Seminars Boost Student Confidence
The seminar represents just one of the many choices in the rapidly expanding First-Year Seminar Program offered through the University Courses Department..

Community Plunge
Jennifer Fitzgerald had never really thought too much about where her trash goes or how exactly it gets recycled, until one day when she was knee-deep in old paper and cardboard.

New Wave Calculus
"Math is math," or so an old axiom goes. And for countless years, generations of U-M students have endured the same litmus test for competence in advanced mathematics-college calculus.

Campaign for Michigan Celebrates Success
Hundreds of University of Michigan donors and volunteers gathered in Ann Arbor Sept. 23-24 to mark the midpoint of the five-year Campaign for Michigan.

'We're Not Running a Railroad'
Relations between students and faculty, even at a large institution such as the U-M, can be warm and cordial, philosophy Prof. Carl Cohen assured parents.

Dinosaurs: A Reconstruction
In line at the student union one day I heard three students talking. Waiting dully with a plastic cup of coffee in my hand as the cashier validated checks, punched food cards and changed $20 bills, I picked up words that roused me.

One Upon a Time in Willow Run
Like Brigadoon, Willow Run Village exists now only in memory, but after World War II, it was the University of Michigan's answer to the housing problem for married student veterans.

Brain Twister
The world's first morphometrician and his colleagues depict the shape of the human brain in sickness and in health

Pioneers in Morphing
Fred Bookstein may be the world's first and only full-time morphometrician, but he makes it clear that his contributions to the field extend earlier work

Pixels, Shmoos and You
Fred Bookstein has produced a video, somewhat dauntingly titled Edge Information at Landmarks in Medical Images

Koop on Health Care Reform
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop visited the campus October 5 to lecture on "The Ethical Imperative for Health Care Reform."

Have Dinosaur, Need Sponsors
readers can help the University's Exhibit Museum of Natural History reconstruct dinosaurs

Students 'Go Exploring' in Undergraduate Education
Could the undergraduate experience be more effective than it is?

North Campus Tower given in Honor of Robert Lurie
Ann Lurie's gift to Michigan is the largest by an individual to the Campaign for Michigan.

The Legacy of 'The Chief'
To so many of us Michigan Band members who played under his baton, William D. Revelli defined the word "inspiration.".

Collaborators at Last
It took more than a decade, but Ernie Harburg '62 PhD turned personal loss into both public vindication and personal resolution.

Resurgence of U-M Press
Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of OZ? is one of the bestsellers in University of Michigan Press's steady resurgence over the past several years.

Harburg's Health Studies
Much of Ernie Harburg's own professional work stems from his attempts to deal with his feelings towards his father, lyricist Yip Harburg.

The Jade Studio
A new exhibition at the U-M Museum of Art highlights Chinese works from 16th through 20th centuries.