Regional
May 7, 2025
The SEAS and PitE community celebrated Commencement on May 1 at the Crisler Center. Commencement keynote speaker Tony Reames, an associate professor at SEAS, encouraged the graduating Class of 2024 to be intentional about sustainability, environmental justice and climate action, calling it a moral imperative.
Global
May 12, 2025
SEAS Professor Pam Jagger is co-leading a collaborative project to help better understand how climate shocks, such as flooding, drought and extreme heat, affect health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries. The project team is collaborating with local partners and organizations to design and implement surveys that reflect the realities across four distinct sites chosen for their unique climate vulnerabilities, and that can be adapted to different contexts to help develop a flexible and evidence-based tool that helps track how communities around the globe adapt to extreme weather events.
National
Apr 29, 2025
“Business schools are waking up to the issue of climate change,” says Andy Hoffman, whose new book, Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market, addresses why business schools have a responsibility to adjust how and what they teach to address the needs of society and the environment today. Hoffman, a professor who holds a joint appointment with SEAS and the Ross School of Business, argues that business schools should help define how future business leaders can become stewards of the market.
SEAS Perspectives
Apr 7, 2025
Earth Month gives us a great opportunity to pause and consider some of the little things we can do daily to continue to move toward a healthy future and planet. Here are six tips you can start using today from SEAS.
Faculty in the Media
May 21, 2025
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Alumni in the News
May 7, 2025
SEAS graduate Natalie Sampson was named a 2025 Distinguished Professor of the Year at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In this profile, Sampson, an associate professor of public health, talks about her sometimes uncomfortable relationship with academia, the politics of community-centered research and the challenge of getting today’s students to talk in class.
