News Stories

March 16, 2015

Diversity is “major focus”

President Mark Schlissel launched a campuswide conversation on diversity last month, calling for innovative and ambitious measures to address “the hardest problem and biggest challenge that…

March 16, 2015

Gregerman, Goldman win Hollenshead Award for equity efforts

The 2015 recipients of the Center for the Education of Women’s Carol Hollenshead Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change are Sandra Gregerman, director of…

March 11, 2015

Students compete to find innovative solutions to public health challenges

Efforts to get healthier food choices for Detroit residents have proven somewhat successful in recent years with the opening of grocery stores and small markets, but…

March 11, 2015

Religion and support for birth control health coverage can mix

New research debunks the assumption that a woman’s religion predicts her views on policies affecting reproductive health care such as insurance coverage for birth control. Read…

March 10, 2015

'Elite' degrees give African Americans little advantage in job market

Does having a college degree from a highly selective school make a difference in getting a well-paid job? Not if you’re African American, says a U-M…

March 9, 2015

Architecture senior wins Wallenberg Fellowship to study refugee camps

Architecture student Bjørnar Haveland will be awarded the 2015 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship that will support his yearlong study of two of the world’s oldest refugee camps,…

March 5, 2015

U-M gift establishes world's first endowed chair of Thai Buddhism

The university has received a gift of $2 million to establish the Thai Professorship of Theravada Buddhism, which will further enhance one of the largest Buddhist…

February 24, 2015

Nobel laureate to discuss U.N. report on women's rights

The International Institute will host Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams and Perseus Strategies Managing Director Jared Genser at a Human Rights Initiative panel discussion on…

February 24, 2015

Schlissel calls education a ‘pathway to prosperity’ for state residents

President Mark Schlissel told state legislators Tuesday he has been impressed with Michigan residents’ optimism about the future and that “they look to higher education as…