Diag

  1. September 26, 2024

    Celebrating sustainability

    Faculty, staff and students engaged with representatives from a variety of campus units, student organizations and community non-profits about environmental topics and came together toward a shared culture of sustainability at Earthfest 2024 on Sept. 26. This gallery of images captures some of the activities that took place on the Diag as part of the…
  2. September 3, 2024

    Faculty Senate Office launches series of public issue forums

    Members of the U-M community will be able to share their thoughts and opinions on pressing matters this election season during “Political Speech and the Public Square,” a series of open forums.

  3. August 29, 2024

    Four arrested for violating U‑M policies during Festifall

    Four people were arrested Aug. 28 after a group tried to disrupt Festifall, U‑M’s annual student organization fair. None of those arrested are U-M students and the fourth is a temporary employee.

  4. May 21, 2024

    Ending the encampment

    President Santa J. Ono has emailed faculty, students and staff announcing that the university has removed the encampment that protestors erected on the Diag on April 22.

  5. April 8, 2024

    PHOTO GALLERY: U-M turns out for the sun show

    The Diag and much of Ingalls Mall were filled as students and other U-M community members watched the moon move between Earth and the sun, creating a solar eclipse April 8.

  6. May 8, 2023

    Grounds Services keep tulips blooming through cold snap

    The tulips waving in the breeze on the Diag might have been damaged or destroyed by cold weather just before Spring Commencement if it hadn’t been for quick action and a new idea from members of Grounds Services. 

  7. February 15, 2023

    Vigil on the Diag for MSU

    Hundreds in the University of Michigan community gathered Feb. 15 at the Diag to show solidarity with and support for Michigan State University two days after three students were killed in an on-campus shooting and five others critically injured.

  8. January 25, 2023

    Fun in the snow

    On Jan. 25, though, a near-constant gentle snowfall left a blanket of winter’s bounty around the Ann Arbor campus, leading to scenes of beauty and a snowy battle on the Diag.

  9. September 19, 2022

    Heritage Project — A different Diag

    One day in June long ago, two lawyers and a politician were given the job of recommending exactly where to build the campus of the new University of Michigan. They had two sites to look at, both of about 40 acres.

  10. April 25, 2022

    Heritage Project — Professor White’s Diag

    The Ann Arbor campus was barely 20 years old when Andrew Dickson White first saw it. He arrived from Yale in October 1857 to teach history and English literature.