The Duderstadt Center

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About

The Duderstadt Center - where ideas come to life, creative communities grow, and dreams take shape. For nearly 30 years the Center has served as a vibrant hub of creativity, innovation, and connection on North Campus.

Every gift to the Duderstadt Center invests in transformative student learning and growth. Your support fosters creativity, collaboration, and belonging across the University. Through cutting-edge technologies and unique experiences, the Center empowers the entire U-M community to explore, create, and innovate.

Join us in building inclusive programs that expand access to technology and media.

Duderstadt Center Enrichment Fund

This flexible fund is the best way to sustain and advance all areas of the Duderstadt Center, ensuring resources are allocated in response to emerging needs, opportunities, and access to state-of-the-art, innovative resources for the entire U-M community.

Duderstadt Center Video Studio

Giving to the Duderstadt Video Studio expands our capability to equip students with professional-grade tools and real-world experience. Your support builds confidence, strengthens portfolios, and prepares students to create industry-ready video content.

Duderstadt Center Audio Studio

A gift to the Duderstadt Center Audio Studios ensures students, faculty, and staff have access to free, cutting-edge tools to compose, produce, and innovate across music, podcasts, video, and immersive media.

Duderstadt Visualization Studio

Support of the Visualization Studio provides students and faculty with cutting-edge tools to visualize data, model complex systems, and communicate ideas, advancing research, learning, and real-world problem solving.

Gifts of all sizes enrich the lives of the over 250,000 annual visitors to the Duderstadt Center.

A gift of:

  • $25 can provide supplies and materials to help students transform ideas into reality
  • $100 can support a new student art show in our gallery in the Central Collaboration Area
  • $250 can supply the video studio with camera peripherals to assist student operators in project design and implementation
  • $500 can provide a portable motion capture system or a Quest 3 VR headset for the Duderstadt Center’s free lending program, allowing equitable access for class assignments and project completion

Donor Affiliations
Suitcase icon42%Faculty/Staff
Gradhat icon34%Alumni
Parent icon17%Parents
Friends icon9%Friends
Book icon9%Students
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