Music. Medical training. Mental health services. U-M students and alumni deliver precious resources to young people across the state, leading by example and opening doors to the University. Learn more at Stories of our State. (All images by Michigan Photography.)

Mental health, sensible gun regulation, and the challenges of high-stakes academics are themes in a new movie by co-writer Roger Rapoport, BA ’68. Coming Up for Air, about a troubled student-athlete, showcases Canham Natatorium and longtime U-M diving coach Dick Kimball. The story takes place at a fictional University; U-M has not endorsed and is not affiliated with the picture other than serving as one location. Rapoport regularly presents excerpted scenes with Q&As for families, athletes, educators, and mental health experts. The entire film will be available Sept. 20 through myCinema, which enables theater owners to access and present specialty content. (All photos by Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography.)

Wolverine baseball is back after a terrific 2019 season. It was the first time a Big Ten Conference team reached the NCAA Championship title game since 1966. These images come from Game One of the championship series in Omaha June 24, in which U-M triumphed over Vanderbilt 7-4. Let’s relive some of those magic moments. (All images: Michigan Photography.)

U-M always has been identified with its most prominent professors and famous alumni. But since it began, the place has depended on a small army of staffers and contractors to do the hard labor and perform the daily chores behind the scenes. Often unseen and unsung, they are the people who made the University run.  (All images courtesy of U-M’s Bentley Historical Library.)

In 1996, Stamps professors Janie Paul and Buzz Alexander launched the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners through their Prison Creative Arts Project. These images include selected works in the 2019 installation. Prisoners report they become more self-confident, more at peace, and more generous through art, Paul says. (Some of these images are cropped for size. Make sure to view the complete work.)

The winter of 2018-19 has taken its frigid toll on Michigan’s residents, both furry and otherwise. Who remembers slogging through the slush on the Diag? We'd love to hear your horror stories. (Photos by Michigan Photography.)

After the Ruthven Museums building officially closed its doors to the public last year, Michigan Today explored its deserted halls, cupboards, and cabinets to find a trove of fascinating and forgotten artifacts. A renovated Ruthven will be home to classrooms, labs, and offices for the University's central administration staff. Ruthven's former occupants now live in the new Biological Sciences Building.

Experts predict by century’s end rising oceans will cause significant flooding in coastal cities worldwide. The Sinking Cities Project blends art and science to document the experience of living in such endangered locations -- from Indonesia and Bangladesh to Italy and the U.S. Marcin Szczepanski, visual communications director at Michigan Engineering, and Frank Sedlar, BSE '13/MSE, '15, hope the images help people better understand the effects of rising sea levels. Images are on display at U-M's Hatcher Graduate Library through February. (Caption text by Szczepanski.)

This virtual visit to the Stamps Gallery on Division Street celebrates Ann Arbor’s legacy of social movements and experimental art practices from the late-1950s to the 1970s. Materials from U-M’s Labadie Collection and the Bentley Historical Library are displayed alongside radical artworks influenced by the ideas of freedom and self-determination.