Campus Life

  1. Growth on U-M campus up, but energy use down, report shows

    U-M grew last year at a rapid 8-percent clip—including the campus’ largest physical expansion in 60 years—but its sustainability efforts have simultaneously cut normalized energy use by 4 percent, water use by 3 percent and resulted in a decrease in per-person trash levels of nearly 5 percent.

  2. No power? How about a personal solar panel?

    This hand-held solar-powered light and power source can be used anywhere, but inventors Abdrahamane Traoré and Shanhoor Amin hope to sell it cheaply in the developing world, where access to the power grid can be hard to find.

  3. Digitization ushers new era in scholarship

    The U-M Library is scanning 1,100 Islamic manuscripts, many of them hundreds of years old, giving scholars around world access to one of the world’s finest collections.

  4. 'Netflix for baby clothes' founder named College Entrepreneur of the Year

    U-M’s Allen Kim won the award from Entrepreneur magazine for his company Bebarang, a baby clothes rental service that ships parents brand-name outfits at a fraction of their original cost.

  5. The Doors' disaster at Michigan

    Jim Morrison bombs at the homecoming dance –- and changes rock history.

  6. Update on the University's financial situation

    University of Michigan Philip Hanlon describes the University budget, cost-cutting efforts, investments in the future and plans for growth.

  7. U-M enrollment sets another all-time record

    Enrollment on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus is at an all-time high in fall 2010 with 41,924 students. Help with tuition is also up: the general fund budget includes $126 million in centrally awarded financial aid, including a 10.6 percent increase in centrally awarded financial aid for undergraduates.

  8. U-M ranks first in 2010-2011 Fulbright U.S. student competition

    For the fourth time since 2005, the University of Michigan ranked first in the nation in the number of U.S. Department of State Fulbright Student grantees.

  9. 50 years of the Peace Corps

    From John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, presidents have challenged University of Michigan students to change the world.

    Plus: Kids these days: How involved is this generation?