The U-M Women of Color in the Academy Project will present its ninth annual Shirley Verrett Award to Daniel Washington, professor of music (voice) at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

A major upgrade is underway to the university’s core data network in the form of a $10.1 million project that kicked off in the fall and is scheduled to be completed in fiscal year 2022.

An advisory committee has been named to assist in the search for a new director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. Bob Grese is stepping down after serving in that role since 2004. 

U-M’s Biosciences Initiative has issued its third and final request for applications in two categories of funding that seek high-impact research projects from U-M faculty to solve biosciences problems.

Programs that help smokers quit along with existing lung cancer screening efforts could reduce lung cancer mortality by 14 percent compared with screening alone, according to a study led by U-M.

Nominations are now being sought for a lecturer, active emeriti, adjunct or clinical faculty representative to serve in the non-Senate faculty seat on the U-M Police Department Oversight Committee.

Kristin Heinrich, a transfer recruiting coordinator for LSA, recently welcomed a foster dog into her home and life. It provided a way for her to help without the long-term commitment of adopting another dog.

Students picked Herbert Hoover over Franklin D. Roosevelt in a March 16, 1932, presidential poll. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of March 16-22.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

U-M disease ecologist Meghan Duffy was awarded a five-year grant for more than $2 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation last week to study symbiosis in aquatic systems.