikram Gavini.

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  8. Building Flint’s trust in its drinking water

    Even with lead service line replacement, the city’s water has issues that require public education.

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  9. Building a chemical ‘GPT’ to help design a key battery component

    Taking inspiration from the word-predicting large language models, a U-M team is kickstarting an atom-predicting model with 200,000 node hours on Argonne’s Polaris.

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  10. Alum Mo Faisal on building a successful semiconductor company

    Faisal, the 2023 ECE Rising Star Alumni Award recipient, founded Movellus based on his doctoral research conducted under Prof. David Wentzloff.