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Derek Stevens during 2018 NCAA Tournament. (Image: Sam Morris, Las Vegas News Bureau.)

Winning

Few college hoops fans love March Madness — or a good sportsbook — more than Derek Stevens, BS ’90, owner of the Detroit-themed casino, the D Las Vegas.

Business and Economy

Have a heart

Protect your heart this Valentine’s Day with tips from a Michigan Medicine expert who changed the course of his health with daily exercise.
- Education & Society
Elvis at the end

Just before he died at 42, the King rocked Crisler Arena in a slightly strange and thoroughly unforgettable concert.
- Campus Life
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From talking the talk to walking the walk

U-M geneticist and researcher at the Life Sciences Institute is the first Saudi woman to be named a Rhodes Scholar. And it all started with a podcast.
Winners take all

Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas delivers a new book that exposes ‘the elite charade of changing the world.’
Forecast 2019

Can industry reverse climate change? Can startups survive the trade war? And what’s up with that ‘nice’ penalty at work? U-M experts explain.
- Research News
Historic gift for Law

Lisa and Christopher Jeffries have committed the largest gift in the school’s history: $33 million to support student scholarships, financial aid, debt management, and more.
- Law & Politics
- Philanthropy

Columns

Editor's Blog
Podcasters’ delight

Podcasts are popping up all over campus. Here's a handful we suggest for U-M fans who like to listen.
Talking About Movies
Foreign exchange

The awards season may have ended, but Frank Beaver still showers accolades on his favorite foreign films of 2018.
Talking About Books
What goes up

What goes up must come down, states the law of gravity. Nicholas Delbanco asks: Does that apply to literature too?
Health Yourself
Antioxidants and health

Victor Katch celebrates antioxidants and explains how to enhance one’s diet using the colors of the rainbow.

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Going to extremes

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.)

Guess who?

Obviously, we had to kick off with some low-hanging fruit. But this poor squirrel can’t seem to find any of his own.
Vicious circle

U-M canceled classes Jan. 30-31, 2019, due to subzero temperatures. The lowest temperature ever recorded since U-M began collecting temperature data in 1881 is 23 degrees below zero on Feb. 11, 1885.
Fashion forward

No record-breaking, sub-zero temperatures can possibly get in this fashionista’s way. That pop of purple and our co-ed’s sassy handbag might as well sing, “Let it go.”
Hope springs

The 2019 Farmers’ Almanac billed its 2018-19 winter outlook, which called for (and delivered) “teeth-chattering cold” across much of the nation, as “flake news.” Hmmmmm.
Baby, it’s cold outside

Sure, some radio stations banned Frank Loesser’s 1944 hit, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” this winter, but the temperatures in Michigan continued to plummet. That song, by the way, won an Oscar for best original song from the 1949 film Neptune’s Daughter. Apparently, some modern-day programmers felt the lyrics were out of touch with the #MeToo movement.
Drifters

U-M closed for two days in January 1978 when the area was blanketed with 19 inches of snow. The Michigan Daily reported at the time that students threw an outdoor beach party and spent the day lounging in snowdrifts while the Beach Boys’ “Endless Summer” blared somewhere in the background.
Have wheels, will travel.

We’ve heard of burning rubber. But freezing rubber? This cyclist risks the dangerous road conditions in an attempt to reach his destination faster.
Escape

If students and other visitors are willing to brave the extreme weather to enjoy the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the least U-M can do is clear the path. And don’t forget: It’s warm in there!
I’m walkin’ here

The undead White Walkers in the HBO series Game of Thrones seem to favor the sub-zero temperatures much more than the average U-M student.
See ya

The myth that U-M classes can’t be canceled because a distraught Law School student sued the University for a day’s tuition following a snow day in the 1970s is unfounded. “Although there has been a long-standing rumor about such a suit, the University’s Office of the General Counsel has not found record of it,” University spokesman Dave Reid told the Michigan Daily in 2006. Do you know differently?

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In the news

Going to extremes

Guess who?

Vicious circle

Fashion forward

Hope springs

Baby, it’s cold outside

Drifters

Have wheels, will travel.

Escape

I’m walkin’ here

See ya