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SLSU Goes Global: Advancing food innovation and sustainability through CHED Husay At Ait, Thailand
SOGOD, Philippines, Nov. 11 -- Southern Leyte State University issued the following news:
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SLSU Goes Global: Advancing food innovation and sustainability through CHED Husay At Ait, Thailand
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Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) proudly marks another milestone in international academic engagement as two of its faculty members participate in the Phase 2 Face-to-Face Training of the microcredential program,"Strengthening the Future of Food Systems: Specialized Graduate Training in Food Innovation, Nutrition, and Bioprocessing, at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, under ... Show Full Article SOGOD, Philippines, Nov. 11 -- Southern Leyte State University issued the following news: * * * SLSU Goes Global: Advancing food innovation and sustainability through CHED Husay At Ait, Thailand * Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) proudly marks another milestone in international academic engagement as two of its faculty members participate in the Phase 2 Face-to-Face Training of the microcredential program,"Strengthening the Future of Food Systems: Specialized Graduate Training in Food Innovation, Nutrition, and Bioprocessing, at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, underthe Commission on Higher Education's (CHED) Higher Education Upskilling and Study for Advancement of Staff and Faculty (HUSAY) Program.
Representing Southern Leyte State University are Mr. Jhon Mar A. Majerano from the Faculty of Education, Technology and Innovation (FETI) and Mr. Omar D. Alo from the Faculty of Industrial Technology and Management (FITM).
From November 9 to December 3, 2026, the SLSU faculty participants will engage in intensive on-site lectures, specialized laboratory sessions, and collaborative learning experiences alongside fellow educators from Philippine higher education institutions. The training focuses on Certificate 1, covering three essential areas: Sustainable Food Process Design, Food Safety and Traceability Systems and Design Thinking for Healthy Food Products.
This international training opportunity underscores SLSU's commitment to faculty development, academic excellence, research innovation, and global collaboration. Through the acquisition of advanced knowledge and practical competencies in food science and technology, the participating faculty members aim to contribute to strengthening instruction, advancing research initiatives, and promoting sustainable food systems within the university and the communities it serves.
As SLSU continues to expand its global academic engagement, this participation reflects the university's dedication to empowering its faculty with internationally relevant expertise and fostering innovation that creates meaningful impact.
Through this initiative, SLSU directly advances the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By enhancing local expertise in bioprocessing, food safety, and nutrition, the university contributes to SDG 2: Zero Hunger and SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being by promoting healthier, more secure food production methods. Furthermore, the focus on sustainable process design reinforces SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, while the cross-border collaboration with CHED and AIT underscores the university's commitment to SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals.
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Original text here: https://southernleytestateu.edu.ph/index.php/en/menu-page-home/4573-slsu-goes-global-advancing-food-innovation-and-sustainability-through-ched-husay-at-ait-thailand
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SLSU Goes Global: Advancing food innovation and sustainability through CHED Husay At Ait, Thailand
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Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) proudly marks another milestone in international academic engagement as two of its faculty members participate in the Phase 2 Face-to-Face Training of the microcredential program,"Strengthening the Future of Food Systems: Specialized Graduate Training in Food Innovation, Nutrition, and Bioprocessing, at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, under ... Show Full Article SOGOD, Philippines, Nov. 11 -- Southern Leyte State University issued the following news: * * * SLSU Goes Global: Advancing food innovation and sustainability through CHED Husay At Ait, Thailand * Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) proudly marks another milestone in international academic engagement as two of its faculty members participate in the Phase 2 Face-to-Face Training of the microcredential program,"Strengthening the Future of Food Systems: Specialized Graduate Training in Food Innovation, Nutrition, and Bioprocessing, at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, underthe Commission on Higher Education's (CHED) Higher Education Upskilling and Study for Advancement of Staff and Faculty (HUSAY) Program.
Representing Southern Leyte State University are Mr. Jhon Mar A. Majerano from the Faculty of Education, Technology and Innovation (FETI) and Mr. Omar D. Alo from the Faculty of Industrial Technology and Management (FITM).
From November 9 to December 3, 2026, the SLSU faculty participants will engage in intensive on-site lectures, specialized laboratory sessions, and collaborative learning experiences alongside fellow educators from Philippine higher education institutions. The training focuses on Certificate 1, covering three essential areas: Sustainable Food Process Design, Food Safety and Traceability Systems and Design Thinking for Healthy Food Products.
This international training opportunity underscores SLSU's commitment to faculty development, academic excellence, research innovation, and global collaboration. Through the acquisition of advanced knowledge and practical competencies in food science and technology, the participating faculty members aim to contribute to strengthening instruction, advancing research initiatives, and promoting sustainable food systems within the university and the communities it serves.
As SLSU continues to expand its global academic engagement, this participation reflects the university's dedication to empowering its faculty with internationally relevant expertise and fostering innovation that creates meaningful impact.
Through this initiative, SLSU directly advances the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By enhancing local expertise in bioprocessing, food safety, and nutrition, the university contributes to SDG 2: Zero Hunger and SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being by promoting healthier, more secure food production methods. Furthermore, the focus on sustainable process design reinforces SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, while the cross-border collaboration with CHED and AIT underscores the university's commitment to SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals.
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Original text here: https://southernleytestateu.edu.ph/index.php/en/menu-page-home/4573-slsu-goes-global-advancing-food-innovation-and-sustainability-through-ched-husay-at-ait-thailand
How U-M Helped Bring Depression Out of the Darkness
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 11 -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release:
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How U-M helped bring depression out of the darkness
The founding of the nation's first depression center in 2001 paved the way for many more nationwide, and helped spur research and reduce stigma
November 9, 2026
For centuries, if someone was diagnosed with cancer, people talked about in whispers, if at all.
But by the late 20th century, that stigma had all but vanished.
Part of the reason? Major medical centers, including the one at the ... Show Full Article ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 11 -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * How U-M helped bring depression out of the darkness The founding of the nation's first depression center in 2001 paved the way for many more nationwide, and helped spur research and reduce stigma November 9, 2026 For centuries, if someone was diagnosed with cancer, people talked about in whispers, if at all. But by the late 20th century, that stigma had all but vanished. Part of the reason? Major medical centers, including the one at theUniversity of Michigan, had created cancer centers devoted to research-fueled patient care, advanced laboratories, and outreach to boost awareness and early detection.
Other conditions, from heart disease to dementia, also got the same coordinated approach.
Depression finally got its turn in 2001, when the nation's first Depression Center was created at U-M after a vote by the Board of Regents on November 15.
At the time, depression was as stigmatized as cancer had once been. Few people discussed their diagnosis openly.
Millions of Americans with depression and many more worldwide went untreated, despite recent advances in antidepressant medications and psychotherapy, and a 2001 World Health Organization report calling it the world's leading cause of disability.
The new center aimed to change that, through research to improve care, and stigma-busting outreach.
John Greden, M.D., the chair of the Medical School's Department of Psychiatry at the time, led the charge to create the center, together with mental health researchers and clinicians from multiple U-M departments and schools.
Today, nearly 280 faculty across dozens of U-M departments, schools and colleges belong to the center, which helps fuel their teams' innovation and collaboration to advance depression research.
It runs multiple outreach programs, including an annual conference on college student mental health that launched in spring 2003, and specialized education and awareness programs for schools and workplaces.
In 2021, the center was renamed the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center, in honor of donors whose $30 million in giving to the center greatly accelerated its mission. In 2025, the Eisenbergs renewed their support with an additional $15 million in support of the Center.
Other donors who had experienced the toll of depression and bipolar disorder on their own families have also been crucial to the center's growth, including Waltraud "Wally" Prechter, who with her late husband Heinz had been key to the center's origin.
The center is now led by Srijan Sen, M.D., Ph.D., a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was earning his medical and doctoral degrees at U-M when the center was founded, and now holds a professorship named for the Eisenbergs. He took over the reins from Greden in 2021.
Just as cancer centers sprouted across America in the late 20th century, the U-M center sparked the creation of 29 other centers like it in the U.S. and Mexico.
Connected through the National Network of Depression Centers, which was formed in 2008 in Ann Arbor, they share resources and data to move depression research and care forward.
While mental health research and care at U-M stretched back to the 1880s, it had never been organized into a university-level effort to bring together researchers, clinicians and learners from many disciplines. The Depression Center aimed to complement the basic neuroscience focus of what was then known as the Mental Health Research Institute, now the Michigan Neuroscience Institute.
Another key aspect of the Depression Center's early effort was sharing information about depression at a time when finding easy-to-understand information was difficult for the public. Even though information is much easier to find today, the recently expanded and updated Depression Center Toolkit offers free tools for those experiencing depression and those who want to help a loved one.
The center's founding was a key driver for the Rachel Upjohn Building on the East Medical Campus, which opened in 2006 and is named for another key donor, Rachel Mary Upjohn Meader. It became the home for many U-M mental health researchers and clinical studies, as well as for outpatient mental health care from U-M Health's Adult Psychiatry, Neuropsychology and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry clinics.
