Education may hold the most potential to revive our nation’s ailing ethos, says cultural historian Neal Gabler, AB ’71/AM ’75 — emphasis on potential.

What happens to those tiny bars of hotel soap on check-out? Ford School grad Erin Zaikis, AB ’10, recycles and redistributes them.

In 1985 Deborah Robinson, PhD ’87, created a bracelet program with the names of political prisoners serving life sentences in South Africa. Solidarity prevails today.

Whether it’s LSD or e-cigarettes, U-M researchers have spent 40 years citing the substances that captivate our nation’s youth. Learn what history has taught.

Past and present collide as photographer Jennifer Karady collaborates with veterans to create indelible images of a war carried home.

Society’s fundamental building block has morphed from the cookie-cutter norms of the last century to a vivid array of possibilities.

Lynn Conway has been called the hidden hand in the movement that enabled the fabric of Silicon Valley. She’s also one of the nation’s first modern transgender women.

U-M scientists answer some of the most urgent questions about this deadly outbreak.

Activist Tom Hayden’s papers join extensive Labadie Collection chronicling radical history and social protest movements worldwide.