A new solo exhibition of work by renowned social practice artist Marisa Morán Jahn will open at the University of Michigan’s Stamps Gallery Jan. 24.

It was several months and many hours of internet and email conversations in the making but student finalists from across the world and several time zones finally met face-to-face to present their solutions to social challenges in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Solving many of the world’s problems requires creative solutions that come through informed decision making. What better way to help today’s students develop the skills needed to navigate many complex challenges than to have them dig in and do the work.

More young people are getting hands-on tech experience at the Michigan Engineering Zone.

A group of Wayne State University students were the grand-prize winners of two prizes in the Student Design Summit, a competition to find the “voices of young people” on a once-in-a-lifetime project to design a plaza that connects the Detroit Institute of Arts and its neighboring Midtown cultural institutions.

Students in a mobile architecture course say they have learned more about the principles, history and politics of area communities by seeing the buildings firsthand.

High-achieving, low-income students who received personalized commitment of financial aid are more than twice as likely to apply, be admitted to and enroll in a top-tier university, according to a new University of Michigan study.

A $2.5 million gift by the Kohn Charitable Trust to the University of Michigan will establish a new professorship of social justice and social policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

A new exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art will launch the tour of the first major thematic group exhibition in the U.S. to examine the radical impact of internet culture on visual art.