Global Engagement
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November 15, 2022
U-M’s efforts helped study abroad programs during pandemic
According to the annual Open Doors report by the Institute of International Education, 140 U.S. students from U-M participated in education-abroad programs during 2020-21 for academic credit.
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October 26, 2022
U-M, Schmidt Futures to partner on new AI research program
U-M will receive more than $10 million to recruit and train 60 postdoctoral fellows over the next six years as part of a new global partnership applying artificial intelligence to STEM research.
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October 3, 2022
WHO director general to receive Thomas Francis Jr. Medal
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general for the World Health Organization who has led it through the COVID-19 pandemic, will be awarded the Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health.
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September 21, 2022
U-M joins project investigating war crimes in Ukraine
U-M’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia will collaborate over the next year with The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies to create a “Lasting Memorial” of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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September 19, 2022
Two from U-M named department’s first female AGU Fellows
Two female U-M scientists are among 54 earth and space researchers named AGU Fellows by the American Geophysical Union, one of the highest in the earth and space sciences..
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September 12, 2022
U-M doctor and former army medic offers care in Ukraine
Florian Schmitzberger, an emergency physician at U-M Health, works with Global Response Management and provided care and training in Ukraine after Russia invaded.
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September 6, 2022
U-M students work closely with low-income Brazilian families
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September 2, 2022
WCEE welcomes Ukrainians as Scholars at Risk Fellows
The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia is helping support Ukrainian scholars who are not currently able to safely conduct their research in Ukraine because of the ongoing war with Russia.
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September 2, 2022
Q&A: U-M’s support for Ukraine’s higher ed faculty is unique
Geneviève Zubrzycki, director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and professor of sociology in LSA, leads the Scholars at Risk Fellowship.
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August 30, 2022
African Studies Center welcomes 12 to UMAPS program
The African Studies Center is hosting 12 early and mid-career faculty from universities in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.
