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Academic Innovation Fund provides funding and tools to educational tech

By | July 14, 2023
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The Center for Academic Innovation is providing funding and support to thirteen new projects aimed at helping implement educational technologies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor as well as other global learning communities. The funded projects will include support for pre-college programs and residential U-M courses in both hybrid and online learning models.   The thirteen projects will receive… Read More »

Communication in Music: Using robots to physicalize remote performances

By | July 9, 2023
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Members of the Visualizing Telematic Performance team stand on a stage after the December concert. From left to right are John Granzow, Rebecca Zhang, Sui Lin Tam, Matt Albert, Adam Schmidt, Gavin Ryan, and Michael Gurevich, with LARS the robot in the middle.

When the COVID-19 Pandemic struck, musicians still strove to perform together and spread hope and joy. The experience of performing virtually rather than physically quickly proved difficult through video conferencing applications, such as Zoom, with video delays and other limitations. Three U-M associate professors are hoping to change that. Michael Gurevich, associate professor in the Department of Performing… Read More »

RFID technology for capital equipment—project complete

By | July 6, 2023
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Property Control is responsible for ensuring an accurate inventory of U-M’s capital equipment. Capital equipment is defined as any equipment with an original cost of $5,000 or more and a useful life of one year or more.  Last summer, Property Control and Financial Operations began partnering with HCA Asset Management, LLC to inventory and retag all U-M capital equipment. As… Read More »

Preserving and enhancing theatre: The blending of high and low techs in costume and scenic design

By | June 29, 2023
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Tree trunks standing on a stage, lights strung between them, lit in purple. A wooden ramp goes along the center of the stage, along the top of which three in-costume cast members stand.

With the rise of high-tech in nearly all aspects of our world, it’s important to appreciate and continue practicing low-tech, hands-on skills, which even the most innovative of technologies would be meaningless without. This is the goal of Kevin Judge, scenic designer and associate professor of theatre & drama, who aims to find the right balance of high-… Read More »

U-M launches Quantum Research Institute, a $55-million project

By | June 26, 2023
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The University of Michigan recently launched the Quantum Research Institute, a $55-million project to further the development of quantum research and its applications in education. The project will recruit a potential eight new faculty members to U-M’s existing expertise, combining physicists, electrical engineers, computer and materials scientists and more. Funding for the QRI also brings lab space in… Read More »

U-M’s AI for Nanobiotics: Stopping antibiotic-resistant infections

By | June 26, 2023
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A nanoparticle. A set of yellow balls attached by netting fits neatly around a very specific protrusion on a protein, marked in blue.

In 2019, 4.95 million people died from antimicrobial resistance. “Even before COVID, which worsened the problem, studies showed that by 2050, the number of deaths by antibiotic resistance will be 10 million,” said Angela Violi, a professor of six studies and U-M Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of mechanical engineering. A new computer model has been developed at the… Read More »

U-M team develops two new apps to capture interfaces and images for visually impaired users

By | June 20, 2023
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A screenshot of the ImageExplorer app identifies two women walking down a sidewalk in the photo, as well as their bags, two benches, and three more people in the background.

U-M assistant professor of computer science and engineering Anhong Guo led the development of the two apps for visually impaired users with a team based at the University of Michigan. The research has been funded by both U-M and Google.  One of these apps, VizLens, is listed as an, “appliance reader app for users with visual impairment.” VizLens… Read More »

Interns Telling Stories: Chapter 4

By | June 15, 2023
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Interns Telling Stories. A Tech Thursday newsletter from ITS

This week’s issue of the ITS LinkedIn newsletter, Interns Telling Stories, is now available! This week’s issue, Chapter 4, may be found here and the full newsletter can be accessed here. Chapter 4 features an interview with ITS Executive Director of Enterprise Application Services Cathy Handyside, cupcakes, and information on Campus Computing’s accessible software.

You’re invited! Join a Quantum Networking discussion with Joaquin Chung

By | June 15, 2023
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Joaquin Chung

You are invited to join Information and Technology Services (ITS) in welcoming Joaquin Chung to campus for a presentation on Quantum Networking, cutting-edge research, and one of the future technologies in campus network computing. His talk is entitled, “Design and Implementation of the Illinois Express Quantum Metropolitan Area Network.” The event will be held at 2 p.m. on… Read More »

Interns Telling Stories, Chapter 3

By | June 8, 2023
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Interns Telling Stories. A Tech Thursday newsletter from ITS

Chapter 3 of the ITS LinkedIn Newsletter, Interns Telling Stories, by Adria Shines, Yu-Jin Choi and Josephine Anderson in collaboration with Kat Hanchon, Daki Ravinder and Achaia Murphy went live this afternoon. The new chapter features an interview with Christopher Eagle, strategist and enterprise architect for Information and Technology Services, along with a piece highlighting accessibility services through the Knox Center.  The full newsletter is… Read More »

U-M Professors discuss how societal impacts compare to technological advances

By | June 6, 2023
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Internet law concept with 3d rendering ai robot with law scale

Ross School of Business professor Nigel Melville and Ford School of Public Policy professor Shobita Parthasarathy recently participated in a Faculty Q&A on a U-M podcast, Business and Society with Michigan Ross, to answer questions about the rise of AI and its implications. Melville and Parthasarathy have studied the popularization of AI, as well as what it means… Read More »

The Future of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Exploring oceans and bringing closure to families

By | June 6, 2023
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Image of a fish swimming in front of an underwater shipwreck.

Many know that much of the Earth’s oceans remain undiscovered. Not as many may know, however, that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014 helped scientists to learn more about what happens on our ocean floor.  While the search for MH370 has been unsuccessful, it did unearth valuable information about underwater landscapes, from ridges and volcanoes… Read More »

Week 2 of Intern Newsletter

By | June 1, 2023
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Interns Telling Stories. A Tech Thursday newsletter from ITS

Chapter 2 of the ITS LinkedIn Newsletter, Interns Telling Stories, by Adria Shines, Yu-Jin Choi and Josephine Anderson in collaboration with Kat Hanchon, Daki Ravinder and Achaia Murphy went live at noon today. The new chapter features an interview about the the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) team with Director Brock Palen and a piece on U-M’s WiFi networks.… Read More »

UM-Dearborn and new Tableau enrollment dashboards

By | May 16, 2023
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New Tableau enrollment dashboards which allow self-service access to enrollment data are now available by visiting UM-Dearborn’s Institutional Research and Effectiveness (IRE) webpage. Tableau, the tool used to create the dashboards, is provided to Dearborn at very low cost by ITS-Ann Arbor, which installed and supports the enterprise tool. IRE is a part of UM-Dearborn’s Information Technology Services… Read More »

You’re invited! Join the ITS Town Hall with President Ono

By | May 15, 2023
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You are invited to be part of the ITS Town Hall with University of Michigan President Santa Ono on Friday, May 19 at 3:30 p.m. You can access the virtual town hall using this Zoom link. President Ono will be speaking about topics ranging from the university’s Vision 2034 to the recently announced Campus Plan 2050 – in addition to other technology-related topics. This will… Read More »

Physician-aided AI improves detection of acute respiratory distress syndrome

By | April 25, 2023
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A finger points at a spot on lungs.

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a deadly critical illness that has a high mortality. However, recognition and diagnosis of ARDS is often missed or delayed, and patients do not receive evidenced-based care when ARDS goes unrecognized. To help physicians identify ARDS faster and more reliably, researchers at U-M’s Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and… Read More »