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  1. October 26, 2020

    Six candidates for Board of Regents present their positions

    Ten candidates are running in the Nov. 3 election for two eight-year seats on the Board of Regents. Six answered a request for biographical information and a platform statement.

  2. October 22, 2020

    Regents Roundup — October 2020

    Other items approved by the Board of Regents at its meeting Oct. 22.

  3. October 22, 2020

    U-M close to hiring consultant for sexual misconduct work

    The university is closer to hiring a consultant to assist with implementing recommendations from the WilmerHale law firm regarding allegations of sexual misconduct by former provost Martin Philbert.

  4. October 22, 2020

    Endowment provides increased funding for U-M operations

    U-M’s endowment continued to provide funding for operations totaling $391 million, up more than 6 percent from a year earlier. The endowment was valued at $12.5 billion as of June 30.

  5. October 20, 2020

    More undergrad courses going online after stay-in-place order

    U-M will shift more of its undergraduate classes to fully remote instruction for the remainder of the fall semester after Washtenaw County issued a 14-day stay-in-place order for undergraduate students.

  6. October 20, 2020

    University to launch several new anti-racism initiatives

    U-M will launch several new anti-racism initiatives, and enhance a number of existing ones, as part of a national reckoning on race and as deep-rooted structural inequities in American life have been magnified.

  7. October 19, 2020

    Five faculty members elected to National Academy of Medicine

    Five U-M professors have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the highest honorary society in the United States for researchers in medicine and health.

  8. October 19, 2020

    Board of Regents to meet publicly online Oct. 22

    The Board of Regents will meet virtually at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 22, consistent with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive directive regarding public meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  9. October 18, 2020

    VIDEO: Oct. 16 COVID-19 briefing with campus leaders

    Topics covered in U-M’s weekly COVID-19 briefing on Oct. 16 included winter semester planning, a look ahead to football season and the Halloween weekend, and how increasing COVID cases may affect the remainder of the fall semester.

  10. October 18, 2020

    Golden Apple recipient animates message of student learning

    Lorenzo García-Amaya, assistant professor of romance languages and literatures and co-director of Speech Production Lab, used an animated video to help present his Golden Apple Award lecture via Zoom.