History
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April 15, 2019
This Week in U-M History — April 15-21
Regents voted April 17, 1964, to expand Flint College to a four-year undergraduate institution that would become UM-Flint. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of April 15-21.
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April 8, 2019
This Week in U-M History — April 8-13
With the words, “It is safe, effective and potent,” Thomas Francis Jr. announced the efficacy of the Salk polio vaccine on April 12, 1955. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of April 8-13.
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April 1, 2019
This Week in U-M History — April 1-7
Carol Hutchins became the winningest softball coach in NCAA history when the Wolverines defeated Indiana on April 2, 2016. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of April 1-7.
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March 22, 2019
This Week in U-M History — March 25-31
The cornerstone of the Michigan League was set in place on March 29, 1928. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of March 25-31.
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March 18, 2019
This Week in U-M History — March 18-24
On March 18, 1837, the Michigan Legislature voted to establish the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Read about some of the other things that happened in U-M history during the week of March 18-24.
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August 29, 2018
Gary Krenz named director for post-bicentennial planning
Gary D. Krenz, formerly executive director of U-M’s Bicentennial Office, has been appointed director for post-bicentennial planning at the Bentley Historical Library.
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August 13, 2018
Angell’s diplomatic journey to China
U-M President James Burrill Angell once played a crucial role in negotiating two treaties with China — an immigration treaty at the behest of the U.S. government, and a second trade treaty drafted by the Chinese, which in part enacted an absolute ban on Chinese-American commerce in opium.
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July 23, 2018
Failed predictions
Albert Porta, a professor of civil engineering at Santa Clara College in California, developed a weather and earthquake forecasting service. Despite media perceptions, he never served on the U-M faculty, but a U-M professor and The Michigan Daily ultimately cast doubt on Porta’s cataclysmic predictions.
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July 2, 2018
After loss, a medical journey begins
Built in 1926 by famous architect Albert Kahn, the Thomas Henry Simpson Memorial Institute for Medical Research on Observatory Street was the result of a $400,000 bequest by Christine Simpson of Detroit. Her gift stipulated that the institute should be primarily devoted “to the study of pernicious anemia.”
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June 25, 2018
The legendary ‘Cat Hole’
Along Washtenaw Avenue toward the sharp bend into Huron Street is the site of a long-lost Ann Arbor landmark known to generations of Michigan students and staff as the Cat Hole.
