In a high school classroom in Lima, Peru, a group of students are programming a 3-D printer they will soon use to print out Yoda from Star Wars, Game of…
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July 3, 2017
The straw bale house: 22 undergraduates, 1 leader, 200 straw bales and lots of mud
Two groups of people surround shallow plastic pools filled with clay, reaching in, grabbing clumps and breaking them apart. To the clay, students add buckets of straw, sand and a…
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June 20, 2017
U-M’s successful gameful learning technology available to other institutions
Technology for a University of Michigan learning approach that employs video game-style strategy made its way to the market this week. The gameful instruction tool known as GradeCraft is now…
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May 16, 2017
M-Write to include automated text analysis in Fall
M-Write, a program built on the premise that students learn complex material by writing, will expand in Fall 2017 to add automated text analysis (ATA) to its digital toolkit. M-Write…
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May 4, 2017
Um3Detroit: U-M, community partners showcase collaborations with Detroit during day-long event
As the University of Michigan looks toward its third century, leaders are encouraging more faculty, students and staff to think creatively about ways to expand education and research opportunities in…
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April 25, 2017
Digital Islam course connects Big Ten universities
Pauline Jones, director of the University of Michigan International Institute, is passionate about the need for education around some of the most complex topics in the world like Islam. “Islam…
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April 20, 2017
Five faculty teams awarded Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize
For their creative and inventive approaches to improving student learning, five faculty projects led by Michael Cole, Mary Lou Dorf, Craig Regester, Stephen Rush and Adam Simon will be awarded…
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April 20, 2017
Multidisciplinary course challenges students to develop new designs for wearable technology
For more than 20 years, the Integrated Product Development course has brought together students and faculty members from different disciplines at the University of Michigan to participate in an innovative…
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April 18, 2017
UROP event celebrates a year of faculty, student research
When 1,300 students and 900 faculty-staff mentors gather Wednesday to show off the work they’ve been doing together this year, the projects will include research on self-driving cars, police-involved shootings,…