Over the past 25 years, the center has helped launch initiatives that have gone on to have broad impact including the Healthy Minds Study, TRAILS, MC3, the Intern Health Study, and the Prechter Longitudinal Study of Bipolar Disorder, extending its reach across research, education and clinical care.
Looking back, Greden says, "The stigma today is nothing like it once was. We've come a long way and made huge progress." He notes that today's young people are incredibly open about their mental health by comparison with people in 2001, and that screening for depression is now routine in primary care settings. "But we have work to do yet."
Sen agrees, and notes that research on depression's many contributing risk factors, and treatment outcomes, has laid a foundation for what the center's members can achieve going forward, with support from the center's research services and funding.
Building on that foundation, the center is expanding its focus on precision prevention: identifying each person's vulnerabilities and developing interventions, policies and environments that reduce the risk of depression, while continuing to improve treatment.
"In 25 years, I hope that we have a lot less depression and anxiety in the world," Sen said. "But we need to do more upstream to make progress."
Learn more at depressioncenter.org.
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Original text here: https://www.uofmhealth.org/news-release/how-u-m-helped-bring-depression-out-darkness
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How U-M helped bring depression out of the darkness
The founding of the nation's first depression center in 2001 paved the way for many more nationwide, and helped spur research and reduce stigma
November 9, 2026
For centuries, if someone was diagnosed with cancer, people talked about in whispers, if at all.
But by the late 20th century, that stigma had all but vanished.
Part of the reason? Major medical centers, including the one at the ... Show Full Article ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 11 -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * How U-M helped bring depression out of the darkness The founding of the nation's first depression center in 2001 paved the way for many more nationwide, and helped spur research and reduce stigma November 9, 2026 For centuries, if someone was diagnosed with cancer, people talked about in whispers, if at all. But by the late 20th century, that stigma had all but vanished. Part of the reason? Major medical centers, including the one at theUniversity of Michigan, had created cancer centers devoted to research-fueled patient care, advanced laboratories, and outreach to boost awareness and early detection.
Other conditions, from heart disease to dementia, also got the same coordinated approach.
Depression finally got its turn in 2001, when the nation's first Depression Center was created at U-M after a vote by the Board of Regents on November 15.
At the time, depression was as stigmatized as cancer had once been. Few people discussed their diagnosis openly.
Millions of Americans with depression and many more worldwide went untreated, despite recent advances in antidepressant medications and psychotherapy, and a 2001 World Health Organization report calling it the world's leading cause of disability.
The new center aimed to change that, through research to improve care, and stigma-busting outreach.
John Greden, M.D., the chair of the Medical School's Department of Psychiatry at the time, led the charge to create the center, together with mental health researchers and clinicians from multiple U-M departments and schools.
Today, nearly 280 faculty across dozens of U-M departments, schools and colleges belong to the center, which helps fuel their teams' innovation and collaboration to advance depression research.
It runs multiple outreach programs, including an annual conference on college student mental health that launched in spring 2003, and specialized education and awareness programs for schools and workplaces.
In 2021, the center was renamed the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center, in honor of donors whose $30 million in giving to the center greatly accelerated its mission. In 2025, the Eisenbergs renewed their support with an additional $15 million in support of the Center.
Other donors who had experienced the toll of depression and bipolar disorder on their own families have also been crucial to the center's growth, including Waltraud "Wally" Prechter, who with her late husband Heinz had been key to the center's origin.
The center is now led by Srijan Sen, M.D., Ph.D., a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was earning his medical and doctoral degrees at U-M when the center was founded, and now holds a professorship named for the Eisenbergs. He took over the reins from Greden in 2021.
Just as cancer centers sprouted across America in the late 20th century, the U-M center sparked the creation of 29 other centers like it in the U.S. and Mexico.
Connected through the National Network of Depression Centers, which was formed in 2008 in Ann Arbor, they share resources and data to move depression research and care forward.
While mental health research and care at U-M stretched back to the 1880s, it had never been organized into a university-level effort to bring together researchers, clinicians and learners from many disciplines. The Depression Center aimed to complement the basic neuroscience focus of what was then known as the Mental Health Research Institute, now the Michigan Neuroscience Institute.
Another key aspect of the Depression Center's early effort was sharing information about depression at a time when finding easy-to-understand information was difficult for the public. Even though information is much easier to find today, the recently expanded and updated Depression Center Toolkit offers free tools for those experiencing depression and those who want to help a loved one.
The center's founding was a key driver for the Rachel Upjohn Building on the East Medical Campus, which opened in 2006 and is named for another key donor, Rachel Mary Upjohn Meader. It became the home for many U-M mental health researchers and clinical studies, as well as for outpatient mental health care from U-M Health's Adult Psychiatry, Neuropsychology and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry clinics.
Over the past 25 years, the center has helped launch initiatives that have gone on to have broad impact including the Healthy Minds Study, TRAILS, MC3, the Intern Health Study, and the Prechter Longitudinal Study of Bipolar Disorder, extending its reach across research, education and clinical care.
Looking back, Greden says, "The stigma today is nothing like it once was. We've come a long way and made huge progress." He notes that today's young people are incredibly open about their mental health by comparison with people in 2001, and that screening for depression is now routine in primary care settings. "But we have work to do yet."
Sen agrees, and notes that research on depression's many contributing risk factors, and treatment outcomes, has laid a foundation for what the center's members can achieve going forward, with support from the center's research services and funding.
Building on that foundation, the center is expanding its focus on precision prevention: identifying each person's vulnerabilities and developing interventions, policies and environments that reduce the risk of depression, while continuing to improve treatment.
"In 25 years, I hope that we have a lot less depression and anxiety in the world," Sen said. "But we need to do more upstream to make progress."
Learn more at depressioncenter.org.
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Original text here: https://www.uofmhealth.org/news-release/how-u-m-helped-bring-depression-out-darkness
How ECU's Work Experience Program Helped Launch Sarah Wohlgemuth Into Apparel Design
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 11 -- The Emily Carr University of Art and Design issued the following news:
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How ECU's Work Experience Program Helped Launch Sarah Wohlgemuth into Apparel Design
November 09, 2026
The recent Industrial Design grad's work-placement with Arc'teryx merged her love of clothing design and snow sports -- and led to a job with the respected brand.
Growing up, Sarah Wohlgemuth (BDes 2026) learned to sew on her mother's machine to make affordable versions of the clothes she saw in retail stores.
Hailing from Vernon, B.C., at the edge of the Monashee Mountains ... Show Full Article VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 11 -- The Emily Carr University of Art and Design issued the following news: * * * How ECU's Work Experience Program Helped Launch Sarah Wohlgemuth into Apparel Design November 09, 2026 The recent Industrial Design grad's work-placement with Arc'teryx merged her love of clothing design and snow sports -- and led to a job with the respected brand. Growing up, Sarah Wohlgemuth (BDes 2026) learned to sew on her mother's machine to make affordable versions of the clothes she saw in retail stores. Hailing from Vernon, B.C., at the edge of the Monashee Mountainsin the province's Southern Interior, she also grew up loving to ski, travelling regularly to nearby Silver Star to enjoy its massive annual snowfall, competing in freeride as part of the local team.
That love sustained her when she moved to Calgary as a teen, where she skied Lake Louise, and then to Squamish to finish high school, where she explored the extensive alpine terrain of Whistler and Blackcomb.
Now a snow apparel designer with Canadian outdoor apparel and equipment brand Arc'teryx, Sarah marvels at the serendipity of finding a career that combines her love for both clothing design and snow sports.
"I feel extremely lucky to be in the position I'm in," she says.
But her career didn't emerge out of the ether, she adds. Her success is built on an Industrial Design degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU), where, in addition to developing technical and conceptual skills through studio work and critical studies, Sarah discovered the Career Development + Work Integrated Learning (CD + WIL) Office's Work Experience Program. The program facilitates structured, paid work placements that allow undergraduate students to earn academic credit while gaining real-world experience.
In her third year at ECU, Sarah spotted a posting for a junior designer with Arc'teryx. She applied and would go on to complete two consecutive four-month placements with the company. During those eight months, she worked full time while earning credits toward her degree, shadowing the senior snow designer to learn the ins-and-outs of the company's workflows.
"The CD + WIL Office's Work Experience Program is amazing," she says. "The people who work there are so lovely and encouraging, and getting the experience of learning in a different environment while I was still at university was incredibly beneficial to me."
Sarah notes that a directed studies course with ECU faculty member Keith Doyle provided crucial guidance as she juggled priorities.
"I don't know if I'd have been able to do everything I did without Keith's support during my application for the position and throughout my co-op," she says.
