1. A century of birds in Northern Michigan

    The U-M Biological Station is celebrating 100 years of bird watching and study in the forests Up North. Historical photos help to tell the story.

  2. Forty years of transformation

    Over the last 40 years, the Spectrum Center has offered help and a community to gay students.

  3. A tree grows on the Diag

    The beauty and peacefulness of the Diag derive in large part from its trees. Many were planted as long ago as the Civil War, some just last week.

  4. Listening to the Dow

    U-M librarian Justin Joque’s “sonification” of stock market activity since the 1930s provides weird and revealing insight into the economy.

  5. Is problematize a problem?

    What do you think about “-ize” words? Many people deplore them, but that probably doesn’t make much difference.

  6. Just like a real memory

    “Super 8” is a reminder of those old films we used to shoot, grainy, silent and lovely, about our lives. And how a handful of great directors got their starts in their own backyards.