SEAS hosts a Sustainability Clinic in Detroit, described in several news articles from 2021 including this press release on the SEAS website, written by Denise Spranger. From that press release: “Its goal: improve the ability of the City of Detroit and nonprofits serving the City to address the impacts of climate change on the natural and…
MIDAS, the Michigan Institute for Data Science, is a University of Michigan (U-M)-wide institute with 420 affiliated faculty from 60 departments. Each year MIDAS awards a series of pilot-study grants for research in data science and artificial intelligence, known as PODS grants (Propelling Original Data Science). This year, four researchers in SEAS received three of…
Bill Currie created the SEAS Deans Junior Faculty Mentoring Program in 2019 and continues to lead the program. This is a brief description of some aspects of the program, in part so that folks in other departments and universities can benefit from what we’ve learned. First, each pre-tenure, tenure-track faculty member is assigned a multi-mentor…
Bill Currie was elected in 2019 as an AAAS Fellow. AAAS Fellows are elected by their peers for their “scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.” Currie was elected for “advancing society’s understanding of ecosystem function through advanced modeling, particularly nutrient cycling and carbon balance in forests and wetlands and their…
Bill Currie, together with collaborators Dr. Laura Bourgeau-Chavez and Charlotte Weinstein at Michigan Tech Research Institute and Dr. Sherry Martin at Michigan State University, co-organized this NASA-funded workshop. Held in Ann Arbor, the workshop drew 25 participants from Minnesota to New York, including those from The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, the Nature Conservancy, and…
Bill Currie is helping to design a new SEAS Dean’s Junior Faculty Mentoring Program and will lead the implementation of the new program in its first year. The program will have a few complementary elements: In a regular monthly meeting for new faculty, a series of topics will be covered that combine mentoring with new…