Activist Grace Lee Boggs called on a cheering crowd of more than 1,100 to continue the University's "courageous and righteous'' battle for affirmative action during the keynote address of the symposium honoring Martin Luther King Jr. More>

The University is creating a new Center for the Advancement of Behavioral and Social Science (CABSS), designed to provide opportunities for U-M faculty to join with scholars and other non-academics from around the world to work on innovative, high-risk collaborative projects.

David L. Featherman, professor of sociology and psychology and director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), will serve as the new center's interim director. More>