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  1. Traditional infrastructure design often makes extreme flooding events worse

    Massive 2014 flooding event in southeast Michigan showed why systems thinking beats local thinking in flood protection.

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  2. U-M engineers to partner in new DOE-backed research hub for clean energy storage

    Researchers will advance battery technologies going beyond current lithium ion capabilities.

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  3. Get to know Dean Thole

    In her first Q&A since becoming dean, Karen A. Thole discusses her background, research interests, what attracted her to Michigan Engineering.

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  4. X-ray vision

    One of the first experimenters at the new flagship US laser, Michigan alum Franklin Dollar’s mission is bigger than research.

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  5. Future nuclear engineers: U-M hosts high school students to explore careers

    The four-week residential program prepared rising twelfth graders for nuclear engineering careers through a mix of academic and practical experiences.

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  6. Morphable materials: Researchers coax nanoparticles to reconfigure themselves

    It’s a step toward smart coatings that change color—or other properties—on the fly.

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  7. Tick-borne red meat allergy prevented in mice through new nanoparticle treatment

    New approach could offer those with food allergies another option besides avoidance.

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  8. The corona is weirdly hot—Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation

    S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field don’t form at the sun’s surface, like some scientists thought, and can’t directly heat the sun’s corona.

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  9. OptoGPT for improving solar cells, smart windows, telescopes and more

    Taking advantage of the transformer neural networks that power large language models, engineers can get recipes for materials with the optical properties they need.

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  10. Sea ice’s cooling power is waning faster than its area of extent 

    A shift in Antarctica’s melting trends and slushy Arctic ice pushes warming from changing sea ice toward the upper limits of climate model estimates.

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