building names

  1. January 9, 2025

    Task force to consider process for new honorific namings

    The Inclusive History Project has convened a task force to develop new policies and procedures for new honorific namings of university facilities and spaces.

  2. January 9, 2025

    Members of the Honorific Naming Task Force

    Members of the Honorific Naming Task Force, which will develop new policies and procedures for new honorific namings of university facilities and spaces.

  3. February 15, 2024

    UM-Dearborn Engineering Lab Building renamed for former dean

    UM-Dearborn will rename its signature Engineering Lab Building for Anthony England, a former College of Engineering and Computer Science dean and NASA astronaut.

  4. April 4, 2023

    Honoring President Robben Fleming

    The Robben and Aldyth Fleming Reception Room in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building was dedicated April 4, honoring the late U-M President Emeritus Robben W. Fleming.

  5. October 21, 2021

    $25M gift to help fund computer science, information building

    A $25 million gift from the Leinweber Foundation, founded by software entrepreneur Larry Leinweber, will help fund the Leinweber Computer Science and Information Building.

  6. September 10, 2021

    U-M leaders hail Mary Sue Coleman’s service at LSI building dedication

    The building that houses U-M’s Life Sciences Institute was formally named Mary Sue Coleman Hall, for the university’s 13th president, who helped bring the institute to fruition.

  7. May 24, 2021

    Committee recommends Yost name for removal; feedback sought

    The President’s Advisory Committee on University History is inviting members of the U-M community to provide feedback on its preliminary recommendation to remove Fielding H. Yost’s name from Yost Ice Arena.

  8. March 25, 2021

    President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman recognized in building naming

    U-M will name the building that houses the Life Sciences Institute after President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman to honor the university’s first woman president and her many accomplishments.

  9. March 29, 2018

    U-M to remove Little, Winchell names from campus facilities

    The university is changing the names of a campus building and a house within a residence hall after the legacies of the namesakes were called into question.

  10. January 23, 2017

    U-M defines principles, process for building renaming requests

    The university has concluded a thoughtful, yearlong review of how it would handle requests to reconsider the historical names of buildings on the Ann Arbor campus.