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
Where can you find U-M? More than just Ann Arbor, that's for sure. Look at the all the ways we are supporting initiatives and engaging learning across our state!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.