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UMS Selected as One of Three University Performing Arts Presenters Awarded a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation »
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded grants totaling $1.9 million to a consortium of three university-based, multi-disciplinary performing arts presenting organizations.

Stamps gift for merit-based aid to double the number of Stamps Scholars on campus »
Through their family foundation, Penny (BSDES ’66, CERTT EDUC ’66) and Roe Stamps have extended their support for Michigan students with a recent gift of nearly $3.3 million for merit-based financial aid.

UMHS receives $15 million for women’s hospital »
The Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation has made the largest-ever gift to the Health System for women’s health. It supports construction of a new women’s hospital.

A Q&A with Tim Slottow: Dollars and Sense »
U-M's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer talks about investing, building, saving and competing.

PBS Newshour: In Ann Arbor, Michigan Finds Its ‘Life Preserver’ »
Michigan is home to few bright economic spots these days—with the exception of the college town of Ann Arbor.

Former Wolverine Charles Woodson gives $2 million to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital »
Woodson's gift to the new U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital will support groundbreaking pediatric research by funding The Charles Woodson Clinical Research Fund.

President Mary Sue Coleman Says U-M in Good Financial Shape: Video »
President Coleman talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman and Mark Crumpton about the University's finances and partnership with Google Inc. to digitize books. Coleman says the university is in "very good financial shape."

Time Magazine names President Mary Sue Coleman one of the nation's ten best college presidents »
Fundraising. It's every university president's bane; it's every university president's salvation. And those in the maize and blue have long seen the writing on the wall.