To help members of the U-M community improve their sleep habits, MHealthy has launched Good Night, Sleep Right, a new eight-week online challenge. Registration is open, and the challenge starts March 15.

Two new three-year agreements between academic publishers and the Big Ten Academic Alliance are piloting new models for sustainable open access publishing.

Psychology and linguistics professor Susan Gelman will discuss how children can provide valuable insight into the human mind during U-M’s 96th Henry Russel Lecture.

Giving Blueday, the university’s 24-hour celebration of giving, will take place in the spring this year. On March 10, the university will encourage donors around the world to give to the programs and causes they care most about at U-M.

Dan Erickson, properties carpenter/artisan in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and U-M graduate Brian Cressman worked to remount the skeleton of Iki, an Asian elephant that has been on display at Wayne State University for decades.

On March 1, 1943, students worked out as part of mandatory wartime physical education classes. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of March 1-7.

Joe Eisley, professor emeritus of aerospace engineering, died Dec. 30, 2020, at the age of 92. In 1956, he and his wife moved to Ann Arbor where he began a 42-year career as a professor of aerospace engineering at U-M.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

Students in project-based learning classrooms across the United States significantly outperform those in typical classrooms, according to studies announced by Lucas Education Research, and five universities, including U-M.

U-M and Northwestern University have announced the creation of the George Jewett Trophy, the first rivalry game trophy named for an African American player in Football Bowl Subdivision history.