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Leaders&Best
GIVING AT MICHIGAN Fall 2024

welcome to the Fall 2024 Campaign Issue of Leaders & Best, with stories that bring the Look to Michigan campaign to life. You’ll read how we’re providing a transformative education, improving health care access and patient outcomes, reinvigorating community participation and democratic awareness, and tackling climate change. You’ll learn about students, faculty, and staff who are positively impacting our world, and donors and partners whose generosity and commitment are propelling us forward.

Look to Michigan is U-M’s most innovative and ambitious fundraising campaign ever, as we aspire to take on society’s most pressing challenges. And philanthropy is making this vision a reality. We hope you’ll be inspired by these stories and feel the undeniable optimism and confidence that Michigan is making a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

Life-Changing Education

Transforming futures

Education has the power to transform everything it touches. It builds understanding across differences. It opens doors of opportunity. It equips individuals with the knowledge and skills they need to reach their full potential. U-M aspires to make these experiences available to everyone, confronting the barriers to access and creating a future where all learners will thrive.

Transforming futures

Education has the power to transform everything it touches. It builds understanding across differences. It opens doors of opportunity. It equips individuals with the knowledge and skills they need to reach their full potential. U-M aspires to make these experiences available to everyone, confronting the barriers to access and creating a future where all learners will thrive.
An elementary school teacher helping a young girl to read a book.

A new approach to teacher education

A few students in a group smiling and one is shaking hands with a woman.

A path to success

A path to success

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Kian McDonough out on the field holding a pine tree branch in one hand and a pine cone in the other hand.

U.P. to A2

U.P. to A2

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Extending reality, expanding access

Extending reality, expanding access

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Health & Well-Being

Health for all, one solution at a time

We believe that health and well-being are fundamental human rights. And that access to quality, affordable health care—including mental health support—is an absolute necessity for a flourishing community, locally as well as globally. U‑M strives to be a model of excellence for meeting today's critical health challenges by taking a holistic approach to both prevention and treatment.

Health for all, one solution at a time

We believe that health and well-being are fundamental human rights. And that access to quality, affordable health care—including mental health support—is an absolute necessity for a flourishing community, locally as well as globally. U-M strives to be a model of excellence for meeting today's critical health challenges by taking a holistic approach to both prevention and treatment.
Dr. Nisha D’Silva sitting in a chair and posing by a microscope.

A new approach to teacher education

Prioritizing prevention

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A student wearing a lab coat and purple surgical gloves holding an instrument in a lab.

A cause for collaboration

A path to success

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Justin Heinze posing outside with his arms crossed.

Taking action for safer schools

U.P. to A2

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Uriel Zeitz holding a soccer ball on his shoulder.

‘A sign of strength’

Extending reality, expanding access

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‘A sign of strength’

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‘A sign of strength’

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Democracy, Civic & Global Engagement

Champions for democracy

The need to foster balanced, productive, respectful discourse is more important than ever, as is the urgent need to encourage active participation in our communities and our government. We believe that an informed, engaged citizenry is vital for these interactions and for a thriving democracy. U-M is enthusiastic about reinvigorating civic and global engagement among students and the wider community.

Champions for democracy

The need to foster balanced, productive, respectful discourse is more important than ever, as is the urgent need to encourage active participation in our communities and our government. We believe that an informed, engaged citizenry is vital for these interactions and for a thriving democracy. U-M is enthusiastic about reinvigorating civic and global engagement among students and the wider community.
A man stands at the front of a room near a digital display screen. Several people are looking toward him. One of the people is pointing at the screen.

A new approach to teacher education

Debunking deepfakes

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Two women standing and smiling in front of a lime green-colored map of the United States.

Promoting participation

A path to success

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A woman and two men sitting in chairs around a coffee table having a discussion in front of a backdrop that reads “Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.”

Bridging
divides

U.P. to A2

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An AI-generated image of a woman looking overwhelmed with various screens behind her showing news coverage.

Dodging digital dupes

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Sustainability & Climate Action

Climate action. Now.

Climate change and environmental degradation are among the most devastating crises of today, creating existential risks to the Earth’s life-support systems and our ability to thrive. We can take on the defining environmental challenges of our time, from rising temperatures to extreme weather, biodiversity loss to fragile food systems and water quality, outdated transportation and energy technologies, and more.

Climate action. Now.

Climate change and environmental degradation are among the most devastating crises of today, creating existential risks to the Earth’s life-support systems and our ability to thrive. We can take on the defining environmental challenges of our time, from rising temperatures to extreme weather, biodiversity loss to fragile foodsystems and water quality, outdated transportation and energy technologies, and more.
Students wearing t-shirts that say M Erb Institute, University of Michigan.

A new approach to teacher education

Supporting tomorrow’s sustainability leaders

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Woman digging potatoes out of the dirt with other students standing behind her.

Food security for students, by students

A path to success

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A photo of robotically printed concrete.

Living labs for sustainable building

U.P. to A2

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A row of cylindrical batteries with Michigan Battery Lab branding printed on them.

The future of mobility

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