Heritage/Tradition
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Left of the dial
n 1972 the college radio gods flipped the switch at Michigan’s WCBN and took the placid, campus-only broadcasting network to the FM airwaves.
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U-M marks Wallenberg Centennial
The exhibit “To Me There’s No Other Choice,” honoring WWII hero and U-M alumnus Raoul Wallenberg, runs Jan. 30-Feb. 28.
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Cager for the ages
Cazzie Russell: Two words that evoke a near-mythic tale of rebirth and transformation in Wolverine athletics that started in the ’60s and still resonates today.
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Who was Alice Lloyd?
Most of us know her as a name inscribed on one of Michigan’s residence halls. Meet Alice Lloyd: feminist, registered nurse, and for 20 years U-M’s highest-ranking woman.
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Hill marks magnificent centennial
Hill Auditorium has mesmerized artists and audiences for 100 years. Everyone from Vladimir Horowitz to Bob Marley has graced its stage.
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Ayn Rand in her own words
In 1961 Ayn Rand was a guest on the budding network known as U-M Television. Revisit this intriguing event, courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library.
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Around the world for science
From the Amazon to Indonesia, 1870s explorer Joseph Beal Steere collected thousands of species to advance scientific research at U-M.
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The president's Prussian
Building an observatory and state-of-the-art telescope at U-M was a scientific master stroke. Politically, however, it proved problematic.
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Port Huron Statement turns 50
In 1962 a handful of U-M students calling themselves the Students for a Democratic Society published a manifesto that came to define a national student movement.