Economic innovators get noticed; U-M sets new record for Fulbrights; doctors find a new way to monitor obesity; a nun/alum teaches fencing; chimpanzees rampage; Michigan Stadium renovations near completion; and more.

Finishing more than two hours ahead of its nearest competitor, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team has won the American Solar Challenge for a third consecutive North American title.

Video: On summer evenings on U-M’s Mitchell Field, players from around the world gather for games of pickup soccer.

U-M will implement the lowest resident undergraduate tuition increase since 1984 paired with a record amount of undergraduate financial aid and a new Economic Hardship Program designed to offer additional help to Michigan families.

Related:

• U-M applications, projected freshman enrollment at all-time high.
• U-M accredited for another 10 years.

How U-M coach Fritz Crisler and World War Two created modern football.
Plus: Lloyd Carr retires as associate athletic director

Video: The true story of Ann Arbor’s dry line, and the rowdy, brawling student behavior it totally failed to prevent.

More words that give the state its particular flavor.

The great writer Alan Sillitoe wrote two of the finest novels to inspire movies ever.

How Dwayne McDuffie created some of the comics’ first black superheroes, invented the first heroic clean-up crew, and keeps kids TV icon Ben 10 in business.