SEAS hosted its 2025 JJR Lecture on April 3, which was presented by InSite Design Studio principal Shannan Gibb-Randall (BA ’90, MLA ’98), PLA. Randall, a graduate of SEAS’ Master of Landscape Architecture program, noted that “landscape architects are in the overlap between human needs and ecosystem needs.”
Five research projects tackling key sustainability issues have received funding through the Sustainability Catalyst Grant program, and four of them include SEAS faculty. The grants are administered by the Graham Sustainability Institute at U-M. Graham Family Director, Jennifer Haverkamp, says the program helps "bridge the gap between academic research and real-world impact."
Stephanie Smith, who is completing her senior year as an environmental studies major in the LSA Honors Program and her first year of an accelerated master's program at SEAS, is the winner of the 2025 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship. She plans to use her award money to conduct a comparative case study on climate disaster communication efforts related to flooding in North Caroline and Nepal.
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.
Although journalism, broadly, has faced many challenges and changes in recent years—economic hardship, decline in public trust and a shift from print to digital—environmental journalism, in particular, has a unique set of difficulties that make it hard for journalists to report on environmental injustices. To help address some of these challenges, three SEAS alumni have created a webinar series on equitable engagement, an extension of the work they did as part of their master’s project.