History
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August 26, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The first university hospital
Shortly after U-M’s Medical School opened in 1850, students started clamoring for the hands-on clinical instruction they lacked in their lectures.
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August 12, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — Exploring Islamic art in the Midwest
Mehmet Aga-Oglu was the first professor of Islamic art at an American university and founded the first academic journal to focus on art and architecture from Islamic nations.
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August 2, 2024
U-M team finds ancient Persian gold coins in western Turkey
A team of researchers led by a U-M archaeologist has uncovered a hoard of gold coins, likely used to pay mercenary troops, buried in a small pot in the ancient Greek city of Notion in western Turkey.
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June 24, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The winning ways of ‘Hutch’
Carol Hutchins’ final coaching record stood at 1,707-551-5 and a career winning percentage of .755. She is the winningest coach in U-M history.
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June 10, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The roots of U-M’s peony garden
In 1922, as he neared his 70th birthday, William E. Upjohn approached the U-M Board of Regents with an offer of “a very valuable collection of peonies.”
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May 20, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — LBJ’s ‘Great Society’ speech at U-M
When President Lyndon B. Johnson stood before the Class of 1964 at Michigan Stadium, it was the first time a sitting president had stepped foot on the U-M campus.
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May 6, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — The university’s first gift, in 13 volumes
The first recorded gift from an individual to the university came from a well-to-do fur trader who never set foot in Ann Arbor.
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May 3, 2024
UM-Flint archive helps digitize historical Black newspapers
A collaboration involving UM-Flint’s Frances Willson Thompson Library and the Digital Collections Service at the U-M Library is digitizing Flint’s Black historical newspapers.
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April 29, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — Family trees and the ‘striking incidence’ of cancer
For years, U-M pathologist Aldred Scott Warthin studied the lives — and deaths from cancer — of an extended Ann Arbor family.
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April 22, 2024
It Happened at Michigan — College Republicans and their U-M roots
In mid-May of 1892, hundreds of students from universities around the country gathered on the U-M campus. When they departed it was as the newly christened American Republican College League, a national group that continues today as the College Republicans.
