The University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute is embarking on the next step in a $22M motor-vehicle safety research project, by equipping vehicles with connected vehicle technologies—devices that enable vehicles to send and receive wireless messages, messages that may someday prevent crashes.

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An interdisciplinary team of University of Michigan investigators will explore performance enhancements for the redox flow battery, an emerging energy storage technology that offers solutions to such challenges as integrating intermittent renewable energies (wind, solar) onto the power grid. The work is supported by a new grant through the U-M Energy Institute’s Partnerships for Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies program.

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A first-of-its-kind, real-time research funding initiative at U-M puts $15 million into the hands of professors to jumpstart new projects they believe in. To qualify, three researchers from different disciplines just need to come up with an idea and agree to work together.

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The University of Michigan has been awarded $1.3 million to train a new generation of nuclear scientists, the U.S. Department of Energy announced on April 8. An estimated $830,000 will be used for research on how new reactor designs and technologies can have wider applications, while $465,000 will go to graduate fellowships and $20,000 for four undergraduate scholarships for students who are planning careers in nuclear energy.

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The U.S./China Clean Energy Research Center–Clean Vehicle Consortium has launched a new website to showcase its progress in developing the next generation of clean vehicle technologies. With partners from academia, national laboratories and industry, the coalition is uniquely positioned to develop global solutions to the challenges of creating next generation clean vehicles and the policies that support them.

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