University of Michigan: Quick Facts

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News •

UM computing facility site needs archaeological review for remains, state says • Nov. 10, 2026, 12:01 AM ET (The Detroit News)

Abdul El-Sayed’s 2007 commencement speech impressed Bill Clinton, who told him to go into politics • Nov. 5, 2026, 11:14 AM ET (Fortune)

4 more activists charged in intimidation campaign against University of Michigan over Israel ties • Oct. 30, 2026, 2:23 PM ET (AP)

Facts

Areas Of Involvement	higher education • public education • Michigan vs. Ohio State: History and Results
Notable Alumni	Jim Harbaugh • Moses Coit Tyler • Mary Frances Berry • Marshall Sahlins • David Daniels • Urie Bronfenbrenner • Rosabeth Moss Kanter • Madonna • Abdul El-Sayed • Tom Brady • Gerald Ford • Jesmyn Ward • Ted Kaczynski • Lori Lightfoot • Ben Carson • Sanjay Gupta • Edmund White • Paul Milgrom • Dwayne McDuffie • James Earl Jones • Arthur Miller • Bill Joy • Jack Kevorkian • Marie Tharp • Rob Portman • Celeste Ng • Sam Zell • Claude Shannon • Christopher Paul Curtis • Margaret Bourke-White • Tom Hayden • H.H. Holmes • Lawrence Wong • Ann Coulter • Todd Gitlin • Marshall Warren Nirenberg • Stephen Smale • Robert J. Shiller • Larry Page • Nancy Kassebaum • Thomas E. Dewey • Philip C. Curtis • Cathy Guisewite • Michael Stonebraker • Ken Salazar • Arden L. Bement, Jr. • Edgar Frank Codd • Janet Guthrie • Donald Kuspit • Thomas McGuane • Frances E. Allen • Jerome Karle • James Comer • Isadore Singer • Max Apple • Stanley Cohen • Jessye Norman • Samuel C.C. Ting • Charles B. Huggins • Al Worden • Ross Macdonald • R.S. Crane • James Rowland Angell • Lewis Ralph Jones • Stephen Arthur Cook • Peyton Rous • George O. Curme • James McDivitt
Related People	Jim Harbaugh • Moses Coit Tyler • Fritz Crisler • John Davis Pierce • Fielding Yost • Benny Friedman • Willie Heston • James Burrill Angell • Bennie Oosterbaan