Campus Life

  1. #Thank you, Mary Sue

    President Coleman reflects on her 12-year tenure as U-M’s 13th president. After an amazing run, she’ll retire this summer.

  2. Drawing of the "object" flying over Frank Mannor's Dexter swamp. Courtesy of the Ann Arbor District Library.

    Ann Arbor vs. the flying saucers

    In 1966 a sudden wave of UFO sightings—many by extremely credible witnesses—turned local eyes skyward and brought national attention to Ann Arbor.

  3. Black students protest at U-M, 2014. Image by Adam Glanzman

    Being black at Michigan

    Student activists spark national dialogue; engage with alumni, use social media to organize and advocate for change.

  4. Cook hallway, courtesy of U-M's Bentley Historical Library.

    Mr. Cook’s women

    Traces of an irascible millionaire’s views of the “fair sex” linger all through the Martha Cook Building a century after its construction

  5. Shlissel and Coleman shake hands

    Mark Schlissel named U-M president

    Mark S. Schlissel, MD/PhD, provost of Brown University, will succeed Mary Sue Coleman July 1. President Coleman is retiring after 12 years leading U-M.

  6. Gone clubbing

    From fly fishing and physics to world peace and Quidditch, student clubs enrich campus life. Clearly that’s what these members of the 1890s’ Smokers’ Club would have told you.

  7. Iconic Kahn

    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.

  8. Engineering clean drinking water

    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.

  9. A2 on the (high) rise

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

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