Academics
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July 14, 2014
New NCID fellows advance diversity scholarship
How are the monsters and mysteries of the U.S.-Mexico border and cultural influences on student learning and cognition related? They are the research areas of the 2014-15 National Center for Institutional Diversity’s postdoctoral fellows, William Calvos-Quirá½¹s and Wanda Casillas.
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June 30, 2014
$1M grant to improve undergraduate chemistry education
A U-M professor of chemistry and engineering is among the 15 scientist educators selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors, the institute announced Monday.
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June 18, 2014
$1.5M grant expands undergraduate research opportunities
More than 3,700 additional U-M undergraduates will get real-world research experience over the next five years through a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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June 17, 2014
Program helps researchers develop tools for using big data
Organizers of the recent interdisciplinary Big Data Summer Camp say the ability to extract and analyze data from the Web soon will be indispensable to social science researchers.
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June 16, 2014
LSA and Engineering announce major national scholarship winners
LSA and the College of Engineering have announced the winners in three major national scholarship competitions: the Goldwater, Astronaut and Beinecke scholarships.
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June 11, 2014
University part of consortium to strengthen digital education
U-M has joined three other research universities to form Unizin, a technology consortium to improve how educational content is shared across universities and ultimately delivered to students.
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June 3, 2014
Frankel Institute announces new cohort of 14 fellows for 2014-15
The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies has selected 14 fellows who will gather to research aspects of the theme “Jews and Empires” in 2014-15.
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May 15, 2014
Center for Chinese Studies named to honor Rogel, Lieberthal
The Board of Regents on Thursday voted to name the Center for Chinese Studies after U-M donor Richard Rogel and Kenneth Lieberthal, the center’s former director.
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May 8, 2014
U-M set to award funding for programs that transform education
The university is offering faculty and staff grants ranging from $100,000 to $3 million for programs that take engaged education to the next level.
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May 7, 2014
Engineering students to use IBM’s Watson technology in class
Software engineering students at U-M this fall will use IBM’s “Jeopardy”-winning Watson system to help children with special needs.
