1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. April 10, 2023

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  8. 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.

  9. 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. 

  10. 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.