A $145 million, 163,000-square-foot addition to the Bob and Betty Beyster Building will be shared by the School of Information and College of Engineering’s Computer Science and Engineering division.

A $10 million gift from alumnus Regent Ron Weiser will allow the Stephen M. Ross School of Business to launch a comprehensive real estate center that offers a suite of practice-oriented courses.

President Mark Schlissel approved a three-year, $3.6 million grant that will help reduce the adviser-to-student ratio from 1-to-390 to less than 1-to-200 on the UM-Flint campus.

As part of the reaccreditation process for the Ann Arbor campus, U-M will submit its assurance argument to the Higher Learning Commission prior to a peer review team’s site visit March 23-24.

Days of Opportunity was created by UMSocial to promote public engagement by faculty members and enhance awareness of how their research can make a difference beyond campus.

U-M researchers developed a list of nine best practices for lithium-ion battery lifetime extension after examining academic papers and manufacturers’ user manuals and customer-support websites.

Stephen Forrest, a U-M faculty member whose breakthroughs in semiconductors contributed to today’s display technology and lighting, will give the Henry Russel Lecture on Feb. 27.

A new study co-authored by U-M and using unique data from families in Nepal shows that when spouses love each other, children stay in school longer and marry later in life.

Samya Nasr, director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center and a professor of pediatrics, is leading a team of volunteer staff and physicians dedicated to improving CF care around the world.

On Feb. 18, 1975, African-American students met with President Robben Fleming to demand increased black enrollment. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Feb. 17-23.