Nominations for the James T. Neubacher Award, named for a U-M alumnus who advocated for equal rights and opportunities for people with disabilities, are being accepted through July 31.

Eight new initiatives designed to forge connections between U-M and the Detroit community have been selected to receive more than $110,000 from the 2023 Engage Detroit Workshops grant program.

Young adults ages 19-30 nearly doubled their past-12-month use of non-LSD hallucinogens in the United States from 2018-21, according to a study by U-M and Columbia University.

A $7.5 million project led by U-M aims to understand how atom dislocations could be used as “nano-pipelines” to possibly enable faster, more efficient information processing in next-generation electronic devices.

Marjorie Weber, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been named to Science News magazine’s annual Scientists to Watch list, which annually recognizes 10 young researchers.

Supported by a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, U-M researchers will focus on how stroke affects two fundamental properties of the ankle joint during human walking.

The Faculty Senate voted last week to expand U-M’s central faculty governance system to include more than 2,800 clinical professors, archivists, curators and lecturers.

Juliya Wicklund, an America Reads program manager with the Edward Ginsberg Center, helped launch the Ukraine TrustChain, a nonprofit aimed at helping the war-torn country of Ukraine.

From the first painting of U-M’s rural campus by Jasper Cropsey in 1855 to Richard Rummell’s work in 1907 depicting a bustling landscape, U-M’s campus had become a new kind of enterprise entirely.

Ludwig Koenen, the Herbert C. Youtie Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Papyrology at U-M, died May 9.