The film Bridge of Spies is more than just a Cold War thriller for one former professor who survived the real-life saga.

Step inside an operating room in Ghana as U-M surgeons battle a widespread problem in Africa.

Academics see role, responsibility in raising quality of public discourse.

At age 91, retired speech professor and lifelong athlete Al Storey, BA ’49/MA ’50/PhD ’53, gives new meaning to “playing the game of life.”

As a professor, musician, and founding curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Conforth has established an award-winning career sharing his passion for performance and American culture.

Leaders take note: A new study of gelada monkeys indicates that being the top dog—or in this case, top monkey—is even better if the alpha male occasionally concedes to subordinates.

“In the African villages that I study in Mali, children fare as well in nuclear families as they do in extended families,” says U-M professor Beverly Strassmann.

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.

The Law School’s Innocence Clinic secures the freedom of a man falsely imprisoned for murder since 2001.