COVID-19

  1. May 26, 2020

    Medical students drive development of new pandemic course

    Led largely by students, a rapidly developed course on pandemics implemented this spring is likely to become a permanent part of the Medical School curriculum.

  2. May 26, 2020

    App calculates risk of delaying cancer care during pandemic

    A team of data scientists and cancer doctors developed the OncCOVID app, which compares the risk to a cancer patient from postponing care with the additional risk posed by potential COVID-19 infection.

  3. May 26, 2020

    A look at COVID-19 research and activity across U-M

    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way the University of Michigan works on many levels, but it also has galvanized activity across the university as a broad range of academic, research and administrative units apply their expertise to this worldwide crisis. These synopses offer a glimpse into the variety of activity underway. Go online to…
  4. May 21, 2020

    Mental, emotional well-being support available via app and text

    As National Mental Health Month continues through May, U-M faculty and staff now have access to two new resources — a texting service and an online-mobile app program.

  5. May 16, 2020

    University to gradually reopen some research activity

    Laboratory and studio-based research activity at U-M, the majority of which has been paused since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will gradually resume during the next several weeks.

  6. May 14, 2020

    University construction to resume following executive order

    Construction crews have resumed U-M campus building projects that were in progress prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recent executive order.

  7. May 14, 2020

    Seven teams chosen to receive funding for COVID-19 research

    The Michigan Institute for Data Science announced seven interdisciplinary teams, chosen from 49 submissions, will receive funding support of up to $30,000 for COVID-19 research.

  8. May 13, 2020

    UM-Dearborn study finds wearing masks is about caring

    To better understand people’s behavior when it comes to precautionary measures against COVID-19 like mask wearing, a business professor discovered most people choose to be socially responsible.

  9. May 12, 2020

    Nichols Arboretum cancels 2020 peony celebration

    The historic peony garden at Nichols Arboretum at U-M, which has bloomed every spring for nearly 100 years, will do so without any visitors but will offer virtual sightings of the bloom.

  10. May 11, 2020

    U-M advances antibody test development in COVID-19 fight

    Scientists at U-M are advancing new antibody tests, being validated now, to identify people who have been infected with the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease.