Education & Society
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Can we talk?
In a time when science is often dismissed as mere opinion, many academics are attempting to raise the level of public discourse. So where do universities come in?
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Prison arts work
For 25 years, the Prison Creative Arts Project has inspired inmates statewide to mine fertile, creative territory and create bold, original work.
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Tiger by the tale
Bookish historian Alice Dalligan, AM ’48/AMLS ’51, became a bona fide baseball nut when sportscaster Ernie Harwell donated his archive to the Detroit Public Library in ’66.
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Tales from the front
Belinda Fish, MSN ’14, brings news from Sierra Leone where she faced down Ebola, “one of the global public health nursing problems of the century.”
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Diversity is "major focus"
President Mark Schlissel calls on U-M community to address “the hardest problem and biggest challenge we’re going to confront together.”
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Can U-M save the American Dream?
Education may hold the most potential to revive our nation’s ailing ethos, says cultural historian Neal Gabler, AB ’71/AM ’75 — emphasis on potential.
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One hand washes the other
What happens to those tiny bars of hotel soap on check-out? Ford School grad Erin Zaikis, AB ’10, recycles and redistributes them.
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Power of one
In 1985 Deborah Robinson, PhD ’87, created a bracelet program with the names of political prisoners serving life sentences in South Africa. Solidarity prevails today.
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Monitoring the future
Whether it’s LSD or e-cigarettes, U-M researchers have spent 40 years citing the substances that captivate our nation’s youth. Learn what history has taught.