The men’s gymnastics team earned the program’s seventh NCAA Championship team crown behind a score of 332.224 April 19 at Crisler Center. It is the Wolverines’ first national title since 2014. Paul Juda was the final Michigan competitor of the meet, and his 13.966 on the vault was the difference.

On Earth Day, April 22, a sapling grown from the historic Tappan Oak was planted near the Alumni Association’s Alumni Center on Central Campus. The planting carries forward the legacy of the original tree, which stood near the Hatcher Graduate Library for more than 300 years until its removal in 2021 when the trunk was discovered to have decayed.

The changes, outlined in a March 27 email message from University leaders to the Ann Arbor and Michigan Medicine communities, include closing the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion as well as discontinuing the DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan.

The University is instituting new requirements to reduce spending as a “buffer against negative, long-term impacts on operations” stemming from federal funding cuts. The requirements involve hiring, budgets, and spending and are effective immediately.

At the onset of the 20th century, women’s athletics expanded in the United States and at the University of Michigan. Women students took up tennis, archery, fencing, horseback riding, and more. The sidelines no longer sufficed, and women were determined to be on the field. But which field would that be?

U-M Regent Philip Power once remarked that Robben Fleming, U-M president from 1968-78, viewed clashes as the engine of progress. Power wasn’t wrong. Fleming’s background in labor law prepared him for the tumultuous decade when student protest and anti-war sentiment captivated the campus.

This brother and sister went through the U-M dental school one year apart but never knew about each other until 30 years later. Today, they enjoy a newly expanded network of relatives, friends, and of course, Michigan alumni.

Over 166 years, five successive generations of Michigan-minted doctors have left their collective mark on medicine — and the Breakey family. The birth of the Breakey dynasty of doctors coincides closely with the birth of the University of Michigan Medical School, which opened 175 years ago. That’s James Fleming Breakey, MD 1894, on the far right.

Tachi and Leslie Yamada’s $10 million donation five years ago helped launch U-M’s Center for Global Health Equity. Earlier this year, Leslie Yamada and her family donated an additional $10 million to the center, a portion of which has been used to name the center’s directorship, held by Joseph C. Kolars.