To All Members of the Campus Community: I want to wish all members of our community a safe Thanksgiving recess and express my appreciation to everyone who is helping to slow the spread of COVID-19 by practicing social distancing, avoiding social gatherings, and being diligent in wearing face coverings. These are not the circumstances any …

To All Members of the Campus Community: The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has issued a new order that takes effect Wednesday and affects some parts of our campus. The order calls for additional safety measures around certain activities and is designed to address the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases throughout the state. …

To All Members of the Campus Community: Highly concerning increases in the incidence of COVID-19 are happening throughout our surrounding community and state, as we are seeing across much of the nation. Increasing disease activity is placing much greater burdens on county and regional medical resources, including U-M’s hospitals. These challenges are discussed in a video …

To All Members of the Campus Community: Our current semester has been like no other, with our students, faculty and staff exhibiting innovation and resilience as we taught, learned, advanced research, cared for patients and served our communities under the most challenging of circumstances. We studied in tents, wore PPE in our labs, worked from …

To All Members of the Campus Community: Every vote must be counted. Election Day has passed, but we do not yet know the results of the presidential race and many others on the ballot. That was to be expected, given the high turnout, increased use of absentee ballots, and procedures in many states that do …

To All Members of the Campus Community: Over the past week, there have been increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in our region throughout the state and in most parts of the country. This remains a concern for all of us, as the higher levels of virus activity are not limited to campus. Wherever we live …

The privilege and responsibility to vote is a hallmark of our engagement as citizens of a democracy. If you have not registered already, I strongly encourage you to register and participate in this process by voting on or before Election Day, Tuesday, November 3. You can register and vote up to 8 p.m. on Election Day at your city …

To All Members of the Campus Community: I thank the students, faculty and staff who have signed up for and received COVID-19 tests through our Community Sampling & Tracking Program. Last week, we conducted nearly 5,800 on-campus tests. Following Tuesday’s announcement of a Stay in Place order for Ann Arbor campus undergraduates and new guidance on …

To All Members of the Campus Community: COVID-19 cases are increasing on our campus, and in the region, state, and nation. As we noted last Friday in our weekly briefing, increases among students both on and off campus are heightening the pressure on our case investigators, contact tracers, and quarantine and isolation housing capacity. Today, …

To All Members of the Campus Community: I want to thank everyone who has signed up for asymptomatic testing through our Community Sampling & Tracking Program and urge everyone on campus to participate. This is an important tool we use to monitor COVID-19, and we have capacity that is going unused. There has been a troubling increase …