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Professor Mihai Burzo: The Autonomous Vehicle

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Daba Coura Mbow Professor Mihai Burzo, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan Flint, is delving into the future of automotive technology with his groundbreaking work on autonomous vehicles. Born in Transylvania and armed with a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Professor Burzo’s expertise spans microelectronics, computational dynamics, and mechanical engineering,

Precision Health connects health data and analytics

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The University of Michigan has created an initiative to connect health related data resources and state-of-the art analytic tools known as Precision Health. Precision Health aims to advance medical research at the University of Michigan. They use a number of different data sets to conduct this research, and combine these to better inform patient care.

Upcoming seminar on IPUMS-MICS hosted by Dr. Julie Ma

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Coming March 12, 2024, Julie Ma, associate professor and director of social work here at the University of Michigan-Flint, will be hosting a seminar with guest speaker Elizabeth Heger Boyle from the University of Minnesota. The seminar will focus on the IPUMS-MICS survey data system which Boyle and Ma use to research the impact of