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
Over the past 50 years, U-M’s Spectrum Center has helped LGBTQ+ students to come out, accept themselves, and flourish. Delve into this Center's history of inclusion and community here.
LGBTQ+ History
From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, one April tradition gave U-M administrators a headache and student participants an unorthodox freedom: the Naked Mile.
campus traditions
Born in 1878, Santiago Artiaga (class of 1904) had come to Michigan among a cadre of students called the Pensionados. Despite losing most of his material belongings – including his treasured Michigan Union pin – during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Artiaga's time at Michigan stayed with him throughout his life of service to the Philippines.
Michigan Union