Teach-outs bring people together online to share diverse perspectives and enable individuals to engage in meaningful interactions about current topics, including sleep deprivation, fake news, privacy and reputation, and the internet’s effect on human society.

Five students share their engaged learning experiences that included teaching locals about water filtration and technology, and learning about the culture and life experiences of people quite different from themselves.

Finelli and Johnson will investigate how the flexible spaces make a difference in the ways students interact with one another and with faculty, and how they affect the way students learn.

Students in engaged learning workshop design sustainable solar umbrella roof with world-renowned architect Mark Lee.

“Michigan is pleased to lend expertise to the development of implantable heart tissue, which could improve and extend so many lives,” said Alec Gallimore, the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering.

Sara Saylor’s passion for local community engagement began as a U-M student in 1995. Now her position at the Ginsberg Center enables her to combat inequalities in the education system.

New program will cultivate talents for global sustainability and facilitate academic cooperation between the United States and China.

“Is publishing in top academic journals having any impact beyond the academy? My fear is that it’s not,” Hoffman said. He hopes to shift people’s opinions on how both business and academia can be a force for positive social change.

The pilot, which expands an existing summer youth employment program in Washtenaw County to U-M, pairs county youth ages 16-24 with faculty and staff to help them gain work experience, mentorship, and life skills training.