ANN ARBOR—For more than 15 years, Anne Mondro, an associate professor at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, has been creating and facilitating art programs for people living with dementia in Michigan.

ANN ARBOR—Clinicians, administrators and policymakers should consider ways to support the mental health and well-being of older adults as they go through residential transitions, according to a University of Michigan study that looked at deaths by suicide among people 55 and older. The study focuses on suicides among adults who were living in, or planning Read more

ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan donated more than 12.5 tons of clothing, bedding, household goods and food to local organizations to benefit the Ann Arbor and surrounding communities following student move-out this year. For more than 25 years, reusable items have been collected on campus as part of the Student Move-Out Donation Program that encourages Read more

ANN ARBOR—Collecting DNA samples for human genetic studies can be an expensive, lengthy process that has often made it difficult to include diverse populations in studies of medical and health data. University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues believe they have found a way to harness the power of social media and its ubiquitous presence Read more

ANN ARBOR—A new University of Michigan study challenges a popularized view about what’s causing the growing gap between the lifespans of more- and less-educated Americans—finding shortcomings in the widespread narrative that the United States is facing an epidemic of “despair.” Some influential studies have argued that growing life expectancy inequality is driven by so-called “deaths Read more

ANN ARBOR—After years of raising awareness about the beneficial impacts of women’s presence on corporate boards of directors, fewer than 20% of such seats are filled by women. Cindy Schipani, the Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration and professor of business law at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, says that Read more

DETROIT—Three University of Michigan faculty members are part of a team that won an international design competition that will unite 12 cultural and educational institutions located in Detroit’s Midtown and change the way visitors and Detroiters experience the area. The winning project, titled “Detroit Square,” offers a “locally rooted, contextually, and environmentally responsive framework” to Read more

ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan scientists and their colleagues are forecasting that this summer’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone or ‘dead zone’—an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life—will be approximately 7,829 square miles, or roughly the size of Massachusetts. The 2019 forecast is close to the record size Read more