Dive into the life of writer Betty Smith, who spent years in Ann Arbor with her first husband. During her time in Ann Arbor, she audited playwriting classes and learned from Kenneth Thorpe Rowe.
women at Michigan
In 1961, the Kennedy Ad-ministration sent the U-M Symphony Band to the Soviet Union in hopes of thawing relations between the two countries through the common language of music. Could young musicians succeed as diplomats?
Music
A 1936 master’s thesis written by Claude Shannon changed the computing world overnight. Shannon’s insight seemed to come out of nowhere, but collections from the Bentley archive show how the genius idea grew from a revamped engineering campus and one elective class.
u-m alumni
The University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus is 8,199 miles from Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Spread throughout multiple campus locations is one of the largest collections of historical Filipino artifacts outside of the archipelago nation. Read on to learn how two U-M faculty members are leading a project to revitalize and decolonize these vast collections.
historical archives
One evening between the world wars, Shirley Wheeler Smith, the University’s vice-president for finance, stood up at a University Club dinner and recited a story he’d written. Read on to see how, despite his lack of writing experience, Smith managed to get this short story onto the big screen.
michigan faculty