Research Report

"Nice Streets, Mean Streets: Mapping Transportation Accessibility in Southeast Michigan" was one of 10 global projects selected by Strava, the popular ride and run tracking app, for its inaugural Metro for Academic Researchers Program. The project le...

Nuclear energy, a source of stable, carbon-free electricity, has long been considered essential for meeting growing global energy demands. Amid the climate emergency, geopolitical instability, and energy insecurity, it has recently regained attention...

As artificial intelligence technologies proliferate in industries across the globe, governments around the world are working to regulate how and when these technologies are used. In October 2023, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Safe...

Consumers Energy, the primary business of CMS Energy, is the second-largest utility corporation in Michigan by customers, providing electric service to 1.8 million and gas service to 1.7 million people. Consumers Energy, like other investor-owned uti...

As the popularity of community engagement grows among technologists and academics, it is vital to ensure that they engage communities in ways that benefit the people they claim to serve and do not cause harm. The Community Partnerships Playbook: How ...

Large language models (LLMs)—machine learning algorithms that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict, and generate human languages on the basis of very large text-based datasets—are likely to provide the most convincing computer-generated imita...

In winter 2020, a novel coronavirus (SARS- CoV-2) that caused COVID-19 started its spread across the globe, and by July 2020, over 500,000 people worldwide had died of the disease. By March 2021, there were over 120 million cases and over 2.8 million...

In this report, we focus on the use of FR in schools because it is not yet widespread and because it will impact particularly vulnerable populations. We analyze FR’s implications using an analogical case comparison method. Through an iterative proces...