Faculty Senate members will hear from President Mark Schlissel and Provost Susan M. Collins and also vote on five motions when they meet at 3:15 p.m. Oct. 4. The meeting will take place in the Honigman Auditorium at the Law School.

U-M leaders are encouraging the campus community to nominate faculty members who have demonstrated a commitment to public service for the president’s awards for public engagement.

Jim Ottaviani, a U-M librarian, has been writing graphic novels about scientists for more than two decades. Ottaviani’s writing career grew out of two hobbies that started in childhood: reading comic books and studying science.

Sarah Burger was 21 years old in 1858 when she prepared a letter saying she and 11 other women desired to enroll at the University of Michigan. Later that year, the regents voted unanimously against women on campus.

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Approximately 1 a.m., Sept. 24, at a residence in the 500 block of Lawrence Street.

Other action approved at the Sept. 23 Board of Regents meeting: UM-Dearborn 2023-24 academic calendar approved; 2022-23 revised  The 2023-24 academic calendar for UM-Dearborn will include a pre-Labor Day start date of Aug. 28. The calendar calls for 69 class days during the fall and winter terms. The fall term includes a Thanksgiving recess, Nov.…

Kristie Dotson, professor of philosophy and Afroamerican and African studies in LSA, has been appointed a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.

Lisa Prosser and Geoffrey Thün have joined the Office of the Vice President for Research and will play lead roles in advancing research and scholarship around the health sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts.

The number of COVID-19 cases on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus is trending downward as the university community rounds out its first month of a more traditional fall experience with robust in-person teaching and events.