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
For more than a century, Michigras, an annual April festival welcoming spring, also served as a “fun raiser” for campus causes. Among the festivities of Michigras, an annual two-day carnival-and-fundraiser organized by U-M students to celebrate spring’s arrival, was a parade through town.
U-M history
James Tobin details the writing process of a new book called Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away. The author, Ann Hagedorn, is a Michigan graduate, MILS ’75, and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. It’s hard to see how this book could have been written without the training Hagedorn got at Michigan — not in journalism, but in the master’s program in library science.
u-m alumni
With the world watching, two pilots went down over Greenland in 1928. Their rescue would hinge on William Hobbs, a professor-turned-adventurer leading U-M’s Greenland Expedition. His papers at the Bentley reveal how, in order to get everyone out alive, he’d have to face peril again and again.
Greenland Expedition