School for Environment and Sustainability

  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. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. October 30, 2024

    Fall colors peak as researchers study forest ecosystems

    From a historic, 20-year soil harvest to the start of a tracer study targeting nitrogen uptake by trees in the winter, fall research activity at the U-M Biological Station is robust.

  5. October 29, 2024

    Research aims to solve ‘wicked problem’ in Lake Erie

    A U-M researcher and colleagues linked forward-looking climate projections and nearly a century of fishery data with a mathematical model of Lake Erie’s nutrient load and a water quality indicator.

  6. October 28, 2024

    Symposium to help U-M community focus on nature for well-being

    Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the Nature for Wellness Symposium on Nov. 7-8 to learn more about the role of nature practices for holistic wellness.

  7. October 14, 2024

    It Happened at Michigan — A forest of knowledge

    Following a period in which Michigan’s logging industry cleared acres upon acres of densely packed forests, U-M became the first university in the nation to offer courses in forestry in 1881.

  8. September 24, 2024

    Grant to help fight Lake Erie algal blooms with healthier soils

    A team of U-M researchers will use a new $4 million state grant to investigate farm management practices to restore soil health and mitigate impacts of algal blooms in Lake Erie.

  9. August 26, 2024

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  10. August 20, 2024

    SEAS program manager Williams-Hudson elected to police panel

    Jazmin Williams-Hudson, DEI program manager in the School for Environment and Sustainability, was elected to represent non-union staff on the U-M Police Department Oversight Committee.