Sarah's work-placement project for Arc'teryx was to redesign a competition bib using old, warrantied jackets. With her new colleagues, she created a garment that could turn into a tote bag to honour the athletes' request that it be functional post-competition.
She says this experience was front-of-mind as she began planning her capstone project for graduation. The project repurposed warrantied Arc'teryx jacket stock and discontinued trim stock to create a brand-new jacket, reflecting not only the new skills she'd been learning but the principles of sustainability and reuse that inform both the Arc'teryx ethos and ECU's design programs.
"I learned so much that helped me with my grad project as well as in my own personal sewing practices and design thinking," she says. "Arc'teryx takes repurposing really seriously, and I felt very lucky to have been pushed at ECU to think more deeply about the why's of design, including ecological awareness, which is super relevant as the industry starts to invest more in circularity."
As her work placement progressed, Sarah was encouraged to apply for a permanent position with Arc'teryx and was hired just before her fourth year at ECU began. She worked part-time as she finished her studies and began working full-time as soon as her classes ended.
CD WIL Career Development coordinator Ghislaine Crawford says Sarah's experience is exemplary of the kinds of empowerment students discover through work placement programming.
"Taking advantage of experiences like this is a powerful way for students to apply their classroom learning within a real-life context," she says. "Work placements also help students make vital industry connections, which, in Sarah's case, led to full-time employment."
Now, as part of an all-woman team, Sarah helps design snow apparel including jackets, pants and mid-layers for both men and women. The women's line is particularly exciting, Sarah says, as she always felt conflicted about women-specific ski gear as a young athlete.
"Growing up, I would always buy men's gear because women's gear was slim in the waist and didn't allow me to move freely. Plus, the colouring was always hyper-feminine and didn't feel authentic to me," she says.
"Now I'm working with people whose backgrounds are from all parts of the fashion industry, and I get to add a skier's voice to the conversation. I think Arc'teryx has always done a better job of not singling out women with their gear, and I get to be a part of equalizing that imbalance."
The first Arc'teryx garments co-designed by Sarah hit stores this fall, with more to come in 2027.
Current undergraduate students can learn more about Work Experience credits through ECU's Career Development + Work Integrated Learning Office.
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More about Industrial Design at ECU
ECU's Industrial Design major is an immersive, hands-on program aimed at understanding and responding to our complex world in aesthetic, emotional and material ways. You'll create products, services and experiences that support relationships between individuals, communities and the environment.
Visit our website to learn more (https://ecuad.ca/degree-programs/undergraduate/industrial-design/).
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Original text here: https://ecuad.ca/news/ecu-work-experience-sarah-wohlgemuth-apparel-design/
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How ECU's Work Experience Program Helped Launch Sarah Wohlgemuth into Apparel Design
November 09, 2026
The recent Industrial Design grad's work-placement with Arc'teryx merged her love of clothing design and snow sports -- and led to a job with the respected brand.
Growing up, Sarah Wohlgemuth (BDes 2026) learned to sew on her mother's machine to make affordable versions of the clothes she saw in retail stores.
Hailing from Vernon, B.C., at the edge of the Monashee Mountains ... Show Full Article VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 11 -- The Emily Carr University of Art and Design issued the following news: * * * How ECU's Work Experience Program Helped Launch Sarah Wohlgemuth into Apparel Design November 09, 2026 The recent Industrial Design grad's work-placement with Arc'teryx merged her love of clothing design and snow sports -- and led to a job with the respected brand. Growing up, Sarah Wohlgemuth (BDes 2026) learned to sew on her mother's machine to make affordable versions of the clothes she saw in retail stores. Hailing from Vernon, B.C., at the edge of the Monashee Mountainsin the province's Southern Interior, she also grew up loving to ski, travelling regularly to nearby Silver Star to enjoy its massive annual snowfall, competing in freeride as part of the local team.
That love sustained her when she moved to Calgary as a teen, where she skied Lake Louise, and then to Squamish to finish high school, where she explored the extensive alpine terrain of Whistler and Blackcomb.
Now a snow apparel designer with Canadian outdoor apparel and equipment brand Arc'teryx, Sarah marvels at the serendipity of finding a career that combines her love for both clothing design and snow sports.
"I feel extremely lucky to be in the position I'm in," she says.
But her career didn't emerge out of the ether, she adds. Her success is built on an Industrial Design degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU), where, in addition to developing technical and conceptual skills through studio work and critical studies, Sarah discovered the Career Development + Work Integrated Learning (CD + WIL) Office's Work Experience Program. The program facilitates structured, paid work placements that allow undergraduate students to earn academic credit while gaining real-world experience.
In her third year at ECU, Sarah spotted a posting for a junior designer with Arc'teryx. She applied and would go on to complete two consecutive four-month placements with the company. During those eight months, she worked full time while earning credits toward her degree, shadowing the senior snow designer to learn the ins-and-outs of the company's workflows.
"The CD + WIL Office's Work Experience Program is amazing," she says. "The people who work there are so lovely and encouraging, and getting the experience of learning in a different environment while I was still at university was incredibly beneficial to me."
Sarah notes that a directed studies course with ECU faculty member Keith Doyle provided crucial guidance as she juggled priorities.
"I don't know if I'd have been able to do everything I did without Keith's support during my application for the position and throughout my co-op," she says.
Sarah's work-placement project for Arc'teryx was to redesign a competition bib using old, warrantied jackets. With her new colleagues, she created a garment that could turn into a tote bag to honour the athletes' request that it be functional post-competition.
She says this experience was front-of-mind as she began planning her capstone project for graduation. The project repurposed warrantied Arc'teryx jacket stock and discontinued trim stock to create a brand-new jacket, reflecting not only the new skills she'd been learning but the principles of sustainability and reuse that inform both the Arc'teryx ethos and ECU's design programs.
"I learned so much that helped me with my grad project as well as in my own personal sewing practices and design thinking," she says. "Arc'teryx takes repurposing really seriously, and I felt very lucky to have been pushed at ECU to think more deeply about the why's of design, including ecological awareness, which is super relevant as the industry starts to invest more in circularity."
As her work placement progressed, Sarah was encouraged to apply for a permanent position with Arc'teryx and was hired just before her fourth year at ECU began. She worked part-time as she finished her studies and began working full-time as soon as her classes ended.
CD WIL Career Development coordinator Ghislaine Crawford says Sarah's experience is exemplary of the kinds of empowerment students discover through work placement programming.
"Taking advantage of experiences like this is a powerful way for students to apply their classroom learning within a real-life context," she says. "Work placements also help students make vital industry connections, which, in Sarah's case, led to full-time employment."
Now, as part of an all-woman team, Sarah helps design snow apparel including jackets, pants and mid-layers for both men and women. The women's line is particularly exciting, Sarah says, as she always felt conflicted about women-specific ski gear as a young athlete.
"Growing up, I would always buy men's gear because women's gear was slim in the waist and didn't allow me to move freely. Plus, the colouring was always hyper-feminine and didn't feel authentic to me," she says.
"Now I'm working with people whose backgrounds are from all parts of the fashion industry, and I get to add a skier's voice to the conversation. I think Arc'teryx has always done a better job of not singling out women with their gear, and I get to be a part of equalizing that imbalance."
The first Arc'teryx garments co-designed by Sarah hit stores this fall, with more to come in 2027.
Current undergraduate students can learn more about Work Experience credits through ECU's Career Development + Work Integrated Learning Office.
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More about Industrial Design at ECU
ECU's Industrial Design major is an immersive, hands-on program aimed at understanding and responding to our complex world in aesthetic, emotional and material ways. You'll create products, services and experiences that support relationships between individuals, communities and the environment.
Visit our website to learn more (https://ecuad.ca/degree-programs/undergraduate/industrial-design/).
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Original text here: https://ecuad.ca/news/ecu-work-experience-sarah-wohlgemuth-apparel-design/
Girls in Science Forum connects school students with leading researchers
SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 11 -- The University of New South Wales posted the following news:
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Girls in Science Forum connects school students with leading researchers
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School students met leading female researchers, explored groundbreaking science and discovered potential career pathways at the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO Girls in Science Forum hosted by UNSW.
From the mysteries of marine viruses to new approaches to breast cancer treatment, school students explored the possibilities of a career in science at the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO Girls in Science Forum, hosted by UNSW Sydney.
Students in Years ... Show Full Article SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 11 -- The University of New South Wales posted the following news: * * * Girls in Science Forum connects school students with leading researchers * School students met leading female researchers, explored groundbreaking science and discovered potential career pathways at the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO Girls in Science Forum hosted by UNSW. From the mysteries of marine viruses to new approaches to breast cancer treatment, school students explored the possibilities of a career in science at the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO Girls in Science Forum, hosted by UNSW Sydney. Students in Years9 to 11 met the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science, opens in a new window Fellows, heard about their research journeys and joined UNSW PhD students for hands-on science activities.
The five researchers awarded Fellowships shared insights into work spanning immunology, artificial intelligence, marine science and maternal health.
