Old School
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March 30, 2015
Blinded by science
A lab accident that blinded Edward Campbell at age 28 did not end his distinguished career as a U-M faculty member.
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March 23, 2015
New duties
John Jacob Abel was offered the first professorship of pharmacology in the Department of Medicine and Surgery. He began his new duties in January 1891. In his first lecture he told of his recent visit to Berlin, where he investigated tuberculin, which had been recently introduced to treat tuberculosis.
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March 16, 2015
Coaching great
Legendary men’s gymnastics coach Newt Loken — winner of two NCAA championships, 12 Big Ten titles and two Coach of the Year awards — leaps to promote the March 1979 Big Ten Championships at Crisler Arena.
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March 9, 2015
Music legend
Benny Goodman performed with Big Band on March 22, 1986, in Hill Auditorium, during one of his last public performances.
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February 23, 2015
Famous alumni haunt dorms and student rentals
Today’s dorm room was yesterday’s home for James Earl Jones, Gilda Radner, Sanjay Gupta and other notable alumni.
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February 16, 2015
The Lost Campus
The great American playwright Arthur Miller graduated from Michigan in 1938. When he returned in 1953, he was dismayed by the massive and unfamiliar new residence halls. “There are buildings now where I remembered lawn and trees,” he wrote. Each cadre of students at Michigan goes through Miller’s experience.
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February 9, 2015
A tradition never broken
The Potawatomi chief Metea was one of the Native Americans who signed the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs, which provided a gift of land to the fledgling “University of Michigania.”
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February 2, 2015
Ready to open
Past University Musical Society President Gail Rector in 1971 stands on stage with technicians at the Power Center for the Performing Arts, just before the center opens for the first time.
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January 26, 2015
Depression Generation
The Great Depression tore a hole in the University of Michigan. Thousands of students had to leave school. Thousands more who might have thrived at U-M never got the chance to try.
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January 19, 2015
Professor White’s diag
Sunlight filters through the trees of the Diag as a woman passes through in the 1930s. The trees that now grace Central Campus began with the efforts of Professor Andrew Dickson White in the mid-1800s.
