In tropical Grenada, where bananas and mangoes grow and the sea meets gorgeous sands, all is not paradise. Bianca Lawrence, a second-year School of Public Health master’s student, said that…
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March 20, 2015
Growing seafood in Detroit
There is something fishy going on in a vacant house in Detroit’s North End, and University of Michigan graduate student Elizabeth “Lizzie” Grobbel takes full responsibility. That’s because Grobbel, an…
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February 23, 2015
Mapping Slavery in Detroit
Professor Tiya Miles and a team of students have spent two years researching the history of slavery in Detroit, mapping the locations and lives of slaves and former slaves and…
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February 19, 2015
Course encourages students to impact campus sustainability
When Michaela Zint revamped the course Environ 211: Social Sciences and Environmental Problems a few years back, she decided the way to motivate students was to appeal to their desire…
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February 13, 2015
Third Century Initiative Global Challenges grant awarded
David Burke describes a scenario that could be one outcome of the work he and colleagues are doing with their project, Deep Monitoring, which just received a large second infusion…
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February 13, 2015
U-M funds another round of engaged learning projects
The university has awarded funding for another 18 projects under the Transforming Learning for a Third Century portion of the Third Century Initiative. The latest Quick Wins and Discovery grants…
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February 12, 2015
Celebrating 20 years of aiding health disparities groups
Camels and horses run free on the plains of Umnugobi province, Mongolia. That’s where graduate student Elise Tolbert learned to tolerate the dust and air pollution, as she asked people…
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January 23, 2015
School of Information course creates Michigan Makers
A list on a white board tells the children what they can do this day. Among the options: LEGOs, K’Nex, LittleBits, stencils on clothing, poster or card creation, stop-motion animation…
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January 22, 2015
First residential MOOC at U-M focus on health care system complexity
The university’s first U-M-only massive open online course (MOOC) had about 400 enrollees just prior to kickoff Jan. 12. By the end of the first day the number had nearly…
