MT’s own James Tobin, BA ’78/PhD ’86, demonstrates creative flexibility with two new books in one season.

An internship in India blossoms with go blue spirit.

Behind the scenes, “General Hospital” creator Frank Hursley, AB ’25, lived a private life to rival any soap opera.

Video: At the age of 106, Lillian (Cooper) Gaines, ABEd ’27, remembers Ann Arbor at the height of the Jazz Age. “I was a dancing fool,” she says. And while he followed in her footsteps, son Harry Gaines, AB ’57/JD ’60, came to a very different U-M.

The first check Megan Ganz, BA ’06, cashed for writing comedy came from MAD magazine. Today she’s a successful sitcom writer.

Alumni siblings Andy and Emily Linn are feathering their family business with camaraderie and creativity in Detroit’s Cass Corridor.

Founders of tech startup Are You a Human could have set up shop anywhere—and they chose Detroit. Based in the historic Madison Building, they embody new momentum in the city.

Sisters Cornelia Kennedy, ’47, and Margaret Schaeffer, ’45, have always called each other Nealie and Margie. For decades, however, they went by Your Honor.

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.