Education & Society

  1. Episode 9: Blood in the water, featuring Heather Ann Thompson

    Author and University of Michigan professor Heather Ann Thompson, BA ’87/MA ’87, delivers the first definitive history of the 1971 Attica prison uprising and its devastating aftermath. Listen in, Michigan!

  2. Home is where the art is

    Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Henderson, BA ’92, embodies the ‘power of one’ as he transforms his blighted childhood home into a Detroit literary center.

  3. From tragedy to triumph

    Mitchell Robins, BBA ’77, and Amy Robins, BS ’78, lost their teenage son to cancer. Today their Seany Foundation helps other young warriors ‘reach for the sky.’

  4. Episode 8: The ‘human science’ of leadership, featuring Fritz Seyferth

    Executive coach and former Wolverine football player Fritz Seyferth, BSIOE ’73, shares lessons learned from mentor Bo Schembechler on how to build and lead great teams. Seyferth is principal/founder of the business consulting firm FS/A.

  5. Every day is game day

    Former Wolverines’ defensive tackle Jibreel Black, ’14, is riding a different kind of team bus these days. He’s on a cross-country journey to inspire volunteerism.

  6. Day of dissent

    On Oct.15, 1969, President Robben Fleming advised U-M faculty to forgo attendance. The campus had been given over to the biggest of all 1960s peace protests.

  7. Google, U-M partner to battle Flint crisis

    New smartphone app and digital tools will help manage, navigate Flint water crisis.

  8. Seven last words

    Social justice is set to music as the U-M Men’s Glee Club honors unarmed black men killed by law enforcement or neighborhood watch volunteers.

  9. Episode 6: The wind is very much up, featuring Ralph Williams

    University of Michigan professor Ralph Williams reflects on “the American project,” the pursuit of happiness, and the future of the human race.