History

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. January 9, 2025

    Task force to consider process for new honorific namings

    The Inclusive History Project has convened a task force to develop new policies and procedures for new honorific namings of university facilities and spaces.

  10. January 9, 2025

    Members of the Honorific Naming Task Force

    Members of the Honorific Naming Task Force, which will develop new policies and procedures for new honorific namings of university facilities and spaces.