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The Heart of the Farm: What’s Next for Trumpey’s Campus Farm Eco-Building
May 21, 2019 • Cool Classes & Assignments, Making a Difference, Faculty
During the summer of 2018, Stamps Professor Joe Trumpey lead volunteers and twenty students from his Green Building course in the building of U-M’s only 100% solar powered, natural, straw-bale insulated building on the Ann Arbor campus. Located on the Campus… Read More >
Designing Decisions: 2019 MDes Public Talks
May 15, 2019 • Research & Leadership, Graduate Student, MDes
Care providers, patients, and policymakers face a near-infinite number of big choices when it comes to managing healthcare. Read More >
Dream It, Build It, Do It: The Brightmoor Maker Space Celebrates Inaugural Year
May 9, 2019 • Giving, Social Engagement, Making a Difference
On Thursday, May 2, 2019, Detroit Community Schools (DCS) and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design hosted an open house for the Brightmoor Maker Space to celebrate its first academic year in operation. Read More >
Designing for Equity in Public Education
May 9, 2019 • Research & Leadership, Social Engagement, Graduate Student
During the winter 2019 semester, graduate students from the Stamps School of Art & Design’s Masters in Integrative Design (MDes) worked with the University of Michigan School of Education’s Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research (CEDER) to… Read More >
Taylor Houlihan Recreates 3.2 Million-Year-Old Skeleton
May 6, 2019 • Research & Leadership, Alumni, Undergraduate Student
The U-M Museum of Natural History reopened to the public on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Originally housed in the A.G. Ruthven Museums building from 1928 until January 2018, the museum now occupies the brand new Biological Sciences Building at 1105 N. University Avenue. Read More >
Guna Nadarajan at National Academies’ Convocation
May 3, 2019 • Research & Leadership, Faculty
Led by Stamps School Dean Guna Nadarajan, a panel explored the benefits of integrating the arts and design in STEM education to a crowd of 300 at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) in Washington, DC. Read More >
Bruce and Stephanie Tharp Book Launch
May 3, 2019 • Research & Leadership, Focus on Faculty, Faculty
On Tuesday, March 26, approximately 50 people gathered in the Ford Presidential Library on the University of Michigan Campus to learn more about the topic of discursive design with Stamps professors Bruce and Stephanie Tharp. Read More >
Healthy Kids Through Active Tech: The 2019 Integrated Product Development Trade Show
April 26, 2019 • Research & Leadership, Cool Classes & Assignments, Focus on Faculty
For many working families with active children, it's not hard to imagine a scenario like this: mom or dad is stuck in traffic, their child waiting to be picked up from school or one of many extra-curricular activities. Read More >
Student Spotlight: Maddi Lelli + Michigan Medicine
April 15, 2019 • Student Voices, Undergraduate Student
During the Fall 2018 semester, Maddi Lelli (BFA ‘19) partnered with members of the Perioperative Care Unit at Michigan Medicine for an independent study to address wayfinding within the U-M Hospital. Read More >
Expressions of Gratitude: Penny W. Stamps (1944-2018)
April 8, 2019 • Giving, Making a Difference, Alumni
In December of 2018, our school’s namesake and friend, Penny W. Stamps, passed away after a battle with cancer. A proud University of Michigan alumna (BS.Des. ’66), arts advocate, animal lover, philanthropist, and leader, Penny’s legacy lives on in the research… Read More >
