Video: physicist Tim McKay tells the mind – boggling story of how we know the universe is expanding.

After graduation, Karl Rosaen moved from Michigan to Silicon Valley, where he worked on the now-famous Google Android phone. So when he wanted to start his own high tech firm, where did he go? Back home to Michigan, of course. A story about hope for a new economy.

What were the biggest games, the most impressive performances, the best Wolverine teams of the ’00s? Sportswriter John U. Bacon makes his picks. What are yours?

Plus: David Brandon named U-M athletic director.

U-M helps transform the economy and teacher education; the oldest American in Canada is an alum; two Wolverines, ranked #1 in the world in ice dancing, vie for the Olympics; new A.D. Dave Brandon resolves to heal rifts among U-M fans; and more.

Second home to radicals, hipsters, jazz lovers, rock stars, nudists, DetBurgers, giant burritos and the Midwest’s most hostile waitstaff, the Del Rio bar embodied countercultural Ann Arbor—until it finally outlived its times and closed. In this book excerpt, the Del’s former owner Ernie Harburg remembers when Ann Arbor was a very different place.

Our film maven looks back at the best movies and big trends of the ’00s.

Blank spaces are just as important to language as letters, and a shifted space can create brand new words.

Robben Wright Fleming, the imperturbable U-M president who steered the school safely through the student unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s, died Jan. 11 at age 93. His devotion to the ideals of academic freedom and civil debate amid social and political tumult led the regents to name the university’s central administration building in honor of Fleming and his wife, Sally, who died in 2005.

An alum’s story of how U-M prof Edward Seidensticker changed his life through poetry.