Bicentennial
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October 31, 2016
UMich200 Fall Festival
Schedule of events.
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October 31, 2016
UMich200 Spring Festival
Schedule of events.
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October 31, 2016
Summer festival to celebrate university staff
The longtime contributions of U-M staff will be the focus of the UMich200 Summer Festival, complemented by the long-running Ann Arbor Summer Festival and its eclectic programming.
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October 31, 2016
Special alumni award helps highlight U-M’s past, herald its future
The university is creating a special Bicentennial Alumni Award for its 200th year, honoring 20 people who embody the breadth and excellence of its more recent alumni.
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October 31, 2016
True Blue! tribute to highlight distinguished alumni
James Earl Jones, Darren Criss and Cecilia Muñoz are among the distinguished alumni who will join U-M students and faculty in “True Blue! A Tribute to Michigan,” a live multimedia celebration.
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October 31, 2016
Bicentennial exhibits
Groups across the campus are planning bicentennial events of all styles and formats, from dance and art to photo exhibitions, scholarly colloquia and national conferences.
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October 31, 2016
Bicentennial honors ties to city of Detroit, native peoples
Two centuries after its founding in Detroit, the university will celebrate its birthplace with a variety of bicentennial activities throughout 2017.
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October 31, 2016
In celebration of U-M’s bicentennial
2017 is going to be filled with activities celebrating U-M’s 200th anniversary. Read all about them in the Record’s special section on U-M’s bicentennial.
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October 31, 2016
Bicentennial themes
Serving the People, Teaching Powerfully, Pursuing Ideas, Creating and Inventing, Challenging Society, and Forever Hailing
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October 31, 2016
Opening colloquium features U.S. Justice Sotomayor, German Justice Baer
The U-M of tomorrow and yesteryear will intersect in very public ways as the bicentennial kicks off in January 2017 with the first Presidential Bicentennial Colloquium featuring leading jurists from two of the world’s largest democracies.
