Matthews shares 25-year pursuit of a biochemical mystery
in Russel Lecture

Rowena G. Matthews, the 2003 Henry Russel lecturer, has been doing bold, creative biochemistry research since the early 1960s at U-M. But it's only been in the last decade that her findings have made her famous. More>

Rushdie discusses inspiration for 'Midnight's Children,'
writing in general

The author of the book "Midnight's Children" did not set out to write a crowd pleaser, but rather wanted to create a work that focused on the India he knew growing up in Bombay. Salman Rushdie said he never begins to write with the reader in mind—something he acknowledged as "a terrible, horrible admission." More>