Photo: Dave Brenner, U-M School for Environment & Sustainability

Today’s complex challenges cannot be addressed in isolation — within any single discipline, approach, or lab.

To live into our mission to enrich the future and challenge the present, we must collaborate across disciplinary and societal boundaries to develop research partnerships that leverage our broad excellence and to develop critical connections with communities.

The University of Michigan has a long history of interdisciplinary research, enabling scholars to explore problems with multi-layered approaches that leverage a wide range of disciplinary knowledge and methods.  The University also has a renewed commitment to engaged learning and scholarship, leveraging mutually-beneficial collaboration between scholars and community members toward shared research outcomes in which both sides have a stake.