It was a slightly bizarre scene. On a recent Thursday, students stood facing—and talking engagingly to—the blank wall in classroom 2011 in the University of Michigan Modern Languages Building. “Is…
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March 7, 2016
Students hail research experience on real legal issue
Students that worked on a research project at three different times over five years all had pretty much the same thing to say: tackling a “real life” legal issue was…
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March 7, 2016
“Me-search”: U-M undergrads analyze their own biological samples to study how microbes affect human health
A “me-search” lab for University of Michigan biology undergraduates gives students a close look at what might be the most compelling study subject of all: themselves. The lab focuses on…
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March 1, 2016
Better gender balance at latest MHacks hackathon
Wearing a Google Glass, Keeley Erhardt sits with her teammates in front of a window on which they’ve scrawled ideas in red dry-erase marker. All around her in the atrium…
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February 12, 2016
Desilting ponds in India benefit farmers, environment
Students from the University of Michigan are developing a low-cost way to increase crop yield and reduce the use of fertilizers for Indian farmers. In a year-long study in India’s…
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December 9, 2015
Course challenges students to learn about Native American culture through immersion
What is an Indian? Students in the course Archives and Oral Histories thought this must be a loaded question when they were asked to write an essay on it the…
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November 17, 2015
Projects receive engaged learning Transformation grants, new program announced
The university has awarded $5 million to three projects designed to transform the educational experience for U-M students, and has created a new program that encourages faculty to form networks…
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October 22, 2015
Students engage with the American South as they live the blues
Student Adrian Koch shows off a souvenir from the South: one of those metal bottle openers, the kind that with one upward motion would snap a crimped metal cap off…
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August 13, 2015
Researching lizards in Mexican coffee fields
As an undergraduate, Ivan Monagan started out as a pre-med student. But during his first year in college, he was offered a scholarship to study desert lizard ecology in Arizona….
