International
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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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Breaking a genocide's silence
One of the casualties of the 1994 Rwandan genocide was the culture’s storytelling tradition. Resurrecting it has been the mission of a project called Stories for Hope.
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Channeling Victory
As the world’s Olympians basked in gold and glory, six female swimmers quietly conquered the treacherous waters of the English Channel to honor a friend.
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Parting the Iron Curtain—with music
On a frigid Moscow night, William Revelli and the Michigan Symphony Band launched one of the most ambitious cultural exchanges in history. The year was 1961.
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A WWII hero's enduring legacy
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.
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Not just monkey business: cooperation vs. competition
Leaders take note: A new study of gelada monkeys indicates that being the top dog—or in this case, top monkey—is even better if the alpha male occasionally concedes to subordinates.
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Believing is seeing
World traveler, multilingual English teacher, avid hiker, and martial arts aficionado. Nick Hoekstra, ’06, may be visually impaired, but he sees opportunity everywhere.
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Ross School brings Executive MBA to sunny SoCal
Business professor-cum-shark diver George Siedel will teach the LA cohort of the Executive MBA Program this fall.
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From Sudan to Sin City
Odds are good that Dante Vasquez is the sole honorary Ghanaian chief living in Las Vegas.