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- ## Finding New Hope in Old Soap

  What happens to bars of hotel soap after guests leave? A U-M alumna has found a way to recycle and redistribute them in India. Her soap-making operation, Sundara, has produced more than 6,000 bars of recycled soap and trained 17 teachers to conduct hygiene workshops in 30 Mumbai-area schools.

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- ## Wild Idea of a Child-Designed Playground

  As part of her MFA thesis, a U-M Stamps School of Art & Design graduate student spearheaded a major, student-led design project with elementary school students and their art teacher at Ann Arbor STEAM. They have been working together all year to plan and redesign the school’s playground.

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  Photo courtesy of Chin-Azzaro

- ## The Birth of Earth Day

  U-M’s Teach-In on the Environment was not the first Earth Day. It was the huge and spectacularly successful prototype of the first Earth Day, which happened five weeks later—“the most famous little-known event,” one historian has written, “in modern American history.”

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- ## Creating a Healthier Planet

  U-M students, faculty and staff are addressing sustainability challenges on campus and around the world. The 2014 Sustainability Progress Report highlights the impact of recent student engagement, research and campus operations projects.

  Learn more about U-M's sustainability efforts

  Photo courtesy of Amanda Treviño

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- Leaders who can read the crowd do better
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- Toward hydrogen-powered cars: U-M gets $1.2M grant
- Schlissel, Deloria elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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- April 23 Recycle Responsibly Free e-Waste Events U-M State Street Commuter Parking lot & Pioneer High School
- Apr 24Therapy Dogs at North Quad!
- Apr 26UMS Choral Union: Richard Goode

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Offer your words of hope below and we'll distribute them across campus to help create #ABrighterBlue.

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## Carpe Diem

### On Michigan time

There’s always something amazing happening at Michigan. Whether it’s on campus or around the world, our students, faculty, staff and alumni are out seizing the day as shown in the slideshow below.

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