While Michigan football continues on, with its first game Oct. 24, the Michigan Marching Band for the first time in its 123-year history will not be joining on the field. Instead the band’s first show will be released digitally in early November.

The University of Michigan has decided to suspend its undergraduate study abroad programs for the winter term 2021 due to ongoing concerns about COVID-19, the continuing travel restrictions and the planning time needed for students.

The students in Peter Bodary’s Scientific Inquiry Using Wearable Technology class represent one of four groups that came to campus this fall to experience the lab-based course that uses the latest technology to study how movement and function impact health.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, fall classes are being delivered in a mix of remote, in-person and hybrid formats, and instructors and students must be prepared for format shifts at any point. Amid all of these challenges, many speak to a strong sense of community in classrooms, even spanning the gap between physical and virtual.

Managing the fight against homelessness, creating employment opportunities, and reforming law enforcement in Detroit are complex issues at any time. Add an economic recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the increased activism of the Black Lives Matter movement, and it has been a unique summer in the city.

Emily Schaller discussed place-based sustainability education in the “Making the Case for Sustainability” webinar. DITF trains and supports secondary teachers from all disciplines in Michigan counties to design and enact place-based, sustainability-focused learning units in their classrooms.

Faculty Q&A: “…we need to teach both business and government students about the ways that the two communities can and must work together to address our society’s problems.”

Architecture without walls; performance without venues. Student teams spend the summer speculating on the ways performance is influenced by digital space.

Nearly 350 UMSI students worked in credit-based or required summer internships this year, despite challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.