From stone-faced gargoyles to elaborate ceiling designs, U-M's hallowed halls of learning offer countless visual delights. All of these images come from the talented team at Michigan Photography.

Things may be frozen on the Ann Arbor campus but one can still appreciate the breathtaking beauty of U-M on ice.

From prosthetic feet to phantom lungs, U-M scientists, scholars, and students collaborate in institutes, centers, libraries, and labs to redefine research and change our world. Research at Michigan is conducted in all 19 schools and colleges on the Ann Arbor campus, as well as at the U-M Flint and U-M Dearborn campuses.

As the year draws to a close, Michigan Today revisits some of the most memorable stories of 2014.

This slideshow features some of the photos and documents in the University of Michigan's collection.

Corpses on campus. Coeds in costumes. The signature of an infamous alumni killer. Just in time for Halloween, Michigan Today brings the creepy, spooky, and unusual to light in this photo slideshow from the archives of the Bentley Historical Library. (Text by Lara Zielin.)

College football's oldest trophy rivalry began in 1903, when the University of Michigan Wolverines discarded an empty water jug in the visitors' locker room after a brutal battle with the University of Minnesota Gophers. That game ended in a 6-6 tie, which Minnesota considered a hard-won victory. Minnesota's athletic director Dr. Louis J. "Doc" Cooke fashioned the jug into a rough-hewn trophy, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Little Brown Jug: The Michigan-Minnesota Rivalry (Arcadia Publishing) by Ken Magee and Jon M. Stevens, is a new book that celebrates the myths, mysteries, and mania that have captivated college football fans for more than a century. "It's more than a football game. It's more than a rivalry. It's history," says Stevens. Read an interview with the authors. (The images and captions here are reprinted with permission from the publisher.)

Photos by Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography.

Photos by Michigan Photography. Captions Sourced via the President's Advisory Committee on Public Art.