Many people don’t know that there are 14 Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) across Michigan—places where human activity and legacy pollution have severely damaged the environment.

K-12 educators have been using technology in the classroom with increasing frequency but not always with great success, particularly when teaching students with special needs, says one University of Michigan researcher.

It was Jevona Watson’s dream to have a coffee shop in the Fitzgerald neighborhood in northwest Detroit, a place she calls home. A matching Motor City Match grant in 2016 helped take the first steps toward her dream.

There’s no shortage of good ideas at U-M when it comes to using technology in teaching and research. But it’s not always easy for these ideas to spread across schools, colleges and units on a large campus.

Five faculty projects are being honored with the 11th annual Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize for their innovative approaches to improving student learning.

The International Institute and the Rackham Graduate School funding awards support international research and internships.

In a world where we’re experiencing both a global rise in obesity and widespread hunger, it becomes important to understand how food systems affect us.

University of Michigan graduate student Cherline Bazile has been awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a program that provides financial support to immigrants and children of immigrants.

Three University of Michigan researchers have been named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, chosen from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants.