December 7, 2018
University of Michigan student Eduardo Batista has been selected as a 2019 Schwarzman Scholar and will undertake a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing next year.
December 6, 2018
Andrea Fischer Newman and Andrew C. Richner were celebrated for their substantial service and commitment to the University of Michigan during Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting. Their tenure on the board ends Dec. 31.
December 6, 2018
The Board of Regents and President Mark Schlissel lauded outgoing Vice President for Development Jerry May on Thursday, thanking him for three decades of fundraising work in service of the university.
December 6, 2018
The University of Michigan will move forward with a plan to sell a parcel of university-owned land in the Ann Arbor Technology Park that will allow a company to increase its local employment by up to 500 new jobs.
December 6, 2018
The University of Michigan will acquire 6.54 acres of land from Fingerle Lumber for the agreed-upon purchase price of $24 million.
December 6, 2018
The Board of Regents approved design plans Thursday for a new 100,000-square-foot classroom building on Central Campus that will serve up to 10,000 students each day.
December 6, 2018
The Board of Regents approved the following items at its meeting Thursday.
December 6, 2018
Regent Ron Weiser of Ann Arbor will take over as chair of the Board of Regents beginning Jan. 1. Regent Denise Ilitch of Bingham Farms will serve as vice chair. Both will serve in those roles through June 30, 2020.
December 6, 2018
A $2.5 million gift by the Kohn Charitable Trust to the University of Michigan will establish a new professorship of social justice and social policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
December 5, 2018
Lisa and Christopher Jeffries have committed $33 million to the University of Michigan Law School, with the gift’s entirety dedicated to student support, including scholarships and other forms of financial aid, summer funding programs and debt management.
December 6, 2018
The University of Michigan submitted funding requests earlier this fall through the state’s capital outlay process for projects on the university’s three campuses.
December 6, 2018
Logistics, Transportation and Parking will build a new operations and maintenance facility on North Campus as part of a plan to operate more efficiently and sustainably.
December 6, 2018
With less than one month remaining in the Victors for Michigan fundraising campaign, 393,000 donors have given a record-breaking $5.11 billion as of Dec. 1, including more than $1.17 billion for student support.
December 6, 2018
Michigan Medicine will continue design and preconstruction planning for a potential new adult inpatient facility in Ann Arbor.
December 6, 2018
Thomas A. Baird, a longtime University of Michigan fundraiser, has been named the university’s next vice president for development. His appointment was approved Thursday by the Board of Regents.
December 6, 2018
The President’s Staff Innovation Award Program is now a part of the Staff Impact Awards.
The change means there is a single nomination process for staff and teams to be eligible for recognition from both awards, with the President’s Staff Innovation Award now called the President’s Staff Award of Distinction.
December 5, 2018
University of Michigan faculty members are invited to attend a town hall Monday with President Mark Schlissel, who will discuss challenges and opportunities facing the university and will take questions from the faculty.
December 3, 2018
When Sean Ahlquist’s daughter, Ara, was younger, he would hold her hands and vigorously swing her around in circles.
The little one loved the game. Her intense happiness and the communication of that enjoyment were key to building a social bond, a challenge for Ara as she lives with autism and struggles with being nonverbal.
December 3, 2018
December 10, 2018
The university has decided not to renew the agreement to host a Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan for a third term when the current partnership expires in 2019.
The university has informed Hanban, the headquarters of Confucius Institute, of this decision.
