In 1965, only a handful of students were radical in their politics. But the faculty included a scattering of progressives involved in the early stirrings of dissent against the Vietnam War. 

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

Donors from across the U-M community — and around the world — gave more than $5.3 million to support initiatives, programs, organizations and more on Giving Blueday, U-M’s annual day of giving.

The Bold Challenges Initiative has awarded large-scale planning grants to three interdisciplinary teams so they can pursue research projects involving microelectronics, maternal health and marine energy.

From informing how the U.S. Census estimates populations to reimagining land contracts as a path to homeownership, Poverty Solutions tackled the structures of poverty through action-based research in 2022.

The U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine will explore what biomedical applications might result from RNA research March 24 at its seventh annual symposium, “From Molecules to Medicines.”

Eleven people are running for three seats on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, the body that advises and consults with the university’s executive officers on matters that affect faculty.

Frank Marsik, lecturer IV in climate and space sciences and engineering in the College of Engineering, and his wife began collecting sap and making their own maple syrup in 2018. 

A movement of sorts began at Jean Ledwith King’s modest house on the far west side of Ann Arbor early in 1970 when King and a handful of other women asserted that U-M should treat women the same as men.

Police Beat and crime map for February 2023.