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The University of Michigan's campus in Ann Arbor is divided into four main areas: the Central Campus area, the North Campus area, the North Medical Campus area, and Ross Athletic Campus area. The campus areas include more than 500 major buildings, [ 106 ] with a combined area of more than 37.48 million square feet (860 acres; 3.482 km 2 ). [ 107 ]
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 College of Literature, Science, and the Arts was originally designated the Literary Department and was the core of the University of Michigan. From 1841 to 1874, the faculty elected a president that communicated with the regents about department needs. In 1875, Henry Simmons Frieze became the first of the deans of LSA.
The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology is a museum of archaeology located on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States.The museum is a unit of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. [2]
Gerald Meyers, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business School, former chairman of American Motors Corporation; Tiya Miles, professor in American Culture, History, Afroamerican & African Studies, Native American Studies, and Women’s Studies (2002-2018) Horace Miner, professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology
The Life Sciences Institute (LSI) is a collaborative, multidisciplinary research institution located on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.It encompasses 27 faculty-led teams from 13 schools and departments throughout U-M. [1] The LSI brings together leading scientists from a variety of life science disciplines, working with a range of models systems and cutting-edge ...
The University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education is the education school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. The School of Education offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees.
The Michigan Legislature created the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1838, and that year allocated funding for a library. [7] The next year (three years before classes began), the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan acquired the University Library's first volume, John James Audubon's Birds of America, purchased at a cost of $970. [8]