Education & Society

  1. Colorful mural reads: Pollution has no boundaries. Features Black characters and sunflowers on a blue background.

    48217: The Stamps Pollution Mural Project

    ‘48217’ is known as Michigan’s most polluted zip code. Community activists in this community near Detroit teamed up with Stamps Professor Joe Trumpey and his students in Fall 2022 to draw attention to the poor air quality in this industrial area — to stunning effect.

  2. Opioid graphic

    U-M, MSU, WSU partner with state to aid opioid abatement

    The three universities are prepared to help local governments determine the best strategic use of their respective communities’ share of a $1.45-billion allocation by Johnson & Johnson and drug distributors to remediate overdose deaths caused by opioids.

  3. Black & white image of Red Cross volunteers in masks

    History saved lives in this pandemic. Will society listen next time?

    Medical historian Howard Markel, MD/PhD, reflects on what the past three years of COVID-19 have taught us. ‘It’s not a matter of if we will have another pandemic, it’s a matter of when,’ he says.

  4. Portrait of a senior couple posing for a photograph with their adult children and grandchildren. The multi-ethnic and multi-generation group is gathered at a family reunion. The family members affectionately have their arms around one another and are smiling. They are standing in a grassy meadow with trees in the background. Stock photo

    Mind the gap — the generation one, that is

    ‘The fears for American democracy are not unfounded,’ writes Jean Twenge, PhD ’98, in the book ‘Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents — and What They Mean for America’s Future.’

  5. Graphic of doctor handing prescription to a female patient.

    Got questions about weight-loss drugs? These experts have answers

    Michigan Medicine specialists weigh in on the latest news regarding medications for obesity — from drug shortages and medication misuse to rising costs and side effects.

  6. US Army veteran Will Hanna wears his military uniform and smiles in the U-M Law Quad.

    Veterans Legal Clinic helps a family avoid homelessness

    While studying at Michigan Law and working with the Veterans Legal Clinic, Will Hanna jumped at the opportunity to write a brief and argue in court to help a fellow veteran and her family stay in their Ann Arbor home.

  7. From left, students Zoe Bliss and Savanna Delise, members of the 2020-21 SEAS Bees master’s degree project team, install a pollinator-friendly native plant garden next to the Museum of Natural History. (Photo courtesy of SEAS Bees)

    Ann Arbor campus joins Bee Campus USA movement

    U-M’s Ann Arbor campus recently joined UM-Dearborn as a certified Bee Campus, reflecting the University’s commitment to pollinator conservation. U-M has long followed pollinator-friendly landscaping practices.

  8. Díaz in Cuba as a child. He is dressed in white with a light blue tie and has his harm on the shoulder of a younger child dressed in overalls with no shirt underneath. They look to be in school.

    From 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 one of the top chemical engineering programs in the U.S.

  9. A young student sits at a desk eager to participate in an M-ARC teacher’s classroom. Image credit: Angela Marocco

    U-M program places dozens of educators in Michigan classrooms, addresses teacher shortage

    In the 2022-23 school year, M-ARC is training and supporting 49 early-career teachers in 42 schools across southern Michigan. The program merges the U-M School of Education’s 100 years of experience with contemporary alternatives to support educators learning as they teach.

Topics