History

  1. September 25, 2017

    From car bans to driverless vehicles

    While U-M is a major research site for auto innovation, cars were not always welcome on the university’s campus. In 1925, President Clarence Cook Little instituted a partial, then total ban on student automobiles.

  2. September 18, 2017

    Women on the field

    In 1971, during an era when women on campus were advocating for inclusion in areas traditionally reserved for men, U-M eliminated its policy that allowed only men to join the Michigan Marching Band.

  3. September 11, 2017

    Trial by registration

    Although registering for classes now can be accomplished with the click of a button, that wasn’t always the case at U-M.

  4. September 5, 2017

    A heroine etched in stone

    In 1862, the University of Michigan received its first significant work of original art — the marble sculpture of Nydia, the blind flower girl of Pompeii.

  5. August 14, 2017

    Medical Miracles

    The University of Michigan’s contributions to medicine and public health have saved lives and enriched communities.

  6. July 24, 2017

    Revolutionizing information

    From alumnus Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, and Irma Wyman, the first woman to be chief information officer at Honeywell, to the creation and impact of Google, the University of Michigan and its graduates have forever altered the sharing of knowledge through technology.

  7. July 19, 2017

    U-M, Detroit Historical Society team up for bicentennial project

    A new museum exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum explores and celebrates the people and episodes connecting U-M and the city of Detroit, its birthplace 200 years ago.

  8. July 5, 2017

    Bold experiment

    Women were admitted to U-M starting in 1870, the first for a large state university.

  9. June 19, 2017

    President Harold T. Shapiro’s birthday

    Harold T. Shapiro, U-M’s 10th president, was born on June 8, 1935, in Montreal. During his presidency, which ran from 1980-87, the “theme of quality over quantity, of ‘smaller but better’ became the guiding principle” in a period of budget reductions.

  10. June 5, 2017

    A summer with Shakespeare

    Now an undeniable Ann Arbor summer tradition, Shakespeare in the Arb began in 2001, when Katherine Mendeloff, lecturer IV in Residential College, LSA, was asked to direct an outdoor production as part of a three-year Ford Motor Co. grant for arts in the Nichols Arboretum.