This week in history (61 years ago)
North Campus development during the 1950s and early 1960s enabled U-M to integrate science and research with engineering education. The Cooley Laboratory, dedicated on Oct. 24, 1953, was the first building on North Campus. The basic complex of the North Campus laboratory facilities developed quickly with the completion of the Automotive Engineering Laboratory, the Aeronautical Engineering Laboratory, and the Fluids Laboratory, later named the G. G. Brown Laboratory to honor the dean who initiated the North Campus development.
— The University of Michigan, an Encyclopedic Survey
