Education & Society

  1. How to win without winning

    As world leaders seek a path to peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it is often difficult to discern whether they are promoting war or peace. How we think about conflict is critical, experts say, as we face a maelstrom of news from the region.

  2. Surgeon organizes medical supply drive for Ukrainian hospitals

    David Brown is one of several doctors who travels to Ukraine to do burn reconstruction surgery every year. When Russia invaded the country, he knew he needed to help.

  3. Biden’s intended nominee for Fed’s top banking regulator: U-M Ford School Dean Michael Barr

    If confirmed, Barr would step down and take an unpaid leave of absence from U-M, retaining his faculty appointments in public policy and law and planning to return to the faculty after serving his term on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

  4. David Turnley documents Ukrainians’ plight

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, alumnus, and retired Stamps professor has been traveling in Ukraine and Poland, capturing the story of Ukrainians fleeing their war-torn country.

  5. Most adults want to ‘age in place,’ but few are prepared

    From home safety and accessibility to social support, community services, and paid in-home help, a national poll sounds a warning bell. People, it’s time to start planning.

  6. COVID-19: Do supplements help?

    Professor Mark Moyad, a global medical authority on dietary supplements, reviews outpatient trials that explore whether supplements can help reduce people’s risk of contracting COVID, lessen symptoms, and more.

  7. Urban agriculture: Scattering vs. clustering

    Detroit’ goal: To benefit more people with improved access to fresh food, community cohesion, and reduced stormwater runoff, while countering gentrification effects that may occur with expanded green space.

  8. Dearborn professor works in partnership to reinvigorate Detroit

    Detroit has plenty of negative stereotypes, and Paul Draus hopes to transform seemingly undesirable qualities into benefits. The professor of sociology at UM-Dearborn has partnered with people to bring greenspaces to alleyways and windmills to neighborhoods.

  9. A professor’s war for peace

    Still just a boy in 1921, the renowned mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport fled war-torn Ukraine on a pair of ice skates. At U-M, he would become an expert in the science of human conflict, contributing the ‘Tit for Tat’ strategy to the field of game theory.