1. Creative block? Get out of your office and go for a walk

    New research by U-M’s Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Suntae Kim shows that walking and even gesturing with your hands enhances creative problem-solving.

  2. Editor's farewell

    After six years, editor John Lofy is leaving Michigan Today. His goodbye column includes a list of his favorite articles.

  3. 'The Artist' and the afterlife of movies

    Second and third thoughts on a movie about the movies’ early days.

  4. Hopefully or full of hope?

    A case where it might be fine to break the grammar rules.

  5. What a drag it is getting old!

    Writer and law prof William Ian Miller’s bleak and hilarious exploration of aging.

  6. Animal house

    U-M’s campus zoo delighted locals with bears, skunks, a fox, a host of turtles and one very angry wolverine.