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  1. March 4, 2021

    Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson to speak at Spring Commencement

    Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights attorney who has worked to exonerate prisoners on death row, will address U-M graduates at the virtual Spring Commencement. Choreographer Twyla Tharp will speak at the Rackham Graduate Exercises.

  2. March 2, 2021

    Mcards deactivated for students not following testing requirements

    Mcard access to non-residential campus buildings has been deactivated for 375 undergraduate students, due to their failure to comply with mandatory COVID-19 testing requirements.

  3. March 1, 2021

    U-M experts discuss common vaccine terms and descriptions

    Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been bombarded with terms like vaccine schedule, variants, mRNA, and more. Two U-M faculty members define basic vaccine terms, and how these relate to the COVID-19 virus and vaccines.

  4. February 26, 2021

    Salary, hiring freezes to ease with approved FY ’22 budget

    When the new fiscal year begins, and subject to budget approval, U-M employees will again be eligible for merit raises and campus units will be able to begin to fill critical faculty and staff vacancies.

  5. February 25, 2021

    Ford School’s Shobita Parthasarathy testifies before House panel

    Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy at the Ford School, testified Feb. 25 before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies.

  6. February 25, 2021

    Faculty and students address health disparities, social inequities

    As the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Black communities, U-M faculty, students and staff have worked to explore these inequities and identify ways to advocate for and implement change.

  7. February 22, 2021

    U-M Library offers repository for researchers’ data

    Researchers at U-M have a new option for sharing and preserving qualitative and mixed-methods research data — the Qualitative Data Repository.

  8. February 22, 2021

    Three Distinguished University Professors to speak March 2

    Three faculty members who have received one of U-M’s highest honors — a Distinguished University Professorship — will discuss their professional and scholarly experiences during an upcoming virtual event.

  9. February 18, 2021

    Statement by Board of Regents Chair Denise Ilitch

    Statement by Board of Regents Chair Denise Ilitch regarding the ongoing work around efforts to address sexual misconduct.

  10. February 18, 2021

    ‘Concrete next steps’ to address fossil fuel investments coming, regents say

    The Board of Regents will share “concrete next steps” next month aimed at investing the university’s endowment funds “in a way that contributes to the essential transition to a low carbon economy.”