Program in the Environment

  1. December 12, 2024

    U-M, Mellon Foundation announce Environmental Justice + Humanities Hub

    The Mellon Foundation has awarded nearly $4 million in a first-of-its kind grant to create the Environmental Justice + Humanities Hub at U-M, bolstering the university’s work in environmental justice.

  2. November 11, 2024

    Michigan Sustainability Community offers living‑learning experience

    The Sustainable Living Experience pilot program, which introduces programming and learning opportunities during the first year of college, will become the Michigan Sustainability Community.

  3. April 29, 2024

    LSA/SEAS senior explores ethnobotany

    After three years in the Program in the Environment, Mahalina Dimacali is focused on ethnobotany — how people interact with land and nature in regard to culture and society.

  4. April 24, 2024

    Four from U-M to join American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    Faculty members James Joyce, Webb Keane, Alexandra Killewald and John Vandermeer have been selected to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their contributions in scholarly and professional fields.

  5. April 16, 2024

    Students turn fallen campus trees into public tables

    Storm-damaged trees and others from across U-M are being turned into new, functional campus furniture, thanks to the work of associate professor Joseph Trumpey and his students.

  6. August 28, 2023

    Obituary — Robert M. Owen

    Robert M. Owen (known as Bob by friends and family), professor emeritus of marine geochemistry and of the environment, died peacefully June 10 at age 77.

  7. April 24, 2023

    LSA senior sees intersection of business, climate change as key

    Zachary Marmet said after taking the introductory level course Global Change, knew he wanted to study the environment.

  8. April 19, 2023

    American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducts seven from U-M

    Seven U-M faculty members have been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their significant contributions in scholarly and professional fields.

  9. January 11, 2021

    LSA lecturer took to the mountains during pandemic

    Virginia Murphy, lecturer II in Program in the Environment and lecturer IV in the Residential College in LSA, spent much of the COVID-19 pandemic hiking in the mountains of Maine.

  10. September 30, 2019

    Detroit’s unofficial footpaths could be important to redevelopment

    U-M’s Joshua Newell and a colleague mapped 5,680 unofficial footpaths in the city of Detroit in what’s believed to be the first comprehensive study of unofficial footpaths in a large urban area.