Long before it was home to Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago was the splendid palace of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Its shimmery past still glitters at U-M.

In 1970, a female secretary inspired one of the great sea changes in the University’s history: that Michigan should treat women the same as men.

Investment in Detroit youth pays off for students struggling with academics.

Richard and Susan Rogel’s record-breaking gift to Michigan Medicine — at $150 million — will transform cancer research.

Researchers are working in Lake Michigan communities to shore up effects of beach erosion as threats intensify from fluctuating Great Lakes water levels.

U-M faculty demonstrate the power of public engagement through social media, influencing journalists, policymakers, and peers.

U-M physicist Gordon Kane remembers the late Stephen Hawking, a betting man who always paid his debts.

Oral history project aims to document the stories of Iranian-Americans with ties to the state, and highlight their everyday lives.

Lyman T. Johnson, MA ’33, was the grandson of former slaves. He integrated the University of Kentucky five years before Brown v. Board of Education.