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SEAS faculty awarded U-M Sustainability Catalyst Grants to advance community-grounded climate solutions
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The Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan has awarded seven Sustainability Catalyst Grants for 2026.
The selected projects span public health, engineering, design, agriculture, data systems and the performing arts, connecting U-M researchers with community organizations, practitioners, businesses and institutions. Each project is designed to inspire progress toward greater sustainability—testing ideas, co-creating tools and generating knowledge that can inform policy, practice and future work.
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) faculty Paige Fischer, Shelie Miller, Lauren Mullenbach and Joe Trumpey, are among the Catalyst Grant recipients, along with SEAS Postdoctoral Research Fellows Dani Grant and Megan Czerwinski, and SEAS PhD student Caroline Beckman.
Their projects include the following:
Clearing the Air: U-M and Okanogan Communities Take on Wildfire Smoke (co-investigators: Fischer, Trumpey, Grant, Czerwinski and Beckman)
Rising Waters, Rising Equity: Learning from Detroit’s Infrastructure (principal investigator: Mullenbach)
Green Stages: Sustainability Takes the Spotlight at Detroit Opera (co-investigator: Miller)
Read more about the Catalyst Grants on the Graham Sustainability Institute website