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U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell raised her voice Tuesday night when a constituent suggested she and other lawmakers aren’t approaching the issue of PFAS with enough urgency.

In the 1910s, Ford’s Model-T cars changed our conception of time and space. In the 1950s, the construction of interstate highway systems enabled travel by car over longer distances. And today we are facing a third wave of the transportation revolution with connected and automated vehicle technology.

Researchers from the University of Michigan Urban Collaboratory said Monday that helping Benton Harbor officials develop better transportation options for the city’s residents does more than get people where they want to go.

At the WEFTEC 2018 conference on October 1, 2018, a joint team from the University of Michigan and the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) won the grand prize in the LIFT Intelligent Water Systems Challenge.

As Detroit Public Schools Community District faces a building infrastructure crisis that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fix, it's also confronting the major investment it could take to quell concerns due to elevated lead and copper levels found in some schools' water.

Engineers at the University of Michigan are looking to tackle Benton Harbor's transportation issues.

Kenneth Gavin’s memories of Benton Harbor in the 1970s include the good and the bad—particularly, the fond 1978 recollection of joining the church he would one day pastor. They also include something more ominous: the opening of The Orchards Mall in Benton Township just a year later.

Phosphorous is essential for life, and it's used in most fertilizers. But it could run out. A group of researchers has recruited citizens of a town in Vermont to test out a solution.

Benton Harbor residents now are working with researchers at the University of Michigan as part of a new Urban Collaboratory initiative that embraces smart city technologies and urban design to address targeted challenges that impact the livability of communities.

Sensors in a Shoebox is a project to put compact kits of sensors in the hands of Detroit teenagers as a grassroots approach to urban technology that aims to empower the community, rather than the technocrats.