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One of his sponsored students from Japan, Kikuchi Matsu, had died of tuberculosis as a result of inadequate living conditions at UM, and this prompted his decision to help construct new housing. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Albert Kahn Project number 829_Albert Kahn Associates project list updated 2020_03_12)
"We, The Detroit Partnership, seek to unite the University of Michigan and Detroit by working alongside community partners in the city. As a student-run, registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, we strive to raise awareness, challenge stereotypes, and promote social justice through our service-learning programs and educational events." [6]
The Detroit Center sponsored 90 students and chaperones to attend the “Race” exhibit at the University’s Museum of Natural History. The Detroit Center also hosted students at the Detroit Center for 1) a student Town Hall meeting with Senator Carl Levin, and 2) artist-led workshops related to Detroit 21 – a Work Detroit gallery exhibition.
The sixth floor of Bursley Hall was the site of a double-shooting that occurred on April 17, 1981. The morning of April 17, 22-year-old Leo Kelly Jr., a junior Psychology major at the University, threw several Molotov cocktail fire bombs down the sixth-floor hallway of Bursley's Douglas wing, igniting fires and triggering the building's fire alarms.
The former Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast. The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, began in the mid-19th century and expanded greatly with the donation of 60,000 specimens by Joseph Beal Steere, a U-M alumnus, in the 1870s.
The building is now home to a number of interdisciplinary and internationally-focused units within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and is a center for active and engaged learning. Tenants in the Weiser Hall hi-rise include the Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS), Community-Engaged Academic Learning (CEAL) and ...
The Michigan Every Three Weekly, also known simply as The Every Three Weekly, is a student publication at the University of Michigan modeled after the satirical news publication The Onion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Named as an homage to student newspaper The Michigan Daily , The Every Three Weekly contains fictional news articles that satirize local ...
The Naked Mile, or Nude Mile, was a streaker run across the University of Michigan campus, which began in 1986. The first Naked Mile was run by student athletes to celebrate the last day of winter term classes in April, and became an annual event, continuing until the early 2000s. [1] The run took place after dark, [2] starting at around ...