Academics

  1. March 10, 2014

    Top accomplishments: Interdisciplinary Junior Faculty Initiative

    President Mary Sue Coleman announced in 2007 a five-year, $30 million initiative to hire 100 tenure-track junior faculty members to increase the university’s focus on teaching and research across disciplines.

  2. March 5, 2014

    School of Dentistry receives $2M grant for special care clinic

    The School of Dentistry will use a $2 million gift from the Delta Dental Foundation to provide dental and health care services at a clinic for special-needs patients.

  3. February 24, 2014

    Larson to discuss shapeable materials in technology, biology

    Ronald Larson will offer a Distinguished University Professor lecture covering his wide-ranging expertise in the area of complex fluids on March 10.

  4. February 24, 2014

    LSA’s 22 Ways series studies how to think about new media

    A class in LSA’s 22 Ways series encourages students to explore their relationship with new media, how they use it and how it affects them. 

  5. February 11, 2014

    LSA launches new program in cognitive science

    New this semester, the Program in Cognitive Science in LSA takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining issues surrounding how the mind and brain work.

  6. February 10, 2014

    Gaming-focused teaching style motivates, engages students

    Mika LaVaque-Manty’s ​Introduction to Political Theory class involves a relatively new teaching innovation: using the principles of gaming to teach material.

  7. February 10, 2014

    Eric Mazur, expert on engaged classroom learning, to visit U-M

    U-M faculty and graduate student instructors are invited to attend a series of presentations Friday by Eric Mazur, a Harvard University physics professor and internationally recognized expert on peer instruction.

  8. February 10, 2014

    ‘Fathoming Consciousness’ explores shared human experience

    The profound subjective experience shared by all humankind called consciousness is the focus of “Fathoming Consciousness,” a free symposium Friday.

  9. February 5, 2014

    U-M to join national effort to train 100,000 STEM teachers by 2021

    Two School of Education programs — LessonSketch and TeachingWorks — have been invited to join an effort to train 100,000 science, technology, engineering and math teachers by 2021.

  10. February 4, 2014

    Lecture to focus on design science for a designed world

    Panos Papalambros will deliver his Distinguished University Professor lecture, “Design Science: A Weltanschauung,” at 4 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Rackham Amphitheatre.