In the News

  1. UM faculty awarded NSF grant to study how technology can empower artisan communities

    A new research project co-led by Michigan faculty focuses on how technology can be used by artisans to empower, not replace, their labor.

  2. SEAS Launches Online Environment and Sustainability Games

    From now until Earth Day in April 2022, SEAS will release monthly student-developed games that will test players’ knowledge of sustainability issues.

  3. Empowering Blue aims to improve workplace environment, innovation

    Empowering Blue, an Organizational Excellence initiative, creates a space where people from across the university can network, swap ideas and share best practices.

  4. LSA senior named Rhodes Scholar for 2022

    University of Michigan student Rachael Merritt has been named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar, one of 32 Americans chosen to win scholarships to Oxford University.

  5. Collaborative’s grants advance anti-racism research, scholarship

    The National Center for Institutional Diversity’s Anti-Racism Collaborative has awarded nearly $111,000 in grants to six teams from across the University of Michigan to support projects that aim to inform anti-racist action.

  6. Long-awaited study abroad trips back on track, with a few extra steps

    About 1,500 University of Michigan students, so far, have applied to travel to 33 countries during winter 2022, a number that is fast approaching pre-pandemic levels.

  7. Growing the SEAS Gala Learning Platform with NSF Support

    Gala is a co-designed platform for multimodal learning that was created by School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) students and faculty but is now in use among several broader National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded communities.

  8. $100,000 available for U-M faculty grants to research ways to prevent, alleviate poverty

    Poverty Solutions will award up to five grants of $20,000 each to support research on ways to prevent and alleviate poverty.

  9. UM-Flint professors offer autism spectrum disorder training for police

    Professors Melissa Sreckovic and Christine Kenney were awarded a $20,000 grant from UM-Flint’s Research and Creative Activity program to develop and deliver a high-quality professional development training session for law enforcement officers on autism.