Dow Announces U-M Fellowships

June 20, 2012
Written By
Deborah Holdship

During the next six years, the Dow Chemical Company will invest $10 million at the University of Michigan to create the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program. The goal is to attract the world’s best advanced degree candidates in the natural and social sciences, engineering, business, law, and more.

Some 300 fellows will be able to explore today’s most pressing sustainability challenges—human behavior, energy, water, mobility, and land use, to name a few.

The Dow Sustainability Fellows Program will be broad-based and multidisciplinary, spanning the University. By creating critical mass in scholarship through this unique partnership with Dow, U-M President Mary Sue Coleman hopes to force a “seismic shift” in research breakthroughs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2v3Umk7rp0

Leave a comment:

About the Author
Deborah Holdship
DEBORAH HOLDSHIP is the editor of Michigan Today. She joined the University in 2007 as editorial manager in the marketing communications department at the Ross School of Business, where she was editor of Dividend magazine for five years. Prior to working at Michigan, Deborah was associate director of publications at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. From 1988-2001, Deborah worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, where she was a reporter and editor at Billboard magazine and an associate editor and video producer at LAUNCH media. Follow her on Twitter: @debholdship #michigantoday.

Topics