U-M researchers are leading a multiuniversity partnership, funded with a $6.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, that aims to understand and predict cognitive fatigue in individuals.

The Senate Assembly will start the new year with a vote to fill two vacancies on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs after two of its members stepped down.

U-M will explore “The (R)evolution of MLK” as the theme of its annual January symposium honoring civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The symposium’s keynote memorial lecture is Jan. 16.

Three U-M doctoral candidates and an alumna have been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Quad Fellowship, a program designed to spur interdisciplinary scientific and technological innovation.

Celebrating one of the largest gifts ever to Michigan Medicine — $50 million — the health system will name its new hospital for longtime philanthropists D. Dan and Betty Kahn.

Other items approved by the Board of Regents at its Dec. 8 meeting.

Recent investments in renewable energy and fuel will prompt considerable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions associated with the U-M’s endowment.

Sparrow Health System will join U-M Health under a proposed agreement that will expand services to mid-Michigan residents, provide access to the highest level of care, and improve facilities and technology.

U-M submitted capital outlay requests to the state of Michigan earlier this fall for projects on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses.

The U-M Ypsilanti Health Center will relocate and expand its services as part of a $35 million project at 300 W. Michigan Ave., former home of Eastern Michigan University’s College of Business.