Lisa R. Carter, vice provost for libraries and university librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been appointed U-M’s university librarian and dean of libraries, effective May 1.

The Michigan Medicine Blood Bank recently opened in a new facility that took six years to plan. It replaces a cramped 36-year-old space just next door in University Hospital.

Five projects will receive funding in the latest round of Pressing Matters grants, a research incentive funding program that supports research advancing the state of practice in Taubman College.

New Stephen M. Ross School of Business research concludes that not using information about a person’s race or gender can result in more accurate hiring decisions on hiring.

Scientific journals are likely to accept papers that provide new findings compared with studies reporting conventional results, which is contrary to long-standing concerns about publication biases.

A return of study-abroad participants to near pre-pandemic levels, record cash giving, and the successful conclusion of the initial DEI Five-Year Strategic Plan are among the highlights in U-M’s annual report for the 2021-22 fiscal year.

More than 260 students dropped in to Pop in for Puppies and Popcorn on Dec. 14, the result of a partnership between the Newnan Academic Advising Center and Friends of Detroit Animal Care and Control. 

Nicotine vaping is one of the most common types of substance use for teenagers in 2022, according to results from a national study released Dec. 15.

Karthik Duraisamy, professor of aerospace engineering, will lead the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering as its new director starting Jan. 1.

Timothy Cernak’s laboratory at the College of Pharmacy was awarded $3 million by Schmidt Futures recently to develop molecular reaction data using high-throughput experimentation, and the software to process it.