Xiaohong Xu, assistant professor of sociology, died Dec. 12, 2023, at Angela Hospice near his home in Ann Arbor after a long struggle with cancer. He was 45 years old.

U-M faculty members Lynn Conway and Kevin Ward have been elected to the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.

Lee Anthony Peter (Pete) Gosling died peacefully, from a recurrence of lymphoma, at his home in Ann Arbor on Dec. 13, 2023, surrounded by his immediate family.

As the U-M community enters the cold and snowy season, with its potential for severe weather, campus leaders would like to share the university’s policy for reducing operations.

ArtSpective, a new U-M startup that provides implicit bias training for health care workers, uses fine-art photographs and guided storytelling to improve patient-provider interactions.

The percentage of teenagers reporting they used any illicit substances in 2023 held steady below the pre-pandemic levels reported in 2020, according to the Monitoring the Future survey.

Living through a historic pandemic while handling the stress of the first year of college sent one-third of students in a new U-M study into clinical depression.

A $3 million gift, given by the Patricia W. Mitchell Trust, will establish the John H. Mitchell Professorship in Entertainment in LSA’s Department of Film, Television, and Media.

Providing students with direct research experience, creative problem-solving skills and a vision of community engagement are the leading purposes of a new U-M bachelor’s degree.

Satellite and spacecraft operators may finally be able to detect small pieces of debris orbiting Earth using an approach proposed by U-M researchers.