Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Young
Teaching Professor and Lecturer IV, Anthropology Spotlight on ANTHRARC 180: First-Year Seminar in Anthropological Archaeology,…
Faculty Spotlight: Brian Klein
Assistant Professor of Afro-American and African Studies and Assistant Professor of Program in the Environment…
Faculty Spotlight: Karin Martin
Professor of Sociology and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Spotlight on SOC 105: First-Year…
Faculty Spotlight: Alyssa Paredes
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spotlight on ANTHRCUL 256: Culture, Adaptation, and Environment and the Environmental…
Faculty Spotlight: Toni Bushner
Lecturer in the Digital Studies Institute Spotlight on DIGITAL 355: Topics in Digital Creative Expression:…
Faculty Spotlight: Jessica Kenyatta Walker
Assistant Professor of Afro-American and African Studies, American Culture Spotlight on AAS 104: African American…
Faculty Spotlight: Bénédicte Boisseron
Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Affiliated Faculty, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Chair, Department…
Where Did the Year of Sustainability Start?
We sat down with Anne McNeil and Nate Sanders, the two professors who are leading…
Introducing the Year of Sustainability!
Throughout 2024, the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts will embark on a Year…
Faculty Spotlight: Omolade Adunbi
Director of the African Studies Center, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor…
Sustainability Stories Pop-Up: A Brief Recap
A snapshot of the word cloud at the end of the event. Participants could submit…
Faculty Spotlight: Jenna Munson
Outreach Program Specialist and Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Founder and Coordinator of Earth…
Faculty Spotlight: Virginia Murphy
Lecturer in Program in the Environment and the LSA Residential College Spotlight on ENVIRON 302:…
Faculty Spotlight: Michela Arnaboldi
Teaching Professor, Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Intermittent Lecturer in Program in the…
Faculty Spotlight: Jason Duvall
Lecturer, Program in the Environment (PitE) Spotlight on ENVIRON 139: First-Year Seminar in the Environment,…
How To Find LSA Sustainability Related Courses
Are you interested in taking a sustainability-related course in LSA? Not sure where to start?…
Climate Diaries
Sara R. Rivera
STAFF – Geomicrobiology Lab Manager “Yeah, so I’m originally from Michigan. And I came to…
Alex Bryan
STAFF – Director of Student Life Sustainability “I was a student here in my undergrad…
Maddie Clough
GRADUATE STUDENT – 3rd Year Materials Chemistry PhD I’m now a third year PhD student…
Stuart Kirsch
FACULTY – Roy A. Rappaport Collegiate Professor of Anthropology I’m an environmental anthropologist, [though I…
Sara Soderstrom
FACULTY – Director of Program in the Environment (PitE) “I grew up in a family…
Ella Mannino
STUDENT – Chair of TREES Subcommittee “I’m from Ortonville, Michigan, which is about like an…
Tim McKay’s Climate Diary
From Great Lakes to Great Plains: Tim McKay’s Journey by Train Have you ever wondered…
Caitlin Jacobs
STAFF – LSA Carbon Neutrality Program Manager “So I did grow up in a smaller…
Lashaun Jackson
STUDENT – SCANN, Graham Sustainability Scholar, MDining Sustainability and Community Engagement Intern, UM Sustainable Food…
Daphne Matter
STUDENT – VIPs Fund & Graham Sustainability Scholar “So I’m from Seattle, Washington. I love…
Kelsey Dyez
STAFF – Climate Scientist in Julia Cole’s Climate Lab “I’m a climate scientist and studied…
Juhi Pawar
STUDENT – Representative on TREES Subcommittee “I’m from, like, 30ish minutes away from Ann Arbor….
Anne McNeil
FACULTY – Faculty Lead for the Year of Sustainability, Carol A. Fierke Collegiate Professor of…
Andrew van Baal
STUDENT – Student Sustainability Coalition (SSC) + Student Carbon Neutrality Network (SCANN) “I’m a lifelong…
Nate Sanders
FACULTY – Faculty Lead for Year of Sustainability & Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology….
