History

  1. March 18, 2024

    It Happened at Michigan — Born to handle winning

    When Jim Abbott pitched his first Little League game as an 11-year-old growing up in Flint, he fired a no-hitter. It was a glimpse of the extraordinary career to come.

  2. March 11, 2024

    It Happened at Michigan — Dr. Death comes to campus

    Nicknamed “Dr. Death” early in his medical career because of his strong support of euthanasia, Jack Kevorkian was a 1952 graduate of the Medical School.

  3. March 7, 2024

    U-M part of multi-museum effort to scan natural history specimens

    Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility after creating 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens and making them freely available online.

  4. March 4, 2024

    It Happened at Michigan — Engineering a prominent career

    George Maceo Jones earned three degrees from U-M over a decade. When he received his doctorate in 1934, he became the first African American man in the country with a Ph.D. in civil engineering.

  5. February 20, 2024

    George Gershwin’s first musical rediscovered after nearly a century

    Last summer, U-M researcher Jacob Kerzner uncovered the complete musical orchestration of “La, La, Lucille,” making the musical possible to perform for the first time in nearly a century.

  6. February 19, 2024

    It Happened at Michigan — ‘A project that will aid all mankind’

    In the wake of the terrifying atomic bomb that ended World War II, U-M students and alumni looked for ways to channel a destructive power into safe, beneficial uses.

  7. February 12, 2024

    Ross School of Business celebrating 100 years of firsts

    What started as U-M’s School of Business Administration in 1924 — and which was renamed for Stephen M. Ross in 2004 — has seen a lot of business-education firsts over the past 100 years.

  8. February 12, 2024

    It Happened at Michigan — ‘I really disliked writing papers’

    Thomas Knoll was trying to write his dissertation about the processing of digital images. But he found working on a software program he’d been noodling with far more interesting

  9. February 8, 2024

    Clements Library acquires rare American edition of poems

    U-M has acquired the first American edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters’ “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” widely regarded as the first book of poetry written by an African American woman.

  10. February 8, 2024

    IHP continues with university engagement efforts

    U-M’s Inclusive History Project is continuing its efforts to engage community members by developing a student advisory committee and creating a research and engagement fund.