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February 17, 2015

Video: Working toward diversity

Speaking at his Leadership Breakfast: Dialogue on Diversity, President Mark Schlissel spoke about the importance of diversity at U-M and called for the campus to find…

February 17, 2015

Mastering the mind

Some 63 percent of student-athletes participating in U-M’s pilot Athletes Connected Program reported having an emotional or mental health issue that affected their athletic performance in the four…

February 16, 2015

President Schlissel kicks off campuswide effort to improve diversity

President Mark Schlissel launched a campuswide conversation on diversity Monday, calling for innovative and ambitious measures to address “the hardest problem and biggest challenge that we’re…

February 16, 2015

President Schlissel kicks off campuswide effort to improve diversity

President Mark Schlissel launched a campuswide conversation on diversity Monday, calling for innovative and ambitious measures to address “the hardest problem and biggest challenge that we’re…

February 11, 2015

Stamps School partners to explore art and gentrification in Detroit

A new series to be published by the Detroit-based online arts and culture journal Infinite Mile, in partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art…

February 6, 2015

U-M center launches first phase of reproductive health training in Ethiopia

Since leaving Ethiopia as a teenager to pursue medical school in the U.S., University of Michigan reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist Dr. Senait Fisseha has dreamed…

February 2, 2015

MHIRT celebrates 20th anniversary aiding health disparities groups

Camels and horses run free on the plains of Umnugobi province, Mongolia. That’s where graduate student Elise Tolbert learned to tolerate the dust and air pollution,…

January 30, 2015

Remembering Tobin Siebers, English professor, disability studies advocate

Tobin Siebers, co-chair of the university’s Initiative on Disability Studies, V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, and professor of English language and literature, and art and design…

January 29, 2015

Summit focuses on success of men of color in higher ed

The National Center for Institutional Diversity convened a national summit Thursday titled “Ensuring Success for Men of Color:  Leveraging Evidence to Drive Better Policy, Practice, and…