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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.

View some amazing footage of former head diving coach Dick Kimball, and learn his secret to staying young.

On a frigid Moscow night, William Revelli and the Michigan Symphony Band launched one of the most ambitious cultural exchanges in history. The year was 1961.

Swedish native Raoul Wallenberg was a typical U-M student in 1935. But after graduation, he followed a path that was anything but typical. This World War II hero rescued close to 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis.

It’s one thing to build a cool brand, says CrowdRise co-founder Robert Wolfe. But it’s even better to build a cool brand about giving back.

Baseball’s Jim Abbott ponders his “improbable life” in a compelling new memoir.

On the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, U-M students, alums and faculty talk about how the world has changed.

• The eyewitness: “Suddenly, I knew I must run.”
• The Marine: “I wanted to be in combat.”
• The terrorism expert: “Today, al-Qaeda itself is dead.”
• The researcher: “The wars shrank the defense research horizon dramatically.”
• The student: “My teacher returned moments later, visibly shaken.”
• The lost: 18 Michigan alums were killed on 9/11.

At Camp Michigania, generations of alumni families play at the lake, walk in the woods, and build lifelong friendships.