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While prior research has shown that tall adults earn more money, what matters most is how tall a person was as a teen-ager, says a University of Michigan economist.

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Although oil prices continue to set record highs this year, America's economy will remain solid through the middle of next year, say University of Michigan economists.

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Young offenders aren't necessarily deterred from crime after they turn 18 even when they know they could be slapped with a much longer prison sentence, a new study co-authored by a University of Michigan researcher suggests.

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With the threat of a flu pandemic looming, researchers are racing to develop tools to help diagnose and identify new flu strains quickly.

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Do you have your pieces of wood, a couple of wax tablets and a wooden pen and clay inkpot? Across the country, families are getting youngsters ready for school by purchasing notebooks, paper, pencils and pens.

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1) Kids can email and IM but can they write an essay? 2) How is the No Child Left Behind plan working? 3) Hand-held computers in K-12, technology in education; 4) The achievement gap and education issues for urban students; 5) The history of education reform.

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A University of Michigan study suggests that women, but not men, automatically associate sex with submission and that connection reduces the quality of their sexual experience.

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Efforts aimed at saving one of the world's rarest birds of prey from extinction may be too late, a genetic analysis by researchers at the University of Michigan and The Peregrine Fund suggests.

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The inequalities that mark American life maintain their hold through age and even death, a new study shows.

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Women who are current and former welfare recipients suffer a whole host of health problems---and getting a job doesn't always help matters.

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A tiny chip that mimics a circulatory system---right down to the rhythm of a human heart beat---could be an invaluable tool in understanding the causes of cardiovascular disease and developing drug therapies.

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Rehabilitation programs to improve self-esteem among people with mental illnesses should be tailored to their psychiatric and cognitive characteristics, a new study by the University of Michigan and Washington University in St. Louis shows.

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In the classic textbook example, predators and prey are locked in an escalating evolutionary arms race. As prey develop defenses against their attackers, predators go them one better, devising new ways of penetrating their victims' defenses.

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Hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles are rapidly becoming mainstream choices for American consumers, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and HybridCars.com.

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Experience in the world of information technology pays off, but having a master's degree in business earns an even fatter paycheck for IT professionals, according to a new study at the University of Michigan business school.

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Older people are less likely than younger people to react aggressively when problems come up in their relationships, University of Michigan research shows.

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If you nudge this robot, it steps forward and catches its balance---much like a human.

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Girls steer away from careers in math, science and engineering because they view science as a solitary rather than a social occupation, according to a University of Michigan psychologist.

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Companies that report large positive earnings surprises continue to outperform the market and beat analysts' expectations up to three years later, according to a University of Michigan business school study.

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A virtually unstoppable snakebot developed by a University of Michigan team resembles a high-tech slinky as it climbs pipes and stairs, rolls over rough terrain and spans wide gaps to reach the other side.

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The University of Michigan's University Library has entered a partnership with the survivors of the Shoah Foundation that will make the videotaped testimonies of 52,000 Holocaust survivors available to the general public for the first time.

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The U.S. economy, which finally posted job gains last year after three straight years of job losses, will add another 4 million jobs through 2006, say University of Michigan economists.

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A recent study suggests that the Super Mom syndrome is real, and that many married working women will volunteer to work a "second shift" as primary parent that's equal to the time anticipated by full-time, stay-at-home moms.

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Widowed men and women who enjoyed good marriages are less likely than those whose marriages were bad to be depressed four years after their spouse's death.

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University of Michigan researchers have developed a faster, more efficient way to produce a wide variety of nanoparticle drug delivery systems, using DNA molecules to bind the particles together.

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A team has developed a new tool to assess the quality of home health care, with the goal of improving care and providing meaningful feedback about the care.

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A new drug candidate previously shown to reduce harmful side effects of the autoimmune disease lupus also may be useful in treating psoriasis.

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Men are more likely to want to marry women who are their assistants at work rather than their colleagues or bosses, a University of Michigan study finds.

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For Marcel Proust, the taste of a madeleine conjured remembrance of the distant past. In today's multi-tasking, hyper-speed world, it can be a trick to remember what we did yesterday.

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They say the best learning comes from teaching and doing, so a new course being offered to business students at the University of Michigan should be very educational indeed.

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Who says a diverse portfolio is better? When it comes to individual investing, stock trades made by households with fewer stocks outperform those with more diversified accounts, according to researchers at the University of Michigan and University of Illinois.

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Despite post-election claims, Americans are not bitterly divided when it comes to moral values, says a University of Michigan professor.

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American children and teens spend about 4 hours a week on homework and attend school for about 32.5 hours a week, according to a University of Michigan study that provides a detailed snapshot of the way school-age children spend their time.

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The next time you feel like complaining about the price of groceries, check out a few of the findings from an international research project that shows how everyday economic stress affected the lives of ordinary people in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Diabetes is harming the nation's economy as well as its health, according to a University of Michigan study showing that lost productivity among diabetic Americans born between 1931 and 1941 cost the country nearly $133.5 billion by the year 2000.

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A diverse group of problem solvers is more likely to outperform a team of the best and brightest problem solvers, a new University of Michigan study shows.

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Human activity causes 10 times more erosion of continental surfaces than all natural processes combined, an analysis by a University of Michigan geologist shows.

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As a boy, Wei Gu taught himself to write computer software for the electronic games he liked to play. Today, he writes computer instructions that direct cells and other fluids through channels on a microchip, so that those cells think they're in the body.

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Firms need both adequate financial reserves and positive employee relationships to confront crises, rebound more quickly and continue to flourish, says a University of Michigan business professor.

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A program designed by a University of Michigan professor to help Navy recruits cope with the emotional challenges of training improved recruits' functioning, strengthened their training performance and reduced attrition.

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Picture a honeycomb and each compartment in the honeycomb is coated with living cells from a person's mouth, skin or a piece of bone.

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With the average cost of a traditional wedding approaching $20,000, a lack of money rather than love may be the reason so many young couples are living together instead of getting married, according to a University of Michigan researcher.

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University of Michigan influenza expert is beginning a three-year direct comparison of the effectiveness of flu shots versus nasal spray flu vaccine.

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University of Michigan researchers are testing a new procedure in which they can take a tiny piece of a person's mouth lining, grow it into a dollar-bill sized piece of tissue and graft that expanded piece into the donor's mouth to heal a wound.

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Brokers who infrequently make recommendations to buy stock tend to give good advice when they do say to buy. But these same investment banks and brokerage firms are not as successful when they advise to hold or sell, says a University of Michigan business professor.

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Is it really the economy, stupid? Democrats rallied behind that phrase in 1992 but a U-M researcher says that, despite the conventional wisdom of political pundits, voters don't pick a president based on the previous four years of economic conditions or on the local economy.

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The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that Asian and Hispanic populations in the U.S. are growing at a faster rate than the country's overall population.

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The University of Michigan is launching a new Spanish-language site designed to open the University's door more widely to Latino Americans, the nation's fastest-growing population group.

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In the thick of a presidential election, the latest findings from surveys and polls are reported on a daily basis. But much of the data behind the news on American public opinion is literally here today and gone tomorrow.

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Kristy Martyn started out using a detailed timeline of teen-aged girls' lives as an easy way to track their demographics for research purposes.