U-M students continue to shine in national scholarship and fellowship award competitions, and this academic year was an especially impressive one for undergraduates in the STEM fields.

Two peregrine falcon chicks — named Conor and Norah by U-M staff members actively involved with the management of the nesting box — recently hatched atop the university’s North Quad residential and academic complex.

The College of Engineering’s new undergraduate program in robotics will empower students to practice the full spectrum of robotics at the 134,000-square-foot Ford Motor Company Robotics Building.

U-M is set to begin the Inclusive History Project to study, document and better understand the university’s history with respect to diversity, equity and inclusion. Its first major focus will be the history of race and racism at U-M.

Paulina Alberto, professor of history and Spanish in LSA, focuses her research on the history of African people and Afro-descendants in Brazil and Argentina.

Robert H. Stacy wrote to U-M President Alexander G. Ruthven that he was being falsely accused of setting the fire that destroyed Haven Hall on June 6, 1950, and felt that his life’s goal of becoming a college professor was “all but destroyed.” Stacy would be proven wrong on both counts.

Ernest McCarus, professor emeritus of Arabic and Kurdish languages and linguistics, died April 5 at age 99.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

Evolutionary biologist Mitchell Newberry, assistant professor of complex systems, has found that the more popular a name becomes, the less likely future parents are to follow suit.

Asian Americans who experienced increased acts of racism at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to acquire firearms and ammunition for self-defense, researchers at U-M and Eastern Michigan University found.