Digital Studies Institute

1. December 9, 2024

   Arts Initiative grants to foster creativity and collaboration

   The Arts Initiative has announced its Arts Initiative Project Support grants for fall 2024, funding six innovative projects across the university.

2. March 17, 2021

   U-M awarded $4.8M humanities grant from Mellon Foundation

   U-M received a major grant in humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a multi-institutional digital futures collaborative led by a professor whose research involves digital inequality.

3. October 12, 2020

   Professor rolls with changes in the digital media world

   Lisa Nakamura, who began teaching courses about digital media in 2001 and at U-M in 2012, helped create a digital studies minor to provide recognition for students who had spent so much time researching it.

4. January 28, 2019

   New institute explores impact of technology on identity, inequality, ethics

   The university’s new Digital Studies Institute will explore how ethics, identity and inequality in technology impacts underrepresented communities.