History
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March 24, 2014
Old School: Ingalls Mall fountain sculpture
In his 1940 bronze sculpture “Sunday Morning in Deep Waters,” Carl Milles depicts Father Triton and his sons on a holiday excursion.
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March 17, 2014
Old School: Student Room, 1902
Students gather in the spring of 1902 at a room at 517 Washington St.
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March 10, 2014
Key initiatives: Heritage and Bicentennial Celebration
President Mary Sue Coleman early on identified the 2017 bicentennial as a chance to celebrate the University of Michigan’s past, and provide fresh inspiration for its future.
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March 10, 2014
Bentley archive will preserve contributions of U-M’s first female president
The Bentley Historical Library is preserving Mary Sue Coleman’s legacy through paper and digital documentation stored at the library building on North Campus, and digitally on servers.
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February 24, 2014
Black history milestone
Alvin D. Loving in 1956 became the first African-American faculty member to teach students at the University of Michigan-Flint. He later joined the Ann Arbor campus faculty and served as assistant dean of the School of Education.
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February 17, 2014
Opening ceremonies first
USA Hockey officials said former Wolverine Jack Johnson was the first-ever American National Hockey League player to participate in the opening ceremonies for an Olympics.
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February 10, 2014
The last engineer
Russell Hurst was the last engineer to serve the University of Michigan Railroad.
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February 3, 2014
New president
Harlan Hatcher newly invested president of the University of Michigan, is congratulated by Regent Roscoe Bonisteel in 1951.
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January 27, 2014
Popular
Author Kurt Vonnegut appears at a January 1969 program at Canterbury House on Maynard Street, just west of Nickels Arcade.
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January 23, 2014
Rare civil rights-era newsletter now available online
The U-M Library has digitized the complete set of Selma Inter-religious Project Newsletters and made them available to the public via the HathiTrust Digital Library.
