The exhibit “To Me There’s No Other Choice,” honoring WWII hero and U-M alumnus Raoul Wallenberg, runs Jan. 30-Feb. 28.

Engineering and medical researchers at U-M have devised a system they hope will trap circulating tumor cells, the ones they believe contribute to the process of cancer spreading from its original site to distant tissues. It’s a feat no research team has yet accomplished.

Researchers in surgery and dentistry are exploring a cancer stem cell vaccine. A physicist, an artist, and a composer are creating a multimedia event inspired by dark energy. Two teams of engineers and environmental scientists are looking into whether hydraulic fracturing could contaminate drinking water. These researchers all received grants from MCubed, a two-year, $15-million pilot that funds interdisciplinary collaboration at U-M.

Whether one believes obesity is caused by overeating or a lack of exercise can determine whether he or she will gain or lose weight, according to new research to be published in the journal Psychological Science.

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To say that wunderkind songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ended the year 2012 on a high note is a bit of an understatement. Just six years after graduation, the longtime partners wrapped their first foray on Broadway with the music and lyrics for A Christmas Story, based on the 1983 film.

Founders of tech startup Are You a Human could have set up shop anywhere—and they chose Detroit. Based in the historic Madison Building, they embody new momentum in the city.

They forged a friendship navigating the turbulent political landscape of the late 1960s. Today Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein enjoy a productive and sometimes contentious relationship with our nation’s leaders.

When the members of Ann Arbor’s Memorial Christian Church put their building up for sale, the roving fraternity brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon received an answer to their prayers—and a place to call home.

n 1972 the college radio gods flipped the switch at Michigan’s WCBN and took the placid, campus-only broadcasting network to the FM airwaves.