Campus News
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February 6, 2023
Voice professor finds joy and solace in saltwater swimming
Despite growing up in landlocked Colorado, Ann Evans Watson always felt drawn to the water and takes part in long-distance saltwater swims.
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February 6, 2023
Heritage Project — Rhapsodies in blue
The origins of U-M’s devotion to the color blue lie lost in the years before the Civil War. But a committee of students charged with choosing Michigan’s colors made their recommendation Feb. 12, 1867.
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February 6, 2023
Obituary — John H. Matlock
John H. Matlock, former executive director of the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives and associate vice provost, died Jan. 21 at age 76.
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February 6, 2023
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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February 3, 2023
Symposium will explore universities’ institutional history
U-M will host a symposium at noon Feb. 10 focusing on what it means for universities to uncover and reckon with their institutional pasts with regard to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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February 3, 2023
$1.2M grant supports effort to build DEI leadership capacity
The National Center for Institutional Diversity has been awarded $1.2 million over three years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a suite of tools and resources for leadership capacity building.
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February 2, 2023
Fish preserves earliest fossilized brain of backboned animal
A 319 million-year-old ray-finned fish fossil at U-M provides new information about early evolutionary history. The fossil was pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago.
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February 1, 2023
Occupational therapist adds custom touch to patients’ hand splints
Augusta Simmons, a board-certified hand therapist, has been fitting patients with splints for over 25 years, the past six at the Northville Health Center.
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February 1, 2023
University joining worldwide alliance to advance global role
U-M has accepted an invitation to join the U7+ Alliance of World Universities, an international alliance of university presidents who work together to address pressing global challenges.
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February 1, 2023
U-M launches first phase of effort to amplify research, scholarship
U-M has launched the first phase of its new presidential strategy to bolster resources and personnel to help faculty achieve their research and scholarship goals in key strategic areas.
