History

  1. March 19, 2025

    Clements acquires vast collection of industrial engineering history

    The William L. Clements Library has made available the collection of Robert M. Vogel, which contains more than 24,000 items related to industrial and mechanical engineering.

  2. March 17, 2025

    It Happened at Michigan — When the Wolverines won it all

    The University of Michigan men’s team has made it to the championship game seven times since the NCAA Tournament began in 1939, winning it all in 1989.

  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 24, 2025

    It Happened at Michigan — First weather report’s creator had U-M roots

    Cleveland Abbe, a U-M employee who studied astronomy in the late 1850s, eventually turned his focus to the weather and in 1869, created a regional weather service, based in Cincinnati.

  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

    It Happened at Michigan — A disease’s gene is discovered

    In May 1989, geneticist-physician Francis Collins of U-M was part of a research group that isolated the gene for cystic fibrosis and identified a faulty protein it produced.

  8. January 27, 2025

    It Happened at Michigan — Athletics kicked off with cricket

    In 1860, students on U-M’s campus mobilized to form the school’s first official club sport, and it wasn’t football or baseball. It was cricket.

  9. January 20, 2025

    Yearlong celebration to mark Medical School’s 175th anniversary

    Michigan Medicine will mark its 175th anniversary over the coming year, through a wide range of activities meant to celebrate and examine the legacy of its past and connect its history to its present and future.

  10. January 20, 2025

    Key ‘firsts’ and milestones

    Here are a few of the Medical School’s many milestones, from the events leading to the its founding up to the 21st century.