Campus News
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November 4, 2024
Staffer melds love of theater, finance at SMTD
Olivia Deane, financial specialist associate in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, first performed in a community theater production at the age of 12.
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November 4, 2024
Obituary — Deborah Jane Oakley
Deborah Jane Oakley, professor emerita of nursing, was born at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital in 1937 and died at home Aug. 21, 2024.
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November 4, 2024
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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November 1, 2024
Rhiannon Giddens named Arts Initiative’s first U-M Artist-in-Residence
The Arts Initiative has announced musician, composer and scholar Rhiannon Giddens will be its inaugural U‑M Artist-in-Residence under a new program that aims to bring innovative artists to campus.
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November 1, 2024
CDC renews funding for Prevention Research Center
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has renewed $5 million in funding for the Prevention Research Center of Michigan.
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November 1, 2024
Kathleen Kruse elected as Senate representative on PDOC
Kathleen Kruse, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, has been elected to serve a two-year term as the Faculty Senate representative on the six-member Police Department Oversight Committee.
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October 31, 2024
AI-powered Coursera Coach aids interactive instruction
U-M is the first higher education institution to integrate AI-powered Coursera Coach into an open online course on the Coursera platform, delivering personalized, interactive lessons through Socratic dialogues.
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October 30, 2024
Grant to fund study of school-based firearm storage campaign
Researchers from the School of Public Health and Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention recently secured a nearly $1 million grant from the National Institute of Justice to evaluate a safe firearm storage campaign program.
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October 30, 2024
U-M receives $50M gift for pancreatic cancer care, research
With a $50 million gift from Richard and Susan Rogel, U-M Health’s Rogel Cancer Center aims to revolutionize how the world detects, treats and ultimately cures pancreatic cancer.
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October 30, 2024
Fall colors peak as researchers study forest ecosystems
From a historic, 20-year soil harvest to the start of a tracer study targeting nitrogen uptake by trees in the winter, fall research activity at the U-M Biological Station is robust.
