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Finding belonging on campus
While Lydia Pinkham’s journey to Ann Arbor may be uncommon, the story of how she found success on campus is resoundingly familiar. Pinkham served in the United States Coast Guard as a Petty Officer Machinery Technician Second Class. She was stationed in Seattle, Virginia, and Florida, and deployed for missions to places like the Bering Sea and the Central Pacific along Central and South America.
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Of Splendid Ability
Canadian by birth and a graduate of Flint High School, Mary Henrietta Graham’s accomplishments went far beyond being the first Black woman to enroll at Michigan.
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Voting counts
Students at the School of Information worked this summer on a project to streamline the absentee voting process at four municipalities in Michigan.
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U-M satellite city clerk’s office
The UMMA satellite city clerk’s office has been registering between 150 and 200 students per day. As of Oct. 13, more than 2,600 students have registered and more than 2,900 have voted either in person at UMMA or by returning their ballot to the museum’s drop box.
- Maize & Blueprint — Current Campus Status
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Winter Term 2021 Plan
The University of Michigan has developed a comprehensive plan for Winter Term incorporating public health guidance, lessons learned from the Fall Semester and extensive feedback and engagement with the community.
Learn more about the plan
Campus Maize & Blueprint
The University of Michigan is offering an innovative, public health-informed semester. In order to make this possible, there are many new health and safety measures taking place across the U-M campus to protect our students, faculty and staff.
Latest Updates
- Stay up-to-date on the most recent messages from leadership, major announcements and campus status information on our Campus Maize & Blueprint site.
See status updates
Living + Learning
- Learn how campus life at U-M has been reimagined — everything from course formats and the academic calendar to the use of space in classrooms, dorms and dining halls.
View info for students + families
Health + Safety
- Discover how U-M students, faculty and staff are Taking Care of Maize & Blue by following safety measures to keep their friends, family and communities healthy during these challenging times.
Learn about safety efforts
News
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- Large-scale nest study shows that noise and light pollution alter bird reproduction
- $1.62B in FY ’20 research volume spurs U-M innovation
- Anti-racism faculty hiring initiative moves forward
- Monumental outdoor sculpture by Spanish artist to change the face of U-M Museum of Art
- Teens with autism to learn job skills from virtual training tool
Visit Michigan News
Visit Key Issues
Public Engagement
- Commentary: Black voters showed up for America. Here's how America can show up for them.
- Commentary: Michiganders can unite to fight the pandemic. We've done it before.
- Q&A: Ad-free, censorship-free social sites MeWe, Parler see surge in interest postelection
- Commentary: The fallout of a SCOTUS health care decision could be quick, devastating and irreversible
- VIDEO/Q&A: Legal challenge to Affordable Care Act threatens women's reproductive health care
Visit Public Engagement
Visit Democracy & Debate
In The News
- WIRED We'll need more than one vaccine to beat the pandemic
- Salon Time to discuss potentially unpleasant side effects of COVID shots? Scientists say yes
- USA Today No blue wave, no red tide: Historic election turnout boosts Biden in Michigan, Trump in Ohio
- Bloomberg News Biden is set to 'undo the Trump years' with civil rights pivot
View more In The News
View COVID-19 news & research
Happening @ Michigan
Events
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) events may have been moved online, rescheduled, or canceled. Visit Happening@Michigan for updates.
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Nov 20 LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session Off Campus Location
- Nov 16 CoderSpaces (Mondays)
- Nov 16 Total Body Strength
- Nov 16 Barre Above
- Nov 17 CoderSpaces (Tuesdays)
- Nov 18 Yoga Core
- Nov 18 Maize and Blue Cupboard North Campus Distribution
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Academic Calendar
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Carpe Diem
All Michigan, all the time
There’s always something amazing happening at Michigan. Whether it’s on campus or around the world, our students, faculty, staff and alumni are out seizing the day. A sampling of images captured over the years is shown in the gallery below.
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Get Connected
A mandatory weekly testing program will be implemented for undergraduate @UMichStudents living on campus or attending in-person classes or activities, using facilities, or working on campus during winter term. myumi.ch/R5oyq
To help prompt case investigation and contact tracing, and to measure overall illness within the U-M community, a new self-reporting #COVID19 survey tool is available to those who were tested off campus and had a positive result. myumi.ch/4pRjN pic.twitter.com/SpzYivduLm
Don’t wait @UMichStudents, sign up for departure testing today! All undergraduate M-Housing residents must be tested before leaving campus. There are still testing slots available for this weekend. Sign up today: myumi.ch/0WRg9 pic.twitter.com/55Z0THAGxZ