Some 382,000 donors have given more than $5 billion to U-M — a campaign high among the nation’s public universities.

Blavin Scholar Cherish Fields, BA ’09/MSW ’11, emerged from the state’s foster care system to earn two U-M degrees. Now she’s on a mission to help others.

Richard and Susan Rogel’s record-breaking gift to Michigan Medicine — at $150 million — will transform cancer research.

Funds will support career-development programs, action-based learning experiences, and recruitment of junior faculty.

“Where the leaders and best come together” In early November the University publicly launched its most ambitious fundraising campaign of $4 billion—the largest effort in the history of public higher education. U-M’s most recent campaign, the Michigan Difference, ran from 2004-08 and raised $3.2 billion. The University has already received gifts totaling $1.7 billion during Read more

“As a youngster, it was always, ‘Why don’t you be like your uncle?'” says Stephen M. Ross, BBA ’62, referring to mentor and Ohio State University benefactor Max Fisher. “So when the opportunity came to make a major gift—what better way to do it [than at Michigan]?”

Video: At the age of 106, Lillian (Cooper) Gaines, ABEd ’27, remembers Ann Arbor at the height of the Jazz Age. “I was a dancing fool,” she says. And while he followed in her footsteps, son Harry Gaines, AB ’57/JD ’60, came to a very different U-M.

The University’s Board of Regents in September approved the renaming of the art-and-design school to the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

The popular DoGood iPhone application developed by U-M students last year has been acquired by Tonic, a digital media company. It’s the latest of dozens of inventions by U-M students and faculty that are transforming the Michigan and national economies.