“We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000,” said U-M’s Sara Konrath. “College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait.”

In the 1960s, psychiatry saw an astonishing but largely hidden phenomenon. Schizophrenia, once seen as a disease of anxious, well-off white women, became a go-to diagnosis of angry, urban black men. How did madness, blackness and civil rights become linked, and what were the consequences for patients and society? U-M psychiatry professor Jonathan Metzl looks for answers.

As president of ABC News, U-M alumnus David Westin is one of the most important figures in TV news. It’s a long way from a childhood in Flint and Ann Arbor.

At Camp Michigania, generations of alumni families play at the lake, walk in the woods, and build lifelong friendships.

How a lucky circle of U-M student scribes became friends with America’s poet-laureate.

Someday soon, the Big Ten may expand. History shows that the biggest changes would be unexpected ones—like when U-M quit the Big Ten in 1907, and found its biggest rivals.

Plus: U-M responds to NCAA allegations.

You can tell a “real” Michigander by how they pronounce place names like “Ypsilanti” and “Mackinac.”

Sir John Dankworth ranked among the movies’ great composers – and one of the first to bring jazz to the silver screen.