Campus News
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December 16, 2021
Annual report shows U-M thriving during challenging year
The challenges of operating during the COVID-19 pandemic tested U-M over the past year, but the university rose to meet the challenges “at every turn,” according to the 2020-21 fiscal year annual report.
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December 16, 2021
Innovative classroom building opening to active, team-based learning
When the 2022 winter semester begins, U-M students enrolled in about 90 undergraduate and graduate classes will experience the term in the new 105,000-square-foot Central Campus Classroom Building.
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December 16, 2021
REMINDER: Candace Johnson Award nominations due Dec. 31
The deadline for submitting nominations for the Candace J. Johnson Award for Staff Excellence is Dec. 31. Two awards will be presented this academic year, following a one-year pause due to the pandemic.
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December 15, 2021
$1.5M award helps researchers see inner workings of cells
A $1.5 million award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation will help U-M researchers open new windows into cells, transforming how biologists can see and learn about them.
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December 15, 2021
Teen use of illicit drugs decreased in ’21 amid pandemic
Declines in adolescent use of illicit drugs reported in 2021 were the largest and most sweeping recorded in the past 46 years, according to the Monitoring the Future study.
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December 15, 2021
$30M gift to establish the Ronald Weiser Center for Prostate Cancer
Regent Ron Weiser has committed $30 million to Michigan Medicine to establish the Ronald Weiser Center for Prostate Cancer, an innovative, patient-focused program in prostate cancer.
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December 15, 2021
Two more anti-racism faculty hiring proposals approved
Two proposals submitted in the second round of U-M’s Anti-Racism Hiring Initiative have been approved for funding. Seven faculty members will be recruited to LSA, the School of Social Work and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
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December 14, 2021
$5M Weill gift supports graduate student fellowships at Ford School
A $5 million gift from Joan and Sanford I. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy will support three graduate fellowships in perpetuity.
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December 14, 2021
Pandemic stress weighs heaviest on least-healthy older adults
A poll based at the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation showed many people over 50 have found joy and stayed resilient amid the prolonged public health crisis, but a sizable number report stress, too.
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December 13, 2021
U-M secures data dashboards amid ‘severe’ worldwide software vulnerability
Due to a worldwide software security vulnerability, all U-M Tableau dashboards — including all COVID-19 dashboards — are temporarily only available to users on the university’s network or using the university virtual private network.
