• A new resource for mastering the wind

    The study offers a detailed characterization of how sails behave during a wide range of tacking motions and with an array of sail types. Its findings serve as both a framework for improved sail designs and a pathway for making today’s autonomous sailboats—vital in oceanographic research—more efficient and reliable when changing direction in unpredictable wind conditions.

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  • Studying bird flu in the air

    A new research project, backed by the U.S.D.A. and led by Herek Clack, a U-M associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, will aim to determine how long the virus that causes bird flu remains infectious in the air within livestock and poultry facilities and will explore if non-thermal plasma technology can be used to reduce the virus' infectivity in the air of these facilities.

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  • Mapping Michigan’s airborne microplastics

    Dr. Anne McNeil is leading a project called M4AM. The group, which includes researchers from statistics, chemistry and engineering, aims to create a map of where microplastics in the state’s atmosphere are concentrated, what produces them and where they travel, in hopes that Michiganders will be able to understand how microplastics pollution in the air may impact them.

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  • Three Generations of LSA

    The deep roots of one Michigan family: academic passions, on-campus meet-cutes, and a whole lot of football.

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