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Feature 1: The University of Michigan has often blazed a trail for advances in medicine. Now a new generation of researchers is working on the cutting--edge technology of stem cells to better understand stem cell biology and to develop therapies and cures for some of our most intractable diseases. Someday the life they save May be yours.

Feature 2: Environmental Interpretive Center on U-M's Dearborn campus uses the former grounds of an auto baron's mansion to teach students and community members about environmental succession and stewardship. Professor Orin Gelderloos strolls the grounds and shows the changes that time and nature have wrought.

Feature 3: Talking Points uses standard cell phones to access the internet so visually impaired people can get information about where they are going and the businesses they're passing. But the system's creators are realizing that sighted people May want to use their invention too.

Feature 1: Professor Nick Tobier is interested in pushing the boundaries of art and himself. He works with the ephemeral canvas of daily life and real people in communities by creating unusual and unexpected encounters. In the process, he changes both those who come upon his work, and himself.

Feature 2: Husk is a group of five University of Michigan MBA graduates who are taking their class project to market. Using discarded materials to create high value insulation, the Husk team has already won a number of local and national business plan competitions--complete with large cash prizes. If they succeed, Husk will be green in more ways than one.

Feature 3: In a university filled with people coming up with all kinds of inventions and discoveries, what is the cheapest and quickest way to get a great idea on its feet? If it involves a 3--dimensional object, the folks at the 3--D Prototyping Lab often have the solution.

Feature 1: Teaching doctors and first responders to triage on-site disaster victims by doing physical simulations is expensive and time consuming, so training opportunities are rare. But by using the remarkable technology of their Virtual Reality CAVE, University of Michigan researchers have developed a new simulation program that will help save lives.

Feature 2: University towns tend to be great places to live and Ann Arbor is no exception. Between the wide array of students, faculty, and staff drawn to the city from all over the world and the variety of interests and activities they bring with them, there's something for everyone in Ann Arbor.

Feature 3: In an era where cell phones can take and send pictures and access the internet, what could future generations of communication devices do? Researchers at the U-M's School of Information have some answers.

Feature 1: By conservative estimates, some 87,000 people in the United States are wrongfully imprisoned. Not only are the lives and families of innocent people being ruined, every taxpayer is absorbing the considerable expense of keeping these people behind bars. Meanwhile, the real criminals remain free. But what can be done? The University of Michigan Law School's Innocence Clinic--the first of its kind at any American university--is addressing the problem. Will they succeed in their first--ever case?

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