Taking it to the field

Technology connects millennials to the ultimate classroom

A tablet PC in a sling with images, movies, reams of reference materials and real-time global positioning beats the heck out of a 35-pound set of ring-binders anytime. Students in field courses are benefitting from some field technology developed at U-M.

Mud and guts

Venerable U-M biology station is a treasure

What happens when students and faculty get muddy, sore and bug-bitten together? They learn biology like never before. The U-M Biological Station at Pellston has been teaching fundamentals and performing cutting-edge research since 1909.