"Hearing researchers talk about their work and the different paths they've taken into science can help students imagine where their own curiosity might lead," said Dr Nicole Rijs, Associate Dean of Equity Diversity and Inclusion in the UNSW Faculty of Science.
"Science needs people with different experiences, interests and ways of thinking. The Fellows' work, from understanding chronic disease to protecting coral reefs, shows the breadth of questions science can help us answer.
"UNSW is proud to host the forum this year and connect students with researchers shaping the future of science. We hope meeting them and taking part in hands-on activities encourages students to ask questions, explore new ideas and see themselves as part of science."
Stephanie Luelf, Chief Corporate Affairs & Engagement Officer at L'Oreal Australia & New Zealand said, "We believe it's important to make science accessible and inspire the next generation of women in STEMM. It's wonderful to see students meet our 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellows, explore science firsthand and imagine where their own curiosity could take them."
Fellows share their research with students
The L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science program supports researchers with flexible funding, mentorship and visibility. At the forum, the five researchers awarded Fellowships in 2026 gave students an overview of the questions driving their research.
Dr Hani Kim of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and a Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW Medicine & Health explained how she uses artificial intelligence to analyse genomic and clinical data, helping identify which people with breast cancer may benefit from immunotherapy.
Dr Jennifer Matthews of the University of Technology Sydney described the chemistry that helps coral reefs withstand environmental stress, including research that inspired a nutrient-rich treatment for young corals.
Dr Mary Petrone of the University of Sydney spoke about unusual RNA viruses in sea sponges and other marine organisms, and what they could reveal about viral evolution and future outbreaks.
The other Fellows shared research on how cells lining the gut and lungs interact with the immune system, and on breastfeeding, human milk and early-life health. Dr Amanda Oliver of QIMR Berghofer discussed how her work could help improve treatment for chronic conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and asthma. Dr Mariana Muelbert of New Zealand's Liggins Institute spoke about how pregnancy and birth interventions can affect breastfeeding and infant health.
Science needs people with different experiences, interests and ways of thinking.
Students also asked the Fellows about challenges they might face in science. When one asked, "How do you deal with stress and self-doubt?", the researchers encouraged students to focus on their own journeys rather than compare themselves with others or worry about others' opinions.
Another student asked about working in a male-dominated field. Dr Muelbert acknowledged that it could be tough but said she was proud to be an agent of change. Dr Petrone encouraged students to back themselves and remember they deserved to be there.
Hands-on activities bring science to life
Students explored science through activities on minerals, corals, DNA and pond-water microorganisms.
In one session, they examined minerals used in everyday products and discussed how mining can meet society's needs while reducing environmental impacts. Other sessions invited them to look closely at corals and consider their importance to ocean life, see how DNA samples are separated using gel electrophoresis, or observe microscopic life in pond water.
Each group also took part in an 'Ask a Scientist' session, chatting in small groups with UNSW PhD students from the faculties of Science and Medicine & Health. Students could ask about the researchers' work, their experiences at university and the different career paths available in science.
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Girls in Science Forum connects school students with leading researchers
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School students met leading female researchers, explored groundbreaking science and discovered potential career pathways at the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO Girls in Science Forum hosted by UNSW.
From the mysteries of marine viruses to new approaches to breast cancer treatment, school students explored the possibilities of a career in science at the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO Girls in Science Forum, hosted by UNSW Sydney.
Students in Years ... Show Full Article SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 11 -- The University of New South Wales posted the following news: * * * Girls in Science Forum connects school students with leading researchers * School students met leading female researchers, explored groundbreaking science and discovered potential career pathways at the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO Girls in Science Forum hosted by UNSW. From the mysteries of marine viruses to new approaches to breast cancer treatment, school students explored the possibilities of a career in science at the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO Girls in Science Forum, hosted by UNSW Sydney. Students in Years9 to 11 met the 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science, opens in a new window Fellows, heard about their research journeys and joined UNSW PhD students for hands-on science activities.
The five researchers awarded Fellowships shared insights into work spanning immunology, artificial intelligence, marine science and maternal health.
"Hearing researchers talk about their work and the different paths they've taken into science can help students imagine where their own curiosity might lead," said Dr Nicole Rijs, Associate Dean of Equity Diversity and Inclusion in the UNSW Faculty of Science.
"Science needs people with different experiences, interests and ways of thinking. The Fellows' work, from understanding chronic disease to protecting coral reefs, shows the breadth of questions science can help us answer.
"UNSW is proud to host the forum this year and connect students with researchers shaping the future of science. We hope meeting them and taking part in hands-on activities encourages students to ask questions, explore new ideas and see themselves as part of science."
Stephanie Luelf, Chief Corporate Affairs & Engagement Officer at L'Oreal Australia & New Zealand said, "We believe it's important to make science accessible and inspire the next generation of women in STEMM. It's wonderful to see students meet our 2026 L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellows, explore science firsthand and imagine where their own curiosity could take them."
Fellows share their research with students
The L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science program supports researchers with flexible funding, mentorship and visibility. At the forum, the five researchers awarded Fellowships in 2026 gave students an overview of the questions driving their research.
Dr Hani Kim of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and a Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW Medicine & Health explained how she uses artificial intelligence to analyse genomic and clinical data, helping identify which people with breast cancer may benefit from immunotherapy.
Dr Jennifer Matthews of the University of Technology Sydney described the chemistry that helps coral reefs withstand environmental stress, including research that inspired a nutrient-rich treatment for young corals.
Dr Mary Petrone of the University of Sydney spoke about unusual RNA viruses in sea sponges and other marine organisms, and what they could reveal about viral evolution and future outbreaks.
The other Fellows shared research on how cells lining the gut and lungs interact with the immune system, and on breastfeeding, human milk and early-life health. Dr Amanda Oliver of QIMR Berghofer discussed how her work could help improve treatment for chronic conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and asthma. Dr Mariana Muelbert of New Zealand's Liggins Institute spoke about how pregnancy and birth interventions can affect breastfeeding and infant health.
Science needs people with different experiences, interests and ways of thinking.
Students also asked the Fellows about challenges they might face in science. When one asked, "How do you deal with stress and self-doubt?", the researchers encouraged students to focus on their own journeys rather than compare themselves with others or worry about others' opinions.
Another student asked about working in a male-dominated field. Dr Muelbert acknowledged that it could be tough but said she was proud to be an agent of change. Dr Petrone encouraged students to back themselves and remember they deserved to be there.
Hands-on activities bring science to life
Students explored science through activities on minerals, corals, DNA and pond-water microorganisms.
In one session, they examined minerals used in everyday products and discussed how mining can meet society's needs while reducing environmental impacts. Other sessions invited them to look closely at corals and consider their importance to ocean life, see how DNA samples are separated using gel electrophoresis, or observe microscopic life in pond water.
Each group also took part in an 'Ask a Scientist' session, chatting in small groups with UNSW PhD students from the faculties of Science and Medicine & Health. Students could ask about the researchers' work, their experiences at university and the different career paths available in science.
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Fashion slop is degrading the planet
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Nov. 11 -- The University of Auckland issued the following news:
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Fashion slop is degrading the planet
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The 'enshittification' of clothing poses a global challenge - because what we dress ourselves in has an unexpectedly big climate impact.
By Rebekah White
It's not just your imagination: the average item of clothing today is worse quality than ever before.
Made to be worn less and replaced more often, these garments are fuelling an accelerating cycle of overconsumption that is driving the fashion industry's environmental impact to record levels.
More garments ... Show Full Article AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Nov. 11 -- The University of Auckland issued the following news: * * * Fashion slop is degrading the planet * The 'enshittification' of clothing poses a global challenge - because what we dress ourselves in has an unexpectedly big climate impact. By Rebekah White It's not just your imagination: the average item of clothing today is worse quality than ever before. Made to be worn less and replaced more often, these garments are fuelling an accelerating cycle of overconsumption that is driving the fashion industry's environmental impact to record levels. More garmentsare being manufactured today than at any previous point in history.
Over the past two years alone, the fashion industry's emissions increased by 14 per cent, according to Bloomberg.
Part of that is due to increased production of polyester, a fabric derived from fossil fuels.
It's not a blip. Global clothing production has doubled over the past 15 years, according to the UN, while the number of times an item is worn has decreased by more than a third.
"Most of society are in this cycle of buying more for less," says Michael Lee, a professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland.
He studies what makes people buy - or opt out of buying - consumer goods.
The fashion industry is a microcosm of global capitalism, he says.
The drive to increase profits involves increasing production, which requires more consumption.
"And then it's this vicious upward cycle of mass consumerism," he says. "Fast fashion is probably the most tangible form of this."
Sidestep fast fashion - but beware of greenwashing
When it comes to individual choices, you've almost certainly heard the advice before: buy quality clothing, buy it second hand, and look out for opportunities to repair or recycle it.
