Spotlight on Innovation

Wireless Integrated Microsystems
WIMS facilitated 11 spinoff companies, 59 patents, and new tech for hearing, brain research, and sensing.
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CUOS: Center for Ultrafast Optical Science
The Center for Ultrafast Optical Science is responsible for the field’s most intense laser and much more.
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Radiation Laboratory
U-M’s Radlab is known worldwide for their contributions to Applied Electromagnetics.
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Lurie Nanofabrication Facility
The Lurie Nanofabrication Facility wasn’t always so clean, but it always gets the job done.
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Remote Sensing
Kamal Sarabandi’s work in remote sensing helps monitor global warming, see through walls, and navigate drones.
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Laser Pioneer
The 2018 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, Gérard Mourou let the formation of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science and expanded the field’s imagination.
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Breaking down barriers
Winful has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear optics and the physics of tunneling, while also championing an inclusive department.

Predicting your risk of illness
Prof. Al Hero studies the human genome’s response to viral illnesses to help predict when you might get sick.
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Lowering CT radiation
Prof. Jeff Fessler is working to create high-quality CT scans from a much lower dose of radiation.
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