In the News

  1. Digital Innovation Greenhouse launches ART 2.0 to help students with course decisions

    A student taking a large course load next semester wants to know how much work will be involved with the classes she tentatively has mapped out. Another wonders if other…

  2. Plastic patients: Life-like mannequins teach students nursing skills

    Allison Lewin, a University of Michigan nursing student, is working hard to talk her patient—an expectant mother with preeclampsia—out of a full-blown panic attack. “Is this going to hurt?” the…

  3. Living Lab: Involving kids, parents in real-time child development research

    During a recent visit to the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Liz Hill and her daughter found themselves unexpectedly participating in a University of Michigan child development research study. Liz watched…

  4. Spring break students return with tales of service, career connections

    In Washington, D.C., during spring break, Belleville senior Amanda Humpich said she got a push in the right direction by networking with recent Michigan graduates to spark her job search….

  5. How To Give the Talk of a Lifetime

    It was a slightly bizarre scene. On a recent Thursday, students stood facing—and talking engagingly to—the blank wall in classroom 2011 in the University of Michigan Modern Languages Building. “Is…

  6. Students hail research experience on real legal issue

    Students that worked on a research project at three different times over five years all had pretty much the same thing to say: tackling a “real life” legal issue was…

  7. “Me-search”: U-M undergrads analyze their own biological samples to study how microbes affect human health

    A “me-search” lab for University of Michigan biology undergraduates gives students a close look at what might be the most compelling study subject of all: themselves. The lab focuses on…

  8. Better gender balance at latest MHacks hackathon

    Wearing a Google Glass, Keeley Erhardt sits with her teammates in front of a window on which they’ve scrawled ideas in red dry-erase marker. All around her in the atrium…

  9. Desilting ponds in India benefit farmers, environment

    Students from the University of Michigan are developing a low-cost way to increase crop yield and reduce the use of fertilizers for Indian farmers. In a year-long study in India’s…