Arts & Culture

  1. March 17, 2025

    U-M lecturer, staffer win Grammy with reed quintet

    Akropolis, a reed quintet, traces its roots to when its five members were undergraduate students at U-M. Sixteen years later, a piece the quintet recorded won a Grammy.

  2. March 13, 2025

    Opioid musical performed at U-M available for licensing

    A musical about opioid awareness resulting from a lecture by professor and OPEN co-director Chad Brummett is available for licensing nationwide through Innovation Partnerships at U-M.

  3. March 10, 2025

    It Happened at Michigan — The Royal Shakespeare Company came to town

    In 2001, the Royal Shakespeare Company performed an historic 27-hour marathon at the Power Center for Performing Arts, presented by the University Musical Society.

  4. February 17, 2025

    Breaking into song moves this Michigan Medicine staffer

    Christina Fields has a retirement plan. She wants to be a lounge singer. With retirement still years away, however, Fields satisfies her yen for singing with weekly choir practices and semi-annual choral concerts.

  5. February 17, 2025

    It Happened At Michigan — The story behind U-M’s fight song

    The rousing tune of “The Victors” is familiar to most U-M faculty and staff. What may be less widely known is the fight song’s origin.

  6. February 10, 2025

    It Happened at Michigan — A novelist grows in Ann Arbor

    Years before Betty Smith published her best-selling, semi-autobiographical novel, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” she gained her voice as a writer at U-M.

  7. February 3, 2025

    President Ono commits $5M for U-M public art over five years

    President Santa J. Ono has committed $5 million from central university funding to further develop U-M’s public art collection over the next five years, in support of the Vision 2034 goals.

  8. February 3, 2025

    Stamps helped Sandra Wiley see herself as an artist

    Sandra Wiley, director of international study programs at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, has been knitting since she was a child and creates all her own clothes.

  9. January 29, 2025

    UM-Flint receives Mellon grant to explore ‘cracks in pavement’

    A $495,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to UM-Flint will allow the exploration and cataloging of Flint’s democratic practices through an interdisciplinary lens.

  10. January 27, 2025

    U-M research fellow, LSA lecturer can bust a move

    Elliot Ratzman, a research fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and a lecturer in LSA, has been breakdancing since junior high school.