State & Community
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July 13, 2021
U-M welcomes Art Fair visitors as museums, galleries, gardens reopen
After being canceled during the 2020 pandemic year, the Ann Arbor Art Fair will return to downtown and parts of the U-M campus June 15-17, along with the reopening of several U-M museums, galleries and other public spaces.
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June 7, 2021
Free home COVID tests available to Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti residents
U-M community members and their households residing in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti areas can receive free, rapid COVID-19 test kits for use at home to help reduce the disease’s spread.
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June 1, 2021
Partnership aims to help drive equity in clean energy industry
The Energy Equity Project — a partnership among SEAS and the Energy and Joyce foundations — will create the first standardized tool for collecting and tracking data to improve equity in clean energy policies, programs and investments.
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May 24, 2021
Study addresses challenges of crowdsourced wildlife identification
Nearly 4,000 citizen scientists, including many K-12 students, participated in a recent U-M study that used hundreds of motion-triggered wildlife cameras in Michigan forests to study the state’s mammals.
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May 19, 2021
State House proposal would slash budget for Ann Arbor campus
A Michigan House committee has moved forward a higher-education budget bill that would leave overall funding flat but radically change how the state supports its 15 public universities.
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May 13, 2021
Ginsberg Center, EMU helping older adults learn tech skills
U-M’s Ginsberg Center is collaborating with Eastern Michigan University to launch a program aimed at bridging the intergenerational digital divide in Washtenaw County.
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May 4, 2021
University sourcing electricity from new wind parks
Approximately half of the purchased electricity for U-M’s Ann Arbor campus will soon come from Michigan-sourced renewable resources, largely due to the launch of three new wind-energy parks.
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March 18, 2021
President Schlissel urges lawmakers to invest more in public higher education
President Mark Schlissel told state lawmakers U-M could further strengthen its academic programs and student financial aid support with an increase in base funding for state universities.
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March 8, 2021
Mutual benefit guides U-M’s work with Detroit partners
U-M’s decades-long commitment to engagement in its founding city of Detroit has grown stronger in recent years, leading to the desire for a more cohesive approach to university engagement.
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March 8, 2021
Detroit partnerships, initiatives on the rise during pandemic
U-M ramped up its collaborations on a multitude of projects in the city of Detroit during the pandemic, including outreach to residents on issues ranging from unemployment to the COVID-19 vaccine.
