The sun and moon will trace a path across North America on April 8, bringing a total solar eclipse to a large swath of the United States.

U-M has formed an advisory committee to recommend how the institution should put into practice a new statement of principles on diversity of thought and freedom of expression.

A $7.5 million gift to C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital will help advance technology-enabled care and provide social work services to families of children who have complex medical needs.

Staff members across U-M are encouraged to help shape the future of their workplace by applying to join Voices of the Staff. Applications are being accepted through March 31.

U-M has merged its Counseling and Psychological Services with University Health Service as a way to streamline and ease barriers to student-centered mental health care.

Paul Schaffner manages the creation of electronic texts as well as the revision and upkeep of the university’s 90-year-old Middle English Dictionary.

George Maceo Jones earned three degrees from U-M over a decade. When he received his doctorate in 1934, he became the first African American man in the country with a Ph.D. in civil engineering.

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U-M’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia has created Ukraine Testifies, an online digital archive of documented human rights violations, war crimes and atrocities in Ukraine.

The Arts Research: Incubation & Acceleration grant program and the Creativity Lab research development program have funded projects that center the arts in research and creative practice.