University of Michigan

Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem

2024-03-19 11:05 AM by Wanda Parisien

Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went up from 23 percent to 42 percent. These increases are common everywhere: The average number of undergraduate CS majors at universities …

Scientists Solve 200-Year-Old ‘Dolomite Problem’

2023-11-27 07:35 PM by Jessica Irvine

The Dolomite Mountains in South Tirol. D.Bressan For 200 years, scientists have failed to grow a common mineral in the laboratory under the conditions believed to have formed it naturally. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan have finally succeeded, thanks to a new approach developed …