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  1. Burned rice hulls could help batteries store more charge

    New research finds hard carbon in rice hull ash, providing a cheap, domestic source of the material that can replace graphite in lithium-ion or sodium-ion battery anodes.

  2. Henry Liu to lead expanded UMTRI that includes Mcity

    New structure will serve as a force multiplier in efforts to reimagine the future of transportation.

  3. Educating People-First Engineers: A Q&A with Cindy Finelli and Erin Cech

    Preparing the next generation of engineers to consider public welfare when developing new technologies.

  4. Free certificate in connected/automated transportation aims to bring more engineers into the field

    Courses offered to engineering students at CCAT partner universities in the Midwest.

  5. Q&A: Getting serious about atmospheric methane removal

    Margaret Wooldridge discusses report from the National Academies, calling for increased research into another greenhouse gas to target for removal.

  6. A new look at Voyager 2 data explains one of Uranus’s long-standing mysteries

    The spacecraft saw Uranus’s magnetic field at a weird time, so our picture of the planet and its moons actually represents an edge case rather than the norm.

  7. Fifteen papers by ECE researchers to be presented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

    Topics of accepted ECE NeurIPS papers include diffusion models, large language models, multi-armed bandit models, and more.

  8. Up to 30% of the power used to train AI is wasted. Here’s how to fix it.

    Smarter use of processor speeds saves energy without compromising training speed and performance.

  9. Precision health and advanced communications: €9M ($10M) for bio-inspired nanoparticles on demand

    Advanced microscopy techniques and AI models will help design complex nanoparticles for specific biological targets with less trial and error.

  10. U.S. presidential advisory council visited U-M for transportation & mobility research

    ‘There’s an intellectual milieu and an enthusiasm that’s palpable.’