Sustainability

  1. February 27, 2025

    Use of greener anesthesia protects patients, environment

    A Michigan Medicine study reveals that the use of less polluting inhaled anesthetic agents reduced harmful health care-related carbon emissions by 50% in one year without impacting patient safety or outcomes.

  2. February 20, 2025

    Board approves project to expand EV battery research

    U-M will move forward with plans to construct a new electric vehicle battery laboratory, broadening research and hands-on education in next-generation battery technologies on the Ann Arbor campus.

  3. February 17, 2025

    UM-Dearborn’s student-led garden grows food, community

    The UM-Dearborn Community Garden cultivates food sustainability skills, brings people together and stocks the UM-Dearborn Student Food Pantry with fresh produce.

  4. February 6, 2025

    Nonprofit includes scientists, moms who study climate change

    Science Moms is a group of scientists who are mothers who study climate change. The group hopes to connect with other moms to make climate change a normal topic of conversation.

  5. January 30, 2025

    Freezer Challenge promotes energy efficiency in university labs

    The International Laboratory Freezer Challenge, a competition to save energy and emissions by improving cold-storage management, runs through July 1. It is free and open to all U-M labs with cold-storage units.

  6. January 21, 2025

    New technology helps turn seawater into drinking water

    Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.

  7. January 20, 2025

    Inaugural summit to advance sustainability in research labs

    In an ongoing effort to integrate sustainability into its extensive laboratory research activities, U-M will host an inaugural Sustainable Lab Summit on Feb. 4. It is open to all U-M community members.

  8. January 14, 2025

    $5M to improve testing of wave energy, offshore wind

    Devices that create electricity from wave motion and offshore winds could become sturdier, quieter and easier to test at near-ocean-ready sizes, with four new grants totaling $5 million to U-M.

  9. January 13, 2025

    Study: Big Ten expansion will double football’s carbon emissions

    A new report from the Center for Sustainable Systems shows the Big Ten’s 2024 expansion will more than double average conference-game emissions for the U-M football team.

  10. December 9, 2024

    University to begin installing solar power sites on campus

    New solar installations across U-M’s Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses will have a total capacity of 25 megawatts of renewable electricity after a three-year installation process is complete.