CATEGORY: SCIENCE

Photo collage of a landscape and images depicting sustainability, including windmills and a bee pollinating a flower.

Steps to a sustainable mindset

Experts from U-M’s Planet Blue Ambassador program and Biological Station in northern Michigan share big ideas and small goals to protect our planet, from influencing public policy to giving the perfect gift.
Published 7.18.2023
Second year Doctor of Physical Therapy student Desiree Frantum measures the angle of a patient’s bent knee.

Healing through movement

As the program celebrates its 70th anniversary this year and boasts the No. 1 physical therapy program in the state of Michigan, UM-Flint is not only preparing the next generation of physical therapists, but also producing research helping to advance the field, thanks, in part, to donor support.
Published 7.18.2023
A drop of liquid dispensing from a pipette into a test tube.

Prescription for success

At the University of Michigan’s nationally recognized College of Pharmacy, students are gaining early exposure to the field and helping to drive important discoveries about medications and the ways they behave in our bodies, thanks, in part, to donor support.
Published 1.16.2023
Collage of clasping hands and the word altruism surrounded by oxytocin molecules

Hardwired to help

U-M psychologist and author Stephanie Preston discusses the evolutionary roots of altruism, why helping others helps us, and how to thrive in this giving season.
Published 11.15.2022
Hands making the shape of a heart.

‘Lift as we climb’

Celebrating the impact of Black philanthropy at U-M.
Published 8.29.2022
A photo of a beachfront home on Lake Michigan with a seawall around it.

Saving our pleasant peninsula

Michigan’s great outdoors is being threatened by climate change. Here’s what U-M researchers are doing to help track, slow, and stop its effects.
Published 7.12.2022