Residential College

1. October 14, 2019

   Accolades — October 2019

   Awards and honors for U-M faculty and staff.

2. October 7, 2019

   Residential College lecturer uses art as a therapeutic tool

   Deborah Gordon-Gurfinkel founded Telling It, which uses the arts to help promote literacy and help students open up about their life experiences and traumas.

3. September 23, 2019

   The RC’s Esha Biswas exhibits the art of being an artist

   Esha Biswas, student affairs coordinator of the Residential College, counts among her passions photography, plants and Kathak, a form of classical dance from northern India.

4. July 29, 2019

   Art professor’s work addresses nature, direct experience

   The first time Susan Crowell exhibited her work in a botanical garden, she decided she never wanted to return to a gallery space. Her artistic practice values the importance of nature and direct experience. Her sculptures address themes such as natural beauty, creation and the environment.

5. April 10, 2017

   U-M professor’s book on Attica uprising wins Pulitzer Prize

   Professor and historian Heather Ann Thompson’s book “Blood in the the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for history.

6. February 23, 2016

   RC presents unique Michigan student-prisoner photo exhibit

   U-M students and prisoners at the Thumb Correctional Facility are collaborating on Humanize the Numbers, a photography workshop that is part of the Prison Creative Arts Project.