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Sarah Miller is an American health economist currently serving as associate professor of Business Economics and Public Policy in the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. [1] Her research examines the short and long-term effects of health insurance expansions, and the impacts of income on individuals' health and well-being. [2]
He was an editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity from 2009 through 2015. Wolfers' research has explored macro economics, labor economics, the economics of sports, prediction markets, and the family. [9] In 2007, he was named in David Leonhardt's column as one of 13 young economists who were the future of economics. [10]
Experimental economics is the application of experimental methods [1] to study economic questions. Data collected in experiments are used to estimate effect size, test the validity of economic theories, and illuminate market mechanisms.
The Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) began as Willow Run Laboratories in 1946, but was established as a private not for profit research institute when it formally separated from the University of Michigan in 1972. [1] ERIM contributed to the development of remote sensing for environmental and military applications.
Since 2008, the University of Michigan has offered a bachelor's degree in Informatics. [3] Informatics is housed in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts in cooperation with the College of Engineering and the School of Information and gives students a solid grounding in information systems, statistics, mathematics and computer programming. [4]
Soar, developed under Allen Newell and John Laird at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan. [18] Society of Mind and its successor The Emotion Machine proposed by Marvin Minsky. [19] Subsumption architectures, developed e.g. by Rodney Brooks [20] (though it could be argued whether they are cognitive).
Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory (PEPL) is a University of Michigan laboratory facility for electric propulsion and plasma application research. The primary goals of PEPL are to increase efficiency of electric propulsion systems, understand integration issues of plasma thrusters with spacecraft, and to identify non-propulsion applications of electric propulsion technology.
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities and is a founding member of the Association of American ...