Gene Mage, managing director of custom programs in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, took up bass guitar in the late 1980s and dove back into music in 2020.

No one will mistake today’s U-M for an agricultural college. But for a few years before the Civil War, leaders were determined to teach the art and science of farming.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

U-M is establishing a new Office of Postdoctoral Affairs that will serve as a hub to support more than 1,400 postdoctoral fellows who work across the university.

U-M received a $3.3 million grant to launch a comprehensive data science project that aims to inform best practices on pre- and post-surgical care procedures for patients with opioid use disorder.

Vacancies of K-12 staff are nearly double, applicants are half, and hiring is now a yearlong effort across the state of Michigan compared with before the pandemic, according to a new report.

A new $3.16 million grant awarded to U-M by the National Institutes of Health will be used to offer virtual job interview training to teenagers and young adults with autism.

Patrick M. Carter, a faculty member in the Medical School and the School of Public Health, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Chris Roberts, an adjunct professor of dentistry in the School of Dentistry, has qualified for his 25th Boston Marathon. The April 2024 race will be his 22nd consecutive Boston Marathon.

When the student-driven Solar Car Team and its car, Sunrunner, won the first Sunrayce USA in 1990, it propelled a legacy of leadership in competitive vehicles fueled by the sun.