In the 2020 RecycleMania competition, U-M placed first in the large-campus division for zero waste, a new category designed to help schools test their zero-waste efforts.

The Board of Regents will conduct its regular May meeting virtually. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. May 21 and will provide for public participation while maintaining social distancing.

Nominations are being accepted through May 22 for a non-bargained-for staff representative to serve on the U-M Police Department Oversight Committee. Online voting will take place June 8-19.

In 2016, the Medical School welcomed 172 new doctors-in-training. Out of this group, 15 students agreed to be followed throughout all four years of their medical training.

UM-Flint has created a Center on Aging to help faculty and students fund current research and community outreach related to seniors and aging, and to connect researchers seeking new collaborations.

Construction crews have resumed U-M campus building projects that were in progress prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recent executive order.

The Michigan Institute for Data Science announced seven interdisciplinary teams, chosen from 49 submissions, will receive funding support of up to $30,000 for COVID-19 research.

To better understand people’s behavior when it comes to precautionary measures against COVID-19 like mask wearing, a business professor discovered most people choose to be socially responsible.

The historic peony garden at Nichols Arboretum at U-M, which has bloomed every spring for nearly 100 years, will do so without any visitors but will offer virtual sightings of the bloom.