“This partnership between the University of Michigan and the city will be a great help in our efforts to provide pathways out of poverty to our residents who are still struggling,” said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.

Innovations that promote safe sex, improve mental health on college campuses, assist young people making student loan decisions, and provide personalized tutoring have taken top honors in two separate but related competitions at the University of Michigan.

In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial, the U-M Library partnered with the national oral history organization StoryCorps to record and preserve stories from our community.

This is the first meeting of M²GATE, a new virtual exchange program during which the students will work together across cultures to develop business ideas to solve social challenges in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region.

The challenge, run by the Center for Social Impact at the Ross School of Business, provides graduate and undergraduate students across U-M an opportunity to collaborate and solve complex social issues in a competitive environment with real-world implications.

In this course, instead of a linear telling of world events over time, students learn how everything is tied together through astronomy, biology, philosophy, history, psychology and anything else they discover along the way through billions of years.

U-M researchers are part of a program that trains local officials in coastal management and helps them better understand the threats posed by climate change and building in floodplains.

“The high-impact experiences that our applicants gain at U-M, including service, academic coursework, leadership development, and global and intercultural learning opportunities… contribute to their ability to serve capably as Peace Corps volunteers,” said Judith Pennywell, director of U-M’s International Center.

SMTD professor channels his passion into a collection of diverse monologues meant to shed light on issues surrounding immigration and the dangers of crossing borders.