Massive field trials conducted by U-M led to the April 12, 1955, announcement that a polio vaccine was safe and effective. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of April 6-12.

The Institute for Research on Women and Gender has awarded nine Seed Grants for faculty projects on women, gender, and sexuality with over $60,000 in awarded funds.

With the support of faculty and the $25 million, five-year Third Century Initiative, U-M students are learning about environmental science and sustainability by building thorough, thoughtful case studies.

Although doctors describe potential therapeutic and treatment options that are being explored, they warn against seeking out these drugs on your own or trying other untested remedies.

UM-Flint is opening its First Street Residence Hall to medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doctors and nurses in Genesee County will be able to stay in the hall beginning April 3. 

U-M researchers seeking to understand what people who are harassed on social media want sites to do found most wanted some action that felt just but a one-size-fits-all approach will not work.

With a $200,000 rapid-response grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers at U-M and Stanford University are exploring whether a community’s wastewater gives an early warning for COVID-19.

• Politics, public trust drive differing responses to coronavirus
• Parents are having more conflict with children since pandemic
• Spreading joy to older adults in a time of social distance

A new $62.6 million NASA mission led by U-M aims to provide better information on how the sun’s radiation affects the space environment that our spacecraft and astronauts travel through.

In support of the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality, an analysis team of students and faculty is examining commuting trends at U-M, with the goal of reducing vehicle miles traveled.

In Nilay Chakraborty’s lab, the inspiration often comes from surprising places. Take, for example, one of the UM-Dearborn mechanical engineering associate professor’s recent muses: the tardigrade, a chubby half-millimeter creature that’s considered by scientists to be one of the most indestructible animals on earth. They can be found in Antarctica, lava fields and most of…