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.

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.

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.