Photo Gallery: Tracking at Palmer Commons, Sewage Surveillance, and Orion

Anthony Shourds, soil erosion and sedimentation control specialist, and Philip Szorny, environmental engineer—both with the university’s Environment, Health, and Safety Department—collect sewage samples on the University of Michigan campus to test for coronavirus.

May 10, 2021

Despite the difficult times, signs of hope have blossomed around the Michigan Public Health community. Students help lead campus sampling efforts, faculty research supports a campus coronavirus surveillance program, and the school moves up in the national rankings.

Above. Anthony Shourds, soil erosion and sedimentation control specialist, and Philip Szorny, environmental engineer—both with the university’s Environment, Health, and Safety Department—collect sewage samples from Stockwell Hall on the Ann Arbor Campus to test for coronavirus. Campus environmental health specialists have worked closely with School of Public Health researchers—including professors Chuanwu Xi, Tim Dvonch, Marisa Eisenberg, Alfred Franzblau, Rick Neitzel, and Peter Song—on the project. Photo by Eric Bronson/Michigan Photography

Caroline Merkel, bachelor’s student in public health, checks in volunteers submitting self samples at Palmer Commons, University of Michigan
Caroline Merkel, bachelor’s student in public health, checks in volunteers submitting self samples at Palmer Commons for the Campus COVID-19 Community Sampling and Tracking Program.Photo by Scott C. Soderberg/Michigan Photograph
Trees bloom on central campus outside the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with Angell Hall and Mark di Suvero’s Orion sculpture in the background.
Hope Springs. Trees begin to bloom on central campus outside the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with Angell Hall and Mark di Suvero’s 53-foot-high, solid-steel Orion (2009) sculpture in the background.
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Original Building and Crossroads
The School of Public Health has been ranked the fourth-best school of public health in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. This year’s rankings included 188 public health schools and programs.

To be ranked by our peers as one of the top schools of public health in the country reflects our commitment to a high level of research, training, and education that works to solve some of the biggest public health challenges we face today.

—Dean F. DuBois Bowman

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