(Fish) farm to table
So, what’s the big idea? Michelle Leach, PhD ’13/MS ’08/BSE ’06, was walking through a village in El Salvador in 2012 when she encountered a child she assumed was about 2 years old. He resembled her...
View ArticleEverybody's had to fight to be free
A show of hands Nicole Khamis (Image: Michael Luongo.) It’s a beautiful spring day on the U-M Diag. A throng of students surges to class, past tables and posters promoting campus events and causes. On...
View ArticleCrisis in the Middle East: Experts discuss impact
U-M's Juan Cole and Michael Traugott address the repercussions and long-term implications of the killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani.
View ArticleHelping, learning in Kenya
In the weeks before COVID-19 struck the East African country, 30 U-M students from dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and engineering set out to improve overall well-being in underserved communities. They...
View ArticleProtests in Cuba: The beginning of a new revolution?
Faculty Q&A The protests calling for “Fatherland and Life” in Cuba have been met with military tanks and censorship by the Cuban government. U-M sociologist Silvia Pedraza says the protests are the...
View ArticleU-M’s Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship celebrates a decade of ‘transformational...
The fellowship has become one of the most prestigious self-designed, independent study-abroad projects for students. From Kenya and India to South Africa and Peru, nine U-M graduating seniors — one...
View ArticleU-M experts discuss Russia’s attack on Ukraine
University of Michigan experts explore multiple angles regarding Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine and weigh its implications on global politics, economics, and the human scale.
View ArticleU-M supports Ukrainian scholars at risk
Open doors Seven at-risk Ukrainian scholars have found a temporary intellectual home in Ann Arbor as they embark on a one-year research visit to U-M. The academics are members of a unique and...
View ArticleAfter announcing its first population decline in six decades, what is next...
Burden or benefit? For decades, China’s large population was seen as a burden. Is the latest announcement of demographic decline negative? Is the structure of its population, with imbalances of both...
View ArticleFrom Cuba to chemical engineering: ‘I’m supposed to be here’
Ph.D. student José Carlos Díaz first merged his knack for engineering and science by repairing microscopes for use in his sixth-grade class. He was 11 years old. He's now an ion-diffusion researcher at...
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