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18 unusual facts about University of Michigan


Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen

Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen (17 February 1924 – 26 April 2010) was a Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen, University of Michigan, Director of the ECMWF, and Secretary-General of WMO.

Moving to the University of Michigan in 1963, he set up the meteorology department that later expanded to include oceanography and aeronomy, remaining there for ten years and building the department into a center for research in dynamical meteorology and the general circulation of the atmosphere.

Asa G. Yancey, Sr.

He received his M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1941 and later studied general surgery under Dr. Charles R. Drew.

Committee for a Nuclear Free Island

They even went so far as to contact the colleges and universities that authors of the Environmental Impact Statements claimed to have attended, and broke up one public hearing with a letter from the University of Michigan disavowing a claim of a doctoral degree.

Eleanor Josaitis

University of Michigan School of Business Administration Leadership Award

Eva Jessye

Shortly before her death in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she established the Eva Jessye African-American Music Collection at the University of Michigan.

Frank Spedding

He attended the University of Michigan, receiving BS in chemical engineering in 1925 and an MS in analytical chemistry.

Hans Stark

, Riess, Volker: The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders, Free Press, originally from the University of Michigan, 1991, ISBN 0-02-917425-2

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton took short courses for additional training at Harvard University; the University of London, England; the University of Michigan; Indiana University; and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

Hellenic Naval Academy

Finally, officers ranked Lieutenant Junior Grade and Lieutenant, may be educated abroad (in Europe or in the USA) in schools such as NPS, MIT, the University of Michigan etc., thus becoming further specialized in fields such as electronics, weapon systems, computers, operation research, marine architecture etc.

Idesign

Nils Löventorn is an Industrial Designer with a degree from both Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and University of Jönköping as a Mechanical Engineer, including ergonomics for a semester at University of Michigan.

J. Playfair McMurrich

He was a Professor of Anatomy in homoeopathic department of the University of Michigan.

Kerry Mills

He trained as a violinist and was working as head of the Violin Department of the University of Michigan School of Music when he began composing.

Khalil al-Sakakini

His son, Sari, completed his Master's degree at the University of Michigan and returned to Jerusalem, to work for the American consulate.

Madonna as a gay icon

Flynn also encouraged Madonna to walk away from her full scholarship to the University of Michigan and move to Manhattan to pursue a career as a professional dancer.

Meprobamate

A University of Michigan study found that meprobamate affected driving skills.

Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium

The Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium is a collaborative research enterprise by leading academic and scientific institutions including research groups at the University of Michigan, Stanford University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Davis, Cornell University, and the HudsonAlpha Institute.

SAAN

SAAN was founded in 2001 by several University of Michigan students who felt that there was great demand on campus for a content-driven conference on issues of importance to the South Asian community in America ranging from humanitarian work in South Asia to increased political participation in the United States.


Aaron McCollough

He has a BA from the University of the South (1994), an MA in English Literature from North Carolina State University (1998), an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (2001), as well as an MA and PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan (2002 & 2007 respectively).

Agnes Inglis

She befriended Joseph Labadie and in 1924 discovered the materials on radical movements he donated to University of Michigan had hardly been cared for.

Ali Rahim

Rahim graduated from the Rugby School in Great Britain, received his bachelors degree from the University of Michigan.

Art Regner

Regner is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has co-written three sports books on what it means to be a Michigan Wolverine and Detroit Red Wing and The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists with his good friend Michael Stone.

Bernard Arps

He also served as Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2001-02, a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University during the first half of 2005, and the Netherlands Visiting Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan in 2006-07.

Charlie Weaver

In 1969, he teamed with Al Cowlings and Jimmy Gunn, and the late Tody Smith and Bubba Scott to form a defensive front that powered the Trojans to 10-0-1 record and a win over the University of Michigan in the 1970 Rose Bowl.

Choosing Healthplans All Together

The original CHAT tool was developed in 1995 by physician ethicists at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Michigan in the United States.

Christopher Rollston

He has lectured and delivered invited papers in a number of venues, including Vanderbilt University, George Washington University, the University of Michigan, Brown University, Duke University, Tel Aviv University, Baylor University and the University of Wisconsin.

David DiChiera

DiChiera delivered the commencement speech at the University of Michigan's graduation ceremony in 1998 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree.

Development of a Bottle in Space

Donald Kuspit, Professor of Art and Philosophy, Ph.D, University of Michigan, theorizes that the sculpture’s rhythmic movement suggests a more sexual connotation that is “inherent rather than imposed.”

Donald S. Lopez, Sr.

He and Glindel have two children, Joy Lopez and Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (currently a professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Michigan), and one grandchild, Laura V. Lopez.

Earl Morrall

Morrall led Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Michigan, to a state football championship in 1951, setting off a determined recruiting effort by the University of Michigan, the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University.

