The Office of the Vice President for Research will host three town halls that focus on best practices for international engagement. The events Feb. 17, 19 and 20 are free and open to U-M faculty and staff.

Pamela J. MacKintosh, longtime librarian at the U-M Library, died Dec. 22 at the age of 60. 

Samuel David Epstein, the Marilyn J. Shatz Collegiate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, died at home Nov. 29.

Maria Cotera, associate professor of American Culture and of women’s studies, co-founded the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Project, a digital archive for documenting Chicana artifacts.

Former presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford spoke at a Feb. 9, 1983, domestic policy seminar at the Ford Presidential Library. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of Feb. 3-9.

Professors Marc Zimmerman and J. Alex Halderman are being honored for their commitment to public engagement and for employing their research to significantly impact society.

My Learning Analytics, or MyLA, is a set of visualizations that can be embedded in courses and give students insights into how they budget their time, set goals and monitor their performance.

Three teams of community and academic partners will tackle various issues this year with $26,500 grants from the Detroit Urban Research Center and Poverty Solutions at U-M.

RecycleMania consists of a campus challenge — Battle of the Buildings — between facilities on campus, and a national competition with hundreds of other colleges and universities.

U-M is leading the charge to transform graduate education and is inviting education leaders to join in a national symposium Feb. 7 about the future of the graduate student experience.