When students from the summer Citizen Interaction Design Fellows program began working with Michigan election clerks, they quickly realized they could do more than the project in front of them.

The Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning is a civic engagement center with a mission “to cultivate and steward equitable partnerships between communities and the University of Michigan in order to advance social change for the public good.”

As the COVID-19 outbreak spread through Michigan and across the United States, rising second-year law student Maiya Moncino worked to create a centralized volunteer effort to assist individuals affected by the pandemic, a community effort now known as the COVID Corps.

An annual report released this month marking the 5th year of the Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE) documents extraordinary progress toward transforming the future of collaborative health practice at University of Michigan and beyond.

For the past 25 years, professor Maureen Tippen, has taken more than 250 University of Michigan-Flint nursing students on service-learning journeys to Africa, Asia and Latin America. Tippen, clinical associate professor emerita of nursing, is this year’s recipient of the U-M’s Presidential Award for Distinguished Service in International Education.

As campuses across the nation move towards the challenges of fall semester, there’s well-spring of innovation and creativity coming from students. An app to track bus occupancy. A friend-matching system to spur connections despite social distancing. An inclusive COVID-19 testing protocol designed to eliminate out-of-network fees for students without health insurance.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, three immediate issues emerged: the loss of access to food support and school programs for at-risk, food-insecure populations; income loss for paycheck-to-paycheck workers; and depleted essential volunteers that provide for these vulnerable populations.

The Yallah Quit program uses culturally specific, text message-based guidance to help Muslims kick the habit of cigarettes and hookah smoking.

One of the foundations of Taubman College’s architecture program is its studio culture. So when COVID-19 forced classes online and closed the doors of the Art and Architecture Building weeks before the end of the winter semester, faculty and staff were faced with how to replicate the camaraderie and collaboration of the studio, as well as the up-close-and-personal nature of final reviews, in a virtual space.