Faculty Spotlight Interviews
Faculty Spotlight: Bénédicte Boisseron
Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Affiliated Faculty, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Chair, Department…
Faculty Spotlight: Jessica Kenyatta Walker
Assistant Professor of Afro-American and African Studies, American Culture Spotlight on AAS 104: African American…
Faculty Spotlight: Brian Klein
Assistant Professor of Afro-American and African Studies and Assistant Professor of Program in the Environment…
Faculty Spotlight: Virginia Murphy
Lecturer in Program in the Environment and the LSA Residential College Spotlight on ENVIRON 302:…
Faculty Spotlight: Alyssa Paredes
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spotlight on ANTHRCUL 256: Culture, Adaptation, and Environment and the Environmental…
Faculty Spotlight: Michela Arnaboldi
Teaching Professor, Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Intermittent Lecturer in Program in the…
Faculty Spotlight: Toni Bushner
Lecturer in the Digital Studies Institute Spotlight on DIGITAL 355: Topics in Digital Creative Expression:…
Faculty Spotlight: Jason Duvall
Lecturer, Program in the Environment (PitE) Spotlight on ENVIRON 139: First-Year Seminar in the Environment,…
Faculty Spotlight: Jenna Munson
Outreach Program Specialist and Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Founder and Coordinator of Earth…
Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Young
Teaching Professor and Lecturer IV, Anthropology Spotlight on ANTHRARC 180: First-Year Seminar in Anthropological Archaeology,…
Faculty Spotlight: Omolade Adunbi
Director of the African Studies Center, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor…
Faculty Spotlight: Karin Martin
Professor of Sociology and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Spotlight on SOC 105: First-Year…
Year of Sustainability in the News
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…
The Michigan Daily: LSA names 2024 as “Year of Sustainability”
This article was originally posted to The Michigan Daily by Andrew Baum on November 12, 2023….
The Michigan Daily: Office of Campus Sustainability hosts lunch-and-learn to teach the rules of composting
This article was originally posted on The Michigan Daily by Evangeline Doolittle on April 3, 2024….
LSA & Sustainability News
- Dark comets: Hidden, near-Earth ice giants can be both friend and foe (July 2024)
- Climate change ignored? U-M study reveals sociology’s blind spot (July 2024)
- Shalanda Baker to lead academic efforts on sustainability (June 2024)
- $3M gift boosts Transfer Bridges to the Humanities@Michigan (June 2024)
- Rosario Ceballo to become next dean of LSA (June 2024)
- MIDAS announces 2024 PODS and DATA awardees (June 2024)
- U-M research finds rare organ preservation in Brazilian fossil fishes (June 2024)
- U-M lands $6.5M center to study Great Lake algal blooms (June 2024)
- LSA Meet the Moment Research Initiative Grants $4.7 Million for Five New Projects (May 2024)
- U-M chemist receives national Brown Investigator award (May 2024)
- Copper can’t be mined fast enough to electrify the US (May 2024)
- OVPR, Arts Initiative award funding to seven teams (May 2024)
- Bold Challenges award $700k for eight research teams (May 2024)
- Two Artists Selected for Summer Residencies at U-M Biological Station (May 2024)
- $15M to fund U-M, Los Alamos National Laboratory collaboration (May 2024)
- Institute for the Humanities names summer and 2024-2025 fellows (May 2024)
- Earliest recorded ‘ice-out’ date on Douglas Lake at U-M Biological Station in northern Michigan (April 2024)
- Squirrels benefit late in life from a food boom negating early-life adversity (April 2024)
- Four U-M professors selected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (April 2024)
- LSA/SEAS senior explores ethnobotany (April 2024)
- Dealing with plastics that can’t be recycled (April 2024)
- Students turn fallen campus tree into public tables (April 2024)
- Twelve U-M faculty members named as AAAS fellows (April 2024)
- Wallenberg Fellow encourages sociocultural awakening in Brazil (March 2024)
- Earth Month puts focus on U-M sustainability efforts (March 2024)
- Astronomer: Get to the path of April’s total solar eclipse (March 2024)
- A wetter world recorded in Australian coral colony (March 2024)
- Michigan Sea Grant funds six new projects, totaling $1.7M (February 2024)
- When plants are attacked (February 2024)
- Catalyst grants address climate resilience and sustainability (January 2024)
- Biological Station’s snowpack sensors help study changing winters (January 2024)