Virginia Murphy, lecturer II in Program in the Environment and lecturer IV in the Residential College in LSA, spent much of the COVID-19 pandemic hiking in the mountains of Maine.

A Jan. 11, 1939, power outage at the Michigan Union left faculty members playing cards by candlelight. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Jan. 11-17.

Irwin J. Goldstein, a professor emeritus pf biological chemistry and longtime Ann Arbor resident, died Dec. 26 in Chelsea, Michigan. He was 91.

Tom Hickey, professor emeritus of health behavior and health education, died Nov. 8, 2020, at the age of 80 after complications from surgery.

Awards and honors for U-M faculty and staff.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

A little over a year after leaders at the Center for Academic Innovation announced an XR Initiative, the first funded faculty projects are moving along nicely.

Chris Kolb, who currently serves as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s state budget director, has been appointed vice president for government relations at U-M, effective Jan. 19.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, U-M continued to deliver on its mission of education, research and patient care, and its financial position remains strong, the fiscal year 2020 annual report shows.

In the first months after their COVID-19 hospital stay, patients faced a high risk of ongoing health problems, trips back to the hospital, and death, a growing number of studies has shown.