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April 12, 2023
Abandoned bicycles to be removed from campus
Grounds Services staff members have begun placing brightly colored tags on bikes found around campus that have bent rims, rusted or broken chains, or other signs of abandonment.
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April 11, 2023
Upgraded school buses linked to increased student attendance
Replacing all of the oldest school buses in the nation could lead to 1.3 million fewer daily absences annually, according to a study by School of Public Health researchers.
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April 11, 2023
SACUA elects Tom Braun chair, Damani Partridge vice chair
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs has elected Tom Braun of the School of Public Health as chair and Damani Partridge of LSA as vice chair for the upcoming school year.
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April 11, 2023
Arts Initiative, SMTD expanding student arts opportunities
A collaboration between the Arts Initiative and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance is expanding opportunities for students who want to learn to play the guitar.
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April 10, 2023
Lecturer’s dog uses buttons to help it communicate
Sascha Crasnow, lecturer in Islamic arts and culture in the Residential College in LSA, has helped teach her 2-year-old beagle-mix, Parker, to “speak” through the use of nearly 100 buttons in her home.
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April 10, 2023
Heritage Project — Such horrible business
Early one morning just before Christmas 1857, men arriving for work on the construction of a church found heaps of fresh earth next to empty graves in a little graveyard.
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April 10, 2023
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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April 7, 2023
Two from U-M receive Guggenheim Fellowships
LSA faculty members Monica Dus and Petra Kuppers are among recipients awarded 2023 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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April 7, 2023
U-M sees steady increase in first-year, transfer applicants
The university saw 87,766 prospective first-year students and nearly 6,000 transfer students looking to enroll for the fall 2023 term. That’s an increase of 4% and 8%, respectively, from last year.
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April 7, 2023
UMS teams with Ypsilanti in arts partnership at Freighthouse
The University Musical Society and city of Ypsilanti have announced a new, two-year partnership that will result in arts programming for Ypsilanti residents, families and schoolchildren.
