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The University of Michigan traces its origins to August 26, 1817, [1] when it was established in the Territory of Michigan as the Catholepistemiad or University of Michigania through a legislative act signed by acting governor and secretary William Woodbridge, chief justice Augustus B. Woodward, and judge John Griffin.
Shortly after the Territory of Michigan was formed in 1805, several of its leading citizens recognized the need for a structured education. As early as 1806, Father Gabriel Richard, who ran several schools around the town of Detroit, had requested land for a college from the governor and judges appointed by the President to administer the territory.
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]
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is a meeting place for the arts, bridging visual art and contemporary culture, scholarship and accessibility, tradition and innovation. The museum's collections include nearly 19,000 objects that span cultures, eras, and media and include European, American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African art ...
Santa Jeremy Ono FCAHS (Japanese: 小野 三太; born November 23, 1962) [1] is a Canadian-American immunologist and academic administrator who has been serving as the 15th president of the University of Michigan since October 2022.
Video producer Dan Crowd posted a 14-second clip of his masterpiece: A Zoom background that shows Crowd accidentally walking in on himself. It’s very meta.
Weiser Hall from the South. Weiser Hall is an academic building located in the Central Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.. It was originally built in 1963 by Albert Kahn Associates, [1] as the David M. Dennison Building.
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