Eight U-M lecturers and tenure-track faculty members have received 2021 summer fellowships at the Institute for the Humanities.

Provost Susan M. Collins has appointed a 13-member advisory committee of faculty, staff, students and other members of the university community to aide in the search for U-M’s next dean of the School of Social Work.

Sally Sivrais, research administrator senior manager at Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in the Medical School, builds, paints and decorates birdhouses with stones she picked up from Lake Michigan and Lake Superior beaches.

Batches of the newly approved polio vaccine arrived in Washtenaw County on April 19, 1955. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of April 19-25.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

The U-M women’s gymnastics team won the program’s first NCAA championship on Saturday, scoring a 198.250 in the team finals and topping Oklahoma, Utah and Florida, respectively.

In a Zoom chat session with incoming first-year and transfer students, along with their parents, university leaders said they should expect a more typical U-M experience in the fall.

Female nurses are roughly twice as likely to die by suicide than the general female population and 70 percent more likely than female physicians, according to a U-M study examining suicide among physicians and nurses.

A U-M study suggests the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and state-of-emergency executive orders likely did not increase suicide-related behavior in the early months of the outbreak.

Allen P. Liu will serve as chair of U-M’s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and J. Caitlin Finlayson will serve as vice chair, following their election by SACUA. Their one-year terms start May 1.