Education & Society

  1. The beating heart of Cuba

    For jazz percussionists, Cuba is the holy grail of influence. During a recent Spring Break, music students traveled south to find it.

  2. Freedom writer

    In the midst of the civil rights movement, U-M historian Dwight Lowell Dumond published his anti-slavery masterwork. The backlash was ferocious.

  3. Notes from the 'opposition party'

    Alumni journalists fight the beast that is ‘fake news’ and offer options to avoid counterfeit copy.

  4. Everybody walk the dinosaur

    As experts prepare to move the Museum of Natural History, they reimagine the visitor experience.

  5. An uncommon education

    University historians collaborate with Detroit Public Television to produce shortform documentary series about U-M’s legacy.

  6. U-M pioneers new walking robot

    New bot is loosely modeled on the cassowary, a flightless bird with backward-facing knees.

  7. Power to the pixel

    In 1988, while most of the digital technology we take for granted was unknown, a revolutionary software named Photoshop began to develop at U-M.

  8. All's fair … Or is it?

    Have you ever: Forwarded photos taken by one friend to another? Watched a clip from a TV show on Facebook? Quoted a published work in a research paper?

  9. Fast track to first responder

    U-M student volunteers cut to the chase in action-packed training program for Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service.