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(Every year since 1975, University of Michigan researcher Lloyd Johnston's team has conducted the Monitoring the Future study of 50,000 young Americans. In this first part of a multi-part interview, Johnston describes how the survey that has interviewed more than 1 million people all began.)

(Current UAW contract talks with U.S. automakers may be the most important in decades.)

(discussion with professor about ACL injuries and research into these.)

(Engineering professor Zoran Filipi believes plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be common on the highways of tomorrow. He explains how they work and why they could help reduce greenhouse gases.)

(Birches will likely drive out aspens in northern forests as carbon dioxide levels continue to mount in coming decades.)

(Jude and Hensler discovered that newly hatched round gobies leave their lake bottom homes and swim to the surface at night, a nocturnal migration that increases the chances that large numbers of hatchlings will get sucked into the ballast tanks of Great Lakes freighters.)

(Julio Frenk, former minister of health of Mexico, and current counsel to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation talks about disaster preparedness at School of Public Health symposium on Sept. 11, 2007.)

(U-M Department of Music offers up close interaction with preeminent pianist.)

(In the last years of his life, Bo Schembechler passed his leadership secrets to writer John U. Bacon. The result is a book, "Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership" that offers leaders both penetrating insight ("You can't lead people unless you like people") and practical advice ("Recruit for character"). Bacon discusses Bo's leadership style, and describes what it was like to work for the notoriously demanding coach.)

(Low-income households in the United States often lack access to bank accounts and face high costs for conducting basic financial transactions through check cashiers and other alternative financial service providers. Law professor Michael Barr says these families find it more difficult to save and plan financially for the future.)