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Students raising their hands in class.

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Making Michigan

Making Big History: Adding Billions of Years to Students’ Education

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Medical students practicing bandaging dummies.

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Making Michigan

How U-M’s First Hospital Made History – with Joel Howell

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Making Michigan

Four Years of “Making Michigan” and Four Decades at Michigan: Some Reflections – with Gary Krenz

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Archivists Francis Blouin and Leonard Coombs working in the Vatican Archives.

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Making Michigan

A Stunning Achievement: The Improbable Collaboration of the Bentley Library and the Vatican Archives

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Angell Hall seen from the southwest.

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Making Michigan

More Than “First Do No Harm”: Modeling Global Engagement with the U-M/Ghana Partnership

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Josephine Gomon talking on a telephone with a pile of packages in front of her.

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Making Michigan

A City’s Conscience: The Life and Career of Josephine Gomon

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A yellow typewriter superimposed over a map of the U-M campus.

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Making Michigan

Wolverine Writers II: Stories of Fire, Ice, and Rebirth

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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Robert Frost is one of America’s most beloved poets, and in the 1920s he spent several years teaching at the University of Michigan.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Making Michigan

Poets at Michigan: Then and Now

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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A row of shelved law books in a library.

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Making Michigan

A Library for All: U-M, Google, and the Importance of Having a Copy

  • 7:00 – 8:30 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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H. Chandler Davis as a young U-M faculty member.

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Making Michigan

Keeping Resistance Alive: Chandler Davis and Academic Freedom at U-M

  • 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory
  • In-Person
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