For years, U-M pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin studied the lives — and deaths from cancer — of an extended Ann Arbor family.

Marvin G. Parnes, who served a variety of administrative roles at U-M, died March 13 at age 74 after a prolonged illness.

Bunyan Isaiah Bryant Jr., professor emeritus of natural resources and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus, died peacefully at home March 28 after a short battle with cancer.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

UM-Dearborn and UM-Flint celebrated their most recent graduates with Spring Commencement ceremonies over the weekend, awarding degrees to more than two thousand graduates combined.

The Office of the Vice President for Research will recognize 15 staff members from across U-M for their outstanding service and leadership in advancing research, scholarship and creative practice.

Faculty members James Joyce, Webb Keane, Alexandra Killewald and John Vandermeer have been selected to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their contributions in scholarly and professional fields.

The American Heart Association has awarded $15 million to scientists at U-M and two other universities to study inflammation’s role in cardiac and brain dysfunction.

Trisha Miller, student services coordinator at the Marsal Family School of Education, has been a member of the Out Loud Chorus for nearly 20 years.

In mid-May of 1892, hundreds of students from universities around the country gathered on the U-M campus. When they departed it was as the newly christened American Republican College League, a national group that continues today as the College Republicans.