From Spielberg projects to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, composer/DEI advocate Laura Karpman, BMus, ’80, has long navigated the male-dominated industry of music scoring. Now she’s working to enhance the picture.

Thanks to a gift of $250K from Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Culture Corps is flipping the script on the traditional arts internship by recruiting students historically excluded from arts careers

Professional Broadway singers star alongside U-M musical theatre students in a special concert Feb. 19-20, featuring the first live performances of John Williams’s orchestral arrangement of the movie score.

The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection is the largest gift of art in the University’s history. The collection preserves important evidence of cultural pursuits in the early 20th century; it also reflects the tastes and intellectual exchanges among leading thinkers of the time.

U-M’s Detroit River Story Lab partners with community groups in Flint and Detroit to teach schoolchildren about ship construction and buoyancy, river ecology, and the river’s role in the history of the Underground Railroad.

The Comma Bookstore & Social Hub is a rarity: Fewer than 6 percent of U.S. bookstores are owned and operated by Black entrepreneurs. Egypt Otis, BA ’20, is here to change that.

Student-athletes are not the only ones who thrive on the high-level competition yielded by an annual rivalry. Aspiring journalists at U-M and OSU debuted their ‘Rivalry Edition’ three years ago as a newsroom fundraiser, ending on game day, Nov. 27.

Sebastian Catana, BSE’95, was close to completing a doctorate in chemical engineering when he made the life-changing decision to pursue a career in opera. Wonder if audiences in Italy’s Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova know that ‘Pagliacci’s’ Tonio is a would-be scientist.

COVID-19 lockdown was not an option for producer/photographer Robin Fader, BA ’78. Based in Washington, D.C., she is one of three artists (along with colleagues in NYC and Boston) who spent a year documenting our fractured society for the book ‘2020 UNMASKED.’