Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spotlight on ANTHRCUL 256: Culture, Adaptation, and Environment and the Environmental Wayfarer Project We engage in transnational relationships every day, usually without more than a passing thought about the global supply chains that structure our lives and lifestyles. Professor Alyssa Paredes dedicates her research to studying these relationships through immersive fieldwork…
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The University Record: New swap shop aids U-M researchers, sustainability goals
This article was originally posted on The University Record by Caitlin Jacobs on June 11, 2024. A new Lab Swap Shop will allow University of Michigan researchers to browse for free, pre-owned laboratory equipment while supporting the university’s waste-reduction goals. The shop, housed in Room 5004 of the 1100 North University Building, opened June 6. More…
Faculty Spotlight: Michela Arnaboldi
Teaching Professor, Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Intermittent Lecturer in Program in the Environment, School for Environment and Sustainability Spotlight on ENVIRON 111: Climate Change and Sustainability: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century Professor Michela Arnaboldi has always been passionate about the oceans. During her undergraduate degree in Italy, she studied marine biology…
Faculty Spotlight: Toni Bushner
Lecturer in the Digital Studies Institute Spotlight on DIGITAL 355: Topics in Digital Creative Expression: Sustainable Board Game Design Analog board games are a classic form of group entertainment, breaking down social barriers and garnering competition and connection. Toni Bushner is fascinated by games – she completed her master’s and PhD at Purdue University, focusing…
Faculty Spotlight: Jason Duvall
Lecturer, Program in the Environment (PitE) Spotlight on ENVIRON 139: First-Year Seminar in the Environment, Prescription Nature and ENVIRON 308: Sustainability and Health Dr. Jason Duvall developed a connection to nature early on while wandering around fields and forests in southwest Ohio. He went on to study environmental health as an undergraduate, worked for an…
Faculty Spotlight: Jenna Munson
Outreach Program Specialist and Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Founder and Coordinator of Earth Camp Spotlight on EARTH 115: The Science Behind Michigan’s Environmental Justice Issues and EARTH 380: Natural Resources, Economics, and the Environment At a time when young people of all backgrounds are passionate about addressing climate change, Jenna Munson is an…
Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Young
Teaching Professor and Lecturer IV, Anthropology Spotlight on ANTHRARC 180: First-Year Seminar in Anthropological Archaeology, Food at the University of Michigan Have you ever wondered what the landscape of Ann Arbor might have looked like 110 years ago? Would you believe us if we told you that we know precisely what was served at a…
Faculty Spotlight: Omolade Adunbi
Director of the African Studies Center, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of Law (courtesy), Faculty Associate, Program in the Environment Spotlight on ANTHRCUL/AAS 458: Topics in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology: Energy Matters: Environment, Culture, Power, and the Oil State To Professor Omolade Adunbi, topics in sustainability are inextricably linked to the…
Maddie Clough
GRAD STUDENT – 3rd Year Materials Chemistry PhD I’m now a third year PhD student in the Department of Chemistry. I grew up in rural Mid Michigan, so actually not too far from U of M, but I ended up going to Central Michigan University for my undergrad. There, I studied chemistry and I was…
Stuart Kirsch
FACULTY – Roy A. Rappaport Collegiate Professor of Anthropology I’m an environmental anthropologist, [though I wasn’t always one]. At the beginning of my career, I worked in Papua New Guinea with a group of people who lived downstream from a large copper and gold mine that was slowly destroying their environment. And, over time, I…