Hill Auditorium has mesmerized artists and audiences for 100 years. Everyone from Vladimir Horowitz to Bob Marley has graced its stage.

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.

From the Amazon to Indonesia, 1870s explorer Joseph Beal Steere collected thousands of species to advance scientific research at U-M.

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

Swedish native Raoul Wallenberg was a typical U-M student in 1935. But after graduation, he followed a path that was anything but typical. This World War II hero rescued close to 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis.

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.