U-M is one of four Michigan universities participating in projects and fellowships worth more than $1.5 million that seek to protect and restore the critical environmental resources of the Great Lakes.

The Provost’s Office and the Office of the Vice President for Research have each launched programs to financially support faculty whose research and scholarship were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Charlotte Chan, assistant professor of mathematics in LSA, was awarded a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship for her work in representation theory, the study of symmetries using linear algebra.

Research investigators have new requirements when submitting various pieces of research proposal information to the National Institutes of Health.

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, the S.P. Hicks Professor of Pathology and Urology at Michigan Medicine, has been awarded the 2022 Sjöberg Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Faculty members Marisa C. Eisenberg and H. Luke Shaefer will receive presidential awards for public engagement, in recognition of their contributions to significantly impact society.

Marine biologist and climate policy expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson will deliver the Wege Lecture on Sustainability virtually Feb. 23.

Nancy Ambrose King, professor of oboe in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, completed a marathon in all 50 states, all before turning 60.

Lenoir Bertrice Smith, a Black student, and her white friend Edith Kaplan, along with Oakley Johnson, a young instructor, gathered friends and declared themselves the Negro-Caucasian Club of U-M in 1925.

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