Building an observatory and state-of-the-art telescope at U-M was a scientific master stroke. Politically, however, it proved problematic.

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.

From the Great Depression and World War II through the British invasion and disco balls, Drake’s Sandwich Shop served up chocolate cordials, orange marmalade sandwiches, and ice-cold limeade to devoted University of Michigan students.

In the spirit of commencement season, Michigan Today reflects on one of the most significant commencement addresses in University history.

In 1925, an idealistic group of conservationists dubbed the Society of Les Voyageurs set about constructing a cabin on the Huron River. It may well be the only home of a student organization built by the members who would use it.

U-M’s first black football player, George Jewett, spoke four languages, was valedictorian of his high school, earned a medical degree, and could wriggle through defenders or break a nose when he had to.

The strange, violent origins of the fraternity “rush.”

U-M’s campus zoo delighted locals with bears, skunks, a fox, a host of turtles and one very angry wolverine.

In 1921, a finger-wagging guide for Jazz Age freshmen admonished them to follow a strict social code. Much of the advice now seems strange and funny, though some of it applies equally well today.