1. Just nuts

    Michigan has enjoyed a very long romance with its campus squirrels, certainly since the days of the Diag as a scrubby wheat field.

  2. Mastering the mind

    Pilot program succeeds in encouraging student-athletes to seek help for depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions.

  3. Power of one

    In 1985 Deborah Robinson, PhD ’87, created a bracelet program with the names of political prisoners serving life sentences in South Africa. Solidarity prevails today.

  4. The Negro-Caucasian club

    In the 1920s African-American and white students joined hands to fight racial bias — but the University was unsympathetic.

  5. Humor of the 1890s

    In the pages of Wrinkle, we get glimpses of student life in the 1890s—at least as it appeared to the cocky male editors of that short-lived Michigan humor magazine.

  6. Echoes from the '80s

    A collection of “letters home” written by freshman in the Pilot Program of the mid-’80s strikes an enduring chord in the transition to college life.

  7. A2 on the (high) rise

    Things are looking up in Ann Arbor—way up. A recent building boom is reshaping the city skyline, hastening a vertical shift in perspective.

  8. Port Huron Statement turns 50

    In 1962 a handful of U-M students calling themselves the Students for a Democratic Society published a manifesto that came to define a national student movement.

  9. Limeade and love: Memories of Drake's Sandwich Shop

    From the Great Depression and World War II through the British invasion and disco balls, Drake’s Sandwich Shop served up chocolate cordials, orange marmalade sandwiches, and ice-cold limeade to devoted University of Michigan students.