With the threat of a flu pandemic looming, researchers are racing to develop tools to help diagnose and identify new flu strains quickly.

Instinct and Face are included in Victoria Chang's first volume of poetry, Circle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). U-M poet Linda Gregerson says Chang "tackles subject matter that is not readily subdued to the proportions of lyric."

This image for tooth enamel-like crystals may be brown, but they have promised to turn your fillings white if U-M Dental School researchers learn how to turn them into fillings.

The College of Engineering's Team Momentum won the 10-day North American Solar Challenge, besting about 20 other competitors. In a photo by Stefano Paltera, the team lifts the car to charge it on a cloudy day in Kansas.

Young offenders aren't necessarily deterred from crime after they turn 18 even when they know they could be slapped with a much longer prison sentence, according to a study with a U-M co-author.

Although oil prices continue to reach record highs, America's economy will remain solid through the middle of next year, then slow down even if oil prices drop, U-M economist Saul Hymans and colleagues predict.

"Corporate governance does not work as advertised, even in the United States," says Gerald Davis, professor of management and organization at U-M's Ross School of Business.

Saying U-M is at a crossroads with respect to declining state funding, President Mary Sue Coleman outlined a budget that increases tuition and supports important funding priorities, including recruitment and retention of faculty and staff. Chart detail shows the $82 million gap between what the U-M appropriation would have been if it simply kept pace with inflation versus the actual appropriation, which forced U-M to cut expenditures.

See how papyrus was made at this site devoted to one of the world's largest papyrological collections. The site provides virtual access to the collection for researchers, students and the general public.

'Urban Requiem,' performed live by a saxophone quartet of graduate students of U-M's Donald Sinta, is available on the CD Collaborations featuring the U-M Symphony Band, Michael Haithcock conductor. Composer: Michael Colgrass (1995).