But there are some greenwashing traps to look out for, says Lee.
Recent research by Lee and his PhD student-turned-colleague Claire Beach finds that a fashion brand's takeback system or recycling scheme doesn't make it sustainable.
"There is this signalling of less consumption by some businesses, but it's only really 'less-ish' because it will be tactics like, 'Bring your old clothes back and we will recycle them - oh, by the way, here's a voucher for your trouble'.
"And the voucher is literally encouraging you to buy something right there and then - at a discount."
This means companies can look as though they're part of a circular economy, or helping to mitigate waste.
"But it's still part of the system that is designed to increase growth and profitability."
Even if buying second hand, reducing consumption overall is the key to making a difference, says Lee.
The supply of second-hand clothes still depends on a wasteful main production system.
"It's maybe one step removed in that you're not buying it direct from the manufacturer, but it still relies on the manufacturing process in the first place.
"A lot of the 'vintage' stuff now is also stuff that isn't actually that old, right?
"It's maybe five years old, so it's almost like there are elements of fast fashion that are creeping into vintage."
Avoid brands ignoring their own sustainability targets
Environmentally minded shoppers usually choose to support brands that talk about sustainability targets over one that doesn't.
However, just because a company has published sustainability goals doesn't mean that it's actually moving towards them.
McKinsey's State of Fashion 2025 report points out that more than 60 percent of fashion brands are behind on their sustainability targets.
Some fashion brands aren't only behind on their goals - they're actively travelling in the opposite direction from them.
Emissions increased at 40 percent of fashion brands after they published their sustainability targets, according to the McKinsey report, while others dropped their net-zero commitments entirely - after announcing them.
McKinsey's analysis suggests that this is a matter of choice on the part of brands, not cost: it found that most brands could reduce their emissions substantially - up to 60 percent - for a fraction of their revenues.
Support low-production, low-growth, high-quality brands
The market is stacked against companies that want to downshift or take on a 'sufficiency' model where they believe 'enough is enough', says Lee.
"As admirable as that is, it does open up this long-term risk.
"While you're doing things from a minimalist and sufficiency perspective, all the other companies around you are growing, and the more they grow, the more profitable they are, the more likely they can either outcompete you or just buy you and absorb you into this big machine."
It makes it very difficult to find these brands in the market.
"It's almost like you're an endangered species and all the other animals are growing and breeding and getting bigger and bigger, and you just kind of get yourself backed into a little corner and you become harder to find, and people start to not even consider you because it's so difficult to find you."
Companies focused on quality and longevity still exist - it's just harder than ever to find them, and their garments are expensive to shoppers conditioned by fast-fashion prices.
In addition, these brands face increasing shopper scepticism given that elsewhere in the market, high prices are no longer the sign of high quality.
Disincentivise consumption by making disposal more expensive
In 2025, Chris Schulz reported for Consumer magazine that fast fashion "is clogging up landfill in record amounts" and cited one estimate that 350kg of textile waste is being sent to landfill every minute in New Zealand. That includes home furnishings and offcuts from manufacturing as well as tonnes of discarded and damaged clothing.
Because clothing is so cheap to consume, the only way to economically disincentivise consumption might be to increase the cost of a maximalist way of life, says Lee.
What if it were more expensive to dispose of unwanted garments?
If individuals had to pay the costs of throwing away clothing that's out of style, broken, or worn out - would that change consumption patterns?
"Maybe that's what we need in order to be able to slow down consumption," says Lee.
Adopt the idea of sufficiency - that enough is enough
Alternatively, shoppers could adopt a concept that researchers call 'sufficiency'.
It's the idea that beyond a certain level, increased consumption doesn't improve people's lives - so we should aim to consume close to that level.
However, this requires adopting a different mindset to the one broadcast through popular culture and advertising.
"People typically see anti-consumption or voluntary simplification as some sort of sacrifice, right? Like they're missing out on something," says Lee.
"Certainly, a lot of the marketing system, especially around fast fashion, is like, 'Oh you will miss out if you don't partake, don't be the one that's left out'.
"There's a lot of urgency and social comparison played upon."
There isn't a countercultural movement around this yet, says Lee.
"We haven't quite reached this tipping point where sufficiency has become mainstream behaviour."
But the concept of sufficiency can be applied to other forms of consumption, too.
"It's not just fast fashion but fast tech - changing devices every couple of years, appliances being harder to repair - that disposable consumption cycle."
Ultimately, it requires government regulation and global action
"Fashion is one of the least-regulated global businesses," writes US investigative journalist Dana Thomas.
"Unlike the automobile, aviation or agricultural industries, fashion has remarkably few requirements to track, disclose or limit its environmental impact."
Thomas says one solution is for governments to require all fashion brands to disclose publicly how much they produce, then penalise them for what they fail to sell.
Around the world, some governments are attempting to combat the impact of ultra-fast-fashion companies.
In September, France imposed tariffs on a suite of fashion brands including Shein, Temu and AliExpress.
If more countries did the same, that would be a good start. In the meantime, says Lee, consumers everywhere need to understand the part they play in the machine of fast fashion and demand meaningful change.
Overproduction is "the obvious place to start", writes Thomas.
It isn't "an accident or an occasional forecasting error"; it's the actual business model.
"We need to know how much the industry is producing, and at what cost to the environment. Consumers should be able to buy clothes without contributing to the reckless degradation of the planet."
* The world is facing unprecedented environmental challenges. Planetary Solutions, an initiative of the Sustainability Hub at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, and Newsroom, explores these issues - and the practical ways we can all be part of the solution.
This story was first published in Planetary Solutions on Newsroom on 28 October 2026.
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Fashion slop is degrading the planet
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The 'enshittification' of clothing poses a global challenge - because what we dress ourselves in has an unexpectedly big climate impact.
By Rebekah White
It's not just your imagination: the average item of clothing today is worse quality than ever before.
Made to be worn less and replaced more often, these garments are fuelling an accelerating cycle of overconsumption that is driving the fashion industry's environmental impact to record levels.
More garments ... Show Full Article AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Nov. 11 -- The University of Auckland issued the following news: * * * Fashion slop is degrading the planet * The 'enshittification' of clothing poses a global challenge - because what we dress ourselves in has an unexpectedly big climate impact. By Rebekah White It's not just your imagination: the average item of clothing today is worse quality than ever before. Made to be worn less and replaced more often, these garments are fuelling an accelerating cycle of overconsumption that is driving the fashion industry's environmental impact to record levels. More garmentsare being manufactured today than at any previous point in history.
Over the past two years alone, the fashion industry's emissions increased by 14 per cent, according to Bloomberg.
Part of that is due to increased production of polyester, a fabric derived from fossil fuels.
It's not a blip. Global clothing production has doubled over the past 15 years, according to the UN, while the number of times an item is worn has decreased by more than a third.
"Most of society are in this cycle of buying more for less," says Michael Lee, a professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland.
He studies what makes people buy - or opt out of buying - consumer goods.
The fashion industry is a microcosm of global capitalism, he says.
The drive to increase profits involves increasing production, which requires more consumption.
"And then it's this vicious upward cycle of mass consumerism," he says. "Fast fashion is probably the most tangible form of this."
Sidestep fast fashion - but beware of greenwashing
When it comes to individual choices, you've almost certainly heard the advice before: buy quality clothing, buy it second hand, and look out for opportunities to repair or recycle it.
But there are some greenwashing traps to look out for, says Lee.
Recent research by Lee and his PhD student-turned-colleague Claire Beach finds that a fashion brand's takeback system or recycling scheme doesn't make it sustainable.
"There is this signalling of less consumption by some businesses, but it's only really 'less-ish' because it will be tactics like, 'Bring your old clothes back and we will recycle them - oh, by the way, here's a voucher for your trouble'.
"And the voucher is literally encouraging you to buy something right there and then - at a discount."
This means companies can look as though they're part of a circular economy, or helping to mitigate waste.
"But it's still part of the system that is designed to increase growth and profitability."
Even if buying second hand, reducing consumption overall is the key to making a difference, says Lee.
The supply of second-hand clothes still depends on a wasteful main production system.
"It's maybe one step removed in that you're not buying it direct from the manufacturer, but it still relies on the manufacturing process in the first place.
"A lot of the 'vintage' stuff now is also stuff that isn't actually that old, right?
"It's maybe five years old, so it's almost like there are elements of fast fashion that are creeping into vintage."
Avoid brands ignoring their own sustainability targets
Environmentally minded shoppers usually choose to support brands that talk about sustainability targets over one that doesn't.
However, just because a company has published sustainability goals doesn't mean that it's actually moving towards them.
McKinsey's State of Fashion 2025 report points out that more than 60 percent of fashion brands are behind on their sustainability targets.
Some fashion brands aren't only behind on their goals - they're actively travelling in the opposite direction from them.
