A $3.6 million project funded by the National Institutes of Health will allow a team of experts from U-M to explore many factors to better determine what makes someone more likely to develop ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

An effort by U-M engineerings to create quantum semiconductors that operate at room temperature has been awarded $1.8 million by the National Science Foundation.

H. Don Cameron, professor emeritus of classical studies, died July 17. Born Aug. 8, 1934, in Pontiac, Michigan, Don spent almost his entire academic life at U-M, receiving his A.B. in 1956 and beginning his first faculty position in 1959.

In an effort to bring robotic assistance to workers, the elderly and more, a U-M team is developing a new type of powered exoskeleton for lower limbs — funded by $1.7 million from the National Institutes of Health.

Gina McCarthy, the country’s first national climate adviser, will deliver the 19th annual Wege Lecture on Sustainability on Oct. 14. The virtual event at noon is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

The James and Anne Duderstadt Center — “The Dude,” as it is affectionately known — on North Campus is marking its 25th anniversary with a weeklong celebration Oct. 4-8.

Rafael Meza, professor of epidemiology and global public health at the School of Public Health, believes that COVID-19 will become a seasonal disease, likely in the fall and winter seasons.

Kathy Sodt, a senior business intelligence analyst with Enterprise Data and Information Services and Health Information Technology & Services at Michigan Medicine, makes quilts, table runners and jewelry.

Professor Hazel Losh — known by most as Doc Losh — just might have been the most popular teacher in the university’s history. She was the first tenured professor of astronomy at U-M.

Lee West Jones Jr., D.D.S., died at home, peacefully in his sleep, Sept. 6. He was 87 years old. In 1971, Jones became the first minority admissions recruiter for the School of Dentistry.