A century after a medical school alumnus gifted U-M with a collection of herbaceous peonies, the garden finally bears his name (not to mention 350 varieties of the flower). Donor W.E. Upjohn considered these blooms his ‘salvation.’ This June, they’re making music.

Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas delivers a new book that exposes ‘the elite charade of changing the world.’

The hero of John U. Bacon’s ‘The Great Halifax Explosion,’ about the biggest manmade explosion before Hiroshima, is U-M’s first hockey coach.

by Susan Winesberg and Patrick McCauley The Ann Arbor Historical Society recently released this guidebook to Ann Arbor’s most significant historic buildings and neighborhoods. U-M graduates will be pleased to find more than 40 campus buildings (Hill Auditorium, the Earl V. Moore Building, and the Power Center for Performing Arts, to name a few) among Read more

by Alyson Foster As botany professor Jess Frobisher clears space in her yard to build the greenhouse she’s always wanted, her mind begins to wander. It wanders, as it always does, toward Arthur, her colleague in the botany department. Arthur, who never believed she’d actually start the greenhouse project. Arthur, who in the aftermath of Read more