LSA

  1. November 14, 2023

    Advisory committee named to assist search for next LSA dean

    Provost Laurie K. McCauley has named a 19-member advisory committee to assist the search for the next dean of LSA to succeed Anne Curzan, who is not seeking another five-year term.

  2. November 13, 2023

    LSA international studies graduate named 2024 Rhodes Scholar

    LSA graduate Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos has been named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar, one of 32 Americans chosen to win scholarships to Oxford University.

  3. November 6, 2023

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  4. November 3, 2023

    Five from U-M named American Physical Society fellows

    Four physics researchers and one biophysicist from LSA have been elected to the American Physical Society, each from a different field within physics.

  5. November 2, 2023

    Grant to help measure public investments in emerging industries

    The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science has received a $4.5 million federal grant to study how public investments in emerging industries can impact economic development in key technological areas.

  6. October 25, 2023

    U-M study focuses on emotional expression and cultural bias

    A new study by U-M researcher Shinobu Kitayama and colleagues focuses on the emotional expression of Latin Americans, U.S. residents and Japanese.

  7. October 17, 2023

    LSA welcomes sixth cohort of LSA Collegiate Fellows

    Three new scholars have joined U-M as LSA Collegiate Fellows, part of an initiative that aims to increase faculty members’ capacity to engage in diversity, equity and inclusion scholarship.

  8. October 16, 2023

    Museum’s snake specimens form world’s largest research collection

    The Museum of Zoology recently acquired tens of thousands of scientifically priceless reptile and amphibian specimens, including roughly 30,000 snakes preserved in glass jars.

  9. October 16, 2023

    Identifying some foods as addictive could shift attitudes

    Conceptualizing ultra-processed foods high in carbohydrates and fats as addictive substances can contribute to efforts to improve health worldwide, according to a new international study led by a U-M researcher.

  10. September 28, 2023

    U-M Library offering free copies of banned books Oct. 3-5

    The U-M Library is offering 16 titles — almost 2,000 free books — that have been recently challenged or banned and that span themes, topics and depictions that are most often challenged.