Old School
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May 23, 2016
Put me in coach
The 1929 U-M baseball team poses for a photo.
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May 2, 2016
Advancing vaccines
Under the direction of Dr. Thomas Francis, U-M conducted clinical trials in 1954 that confirmed the effectiveness of the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. The discovery helped to end one of the major medical scourges of the 20th century.
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April 25, 2016
Mediator
Robben Fleming walks with demonstrators in April 1988, as he returned to U-M to briefly serve as interim president.
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April 18, 2016
En garde
The University of Michigan Women’s Fencing Club poses for a 1930 photo.
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April 11, 2016
Flower power
Since the late 1920s, visiting the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden has become an annual spring pilgrimage for visitors from Michigan and beyond.
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March 28, 2016
Baseball and civil rights legend
One U-M alumnus tied to the Law School and Wolverine baseball team — Branch Rickey — reshaped the national civil rights conversation and the national pastime.
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March 21, 2016
Peddling papers
A newsboy wearing the block “M” on his sweater hawks newspapers in front of Nickels Arcade in 1932.
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March 14, 2016
On the air
The reggae band First Light stops by WCBN-FM, the University of Michigan’s free form student-run radio station, in the basement of the Student Activities Building in 1980.
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March 7, 2016
International reach
The University of Michigan can trace its global reach to the late 1840s and neighboring Canada, home of the first international student, and China, where Judson Collins — a member of the first graduating class — traveled as a missionary.
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February 22, 2016
Two-time U.S. Olympian
Michigan alumnus William DeHart Hubbard was the first African-American athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal, doing so at the 1924 Paris Games in the long jump (24 feet 5 inches).
