October 15, 2014
A new, two-year graduate program in integrative design at the Stamps School of Art & Design represents a paradigm shift as designers address unpredictable and fast-changing real-world problems and situations in society.
October 14, 2014
The popular Saturday Morning Physics series of lectures has returned this fall with sports-focused presentations, inspired by the LSA Fall Theme Semester, Sport in the University.
September 25, 2014
Six U-M students have been nominated this year by the Provost's Council on Student Honors to compete at the national level for the prestigious Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell scholarships.
September 23, 2014
Leaders from the new Office of Digital Education and Innovation are calling on faculty to submit proposals to develop massive open online courses, known as MOOCs.
September 15, 2014
The students were like detectives, lining both sides of a narrow room in the basement of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, gloves on, gingerly examining ancient objects.
August 28, 2014
As the digital age has changed the way students learn and interact with the world, U-M has encouraged faculty to explore creative ways to enhance the student experience through personalized, engaged and lifelong learning.
September 2, 2014
Inauguration day will begin with a symposium marking what is being described as one of the most hopeful and exciting times in biomedical discovery, with advanced technologies yielding deep and productive insight into human health and disease.
August 28, 2014
The University of Michigan on Thursday announced the creation of the Och Initiative for Women in Finance in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
The initiative is made possible through a significant gift by Jane C. and Daniel S. Och of Scarsdale, New York, through the Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation.
August 27, 2014
More than 15 U-M instructors will pilot a new learning management system (LMS) in their courses this fall. Access to Canvas by Instructure became available when U-M co-founded Unizin in June 2014.
August 27, 2014
More than 15 U-M instructors will pilot a new learning management system (LMS) in their courses this fall. Access to Canvas by Instructure became available when U-M co-founded Unizin in June 2014.
August 11, 2014
From the Diag to Pierpont Commons, Michigan Engineering has installed a series of posters featuring the cover of a book, "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind."
The posters ask engineers across campus one very important question: "What chapter are you on?"
July 17, 2014
In order for patients to receive the best possible care, the health professionals, care teams, health institutions and health care systems that surround them must learn continuously.
July 14, 2014
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-Quirόs and Wanda Casillas.
June 30, 2014
A University of Michigan professor of chemistry and engineering is among the 15 scientist educators selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors, the institute announced Monday.
June 18, 2014
More than 3,700 additional U-M undergraduates will get real-world research experience over the next five years through a $1.5 million science, technology, engineering and math education grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
June 17, 2014
Just as fluency in statistics is considered a fundamental skill in many academic fields, organizers of the interdisciplinary Big Data Summer Camp think the ability to extract and analyze data from the Web soon will be indispensable to researchers across the social sciences.
June 16, 2014
LSA and the College of Engineering have announced the winners in three major national scholarship competitions.
Aaron Priluck, a junior in chemical engineering, and Joseph Richey, a sophomore in mathematics, won Goldwater Scholarships.
Priluck and Nirbhay Jain, a junior in chemistry, won 2014 Astronaut Scholarships.
June 11, 2014
The University of Michigan and three other major U.S. research universities have formed a technology consortium to improve the way in which educational content is shared across universities and ultimately delivered to students.
June 3, 2014
Biblical sacrifices, European imperial borderlands, Roman architecture, and Iberian Conversos. Those are a few of the topics the 14 fellows at U-M's Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies will research in 2014-15, when they gather around the theme of "Jews and Empires."
May 15, 2014
Investor Richard Rogel had never traveled to China until he met Kenneth Lieberthal, one of the world’s most-respected Sinologists and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan.
