Campuswide summit continues yearlong effort to create a comprehensive plan to address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues at U-M.

Go Blue! They’re two little words that mean so much to Wolverines worldwide. But how did this cheer originate? And which Wolverine said it first?

In 1910, U-M students attended class in unventilated buildings; spit on the floors and sidewalks; and contracted tuberculosis in alarming numbers. Good times!

Sure, we know the War of 1812, but how about the War of 1817? It happened right here at U-M – in 1929. Listen in, as resident Michigan Today historian James Tobin recounts the controversy regarding the exact founding date of the University of Michigan.

Michigan Today proves truth is more poignant than fiction in our new audio feature, ‘Listen In, Michigan.’ We kick off this venture by looking into the University of Michigan’s colorful history, when outhouses still dotted the Diag and medical students knicked cadavers from the graveyard – for school, of course

This beautiful video captures the Arb’s poetic wonder, offset by an excerpt from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.”

President Mark Schlissel calls on U-M community to address “the hardest problem and biggest challenge we’re going to confront together.”

In 1985 Deborah Robinson, PhD ’87, created a bracelet program with the names of political prisoners serving life sentences in South Africa. Solidarity prevails today.

The rule barring women from the Michigan Marching Band was dropped in 1972 — not with a bang, but a whisper.