Academics

  1. February 2, 2015

    MHIRT celebrates 20th anniversary aiding health disparities groups

    Now in its 20th year, the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Program has sent 395 U-M medical student researchers around the world.

  2. February 2, 2015

    Saturday Morning Physics returns with focus on planet, star formation

    The popular Saturday Morning Physics series opens its winter program this Saturday with a presentation by Jon Miller, associate professor of astronomy, on accretion power.

  3. January 26, 2015

    Program helping young children learn to be makers

    The School of Information’s Michigan Makers course gives U-M students practice with mentorship and helps elementary school students share the joy of making things by hand.

  4. January 23, 2015

    First residential MOOC for U-M students focuses on health care

    The university’s first massive open online course aimed solely at U-M students focuses on “Understanding and Improving U.S. Healthcare.”

  5. December 15, 2014

    Internship to research chronic arsenic poisoning yields great lessons

    School of Public Health master’s student Kate Helmick spent the summer gathering toenail and saliva samples in Ronphibun, Thailand, as part of a project to check for signs of chronic arsenic poisoning.

  6. December 11, 2014

    New minor in naval engineering now available

    The College of Engineering has begun offering a minor in naval engineering for engineering, LSA or NROTC students interested in the marine industry but not majoring in it.

  7. December 8, 2014

    Doing away with lectures, exams, graded homework

    Professor Steven Yalisove’s syllabus for his Materials Science and Engineering course says right up front: “No Lectures, no exams, and no graded homework — but you will learn much more …”

  8. December 3, 2014

    New U-M minor in entrepreneurship to start in January

    An entrepreneurial education will be available to all U-M students beginning in January with a new 15-credit minor in entrepreneurship.

  9. November 24, 2014

    Faculty develop innovative teaching projects for U-M’s third century

    The university has awarded three faculty groups funding under the first round of Transformation grants of the university’s Transforming Learning for a Third Century program.

  10. November 18, 2014

    U-M awarded more than $112,000 in Fulbright-Hays grants

    Four doctoral students have received U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grants totaling $112,539.