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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Hill marks magnificent centennial
Hill Auditorium has mesmerized artists and audiences for 100 years. Everyone from Vladimir Horowitz to Bob Marley has graced its stage.
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U-M now home to world's most extensive Orson Welles archive
“Hollywood, as I predicted, is not a nice place to go out in.” So wrote Orson Welles upon moving from New York to Los Angeles in 1939. Welles’ original correspondence to his first wife is part of a recent acquisition by the University’s Special Collections Library. U-M is now home to the most extensive international archive on the filmmaker, actor, director, and writer, who is perhaps best known for the movie Citizen Kane.
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Hoops preview: Meet basketball's Fresh Five
As the 2012-13 Michigan basketball season approaches, head coach John Beilein finds himself with the most talented class of incoming freshmen since he set foot on campus.
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Creativity personified
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.
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Breaking a genocide's silence
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.
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Jogging Robot Runs Away with Award
Award-winning U-M researchers have produced the world’s fastest two-legged robot with knees, which could one day lead to powered prosthetic limbs and exoskeletons that let wheelchair-bound people walk again. In addition, two-legged robots could potentially respond to disasters and conduct dangerous missions on uneven terrain.
Columns
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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.
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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.