Academics
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April 20, 2020
Answering questions about lifting restrictions on Michigan’s nurses
Michigan has some of the strictest advanced nursing practice standards in the country. Deena Kelly Costa, assistant professor at the School of Nursing, answers questions about lifting restrictions.
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April 12, 2020
Institute for Humanities names faculty, graduate student fellows
Eight U-M lecturers and tenure-track faculty members will be summer fellows at the Institute for the Humanities. Eight faculty members and eight graduate students will be fellows during the 2020-21 academic year.
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March 16, 2020
Transfer recruiting coordinator opens home to foster dog
Kristin Heinrich, a transfer recruiting coordinator for LSA, recently welcomed a foster dog into her home and life. It provided a way for her to help without the long-term commitment of adopting another dog.
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February 9, 2020
Rackham symposium considers future of graduate education
Leaders from top research universities, foundations, and research organizations convened at Rackham Graduate School Feb. 7 to exchange ideas on the future of the graduate student experience.
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January 29, 2020
LSA launches Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program
A new LSA program called Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences will offer students ways to learn and expand their knowledge of quantitative methods for use with big data as part of their social sciences training.
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November 26, 2019
U-M scholars to explore multilingual Midwest in Sawyer Seminar
A group of U-M scholars has secured a $225,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore the Midwest as a multicultural, multilingual region shaped by successive waves of international and domestic migrations.
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October 16, 2019
U-M matches school-record Graduation Success Rate in NCAA report
U-M matched a school record for its Graduation Success Rate in the NCAA’s 2019 GSR and Federal Graduation Rate reports, which are released annually for all Division I institutions.
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October 3, 2019
Schlissel highlights arts, firearm injuries, academic innovation
At his annual Leadership Breakfast, President Mark Schlissel announced initiatives on firearms-injury research and the arts, a Center for Academic Innovation, and a multimillion-dollar fund to support research toward carbon neutrality.
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October 3, 2019
Schlissel announces plan to grow academic innovation
A $50 million, five-year commitment by U-M is part of a plan to support new models for education and provide learning experiences that are global, engaged and lifelong.
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September 24, 2019
University expands online course portfolio with FutureLearn
U-M’s mission to share knowledge across the globe and shape the future of learning is further enriched through a new partnership with the social learning platform FutureLearn.
