As a gay youth, Edmund White, BA ’62, bemoaned the dearth of books that reflected his experience. So, he wrote his own. Today he holds the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.

In this episode, raconteur and University of Michigan grad John U. Bacon regales the listener with tales – heartfelt and hilarious – culled from a 25-year career covering sports. His new book features ‘select cuts,’ showcasing Michigan heroes Bo Schembechler and Jim Abbott, as well as Detroit legends Ernie Harwell, Joe Louis, and more.

Football legend Charles Woodson urges new Michigan grads to reject hate and view one another as human beings, “nothing more, nothing less.”

U-M grads’ new intention-tracking app will mesh with Amazon’s Alexa to nudge people toward goals, desires. Its tentative name? Iris.

Campus unrest often erupts at times of social unrest. But what about campus humor? Some say it’s at its best when times are not.

Alumni entrepreneurs create iKeyp, a “smart safe” for meds that promises security, deterrence, and adherence.

In 1970, a female secretary inspired one of the great sea changes in the University’s history: that Michigan should treat women the same as men.

An African-American student of the 1920s left a vivid memoir of his years in a semi-segregated Ann Arbor.

Alumni startup takes off in the drone space with an autonomous solution for inspecting wind turbines.