NEW ARTICLE: “Managing screen time by making phones slightly more annoying to use.” Delaying a phone’s swiping and tapping functions forces users to think harder, making it easier for them to consider whether to keep scrolling. Click image for story 🔽 bit.ly/44ElacO

I am incredibly excited to announce that I will be joining the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Michigan Chemical Engineering, joint in the Life Science Institute, staring in January 2025! Go Blue! che.engin.umich.edu/people/biggs-b…

Congratulations GCI Faculty Affiliate Dr. Joshua Jack and GCI staff member Dr. Stephen McCord and colleagues on their exciting new findings! #co2 #carbonmangement #carbon #carboondioxide news.umich.edu/costly-gas-sep…

GCI is delighted that our director is among the prominent #climate and #environmental #experts featured in the run-up to #COP29! Thank you News.Az! #carbonmanagement #sustainability #CCU

NEW ARTICLE: “Not quite ready for autonomous taxis? Teledriving could be a bridge.” If drivers could choose any available car as a starting point, ride-hailing services could become cheaper as energy and labor are used more efficiently. Image for story 🔽 bit.ly/3zk8Sux

NEW ARTICLE: "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. For full story 🔽 bit.ly/4d0pOW9

The greatest accomplishment of Chad Jenkin's career (so far): the CMD-IT/Tapia Conference Richard A. Tapia Award. #TAPIA2024

While we celebrate the 110th anniversary of our department this fall, we look back on the alumni who helped pave the way. Today, we would like to highlight Barbara Richardson (‘77), the first Black woman to graduate from the U-M Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Program. (1/2)

Use this link to watch an interview highlighting Richardson’s journey and experiences going from the segregated South to becoming a trailblazer in U-M Engineering history: aero.engin.umich.edu/2021/03/25/the… (2/2)

Animatronics, puppetry, water jet cutting? Yes, and lecturing, managing a staff, and laser cutter maintenance. All things that Alyssa Emigh takes on, and more. We again congratulate Alyssa on earning the Michigan Engineering Staff Excellence Award this year.

How Michigan Engineering responded to #COVID19 and the research that continues today by Jim Lynch news.engin.umich.edu/2025/03/moving…

NEW ARTICLE: “Enabling stroke victims to “speak”: $19M toward brain implants to be built at U-M.” Marcus Foundation’s $30 million gift supports a collaboration between Stanford and U-M to help stroke victims regain the ability to read, write and speak. bit.ly/42Bpida

Student athletes with ADHD more susceptible to concussion: U-M researcher discusses When athletes who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder get concussions, their ADHD disorder may prolong recovery, researchers think. A recent study in the Journal of Athletic Training

The Detroit News named Michigan's Newspaper of the Year for third straight year detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via ⁦The Detroit News⁩

U-M is building a community of research around cystic fibrosis. These interdisciplinary collaborations have drawn participants from nine different units across campus, highlighting U-M’s strength in both engineering and medicine. Read more: bme.umich.edu/2025/05/21/bui…

NEW ARTICLE: “How to revive American shipbuilding: A Q&A with Matthew Collette.” American shipbuilding rusted away in the 1970s and ’80s. Congress and the White House want it back, but how do we do it effectively? bit.ly/4nvRszO

Some eye candy: Görtler vortices in an underexpanded jet by PhD graduate Meet Patel

NEW ARTICLE: “University of Michigan startup Ambiq goes public.” NSF-funded research led to ultra efficient chip used in wearables and medical devices. bit.ly/3Jdhjgb

NEW ARTICLE: “Tumor-destroying histotripsy, explained by its co-inventor: A Q&A with Zhen Xu University of Michigan startup HistoSonics was acquired this week for $2.25 billion. bit.ly/3J3Gimm

.Michigan Engineering’s Zhong He has won this year’s Distinguished University Innovator of the Year award. He is a professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, and will receive the award at Innovation Partnerships' Celebrate Invention on 9/24. myumi.ch/kP6wV