January 14, 2019
Author and educator Tim Wise and Detroit school principal and writer Julia Putnam will deliver the 33rd annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium memorial keynote lecture.
January 14, 2019
Jacquelyn Taylor, a New York University professor who studies factors contributing to health disparities, will deliver the 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Health Sciences Lecture.
January 14, 2019
Two Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy events will explore the recent deportation of Ann Arbor mother Lourdes Salazar Bautista and the impact of current U.S. immigration policy.
January 3, 2019
The panel of faculty members appointed by the provost to explore the intersection of faculty members’ political beliefs and their responsibilities to students will continue its outreach to the University of Michigan community with open forums Jan. 10 and 11 on all three campuses.
December 19, 2018
Two University of Michigan students are among 48 American undergraduates to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for graduate study at a British university next year.
LSA seniors Amanda Burcroff and Noah McNeal are U-M’s eighth and ninth Marshall Scholars, and the first since 2013.
December 19, 2018
Record research volume, a strong financial position featuring unprecedented levels of fundraising and the rollout of the innovative Go Blue Guarantee are just three of the highlights in the university’s fiscal year 2018 annual report, made available this week in a digital format.
December 17, 2018
The University of Michigan has “substantially decreased the average net price for students” from low-income backgrounds and has worked aggressively to recruit them to apply.
December 16, 2018
Professor emerita and transgender advocate Lynn Conway stressed the importance of embracing social change and imparted wisdom from some of history’s brilliant minds to University of Michigan graduates on Sunday.
December 16, 2018
In the four years since the University of Michigan announced a centralized effort to promote digital learning and two years after U-M's president announced Academic Innovation as a major initiative, the university has experienced more than 7 million enrollments in online learning opportunities that involved people in 190 countries.
December 13, 2018
University of Michigan faculty and administrators discussed the unique nature of master’s degrees within the academic landscape, and the similarities and broad differences between master’s programs at the fall Provost’s Seminar on Teaching.
December 13, 2018
Penny W. Stamps — a University of Michigan alumna, fierce advocate for the arts, community leader, philanthropist, design professional and former teacher — died Thursday at her home after a battle with leukemia. She was 74.
December 14, 2018
Monday's email edition of The University Record is the last one for 2018.
If major items of interest to faculty and staff occur over the holiday break, they may be posted to the Record’s website, but a morning email version will not be sent.
Regular daily issues of the Record email will return Jan. 9.
December 13, 2018
The Institute for Social Research at U-M has received a $3.5 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging to extend the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research.
December 12, 2018
Students and faculty members shared their views Wednesday with a faculty panel exploring how faculty members’ political ideologies should intersect with their responsibilities to students.
December 13, 2018
Michael Rein, a seven-year veteran of the Office of Government Relations, has been named the university’s director of community relations.
In his new role, Rein will support and coordinate partnerships and services among the University of Michigan, local government and community organizations representing the greater Ann Arbor area.
December 13, 2018
The University of Michigan has officially launched a search for the next chancellor of the UM-Flint campus.
December 11, 2018
High-achieving, low-income students who received personalized commitment of financial aid are more than twice as likely to apply, be admitted to and enroll in a top-tier university, according to a new University of Michigan study.
December 11, 2018
Recipients of the 10th annual Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award for University of Michigan staff were celebrated Monday at an afternoon ceremony at the Michigan League.
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Nine University of Michigan students and a faculty member are attending this month’s COP 24 summit in Katowice, Poland, where envoys from nearly 200 countries have gathered to discuss and coordinate the fight against climate change.
December 11, 2018
Active U, MHealthy’s 12-week physical activity challenge, returns this winter to encourage the entire University of Michigan community to get moving.
Registration is open now through Jan. 7. Tracking exercise minutes starts Jan. 8.
