Interdisciplinary Programs

The 2026 Endowment for Basic Sciences Awards recognized nine faculty and nine research staff members for their accomplishments in teaching and research.

A University of Michigan building on the medical campus was recently honored as a “Biggest Loser” in a statewide competition. That designation, however, is a good thing. On May 14 at the Michigan Energy Summit in Lansing, the Michigan Green Building Collaborative named the U-M’s A. Alfred Taubman Health Sciences Library a 2025 winner in the education category of its Battle of the Buildings competition that recognizes outstanding energy conservation.

On May 21, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved promotions for 191 Medical School faculty members. Their new appointments take effect Sept. 1, 2026.

The University of Michigan Medical School graduating MD Class of 2026 officially became doctors during the annual Commencement ceremony at Hill Auditorium on May 15, 2026

Sanjay Gupta speaks with a Michigan Medicine Medical School graduate with words of wisdom for U-M graduates and his favorite past times of Ann Arbor.

Every person who has ever taught a future healthcare professional will one day, in all likelihood, become a patient. It is one of the quiet truths of health professions education that the work of teaching is never purely academic. It ripples forward in ways we cannot always see, shaping the hands and minds that will one day care for us, our families and our communities.