MICDE Magazine Articles | Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering

MICDE featured articles highlight the people, discoveries, collaborations, and milestones shaping computational science and engineering at the University of Michigan and beyond.

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Finding Their Way Home: How Brain Modeling Could Help Alzheimer’s Patients

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Philip Lawrence Roe, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, passed away on April 26, 2026, at the age of 87

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Computational Science to Uncover How Matter Transitions to Plasma State
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How Computational Science and Data-Driven Modeling Are Illuminating the Deepest Mysteries of the Universe

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Charles Brooks Is Accelerating Therapeutic Drug Discovery

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Michael Wadas Named Recipient of 2025 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award

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Personalizing Cancer Recovery Through Reprogrammed Cells

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Trachette Jackson: A Career of Research Serving the World

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Lee Hartmann Inducted into the National Academy of Sciences

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PhD in Scientific Computing Alum Beth Wingate Charts Unseen Currents in Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics

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U-M and Los Alamos National Laboratory Collaborate to Advance Computational Sciences and AI for Complex Physics

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U-M Department Chairs: Women Leading the Way In Computational Science

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Computational Synthesis Paving the Way for Materials by Design Reality

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$7.5 million to predict and communicate flood risk

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Material simulation with quantum accuracy wins Gordon Bell Prize

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Celebrating 35 Years of Unlocking the Potential of Scientific Computing: The MICDE PhD Program at U-M