Mark Fendrick, a Michigan Medicine primary care physician and researcher, hails the rapid development of vaccines as a scientific breakthrough, but he fears the two-step process includes barriers. 

Registration is open for Kids Kare at Home, a service for those times when regular care is unavailable, but the parent must be on campus or at work. A Kids Kare caregiver may be available to provide backup care in the home.

Anthony J. Kolenic will become director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. Kolenic’s five-year appointment is effective March 1, 2021, and he succeeds Bob Grese, who retired in June 2020.

A new Syllabus Statement for Student Well-Being that is more comprehensive than the older mental health syllabus statement, and offers more campus resources to assist students is now available.

U-M employees who have not consented to receive an electronic PDF copy of their Form W-2 can do so in Wolverine Access. Those who have consented since 2018 do not have to take further action. 

A new wastewater testing approach developed by researchers at U-M and Stanford University is capable of better detecting viral infection patterns in communities.

The athletic department has announced the cancellation of the Dec. 12 football game at Ohio State due to an increasing number of positive COVID-19 cases and student-athletes in quarantine over the past week. 

The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects celebrates its 100th anniversary of sponsored research administration at U-M this year. The Board of Regents established the Department of Engineering Research on Oct. 1, 1920.

U-M will invite staff on the Ann Arbor campus to share feedback about working during the COVID-19 pandemic through an online survey that will inform possible new resources, policies and actions for 2021.

Seven U-M students and recent graduates have been awarded prestigious scholarships for international study — one Marshall Scholarship and six Schwarzman Scholars.