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Michigan and Beyond

Discover how U-M is making an impact in Michigan and across the nation through a variety of projects, partnerships, conferences, and institutes. Explore our initiatives and see how Wolverines are engaging with communities both locally and nationwide!

The University of Michigan Across the Mitten

The University of Michigan’s reach extends far beyond Ann Arbor. Explore how we’re supporting initiatives and fostering engaged learning throughout Michigan and beyond. Know of a project we haven’t featured yet? Share it with us!

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a2ru

a2ru builds community and drives transformative culture change for the arts and arts integration in higher education, while fostering innovative and generative connections between ideas, disciplines, people and institutions. Our passionate and generous community shares insights, best practices, tools, experiences, and more.

Advancing Climate Education (ACE Report)

Opportunities to learn how to engage in meaningful individual and collective actions in their chosen disciplines to successfully address the complex and interconnected climate, sustainability, and justice challenges confronting us.

Center for Interprofessional Education

At the Michigan Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (CIPE), we align and integrate health professions education with collaborative practice to prepare University of Michigan students for the future.

Detroit Center (UMDC)

This site serves as a space to highlight the ongoing partnerships and engagement between the University of Michigan and Detroit. It details information about projects and programs, courses, initiatives, events, and more.

Ginsburg Center

The Ginsberg Center is a community and civic engagement center with a mission to cultivate and steward equitable partnerships between communities and the University of Michigan in order to advance social change for the public good. Based upon this mission, our vision is for inclusive democracy; thriving, diverse communities; and equity and social justice.

Humanities Collaboratory

The work of the humanities is critical to living in a world that is increasingly interdependent, complex, and often mysterious. Humanities scholarship has historically been a individualistic endeavor. Twenty-first century approaches and technologies have the potential to help it expand to become much more collaborative and interdisciplinary.

Innovation Partnerships

A bold development born out of a desire to increase support for the University of Michigan research community. Enabling the commercial advancement of ideas that forward our world. Technologies and research that save lives. Innovations that connect and transform. The mission of Innovation Partnerships is broader and more impactful than ever before.

Officer Education-Air Force

Regardless of where your path takes you, we are committed to transforming you into a better version of yourself. Excellence is not a destination. It is continuous improvement of yourself. Join us to start your journey of excellence in everything you do.

Officer Education-Army

Driven to cultivate the next generation of leaders, our mission is to transform Cadets into successful, well-adjusted leaders, fully prepared for their military careers as Second Lieutenants.

Officer Education-Navy

Join the University of Michigan NROTC and become part of a community dedicated to leadership, service, and excellence

Poverty Solutions

Multidisciplinary initiative to inform, seek out, and test new strategies for preventing and alleviating poverty. It captures the public ethos that attracted many of our students, faculty and staff to the University of Michigan, while bringing together deep expertise across academic fields from public policy to engineering and social work to business.

University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)

The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) has been home to scientific discovery since its founding in 1909. Our core mission is to advance environmental field research, engage students in scientific discovery, and provide information needed to understand and sustain ecosystems from local to global scales. In this cross-disciplinary, interactive community, students, faculty, and researchers from around the globe come together to learn from the natural world and seek solutions to the critical environmental challenges of our time.

Wallace House Center for Journalists

Wallace House Center for Journalists at the University of Michigan is committed to fostering excellence in journalism. Home to the Knight-Wallace Fellowships, the Livingston Awards and the Wallace House Presents event series, these programs recognize, sustain and elevate the careers of journalists to address the challenges of journalism today, foster civic engagement and uphold the role of a free press in a democratic society.

Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)

WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) is a University unit that offers programming for undergraduate and graduate students to support their success in STEM. Our primary goal is to increase the percentage of female-identifying students graduating with STEM degrees and pursuing careers in STEM fields.