Campus Life

  1. U-M will push for new ideas to take on global challenges

    In her annual fall address, U-M president Mary Sue Coleman unveiled the Third Century Initiative, a bold plan to use $50 million in existing funds during the next five years to develop innovative, multidisciplinary teaching and scholarship approaches to such topics as climate change, poverty and malnutrition, energy storage, affordable health care and social justice challenges. It will encompass teaching, research and service efforts.

  2. U-M's Sophomore Initiative offers food for thought

    A portfolio of new courses aim to defeat ‘sophomore malaise.’

  3. Food riot, 1956

    The night the quaddies said no to corned beef and swiss cheese on lettuce.

  4. Dancing with Madonna

    In 1977, Whitley Hill arrived as a freshman at U-M and met her roommate: a talented, eccentric dynamo named Madonna. Hill’s new book remembers the girl who would become an icon.

  5. Forty years of transformation

    Over the last 40 years, the Spectrum Center has offered help and a community to gay students.

  6. A century of birds in Northern Michigan

    The U-M Biological Station is celebrating 100 years of bird watching and study in the forests Up North. Historical photos help to tell the story.

  7. How have you changed?

    The U-M College of Engineering asked students how they have changed since their arrival on campus. The answers are surprising, poignant and inspiring, and they might just get you thinking about your own time in Ann Arbor.

  8. The wolverine that wasn’t

    Why the University of Michigan doesn’t have a mascot.

  9. Open for debate

    Brilliant ideas and ruthless competition at 600 words per minute: Behind the scenes of the Michigan debate team’s dramatic push for a national championship.