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University Of Michigan Graham Institute Supports Flint Community Solar, Sustainable Airport Operations

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Five newly awarded sustainability “catalyst grants” from the University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute will support a variety of projects designed to advance technical and behavioral interventions toward greater sustainability. Engaging researchers from nine units across U-M and several other academic institutions, along with multisectoral partners, the projects will explore community solar, agrivoltaics, carbon-neutral building […]

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New Gene-Editing Technique Accelerates Study Of Cancer Mutations

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Genomic studies of cancer patients have revealed thousands of mutations linked to tumor development. However, for the vast majority of those mutations, researchers are unsure of how they contribute to cancer because there’s no easy way to study them in animal models. In an advance that could help scientists make a dent in that long […]

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Northwestern University Empowers Women Innovators And Entrepreneurs

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A gender gap exists at virtually every stage of the innovation life cycle, where women are less likely than men to disclose inventions, file patents and start companies. A recent study from Osage University Partners found that only 11% of university startups had a female scientific founder. More recent data from PitchBook shows that women-founded […]

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Zika, Dengue Risk Increase Suspected With The Warming Climate In Brazil

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The transmission potential of Zika or dengue in Brazil may increase by 10% to 20% in the next 30 years due to warming temperatures linked to climate change, according to University of Michigan researchers. Their study, which investigated four separate regions of Brazil and was published in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, found that […]

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Researchers State Climate-Induced Migration Prompts Attitudes About Immigrants

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Reading about climate-induced immigration prompted negative, nativist attitudes among people toward the affected migrants—an unintended, perhaps even paradoxical effect of many delivering the original messages, according to researchers at the University of Michigan and elsewhere. The findings, the researchers say, raise cautionary flags for reporters, advocates and other communicators in their work related to forced […]

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