Researchers at the University of Michigan designed software that uses machine learning to help the City of Flint bring clarity to lead service line inventory and replacement. Innovation Partnerships collaborated with researchers Eric Schwartz and Jacob Abernethy to launch BlueConduit, a startup that has already helped dozens of communities nationwide save millions of dollars, locate and fix lead service lines faster, and protect the health and safety of residents.

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In 1930, the Children's Bureau detailed a schedule of prenatal visits during pregnancy. And there, the schedule sat while the world changed for nearly 100 years. Reverb Effect, presented by the U-M Department of History, is a history podcast exploring how past voices resonate in the present moment. How do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say? And whose job is it to find out?

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