Mapping for the future
Advanced GIS students from U-M Dearborn are working to map and increase Dearborn’s tree canopy, understand flood hazards, and streamline multimodal route planning.
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University wins STEM grant to aid manufacturing cybersecurity
U-M’s Economic Growth Institute will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to boost cybersecurity know-how among small manufacturers in southeastern Michigan.
Michigan IT history: 75 years of the ENIAC
The first general-purpose computer turned 75 in February. One of its key contributors was Arthur Burks, who co-founded the first program in computing at U-M in 1957.
Watch: Alternatives to a doctor’s office gain popularity during pandemic
To date, Michigan Medicine has conducted more than 350,000 video and phone visits since the pandemic started.
Dearborn’s Tech Tutor program aims to support student digital literacy
In February, UM-Dearborn announced that it will launch Tech Tutors — a new student worker-powered support service that’ll be managed by Talent Gateway Executive Director and librarian Laurie Sutch, who coordinated a similar tech program at UM-Ann Arbor. Tech Tutors is part of Dearborn’s Experience+ initiative which aims to unify the campus’s student cocurricular offerings. “When we look at… Read More »
U-M students create online resource for families to create art projects at home
During the fall semester, U-M students in Melanie Manos‘ Detroit Connections: In the Classroom course were faced with a challenging question: How could they connect kids with creative activities and art education while so many K-12 students were studying remotely? Under Manos’ guidance, the class addressed this question through Art Connects Kids, a website brimming with original, kid-friendly art projects for families to do… Read More »
Fairer AI for long-term equity
The National Science Foundation, in partnership with Amazon, has awarded U-M a Fairness in Artificial Intelligence (AI) grant for research on identifying and mitigating bias in AI and Machine Learning systems to achieve long-lasting equitable outcomes. “There is an increasing awareness in the AI research community of the issue of bias,” says Mingyan Liu, professor of electrical and… Read More »
Low-cost or free professional development
This month’s EDUCAUSE Review has an article by U-M’s Irene Knokh that lists many resources to improve your professional skills.
Buried by emails? Here are a few ways out
A survey conducted at Michigan Medicine determined that emails were a key factor in daily stress and burnout among faculty, staff, and learners. And while there’s no surefire way to prevent emails from arriving in your mailbox, you can learn a few tips that can help you manage them so they don’t become such a daily burden. At… Read More »
New database sheds light on Michigan’s videogame boom
A new database of Michigan-based videogame and extended reality (XR) developers is helping to highlight and organize the state’s rapidly growing scene. Built and maintained by CSE lecturer Austin Yarger, the Michigan Game Studios database collects data on over 65 active videogame and XR development studios in the state. He hopes it can be of use to the many audiences… Read More »
Have better virtual staff meetings
Zoom fatigue got you down? Experiment with these techniques for smoother, more productive, more interesting team meetings.
U-M professor appointed to FDA medical device security post
There’s a good chance that your life will at some point depend on a piece of computer software. Lines of code drive pacemakers, insulin pumps, hospital imaging machines and just about every other electronic medical device that’s manufactured today. But where there’s software, there are hackers. And a steady stream of hospital ransomware attacks and other malicious activities… Read More »
U-M first university press named as Benetech Global Certified Accessible publisher
University of Michigan Press is now a Benetech Global Certified Accessible™ (GCA) publisher, and is the first university press to receive this certification. Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good, issues this accreditation to those publishers who produce EPUBs that meet a full range of accessibility features required to support readers with and without disabilities… Read More »
Your smartphone can help fight COVID. Here’s how.
Get alerts about possible exposures, sign up for vaccination, report your vaccine reaction, help researchers with their projects and more.
Level up: Video games inspire new ‘living textbook’ for computational sciences
A new way of delivering course materials in the computational sciences aims to elevate the study experience from consuming static text and media to a conversation between the learner and the material. Called Mynerva, the cloud-based interactive textbook platform developed at U-M enables instructors to build their materials into video game-like journeys that unfold as the learner progresses.
UM-Dearborn’s online programs receive top marks
U.S. News and World Report online rankings — which surveyed more than 1200 online programs — named UM-Dearborn’s online MBA first in the state its online Master’s in Information Systems and Technology as second in Michigan.
AIM Data Showcase – A month of data events
Join us throughout the month of February for the AIM Data Showcase. This annual event has gone virtual! We’ll be releasing content for the event every day in February at datashowcase.ai.umich.edu.
First license for AV testing software developed by U-M’s Mcity goes to American Center for Mobility
The Mcity OS software, which lets researchers create and execute complex, highly repeatable testing scenarios for vehicles, is especially useful in situations involving smart road infrastructure and intelligent transportation systems.
Social media bans, restrictions have mixed impact on potential misinformation following Capitol riot
The amount of potential misinformation was impacted on at least one social media platform following actions to suspend or shut down thousands of accounts following the Capitol riot Jan. 6, according to a University of Michigan measure of iffy content.
Reimagining Enriching Scholarship
The Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TeachTech) at U-M has started planning for an online 2021 Enriching Scholarship Conference. Here’s what you can expect.