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Stories from and about library student employees and interns.
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An Asian woman in a checkered dress and wire-rimmed glasses smiles in her headshot
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  • Annie Zhou
Good Teaching: A Historical Perspective on Culturally Responsive Teaching
Annie Zhou, a second-year master’s student in Educational Studies, explores culturally responsive teaching and what constitutes "good teaching".
A diverse group of students in business casual stand on stairs for a photo
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  • Aiswarya Saravanan
M-HEAL: The Initiative's External Design Review
The Initiative Team through M-HEAL details their process of creating portable, inexpensive, and safe bassinets that are able to incubate newborns. Through feedback from medical personnel and library staff, they are able to improve future versions of the bassinet and its associated baby carrier to combat neonatal hypothermia.
Members of the Student Library Engagement Ambassador Team (9 individuals) stand and sit around the Shapiro Library sign
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  • Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore
  • Amira Said
End of Year Ambassador Review (2024-2025)
From events to social media outreach, the Student Library Engagement Ambassadors highlight underutilized library resources to the U-M community. Elizabeth and Amira, two recent graduates from the University of Michigan, recount the past year as experienced Ambassadors.
Members of various Greek Life organizations, who are wearing their merchandise (e.g. Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority sisters are wearing white and red), gather together for a group photo at the 19th Annual Multicultural Greek Exhibition (MGX) 2025
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  • Valeria Serratos
Multicultural Greek Exhibition
The 19th Annual Multicultural Greek Exhibition (MGX) was founded by the sisters of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority. MGX combats negative stigmas of Greek Life by illustrating that Greeks are involved in tradition, community service, philanthropy, and diversity and unity.
A diverse group of women engineers from the University of Michigan are standing in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. wearing formal business attire
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  • Rachel Marina Ward
Society of Women Engineers Take Their Demands to Capitol Hill
On April 2nd, 2025, ten delegates from the University of Michigan's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in SWE’s annual Congressional Outreach Day. Through representing the voices of countless women and marginalized individuals who are often excluded from governmental conversations, U-M SWE members endorsed a targeted list of federal legislative priorities and funding requests to ensure the success of marginalized groups working in STEM.
A woman with wavy, shoulder length-hair, brown-wire glasses, and a black shirt with swirling patterns, smiles at the reader
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  • Krystel Anderson
Seed Library: Growing a Legacy of Community
Krystel Anderson, a Seed Library Engagement Fellow, illustrates her experience in community-facing work, which included providing seeds to the community and accessible knowledge of plants and gardens.
Happy dog, with his tongue hanging out, being petted by a student.
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  • Leah Juliette Gouin
Therapaws in the Library
Students hung out with furry friends, made puppy-themed buttons, and picked up cool swag, like posters, sticky notes, and candy!
Four students playing Jenga.
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  • Cecilia Valentina Ledezma Herrera
CVGA Event
Students enjoyed an evening of board and video games in the Computer and Video Game Archive. Pop into the CVGA to play, and tell them the Ambassadors sent you!
Six students standing in a row.
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  • Elizabeth Shalanda Whitmore
Café Shapiro 2025 Reflections
Reflections on Café Shapiro 2025 from the 2024-2025 U-M Library Engagement Ambassador Team.
Students perusing a table full of books wrapped in paper bag material.
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  • Alyssa Simone Wakefield
Blind Date with a Book
Library Student Ambassadors invited students to blindly choose their next read.