Eric Schocket

In Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature (University of Michigan Press, 2006), Schocket examined the way in which class-conscious American literature (such as by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Howells, and Langston Hughes) confronted and addressed the typical American denial of issues of social stratification.

Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya

Archaeological excavations of Cyrene's Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone, also known as Kore, daughter of Demeter and legendary Queen of the Underworld and consort of Hades, began in 1969 under the sponsorship of the University of Michigan.

Forman Brown

Forman's Yale Puppeteers, which he established upon graduating from University of Michigan (class of 1922), opened a puppet theatre in Los Angeles in 1941 (the Turnabout Theater) that attracted celebrity attention and support from some of Hollywood's biggest names, e.g., Greta Garbo, Marie Dressler, and Douglas Fairbanks, as well as other notable figures including Albert Einstein.

Frank D. Scott

Scott was born of Scottish ancestry in Alpena, Michigan, attended the public schools and graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1901.

Frank Ticheli

He went on to receive his master's and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, where he studied with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, George Wilson, and William Bolcom.

Garces Memorial High School

Greg Robinson, former defensive coordinator, Michigan; former head coach, Syracuse; former two-time Super Bowl-winning defensive coordinator of Denver Broncos.

Hani Rashid

Rashid's academic career includes visiting professorships at several universities, including the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Lund University.

Jimmy Gunn

In 1969, he teamed with All-Americans Al Cowlings and Charlie Weaver, and the late Tody Smith and Bubba Scott to form a defensive front that powered the Trojans to 10-0-1 record and a win over the University of Michigan in the 1970 Rose Bowl.

John Clough Holmes

Significantly, Holmes (among others) vehemently admonished that this college be independent of both the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the Normal School in Ypsilanti, for he "feared that agricultural studies would not receive the attention needed to survive and thrive" at those schools.

John Landowski

He enrolled at the University of Michigan's College of Literature Science and Arts where he competed in the pole vault and javelin throw for the Michigan Wolverines men's track and field team.

Kappa Theta Pi

Kappa Theta Pi was founded on January 10, 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is the University of Michigan's first and only startup technology fraternity.

Karl Kasten

He taught for two years (1946-1947) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor under the chairmanship of J.P. Slusser.

Lamb Spring

Nebraska State Museum, United States Geological Survey and University of Michigan personnel assisted in the excavation and analysis.

Lee Abramson

Abramson attended Okemos High School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Michigan.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

Miracle Recreation Equipment Company

Orders came in from other large schools such as the University of Michigan and Ohio State.

NIPTE

NIPTE’s current membership includes 12 leading schools and colleges of pharmacy and chemical engineering from the following universities: Duquesne University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Connecticut, University of Iowa, University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.

Ross Lee Finney

-- III? --> (December 23, 1906–February 4, 1997) was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan.

Sam Granick

Granick was born in New York City, and earned a B.S. (1931), M.S. (1933) and Ph.D. (1938) degrees from the University of Michigan, where he completed a dissertation in plant physiology.

Sandra Seaton

Ruby Dee, Adilah Barnes, Kim Staunton, Michele Shay and Linda Gravatt appeared in a 1998 production of her first play, The Bridge Party, at the University of Michigan, a work inspired by local events.

Telluride Association Summer Program

Since the first TASP was held in 1954, TASPs have been held at college and university campuses across the United States, including Cornell, University of Texas at Austin, Deep Springs College, Johns Hopkins University, Williams College, University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, Kenyon College, and St. John's College.

Timothy Pauketat

After working for the Illinois State Museum and Michigan’s museum of anthropology from 1984-88 he attained his PhD in Anthropology in 1991 from the University of Michigan.

Tom Malchow

He attended high school in Minnesota at Saint Thomas Academy, graduated from the University of Michigan and was a member of the United States Swimming (USS) Team 'Star'.

Tom Slade

Thomas A. Slade (April 6, 1952 – November 12, 2006) was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team in 1971.

Tony Maws

After graduating from the University of Michigan with a BA in Psychology and uncertain what he wanted to do, Maws traveled to Europe for a year and upon returning to New England quickly got a job as a waiter in Martha's Vineyard.

Washtenaw County Fairgrounds

Washtenaw County Fairgrounds was the first home field for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team.

William Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.

William Longshaw, Jr.

He studied pharmacology at Tulane University (then named the University of Louisiana) and received a medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1859.

Woods Hutchinson

He graduated from Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1880 and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan four years later.

Yung Ho Chang

Before he came to MIT, he had also served as the Kenzo Tange Chair Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design as well as the Eliel Saarinen Chair Professor at University of Michigan.

Z-pinch

They can be found in various institutions such as University of Nevada, Reno (USA), Cornell University (USA), University of Michigan (USA), Sandia National Laboratories (USA), University of California, San Diego (USA), University of Washington (USA), Ruhr University (Germany), Imperial College (United Kingdom), École Polytechnique (France), and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel).