Building on a successful five-year collaboration with U-M faculty, the Toyota Research Institute will renew its research partnership with U-M for an additional five years, with projects funded up to $3M per year.

A $3 million gift from the Dow Company Foundation will continue the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program at U-M, which offers students a graduate-level interdisciplinary training and sustainability project experience.

Adam Mael, graduate coordinator in the College of Engineering, built a LEGO scale replica of the Diag and surrounding buildings on Central Campus that he recently completed after three years.

On Jan. 25, 1990, then-U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., spoke to law students about Supreme Court appointments. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Jan. 25-31.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

Adam Mael, graduate coordinator in the College of Engineering, built a LEGO model of the Diag and surrounding buildings on Central Campus. Mael worked on the project off and on over the course of three years. He’s also built other things, including a University of Michigan football helmet and a mosaic of Heisman Trophy winner…

A new online training module will help U-M faculty and staff who interact with student education records do so responsibly and be compliant with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

U-M has added two ways to support faculty, staff and students with child and other dependent-care needs: free access to Care.com’s network of caregivers and a family-to-family posting board.

Nominations for the 2021 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize will be accepted through Feb. 1 from students, faculty, graduate student instructors, department chairs, directors, deans and staff members.

U-M’s 2020 United Way employee giving campaign has surpassed its stated goal and raised more than $1.2 million thanks to the generosity of faculty, staff and retirees.