A video documents the emotional struggle of students participating in the annual Festifools parade, as creation of giant puppets puts matters such as identity and artistic expression into new perspectives.

With a $10 million gift from University of Michigan alumni Ron and Eileen Weiser, U-M will establish a new diplomacy center to serve as a hub for engagement with the foreign policy community.

Why are you “here to learn?” This question posed to alumni and other University of Michigan learners by the Office of Academic Innovation is followed with a commitment: We’ll help you get there.

Each new academic year brings a number of courses on campus that have unusual names—”Voting is Sexy” and “Emoji Worlds”—or one-of-a-kind approaches to current topics, like homelessness in school. Here’s a sample of some of this year’s unique learning opportunities.

Imagine living in a community where your drinking water must be trucked in because the wells in your town were so depleted that seawater could leach into the freshwater supply. In many arid coastal areas, this is an everyday occurrence.

Since President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman’s trip to Africa a decade ago, U-M has invested effort and resources into building research collaborations in Africa.

A group of University of Michigan students has turned the belief that information is power into a tool that helps people with disabilities know which restaurants, stores, libraries, concerts and many other public places are barrier-free before they go.

Current approaches to finding solutions through applied academic research are too narrow and treat the food system as a collection of isolated components within established disciplines such as agronomy, sociology or nutritional science.

Active. Experiential. Engaged. See how U-M students and faculty are transforming education as part of the University’s Third Century Initiative.