Emily Wheeler, guest services specialist at the Division of Public Safety and Security, has spent many days off from her position to play mostly classical tunes at the baby grand piano in the lobby of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. 

On March 13, 1957, a high temperature of 70 degrees sent students to the Diag for outdoor studying. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of March 8-14.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

Throughout the month of March, 64 discoveries from schools and colleges across the country will compete in the annual STAT Madness tournament. This year, U-M is fielding five research teams.

The task force that examined U-M’s engagement in Detroit was chaired by Robert Sellers, vice provost and chief diversity officer, and composed of representatives from all areas of campus:  Susan Alcock, former special counsel to the president, now provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, UM-Dearborn Stein Brunvand, associate dean and professor of education,…

The Michigan Institute for Data Science has announced the next round of pilot funding for data science and artificial intelligence research.

Parent depression and stress early in the pandemic negatively contributed to young children’s home education and anxiety, a U-M study suggests.

The Advancing Public Safety at the University of Michigan Task Force will share a status report on its work during a second virtual community forum at 7 p.m. March 10.

At first glance, artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s installation in the U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery looks like a typical teenager’s bedroom. Look a little closer, and a more complex story emerges.

Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been bombarded with terms like vaccine schedule, variants, mRNA, and more. Two U-M faculty members define basic vaccine terms, and how these relate to the COVID-19 virus and vaccines.