The University of Michigan has one of the premier digital library programs in the country. In the classroom, faculty integrate research and undergraduate education, eagerly sharing both their passion for their work and their latest research findings. An estimated 2,000 undergraduates participate in faculty-student research partnerships each year. The University of Michigan is home to one of the largest and most technologically advanced health care complexes in the world. At the heart of Michigan's success as a research university is a distinguished faculty, which includes Pulitzer Prize winners, performing artists and composers, novelists and poets, scientists, artists and filmmakers.
Faculty participate at all levels of government.
They advise the president and Congress on topics as diverse as global warming, Social Security, the economy and our country's relationship to China, transportation safety, water quality and taxation policies.