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Community force: How holistic program is changing Detroit one toddler at a time
The toddlers arrive at the colorful stucco house with the bright orange door in the Martin Park neighborhood, take off their coats and seek out egg-shaped noise makers to shake. Davon'te, 3, loves visiting the Brilliant Detroit hub for weekly toddler activities, his mother Camillia Martin said. And her two daughters ages 5 and 7 started attending in 2021.
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U-M study reveals how China’s local bureaucrats struggle for power through negative media coverage
Recent research on China's factional competition uncovers how local bureaucrats, who are connected to influential national leaders, strategically use the media to criticize members of rival factions, harming their promotion prospects and weakening their factions.
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Germ aversion impacted 2020 election voting behavior
Voters opted to pick candidates in 2020 by mail-in ballots, avoiding poll sites due to COVID-19 concerns rather than because of political party efforts to promote specific voting methods, according to a new University of Michigan study.
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Grant supports tuition-free midwifery program at U-M for underserved areas
Pregnant women in minority communities face a disproportionately higher risk of childbirth complications, with mortality rates approximately four times greater than those of their white counterparts. These disparities are exacerbated by instances of disrespectful maternity care that perpetuate existing inequities in access to quality health care.
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Bridge in a box: Unlocking origami’s power to produce load-bearing structures
For the first time, load-bearing structures like bridges and shelters can be made with origami modules—versatile components that can fold compactly and adapt into different shapes—University of Michigan engineers have demonstrated.
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Bridging academic worlds with virtual production: U-M’s XR stage expands global education
Imagine being a University of Michigan student or a learner anywhere in the world, logging on to an online course. Instead of seeing a talking head delivering a lecture, you see your instructor walking through ancient Cairo, in an operating room in Tokyo, or on a construction site in Rome.
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A wetter world recorded in Australian coral colony
When climate scientists look to the future to determine what the effects of climate change may be, they use computer models to simulate potential outcomes such as how precipitation will change in a warming world.
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Explaining a supernova’s ‘string of pearls’
Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why fluid structures form in plasmas, but that may not be the full story when it comes to the ring of hydrogen clumps around supernova 1987A, research from the University of Michigan suggests.
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Grappling with the grid: Expanding electricity transmission brings benefits, encounters barriers
Improving the U.S. electricity grid is necessary to lower costs, boost reliability and help tackle climate change, but it will take some serious soul searching by the leaders of entities that control the grid, according to a University of Michigan researcher.
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A simple and robust experimental process for protein engineering
A protein engineering method using simple, cost-effective experiments and machine learning models can predict which proteins will be effective for a given purpose, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers.
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Unlocking creativity: Artist perspectives break free in Michigan Prison Art Exhibition
After 20 straight years of participating in the Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons, this will be the first time artist Duane Montney will personally attend the show.
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The science behind waking up on the wrong side of the bed
It's always darkest before the dawn for many people, and now, a University of Michigan and Dartmouth Health study has looked into the science of waking up on the wrong side of the bed.
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Delta-8-THC use reported by 11% of 12th graders
The first ever national estimates of teen delta-8 use indicate that 11% of 12th grade students across the United States used it in the past year.
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