Two CoE researchers named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows

As part of Google's growing efforts to support excellent research in academia, we are pleased, effective January 22, 2026, to award The Regents of the University of Michigan an unrestricted gift of $527,227. We understand The Regents of the University of Michigan intends to use this gift to support the "SEISMIC 2.0 Assessment Initiative" currently led by Tim McKay. The overall goal of SEISMIC Phase Two is to promote greater adoption of assessment practices in large introductory STEM courses across a range of institutions and departments. To achieve this goal, Seismic will support STEM disciplinary teams in piloting revised assessments in STEM courses across the collaboration and evaluating their efficacy.

A grant was made to to the University of Michigan’s Water Center for $532,000 and will use to update data and improve models to inform improvements for the health and water quality of Lake Erie.

Marsal School Associate Professor Jon Wargo is the 2023 recipient of the Early Literacy Teacher Educator of the Year Award. The award is given annually by the Early Childhood Education Assembly (ECEA) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to a teacher educator in the area of early childhood focusing on language and literacy development.