Children show finger puppets they made at the U-M Detroit Center as part of a workshop about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The event, conducted Jan. 21 by the Matrix Theatre, was one of various MLK Day activities across the university, including at UM-Flint and UM-Dearborn. Photo by Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography.
History is the foundation of the university’s excellence, leadership and diversity, and it is celebrated like never before through the new U-M Heritage Project website, launched today at heritage.umich.edu.
An exhibit that tells the remarkable story of a young Swede and U-M graduate who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust is coming to the Michigan Union.
Morris Dees, who has successfully fought hate groups to protect civil rights in the United States, says the caustic political discourse of today would have been considered hate speech in the past. Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971, presented the Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium keynote address Jan. 21 to a crowd filling Hill Auditorium.
Chancellor Ruth Person reviewed a decade of great progress on the UM-Flint campus, and outlined a vision for the future in a "state of the university" speech Jan. 23. She concluded her address with an announcement that she would step down in 2014, after a one-year extension of her five-year term as chancellor.
The development of a comprehensive Division of Public Safety and Security for the Ann Arbor campus takes a step forward this week as the search for the first executive director of the new division is opened to interested candidates.
The Michigan Almanac, a systematic compilation of information about university operations, is being introduced as the “go-to” Web document for anyone interested in data about the university.
University Housing is introducing two new living experiences for students in the fall of 2013.
Mary Kay Pauley, facilities coordinator, University Human Resources, on her “Kay’s Bears” project: “It gives me great pleasure to be able to create something that brings comfort to families.”
“The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture” by Marcia Polenberg, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. through Feb. 4, Gifts of Art Gallery, University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
Fawwaz Ulaby, known nationally and internationally for his accomplishments in applied electromagnetics, is the Henry Russel Lecturer for 2014.
