College students reported their highest levels of depression and anxiety of any prior semester last fall. Of the 32,754 students from 36 colleges and universities 47% screened positive for clinically significant symptoms of depression and/or anxiety—up from 44% last year.

University of Michigan students and faculty scholars were offered 40 Fulbright grants for the 2020-21 academic year. The university is among the top producing institutions in the country for both programs.

Students in Detroit Connections: In the Classroom course find a way to connect kids with creative activities and art education during remote learning. They came up with original, kid-friendly art projects for families to do together at home.

For more than 30 years, the University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program has been a conduit connecting researchers, undergraduate students, and community partners and organizations. Now, a fresh take on the program’s curriculum to prepare students for their research experiences uses a gameful learning approach.

A $3 million gift from the Dow Company Foundation will continue the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program at the University of Michigan.

Themes of Black feminism and perseverance will take center stage in a new improvisational performance that will premiere as part of the University of Michigan’s winter 2021 Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

Members of the University of Michigan community can reward innovative teaching by submitting a brief online form nominating someone for the 2021 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize. Nominations will be accepted…

This is the third term that U-M instructor David Chesney’s unique software design course on developing technology solutions for people with disabilities has been taught online, and he has learned from each iteration.

U-M has been awarded two $5 million grants through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative competition to support “visionary, unconventional, experimental and groundbreaking projects in order to address the “long-existing fault lines of racism, inequality and injustice that tear at the fabric of democracy and civil society.”