Emissions increased at 40 percent of fashion brands after they published their sustainability targets, according to the McKinsey report, while others dropped their net-zero commitments entirely - after announcing them.
McKinsey's analysis suggests that this is a matter of choice on the part of brands, not cost: it found that most brands could reduce their emissions substantially - up to 60 percent - for a fraction of their revenues.
Support low-production, low-growth, high-quality brands
The market is stacked against companies that want to downshift or take on a 'sufficiency' model where they believe 'enough is enough', says Lee.
"As admirable as that is, it does open up this long-term risk.
"While you're doing things from a minimalist and sufficiency perspective, all the other companies around you are growing, and the more they grow, the more profitable they are, the more likely they can either outcompete you or just buy you and absorb you into this big machine."
It makes it very difficult to find these brands in the market.
"It's almost like you're an endangered species and all the other animals are growing and breeding and getting bigger and bigger, and you just kind of get yourself backed into a little corner and you become harder to find, and people start to not even consider you because it's so difficult to find you."
Companies focused on quality and longevity still exist - it's just harder than ever to find them, and their garments are expensive to shoppers conditioned by fast-fashion prices.
In addition, these brands face increasing shopper scepticism given that elsewhere in the market, high prices are no longer the sign of high quality.
Disincentivise consumption by making disposal more expensive
In 2025, Chris Schulz reported for Consumer magazine that fast fashion "is clogging up landfill in record amounts" and cited one estimate that 350kg of textile waste is being sent to landfill every minute in New Zealand. That includes home furnishings and offcuts from manufacturing as well as tonnes of discarded and damaged clothing.
Because clothing is so cheap to consume, the only way to economically disincentivise consumption might be to increase the cost of a maximalist way of life, says Lee.
What if it were more expensive to dispose of unwanted garments?
If individuals had to pay the costs of throwing away clothing that's out of style, broken, or worn out - would that change consumption patterns?
"Maybe that's what we need in order to be able to slow down consumption," says Lee.
Adopt the idea of sufficiency - that enough is enough
Alternatively, shoppers could adopt a concept that researchers call 'sufficiency'.
It's the idea that beyond a certain level, increased consumption doesn't improve people's lives - so we should aim to consume close to that level.
However, this requires adopting a different mindset to the one broadcast through popular culture and advertising.
"People typically see anti-consumption or voluntary simplification as some sort of sacrifice, right? Like they're missing out on something," says Lee.
"Certainly, a lot of the marketing system, especially around fast fashion, is like, 'Oh you will miss out if you don't partake, don't be the one that's left out'.
"There's a lot of urgency and social comparison played upon."
There isn't a countercultural movement around this yet, says Lee.
"We haven't quite reached this tipping point where sufficiency has become mainstream behaviour."
But the concept of sufficiency can be applied to other forms of consumption, too.
"It's not just fast fashion but fast tech - changing devices every couple of years, appliances being harder to repair - that disposable consumption cycle."
Ultimately, it requires government regulation and global action
"Fashion is one of the least-regulated global businesses," writes US investigative journalist Dana Thomas.
"Unlike the automobile, aviation or agricultural industries, fashion has remarkably few requirements to track, disclose or limit its environmental impact."
Thomas says one solution is for governments to require all fashion brands to disclose publicly how much they produce, then penalise them for what they fail to sell.
Around the world, some governments are attempting to combat the impact of ultra-fast-fashion companies.
In September, France imposed tariffs on a suite of fashion brands including Shein, Temu and AliExpress.
If more countries did the same, that would be a good start. In the meantime, says Lee, consumers everywhere need to understand the part they play in the machine of fast fashion and demand meaningful change.
Overproduction is "the obvious place to start", writes Thomas.
It isn't "an accident or an occasional forecasting error"; it's the actual business model.
"We need to know how much the industry is producing, and at what cost to the environment. Consumers should be able to buy clothes without contributing to the reckless degradation of the planet."
* The world is facing unprecedented environmental challenges. Planetary Solutions, an initiative of the Sustainability Hub at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, and Newsroom, explores these issues - and the practical ways we can all be part of the solution.
This story was first published in Planetary Solutions on Newsroom on 28 October 2026.
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Original text here: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026/11/11/fast-fashion-degrades-planet-rebekah-white-planetary-solutions.html (TNSmrp)
Fall Library Display Put Swanson School Student Researchers in the Spotlight, and the Library Hopes to Feature More
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 11 -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering posted the following news:
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November 10, 2026
This Could Be YOU Too
A fall library display put Swanson School student researchers in the spotlight, and the library hopes to feature more
Pittsburgh, PA
This fall semester, the University of Pittsburgh's George M. Bevier Science & Engineering Library gave students a simple way to see what research looks like, and to picture themselves doing it. On the ground floor of Benedum Hall, near the circulation desk, Head Librarian Carrie Iwema curated ... Show Full Article PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 11 -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering posted the following news: * * * November 10, 2026 This Could Be YOU Too A fall library display put Swanson School student researchers in the spotlight, and the library hopes to feature more Pittsburgh, PA This fall semester, the University of Pittsburgh's George M. Bevier Science & Engineering Library gave students a simple way to see what research looks like, and to picture themselves doing it. On the ground floor of Benedum Hall, near the circulation desk, Head Librarian Carrie Iwema curateda shelf display called "This could be YOU too!" Meant to inspire Swanson School of Engineering students interested in research, the display highlighted the work of graduate and undergraduate students and the academic papers they helped author.
"I'm so impressed with the research our students conduct and the journal articles they help write," said Iwema. "But for many, research is still a mystery, and I wanted to create a quick and encouraging answer to the question that new graduate students and curious undergraduates wonder: what does it look like?"
The display featured twelve cards, two for each of the Swanson School's six departments. Each card was color-coded by department and paired a photo of the student with a short, plain-language introduction that translated the research into something anyone browsing the shelves could picture: a battery researcher who landed on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, a PhD candidate who built the first discrete-event simulation of Kenya's entire blood supply chain, and research that overturned three decades of thinking about how the bladder fills.
The research on display ranged from startup spinoffs and international public health collaborations to quantum computing, tribology (the science of friction and wear), and power electronics. The students, some now alumni, included Henry Ing (BS BioE '22, MS '24), Jordyn Ting, Andrew Ashmar (BS ChemE '22), Becca Segal (ChemE PhD '25), Ahteshamul Haq, Nathalia Silva de Souza Lima Cano, Yue Tang, Sabrina Helbig, Yiqi Tian, Yuxin Liu, Fatemeh Azari, and Hirad Alipanah.
"All these researchers were once new graduate students themselves - except for one undergraduate!" Iwema said. "They all had to find their way into a lab and a research question for the first time. It's important to highlight the result of that."
That is the idea at the heart of the display: a reminder that every researcher starts somewhere. Iwema hoped that students walking past would spot a familiar department, a recognizable face, or an interesting project and think, "that could be me."
While the display was originally intended as a one-time exhibit and has since come down, the library is always looking for ways to support Swanson School graduate students and would love to hear about their work for a future display. Students and advisers interested in sharing research can contact Carrie Iwema.
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Original text here: https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/news/2026/this-could-be-you-too/
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November 10, 2026
This Could Be YOU Too
A fall library display put Swanson School student researchers in the spotlight, and the library hopes to feature more
Pittsburgh, PA
This fall semester, the University of Pittsburgh's George M. Bevier Science & Engineering Library gave students a simple way to see what research looks like, and to picture themselves doing it. On the ground floor of Benedum Hall, near the circulation desk, Head Librarian Carrie Iwema curated ... Show Full Article PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 11 -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering posted the following news: * * * November 10, 2026 This Could Be YOU Too A fall library display put Swanson School student researchers in the spotlight, and the library hopes to feature more Pittsburgh, PA This fall semester, the University of Pittsburgh's George M. Bevier Science & Engineering Library gave students a simple way to see what research looks like, and to picture themselves doing it. On the ground floor of Benedum Hall, near the circulation desk, Head Librarian Carrie Iwema curateda shelf display called "This could be YOU too!" Meant to inspire Swanson School of Engineering students interested in research, the display highlighted the work of graduate and undergraduate students and the academic papers they helped author.
"I'm so impressed with the research our students conduct and the journal articles they help write," said Iwema. "But for many, research is still a mystery, and I wanted to create a quick and encouraging answer to the question that new graduate students and curious undergraduates wonder: what does it look like?"
The display featured twelve cards, two for each of the Swanson School's six departments. Each card was color-coded by department and paired a photo of the student with a short, plain-language introduction that translated the research into something anyone browsing the shelves could picture: a battery researcher who landed on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, a PhD candidate who built the first discrete-event simulation of Kenya's entire blood supply chain, and research that overturned three decades of thinking about how the bladder fills.
