Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

The Office of the Vice President for Research has developed the Research Catalyst and Innovation Program that aims to catalyze research and spur innovation across U-M’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses.

One year after the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses ramped down research and scholarship in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, U-M plans to further expand its research operations in April.

As the world marks a full year of the pandemic, U-M’s Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners celebrates its silver jubilee with a digital gallery by U-M’s Prison Creative Arts Project.

Four faculty members with backgrounds in engineering, medicine and anthropology will soon join the executive committee of U-M’s central faculty governance system, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs.

U-M received a major grant in humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a multi-institutional digital futures collaborative led by a professor whose research involves digital inequality.

To support greater student equity, U-M students now will be assigned course registration appointments based only on credit earned as an enrolled U-M student or accepted after transferring from another college or university.

Staff members on campus and at Michigan Medicine are encouraged to help shape the future of our workplace by applying to join Voices of the Staff, the long-standing U-M employee-engagement program.

Seven women sit in Michigan prisons, serving life sentences for crimes committed over the last four decades. Two of them were present when significant others committed murder, three shot the men in their lives, one abandoned a newborn who died, and the seventh agreed to have her husband killed by an employee. The stories of…

Efforts are underway to expand and coordinate U-M’s support for scholars whose research focuses on anti-racism, racial equity and racial justice through a new Anti-Racism Collaborative.