U-Michigan launches strategic vision, pledges to be ‘the defining public university’
After a year of gathering input from the campus community, the U-M administration has released its strategic vision for the next 10 years. Vision 2034 — detailed in an initial 43-page report — calls upon the University to leverage its interdisciplinarity and excellence at scale to educate learners, advance society, and make groundbreaking discoveries.
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Gone clubbing
From fly fishing and physics to world peace and Quidditch, student clubs enrich campus life. Clearly that’s what these members of the 1890s’ Smokers’ Club would have told you.
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Easy Riders
Shifting gears comes naturally to entrepreneurs. For the founders of Autobike, it’s the defining feature of their evolving startup–a bike that shifts automatically.
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Susan Murphy nets MacArthur Fellowship
This innovative professor is developing smart-phone apps and other technologies to personalize treatment for depression, addiction, cardiovascular disease, and more.
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Rhapsody in Maize & Blue
U-M is now home to the complete works of iconic American artists George & Ira Gershwin. “S Wonderful,” yes?
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The black yearbook of 1976
In 1975 Sheryl Barnes saw few people like herself in the U-M yearbook. So she published her own document of the African-American student experience.
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Iconic Kahn
Video: Architect Albert Kahn defined the look of the U-M campus, as demonstrated in this then-and-now video montage of his finest work.
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President's Message
AI’s promise for teaching and learning
As U-M customizes Gen AI tools on campus, President Ono focuses on best practices defined by accessibility, privacy, integrity. -
Editor's Blog
Something old, something new
Who's ready for an excellent adventure? Just keep an eye peeled for the (virtual) hot lava. -
Climate Blue
Order from disorder
Ricky Rood explains the organizing principles behind weather, which is how we feel climate. -
Health Yourself
Getting a leg up on sciatica and piriformis syndrome
Victor Katch compares and contrasts sciatica and piriformis syndrome and explains how to ease that pain in your butt.
The Art Show
Founded in 1990 with a single theatre workshop, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) is a program of U-M’s Residential College. Courses serve as gateways for undergraduate participation in prison arts workshops and provide academic training in issues surrounding incarceration and practical skills in the arts. The program’s Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons (“the art show”) is one of the largest exhibits of artwork by incarcerated artists in the world. The annual exhibition, free to the public, is presented with support from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council. It runs through April 2 at the Duderstadt Gallery. (Click on the images to enlarge. Images are courtesy of PCAP.) Learn more about PCAP.