The research on display ranged from startup spinoffs and international public health collaborations to quantum computing, tribology (the science of friction and wear), and power electronics. The students, some now alumni, included Henry Ing (BS BioE '22, MS '24), Jordyn Ting, Andrew Ashmar (BS ChemE '22), Becca Segal (ChemE PhD '25), Ahteshamul Haq, Nathalia Silva de Souza Lima Cano, Yue Tang, Sabrina Helbig, Yiqi Tian, Yuxin Liu, Fatemeh Azari, and Hirad Alipanah.
"All these researchers were once new graduate students themselves - except for one undergraduate!" Iwema said. "They all had to find their way into a lab and a research question for the first time. It's important to highlight the result of that."
That is the idea at the heart of the display: a reminder that every researcher starts somewhere. Iwema hoped that students walking past would spot a familiar department, a recognizable face, or an interesting project and think, "that could be me."
While the display was originally intended as a one-time exhibit and has since come down, the library is always looking for ways to support Swanson School graduate students and would love to hear about their work for a future display. Students and advisers interested in sharing research can contact Carrie Iwema.
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Original text here: https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/news/2026/this-could-be-you-too/
Exploring the Mind's Mysteries: 130 Years of Mental Health Care & Innovation at U-M
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 11 -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release:
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Exploring the mind's mysteries: 130 years of mental health care & innovation at U-M
A look back as part of Michigan Medicine's 150th anniversary
November 9, 2026
When it opened in 1906 on Catherine Street near the University of Michigan's main hospitals, the stately brick State Psychopathic Hospital meant something new in the world of mental health.
Funded by the state, and staffed by university faculty and staff, it was a psychiatric teaching ... Show Full Article ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 11 -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * Exploring the mind's mysteries: 130 years of mental health care & innovation at U-M A look back as part of Michigan Medicine's 150th anniversary November 9, 2026 When it opened in 1906 on Catherine Street near the University of Michigan's main hospitals, the stately brick State Psychopathic Hospital meant something new in the world of mental health. Funded by the state, and staffed by university faculty and staff, it was a psychiatric teachinghospital - a place where people with serious mental health conditions could get a definitive diagnosis and start treatment, while U-M medical students learned about, and faculty physicians studied, their conditions.
The 41-bed SPH admitted patients who could pay for their own mental health treatment, as well as those ordered into care by the justice system.
Rather than a long-term warehouse, as so many asylums of the day were, it represented a new era in mental health care, research and training. It even had a laboratory where brain samples from patients across the state could be probed, to look for clues about what caused mental illness and neurological disease.
Fast forward to today, and Michigan Medicine's mental health care teams, researchers and educators are still focused on that goal. As part of the ongoing effort to explore the history of U-M's academic medical center, here are some highlights from that history:
The originators of U-M mental health care and research
The roots of mental health training and care at U-M actually date back to 1890, when William James Herdman, M.D., became the first Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, and of Electrotherapeutics.
He formed ties between U-M and the state's asylums, including opportunities for medical students to travel to some of them to learn about mental illness and its care. Meanwhile, the Homeopathic Medical School that U-M ran at the time hired its first faculty focused on mental illness in the 1890s. (The school and its hospital closed in the 1920s.)
By the late 1890s, after working with the directors of asylums across the state to understand their needs, Herdman convinced the University's Regents to approve the plan for partnering with the state on the new hospital.
In the allopathic, or main, Medical School, the two disciplines we now call Neurology and Psychiatry were intertwined for decades. Asylums and the state hospital at U-M treated people with what we now think of as mental illness, such as schizophrenia, as well as those with neurological conditions such as epilepsy. But as understanding grew about the conditions they encompassed, the disciplines grew further apart, splitting in 1920.
Albert Barrett, M.D., who had come to Michigan to lead the SPH's pathology programs, succeeded Herdman in 1907, and led the further development of programs and research until 1936.
He and others had innovative beliefs about the treatability of mental illness, and the importance of training specialized medical staff to care for patients as well as trying to keep patients in hospitals and asylums for short periods and allowing those with less-severe illness to receive care closer to home.
The next generation
By the 1930s, the SPH was crumbling, and the new department chair, Raymond Waggoner, M.D., led the effort to build a new facility attached to the rear of the main University Hospital that had opened in 1925. Opened in October 1939, it was called the Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Still state-funded, and university-run, the NPI more than doubled U-M's inpatient psychiatric capacity to 85 beds. It had a dedicated area for adolescent patients as well as spaces for physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, exercise, occupational therapy and a lecture hall that doubled as a theater and a new neuropathological laboratory for studies of the brain.
After World War II, the state funded a Veterans Readjustment Center on the northern edge of the medical campus, where veterans could receive psychiatric observation and care from U-M teams while enjoying recreational facilities. A new outpatient psychiatric clinic opened in what we now call the Med Inn building.
Psychiatric care at U-M in the middle of the 20th century focused on psychoanalysis, a field rooted in the teachings of Sigmund Freud. Practitioners believed that unconscious conflicts caused mental illness, and that intensive long-term care in sessions talking with psychiatrists could help. U-M became a training ground for new practitioners of the American form of this approach, though more biologically based treatments also were used in combination and studied in research.
Mid-century modernization
As U-M began to develop plans to expand treatment capacity for children with all types of illnesses, mental health got the first dedicated building, in 1955. Waggoner used his political savvy and connections to promote state funding to support a new facility just for the treatment of children with emotional and psychological conditions.
The Children's Psychiatric Hospital, which was meant to be joined later by a comprehensive children's hospital that never materialized, stood where the Rogel Cancer Center and its parking structure stand today.
With 75 beds and facilities for schooling, recreation and treatment, it sought to help children with all aspects of life, and many stayed for months or years. Teachers and mental health specialists partnered for an innovative approach, and also conducted research on its effects.
In 2025, psychiatrist and medical historian Laura Hirshbein, M.D., Ph.D., gave a Making Michigan talk about the history of this hospital through the Bentley Historical Library. Hirshbein is the History of Medicine and Public Health Director at the U-M Medical School's Center for History, Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Ethics in Medicine, and is the George E Wantz M.D. Distinguished Professor of History of Medicine.
Meanwhile, the effort to bring modern scientific tools to bear in understanding mental illness also launched in 1955, with the formation of the Mental Health Research Institute or MHRI.
Its building, which stood at the corner of Zina Pitcher Place and Catherine St. until 2024, opened in 1960 as a home for research on the genetic, molecular, systemic and societal roots of depression, addiction and more.
U-M psychiatrists also helped lead the way on better classifying mental illnesses and tracking their incidence and course using statistical methods.
A changing focus
As the field of psychiatry shifted away from psychoanalysis, and toward more biologically based treatments such as new pharmaceuticals, and the state ended its support for U-M's programs, care and education changed markedly beginning in the 1970s.
Inpatient units in the new University Hospital built in 1986, and the expansion wing of children's and women's facility in 1990, provided for more short-term hospital care for adults and young people in the aftermath of psychiatric crises.
Partnerships with Washtenaw County to create a 24-hour psychiatric emergency service, and with the VA Ann Arbor hospital to provide inpatient care for veterans with mental health needs, arose.
Training of medical students, nursing students and social work students in mental health care grew. But now, it wasn't just for those who would devote their careers to mental health, but also those who would become more general practitioners in a time when many people with mental health concerns receive their care from a primary care practitioner.
The 21st Century
In October 2006, another path-breaking mental health building opened, a few miles away from the one that had opened a century before.
The Rachel Upjohn Building on the East Medical Campus provided a home for the world's first comprehensive Depression Center, which was founded in 2001 in an effort led by John Greden, M.D., who chaired Psychiatry from 1985 to 2007.
The new building also greatly enlarged U-M's space for all types of outpatient psychiatric care and innovative research on everything from psychosis to addiction. Renovations to the adult inpatient unit in University Hospital, and a child and adolescent inpatient unit in the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital that opened, improved the environment of care. In 2025, a day treatment program for adolescents opened in the new Ypsilanti Health Center.
And in August 2026, University of Michigan Health-Sparrow broke ground for a freestanding behavioral health facility in Lansing that will serve all ages with a wide range of mental health care, including giving mid-Michigan its first inpatient psychiatric beds for children and adolescents.
Researchers from across U-M's three campuses who do data-driven research on mental health care and substance use disorders, and the policies that govern their delivery, make up a sizable portion of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation that launched in 2011.
Some of those researchers hold joint positions at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, and perform data-driven research to improve veterans' mental health care through the VA Center for Clinical Management Research and the Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center.
In 2019, the institute once known as MHRI (and for a time the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute) took on a new, university-wide scope, as the Michigan Neuroscience Institute. MNI seeks to connect neuroscientists who perform research and train rising brain scientists in seven U-M schools and colleges and 15 institutes and centers.
Today, people with mental illness who might once have lived out their lives in an asylum can instead live independently with help from modern therapy and trained specialists, informed and transformed by the research of decades past. Society's stigma against people with mental health conditions has eased, but not vanished.
