In the News

  1. Eileen Lappin Weiser’s $14.7M gift creates learning sciences center

    Her gift, representing the largest commitment in the SOE’s 100-year history, will help reshape teaching and learning to meet the needs of all different kinds of learners and prepare them for the jobs of the future.

  2. Helping Coastal Communities Address Changing Shorelines

    Taubman College Professor Richard Norton works with local communities to adapt to environmental changes in the Great Lakes region.

  3. Prison Creative Arts Project hosts 26th Annual Exhibition of Art featuring 714 pieces

    The free, public exhibition, which opens at 5 p.m. on March 22, highlights the work of 392 artists from 26 state correctional facilities in Michigan. It features 714 paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional works.

  4. Eisenberg, Shaefer receive 2021 awards for public engagement

    The University of Michigan is honoring faculty members Marisa C. Eisenberg and H. Luke Shaefer with presidential awards for public engagement.

  5. Vice Provost for Engaged Learning launches Engage Detroit Workshops grant program for U-M faculty and staff

    The Vice Provost for Engaged Learning office is providing financial support for up to four groups of U-M faculty and staff with a faculty lead on the Ann Arbor or…

  6. SEAS researchers well represented in 2021 Propelling Original Data Science grants

    SEAS and Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) faculty received three of the 17 PODS grants awarded by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) in 2021.

  7. U-M founds first robotics department among top 10 engineering schools

    The new department will define robotics as a discipline, teaching students the skills needed to help drive a rapidly expanding field.

  8. The challenges of nurturing interdisciplinary research

    U-M is working to make interdisciplinary research accessible through the Thematic Research Planning Grant

  9. Global Information Engagement Program sets information students up for success with newly redesigned curriculum

    The Global Information Engagement Program’s newly redesigned model broadened the focus of the program to include multiple locations, with interdisciplinary U-M and UMSI graduate students.