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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

World traveler, multilingual English teacher, avid hiker, and martial arts aficionado. Nick Hoekstra, ’06, may be visually impaired, but he sees opportunity everywhere.

Business professor-cum-shark diver George Siedel will teach the LA cohort of the Executive MBA Program this fall.

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

Former Wolverines tight end Chris McLaurin, ’09, takes his experience as a Fulbright Scholar and White House intern to Asia. He’s the recipient of a prestigious Luce Fellowship.