But the national shortage of mental health professionals, differences in insurance coverage and health policy for mental and physical health care, and the enduring mysteries of what causes mental illness and what can help those with them, persist.
Sources:
U-M Encyclopedic Survey: 1942 and 1975 (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.13950886.0003.079)
Historical Map of Michigan Medicine (https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=19vA61jZ2cDcSBK1H31YN8DH52kg5450&usp=sharing)
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Original text here: https://www.uofmhealth.org/news-release/exploring-minds-mysteries-130-years-mental-health-care-innovation-u-m
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Exploring the mind's mysteries: 130 years of mental health care & innovation at U-M
A look back as part of Michigan Medicine's 150th anniversary
November 9, 2026
When it opened in 1906 on Catherine Street near the University of Michigan's main hospitals, the stately brick State Psychopathic Hospital meant something new in the world of mental health.
Funded by the state, and staffed by university faculty and staff, it was a psychiatric teaching ... Show Full Article ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 11 -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * Exploring the mind's mysteries: 130 years of mental health care & innovation at U-M A look back as part of Michigan Medicine's 150th anniversary November 9, 2026 When it opened in 1906 on Catherine Street near the University of Michigan's main hospitals, the stately brick State Psychopathic Hospital meant something new in the world of mental health. Funded by the state, and staffed by university faculty and staff, it was a psychiatric teachinghospital - a place where people with serious mental health conditions could get a definitive diagnosis and start treatment, while U-M medical students learned about, and faculty physicians studied, their conditions.
The 41-bed SPH admitted patients who could pay for their own mental health treatment, as well as those ordered into care by the justice system.
Rather than a long-term warehouse, as so many asylums of the day were, it represented a new era in mental health care, research and training. It even had a laboratory where brain samples from patients across the state could be probed, to look for clues about what caused mental illness and neurological disease.
Fast forward to today, and Michigan Medicine's mental health care teams, researchers and educators are still focused on that goal. As part of the ongoing effort to explore the history of U-M's academic medical center, here are some highlights from that history:
The originators of U-M mental health care and research
The roots of mental health training and care at U-M actually date back to 1890, when William James Herdman, M.D., became the first Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, and of Electrotherapeutics.
He formed ties between U-M and the state's asylums, including opportunities for medical students to travel to some of them to learn about mental illness and its care. Meanwhile, the Homeopathic Medical School that U-M ran at the time hired its first faculty focused on mental illness in the 1890s. (The school and its hospital closed in the 1920s.)
By the late 1890s, after working with the directors of asylums across the state to understand their needs, Herdman convinced the University's Regents to approve the plan for partnering with the state on the new hospital.
In the allopathic, or main, Medical School, the two disciplines we now call Neurology and Psychiatry were intertwined for decades. Asylums and the state hospital at U-M treated people with what we now think of as mental illness, such as schizophrenia, as well as those with neurological conditions such as epilepsy. But as understanding grew about the conditions they encompassed, the disciplines grew further apart, splitting in 1920.
Albert Barrett, M.D., who had come to Michigan to lead the SPH's pathology programs, succeeded Herdman in 1907, and led the further development of programs and research until 1936.
He and others had innovative beliefs about the treatability of mental illness, and the importance of training specialized medical staff to care for patients as well as trying to keep patients in hospitals and asylums for short periods and allowing those with less-severe illness to receive care closer to home.
The next generation
By the 1930s, the SPH was crumbling, and the new department chair, Raymond Waggoner, M.D., led the effort to build a new facility attached to the rear of the main University Hospital that had opened in 1925. Opened in October 1939, it was called the Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Still state-funded, and university-run, the NPI more than doubled U-M's inpatient psychiatric capacity to 85 beds. It had a dedicated area for adolescent patients as well as spaces for physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, exercise, occupational therapy and a lecture hall that doubled as a theater and a new neuropathological laboratory for studies of the brain.
After World War II, the state funded a Veterans Readjustment Center on the northern edge of the medical campus, where veterans could receive psychiatric observation and care from U-M teams while enjoying recreational facilities. A new outpatient psychiatric clinic opened in what we now call the Med Inn building.
Psychiatric care at U-M in the middle of the 20th century focused on psychoanalysis, a field rooted in the teachings of Sigmund Freud. Practitioners believed that unconscious conflicts caused mental illness, and that intensive long-term care in sessions talking with psychiatrists could help. U-M became a training ground for new practitioners of the American form of this approach, though more biologically based treatments also were used in combination and studied in research.
Mid-century modernization
As U-M began to develop plans to expand treatment capacity for children with all types of illnesses, mental health got the first dedicated building, in 1955. Waggoner used his political savvy and connections to promote state funding to support a new facility just for the treatment of children with emotional and psychological conditions.
The Children's Psychiatric Hospital, which was meant to be joined later by a comprehensive children's hospital that never materialized, stood where the Rogel Cancer Center and its parking structure stand today.
With 75 beds and facilities for schooling, recreation and treatment, it sought to help children with all aspects of life, and many stayed for months or years. Teachers and mental health specialists partnered for an innovative approach, and also conducted research on its effects.
In 2025, psychiatrist and medical historian Laura Hirshbein, M.D., Ph.D., gave a Making Michigan talk about the history of this hospital through the Bentley Historical Library. Hirshbein is the History of Medicine and Public Health Director at the U-M Medical School's Center for History, Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Ethics in Medicine, and is the George E Wantz M.D. Distinguished Professor of History of Medicine.
Meanwhile, the effort to bring modern scientific tools to bear in understanding mental illness also launched in 1955, with the formation of the Mental Health Research Institute or MHRI.
Its building, which stood at the corner of Zina Pitcher Place and Catherine St. until 2024, opened in 1960 as a home for research on the genetic, molecular, systemic and societal roots of depression, addiction and more.
U-M psychiatrists also helped lead the way on better classifying mental illnesses and tracking their incidence and course using statistical methods.
A changing focus
As the field of psychiatry shifted away from psychoanalysis, and toward more biologically based treatments such as new pharmaceuticals, and the state ended its support for U-M's programs, care and education changed markedly beginning in the 1970s.
Inpatient units in the new University Hospital built in 1986, and the expansion wing of children's and women's facility in 1990, provided for more short-term hospital care for adults and young people in the aftermath of psychiatric crises.
Partnerships with Washtenaw County to create a 24-hour psychiatric emergency service, and with the VA Ann Arbor hospital to provide inpatient care for veterans with mental health needs, arose.
Training of medical students, nursing students and social work students in mental health care grew. But now, it wasn't just for those who would devote their careers to mental health, but also those who would become more general practitioners in a time when many people with mental health concerns receive their care from a primary care practitioner.
The 21st Century
In October 2006, another path-breaking mental health building opened, a few miles away from the one that had opened a century before.
The Rachel Upjohn Building on the East Medical Campus provided a home for the world's first comprehensive Depression Center, which was founded in 2001 in an effort led by John Greden, M.D., who chaired Psychiatry from 1985 to 2007.
The new building also greatly enlarged U-M's space for all types of outpatient psychiatric care and innovative research on everything from psychosis to addiction. Renovations to the adult inpatient unit in University Hospital, and a child and adolescent inpatient unit in the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital that opened, improved the environment of care. In 2025, a day treatment program for adolescents opened in the new Ypsilanti Health Center.
And in August 2026, University of Michigan Health-Sparrow broke ground for a freestanding behavioral health facility in Lansing that will serve all ages with a wide range of mental health care, including giving mid-Michigan its first inpatient psychiatric beds for children and adolescents.
Researchers from across U-M's three campuses who do data-driven research on mental health care and substance use disorders, and the policies that govern their delivery, make up a sizable portion of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation that launched in 2011.
Some of those researchers hold joint positions at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, and perform data-driven research to improve veterans' mental health care through the VA Center for Clinical Management Research and the Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center.
In 2019, the institute once known as MHRI (and for a time the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute) took on a new, university-wide scope, as the Michigan Neuroscience Institute. MNI seeks to connect neuroscientists who perform research and train rising brain scientists in seven U-M schools and colleges and 15 institutes and centers.
Today, people with mental illness who might once have lived out their lives in an asylum can instead live independently with help from modern therapy and trained specialists, informed and transformed by the research of decades past. Society's stigma against people with mental health conditions has eased, but not vanished.
But the national shortage of mental health professionals, differences in insurance coverage and health policy for mental and physical health care, and the enduring mysteries of what causes mental illness and what can help those with them, persist.
Sources:
U-M Encyclopedic Survey: 1942 and 1975 (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.13950886.0003.079)
Historical Map of Michigan Medicine (https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=19vA61jZ2cDcSBK1H31YN8DH52kg5450&usp=sharing)
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Original text here: https://www.uofmhealth.org/news-release/exploring-minds-mysteries-130-years-mental-health-care-innovation-u-m