COVID-19

  1. March 13, 2023

    Loneliness, isolation down but still high among older adults

    After three years of pandemic living, loneliness, isolation and lack of social contact have finally started to decline among older adults, U-M’s National Poll on Healthy Aging shows.

  2. March 8, 2023

    WHO director-general to receive Thomas Francis Jr. Medal on March 13

    U-M will award its Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, during an in-person ceremony March 13.

  3. February 20, 2023

    U-M leaders announce COVID-19 policy changes

    U-M announced that effective Feb. 20, 2023, only UM-Ann Arbor students living in Michigan Housing are required to report COVID-19 vaccination.

  4. February 8, 2023

    U-M researchers helping to develop machine for N95 masks

    The N95 mask shortage that exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 won’t be repeated if a university-industry partnership succeeds. The $3 million effort aims to develop better respirators with new manufacturing processes.

  5. January 24, 2023

    Study: Anti-Chinese bias harms Asian American businesses

    An increase in anti-Chinese sentiment has led to consumer discrimination against Asian American-owned small businesses, according to new U-M research explored in this Q&A.

  6. January 23, 2023

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  7. November 15, 2022

    U-M’s efforts helped study abroad programs during pandemic

    According to the annual Open Doors report by the Institute of International Education, 140 U.S. students from U-M participated in education-abroad programs during 2020-21 for academic credit.

  8. November 7, 2022

    How Americans learned science in a hurry during pandemic

    A research team found that people who earned a college degree and took the required college science courses were able to make more informed policy judgments about the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  9. November 7, 2022

    Ways to stay healthy amid rise in respiratory illness

    U-M is advising how campus community members can protect themselves from a range of respiratory illnesses amid expected increases in travel and indoor gatherings through the end of the fall term.

  10. November 1, 2022

    COVID patients’ family members face unique challenges

    Findings of a recent study involving U-M researchers suggest COVID-19 presents caregivers with unique challenges not evident in other patients.