International

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. From Sudan to Sin City

    Odds are good that Dante Vasquez is the sole honorary Ghanaian chief living in Las Vegas.