Meeting the Future
Designed as rallying points for collaborations around research, teaching, and civic engagement, the school’s new sustainability themes provide a framework for students, faculty, and staff across campus to be involved in a wide range of interdisciplinary activities in partnership with SEAS.
Sustainability Themes
Exhibit A: Lightning Talks
In 2019, SEAS hosted a series of Lightning Talks—fast-paced five-minute lectures presented by more than 50 sustainability scholars from 22 different U-M schools, colleges, and units. Each set of talks centered around one of the SEAS sustainability themes, and was designed to spark new interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement.
Tapping into the enormous potential for collaboration, speakers from across the university discussed research projects like urban forests and green spaces, energy storage, coastal changes, environmental hazards, and biodiversity. SEAS extended invitations to the arts, humanities, engineering, and the social sciences to continue developing the body of work necessary to mitigate climate change, create equitable infrastructure, and provide quality food and water for all on our planet.
Presentation videos are available on the SEAS YouTube channel. Learn more about the research at the University of Michigan and SEAS, and new ways we are working together to create a more sustainable future.