In the News

  1. Across prison walls: Connection between U-M students, incarcerated artists withstands pandemic

    With a lot of creativity and meticulous mailing logistics, U-M faculty, staff and students from different schools, all part of the Prison Creative Arts Project, remodeled the structure of their creative arts workshops for an online format and offered them in four areas: theater, creative writing, music and visual art.

  2. Patient rounds: Ages-old care & learning concept gets technology upgrade, international collaboration

    With help from the Center for Academic Innovation, a team from the Medical School created a program for virtual patient rounds using Microsoft HoloLens2 XR technology so students could continue to learn from the hands-on experience.

  3. HoloLens2 for Nursing: ‘hands-on’ lessons for remote learning & beyond

    Using Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Guides for HoloLens2 U-M Nursing will use an augmented reality platform to teach procedures, like starting an IV, placing a urinary catheter, placing a central line, starting an arterial line, doing a chest tube insertion, placing an NG tube, discharging a JP (wound) drain.

  4. Lessons in architecture: 3-D without leaving the classroom (or living room)

    A construction architecture professor created “Augmented Tectonics,” to introduce augmented and virtual reality into teaching. The virtual reality would provide a simulated construction experience. The augmented reality would involve a smart device app that would enable students to interact with 3D modeling and use the technology for design.

  5. UM online course specialization makes extended reality accessible to everyone

    A new three-course online specialization in extended reality (XR) offers something for everyone–from novices to the most advanced users, designers and developers.

  6. U-M students selected for Marshall, Schwarzman scholarships

    Seven University of Michigan students and recent graduates have been awarded prestigious scholarships for international study—one Marshall Scholarship and six Schwarzman Scholars. Each year, up to 50 Marshall Scholars are…

  7. U-M student raises 30K to build school in Malawi

    The children from a small rural village in Malawi will have a new school building by the end of this year, thanks to a University of Michigan student. Simon Kim,…

  8. School of Information student U-M’s first George J. Mitchell Scholarship recipient

    School of Information graduate student Marilu Duque has been selected as the University of Michigan’s first recipient of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship.

  9. U-M student named 2021 Rhodes Scholar

    Amytess Girgis of Grand Rapids, a senior in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, becomes the 29th U-M Rhodes Scholar since the awards were established in 1902.