University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (commonly referred to as Michigan, U-M, UMich, or U of M) is a public research university located in the state of Michigan in the United States. It is the state’s oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan. It also includes two regional campuses in Flint and Dearborn.

The university was founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, about 20 years before the Michigan Territory officially became a state. What would become the university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres (16 ha) of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university has physically expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 31 million gross square feet (712 acres or 2.38 km²), and transformed its academic program from a strictly classical curriculum to one that includes science and research.

University of Michigan

During the 20th century and early 2000s, U-M was the site of much student activism. When Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy visited the University on October 14, 1960, he gave an impromptu speech on the steps of the Michigan Union that led to a University of Michigan student movement which contributed to the establishment of the Peace Corps. The University was also a focal point in the controversy over affirmative action within higher education admissions.

Mission Statement of University of Michigan

The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.

University of Michigan Campuses

• Ann Arbor campus is divided into four main areas: the North, Central, Medical, and South Campuses
• Regional Campuses – Dearborn & Flint

University of Michigan – Ann Arbor Academic Ranking in 2010

Website: http://www.umich.edu/

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Rankings in 2011

• BEST BUSINESS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKING IN 2011
• TOP 100 GRADUATE COMPUTER ENGINEERING SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• MATERIALS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• POLITICAL SCIENCE GRADUATE COLLEGE RANKINGS IN 2011
• WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN 2011-2012
• 2011-2012 TOP 200 COLLEGES IN UNITED STATES
• QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2011
• FORBES AMERICAN’S BEST COLLEGE RANKINGS IN 2011
•  TOP ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOLS RANKING IN 2011-2012
•  TOP 30 PHARMACY SCHOOL RANKINGS IN U.S
• 2011 TOP MUSIC SCHOOL RANKING
• 2011 TOP PUBLIC COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN UNITED STATES
• BEST LAW SCHOOL RANKING FOR HIRING BY THE NATION’S LARGEST LAW FIRMS

University of Michigan News

• New advice on medication disposal: Trash beats take-back, new study suggests - 2012-05-16T18:22
  

  Returning extra medicine to the pharmacy for disposal might not be worth the time, money or greenhouse gas emissions, according to a U-M study that ...

  
  

• OMG! Texting ups truthfulness, new iPhone study suggests - 2012-05-16T14:43
  

  Text messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study to be presented this week at ...

  
  

• Calling all cars: U-M takes center stage in safe transportation - 2012-05-15T15:31
  

  The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute will begin equipping safety technology on vehicles that will allow them to send and receive messages—messages that someday ...

  
  

• 'Fertilizing' bone marrow helps answer why some cancers spread to bones - 2012-05-15T13:36
  

  Researchers found that administering a common chemotherapy drug before bone tumors took root actually fertilized the bone marrow, enabling cancer cells to seed and grow ...

  
  

• U-M Board of Regents meeting May 17 in Dearborn - 2012-05-14T19:53
  

  ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The University of Michigan Board of Regents will have its monthly meeting at 3 p.m. May 17 at the Fairlane Center, UM-Dearborn campus.

  
  

• Dance performance in four sites along downtown Ann Arbor route - 2012-05-14T18:55
  

  EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

  DATE: 7 p.m. each night June 7-9, 2012.

  EVENT: "Corsets, Grains, & Greenways: Dancing Downtown Ann Arbor"

  Consider this a case of how dancers make a ...

  
  

• Educational reform in China topic of public lecture - 2012-05-14T16:12
  

  EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

  DATE: 4 p.m. May 22, 2012

  EVENT: Gong Ke, head of the delegation and president of Nankai University, will present a public lecture, China's Higher ...

  
  

• New twist on ancient math problem could improve medicine, microelectronics - 2012-05-10T18:41
  

  A hidden facet of a math problem that goes back to�timeworn Sanskrit manuscripts has been exposed by nanotechnology researchers at U-M and the University of ...

  
  

• Stockholders vote GOP regardless of market performance - 2012-05-10T17:52
  

  Americans who own stock tend to vote Republican even if they're losing money in the stock market under a GOP president, say University of Michigan ...

  
  

• Power to the professors: A bold, new way to fund research begins at U-Michigan - 2012-05-09T18:08
  

  A first-of-its-kind, real-time research funding initiative at the University of Michigan puts $15 million into the hands of professors to jumpstart new projects they believe ...