Regional
May 27, 2025
A team of six master’s students led by SEAS Lecturer and Project Advisor Sheila Schueller released the first-ever site stewardship and management plan for the U-M-owned St. Pierre Wetland property. This document will serve as the blueprint to create similar stewardship plans for five additional SEAS-managed properties, encompassing over 1,700 acres of land.
Global
May 30, 2025
The fate of the Line 5 pipeline, which moves more than 500,000 barrels of oil and natural gas liquids between Wisconsin and Canada daily, is at another critical juncture in its 70-plus year history. On May 30, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to release its environmental assessment of a contentious proposal to bury a section of Line 5 in a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac. In this Q&A, SEAS Professor Mike Shriberg, discusses the history of the pipeline.
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
May 29, 2025
In a new blog post, SEAS master's student Sarah Meadows, who is specializing in Environmental Policy and Planning, says that, although new research shows that the Eastern Antarctic Ice Sheet has grown for the first time in nearly two decades, it is important to ensure that this growth is not just a fluke, and can continue and spread throughout the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet while encouraging further progress and stopping ice melt.
Faculty in the Media
May 23, 2025
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.
