Heritage Project
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November 8, 2021
Heritage Project — Dear Aunt Ruth
Whether stationed stateside, recuperating in hospitals, or seeing action in Europe and the Pacific, students, faculty, staff and alumni serving in World War II could expect to hear news about Ann Arbor from Ruth Buchanan.
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November 1, 2021
Heritage Project — The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Robert Axelrod, today a professor emeritus in the Ford School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science, encountered the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a young man in the 1960s.
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October 25, 2021
Heritage Project — Seeds of discontent
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October 18, 2021
Heritage Project — The first flu shot
With the United States on the brink of war and visions of the devastation wrought by the influenza pandemic during the first world war, U-M virologist Tommy Francis was assigned a monumental task.
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October 11, 2021
Heritage Project — ‘Our linked lives’
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October 4, 2021
Heritage Project — Doc Losh
Professor Hazel Losh — known by most as Doc Losh — just might have been the most popular teacher in the university’s history. She was the first tenured professor of astronomy at U-M.
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September 27, 2021
Heritage Project — No admittance
Sarah Burger was 21 years old in 1858 when she prepared a letter saying she and 11 other women desired to enroll at the University of Michigan. Later that year, the regents voted unanimously against women on campus.
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September 20, 2021
Heritage Project — Of splendid ability
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September 13, 2021
Heritage Project — Campus characters
Long before Shakey Jake roamed Ann Arbor, students at U-M conducted affairs of the heart with a series of men who took on the status of human landmarks.
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September 7, 2021
Heritage Project — Two against football
When Fielding Yost sought to build a larger stadium to replace Ferry Field, he did not have the support of two people in particular: Neil Staebler, editor of The Chimes, and sociologist Robert Cooley Angell.
