Video: Architect Albert Kahn defined the look of the U-M campus, as demonstrated in this then-and-now video montage of his finest work.

Engineering students fight off mosquitoes, survive harrowing travel, and live off rice and beans as they seek to deliver safe drinking water to people living in one of the largest wetlands in the world—Pantanal, Brazil.

Things are looking up in Ann Arbor—way up. A recent building boom is reshaping the city skyline, hastening a vertical shift in perspective.

They say there are no “do-overs” in life. Tell that to physician Ronny Schmier, BA ’71, a master’s candidate in U-M’s new program in health informatics.

Video: LSA Today’s inside look at the Baird Carillon high atop Burton Memorial Tower is sure to ring your bell(s).

Video: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, BS ’85, opened his 2013 commencement speech by taking a photo of the audience and tweeting it to more than a million followers. “I’m a professional; this will only take a second,” the former stand-up comedian said. The Washington Post ranks Costolo’s address in 2013’s top five.

U-M President Mary Sue Coleman recently announced she will retire in July 2014. Appointed in 2002, Coleman is the fourth-longest-serving president in the University’s history.

A $110 million gift of securities from investor and philanthropist Charles T. Munger will support his vision for a new state-of-the-art residence for U-M graduate students. The gift is the largest single donation to the University in its 196-year history.

At age 91, retired speech professor and lifelong athlete Al Storey, BA ’49/MA ’50/PhD ’53, gives new meaning to “playing the game of life.”