Video: The video game developer who created Sid Meier’s Civilization and Sid Meier’s Pirates recently took a turn creating future game developers. Meier, an engineering alum, led a game design boot camp at Michigan that attracted fellow engineers competing for the title of the next Sid Meier.

In the past five years, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University have pumped more than $300 million toward auto-related projects that help enhance vehicle quality and safety, improve engine efficiency and performance, and reduce fossil fuel use. It’s all part of their mission as partners in the University Research Corridor.

Video: Michigan scientists involved in experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland predict they’ll prove the existence of the Higgs boson by the end of summer. The Higgs is a linchpin in the overarching physics theory that describes the laws of nature and the nature of matter.

World traveler, multilingual English teacher, avid hiker, and martial arts aficionado. Nick Hoekstra, ’06, may be visually impaired, but he sees opportunity everywhere.

Athletic Director Dave Brandon: “Michigan is back”; joint study from U-M Law School and Northwestern University produces first national database of wrongful convictions; researchers create tree of life; study shows men eat veggies, but only to please wives; proposed U-M construction could reach $1 billion; hospitals look to auto industry for efficiency practices; video games help autistic students.

From the Great Depression and World War II through the British invasion and disco balls, Drake’s Sandwich Shop served up chocolate cordials, orange marmalade sandwiches, and ice-cold limeade to devoted University of Michigan students.

In 1962 a handful of U-M students calling themselves the Students for a Democratic Society published a manifesto that came to define a national student movement.

If a box is “still unpacked,” does that mean it’s still full or still empty?

In this month’s column, Victor Katch hits us where it hurts: right in the gut.