d Applied Science; School of the Arts and Architecture; School of Theater, Film, and Television; and School of Nursing. Fifteen[17][18] Nobel laureates, one Fields Medalist,[19] and two Turing Award winners[20] have been affiliated with the university as faculty, researchers, or alumni. Among the current faculty members, 51 have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 22 to the National Academy of Engineering, 37 to the Institute of Medicine, and 120 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[21] The university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974.[22]
UCLA student-athletes compete intercollegiately as the Bruins in the Pacific-12 Conference. The Bruins have won 125 national championships, including 109 NCAA team championships, leading the nation as the most successful athletic program.[23][24] UCLA student-athletes have won 250 Olympic medals: 125 gold, 65 silver and 60 bronze.[25] The Bruins have competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception (1924), and have won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States has participated in since 1932.[26]
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Maturity as a university
2 Campus
2.1 Architecture
2.2 Filming
2.3 Transportation and parking
3 Academics
3.1 Healthcare
3.2 Rankings
3.2.1 Global rankings
3.2.2 National rankings
3.2.3 Graduate and professional schools
3.3 Library system
4 Admissions
4.1 Undergraduate
4.2 Graduate
5 Crime
6 Economic impact
6.1 Trademarks and licensing
7 Athletics
7.1 USC rivalry
8 Student life
8.1 Traditions
8.2 Student government
8.3 Media publications
8.4 Housing
8.5 Hospitality
8.6 Chabad House
9 Faculty and alumni
10 References
11 External links
History[edit]
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In March 1881, after heavy lobbying by Los Angel
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judge in California who overturned the controversial California Proposition 8 in 2010 and ruled it unconstitutional, received his undergraduate degree from U-M in 1966.[182] Some more notorious graduates of the University are 1910 convicted murderer (though perhaps wrongfully so)[183] Dr. Harvey Crippen,[167] late 19th-century American serial killer Herman Mudgett,[167] and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.[167] U-M athletes have starred in Major League Baseball, the National Football League and National Basketball Association as well as other
ion theory),[174] and Turing Award winners Edgar Codd, Stephen Cook, and Frances E. Allen. Marjorie Lee Browne received her M.S. in 1939 and her doctoral degree in 1950, becoming the third African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics.[175][176]
Notable writers who attended U-M include playwright Arthur Miller,[167] essayists Susan Orlean[167] and Sven Birkerts, journalists and editors Mike Wallace,[167] Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, Daniel Okrent,[167] and Sandra Steingraber, food critics Ruth Reichl and Gael Greene, novelists Brett Ellen Block, Elizabeth Kostova, Marge Piercy,[167] Brad Meltzer,[167] Betty Smith,[167] and Charles Major, screenwriter Judith Guest,[167] Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke, National Book Award winners Keith Waldrop and Jesmyn Ward, composer/author/puppeteer Forman Brown, and Alireza Jafarzadeh (a Middle East analyst, author, and TV commentator).
In Hollywood, famous alumni include actors James Earl Jones,[167] David Alan Grier,[167] actresses Lucy Liu[167] and Selma Blair,[167] and filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan.[167] Many Broadway and musical theatre actors, including Gavin Creel,[167] Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and his sister Celia Keenan-Bolger attended U-M for musical theatre. The creators of A Very Potter Musical, known as StarKid Productions, also graduated from the University of Michigan. A member of Starkid, actor and singer Darren Criss, is a series regular on the television series Glee.
Musical graduates include operatic soprano Jessye Norman,[167] singer Joe Dassin, jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon, and Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis.[167] Classical composer Frank Ticheli and Broadway composer Andrew Lippa attended. Pop Superstar Madonna[167] and rock legend Iggy Pop[167] attended but did not graduate.
Other U-M graduates include Donald Kohn (past Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Temel Kotil (president and CEO of Turkish Airlines), current Dean of Harvard Law School Martha Minow, assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian,[167] Weather Underground radical activist Bill Ayers,[177] activist Tom Hayden,[167] architect Charles Moore,[178] Rensis Likert (a sociologist who specialized in management styles and developed the Likert scale), the Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg,[179] and Benjamin D. Pritchard (the Civil War general who captured Jefferson Davis).[180] Neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta attended both college and medical school at U-M.[181] Clarence Darrow attended law school at U-M at a time when many lawyers did not receive any formal education.[167] Frank Murphy, who was mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, attorney general of the United States, and Supreme Court justice was also a graduate of the Law School.[167] Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is another U-M law school graduate (J.D. 1988).[167]
Vaughn R. Walker, a federal district judge in California who overturned the controversial California Proposition 8 in 2010 and ruled it unconstitutional, received his undergraduate degree from U-M in 1966.[182]
Some more notorious graduates of the University are 1910 convicted murderer (though perhaps wrongfully so)[183] Dr. Harvey Crippen,[167] late 19th-century American serial killer Herman Mudgett,[167] and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.[167]
U-M athletes have starred in Major League Baseball, the National Football League and National Basketball Association as well as other professional sports. Notable among recent players is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots.[167] Three players have won college football's Heisman Trophy, awarded to the player considered the best in the nation: Tom Harmon (1940), Desmond Howard (1991) and Charles Woodson (1997).[150] Professional golfer John Schroeder and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps also attended the University of Michigan, with the latter studying Sports Marketing and Management. Phelps also swam competitively for Club Wolverine, a swimming club associated with the university.[184] NHL players Marty Turco, Chris Summers, Max Pacioretty, Carl Hagelin, Brendan Morrison,[167] Jack Johnson, and Michael Cammalleri[167] all played for U-M's ice hockey team. Baseball Hall of Famer, George Sisler played baseball at the university, also Barry Larkin of the Cincinnati Reds.[167]
The university claims the only alumni association with a chapter on the moon, established in 1971 when the crew of Apollo 15 placed a charter plaque for a new U-M Alumni Association on the lunar surface.[167] The plaque reads: "The Alumni Association of The University of Michigan. Charter Number One. This is to certify that The University of Michigan Club of The Moon is a duly constituted unit of the Alumni Association and entitled to all the rights and privileges under the Association's Constitution." According to the Apollo 15 astronauts, several small U-M flags were brought on the mission. The presence of a U-M flag on the moon is a long-held campus myth.[171]University of California, Los Angeles
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Notable writers who attended U-M include playwright Arthur Miller,[167] essayists Susan Orlean[167] and Sven Birkerts, journalists and editors Mike Wallace,[167] Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, Daniel Okrent,[167] and Sandra Steingraber, food critics Ruth Reichl and Gael Greene, novelists Brett Ellen Block, Elizabeth Kostova, Marge Piercy,[167] Brad Meltzer,[167] Betty Smith,[167] and Charles Major, screenwriter Judith Guest,[167] Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke, National Book Award winners Keith Waldrop and Jesmyn Ward, composer/author/puppeteer Forman Brown, and Alireza Jafarzadeh (a Middle East analyst, author, and TV commentator).
In Hollywood, famous alumni include actors James Earl Jones,[167] David Alan Grier,[167] actresses Lucy Liu[167] and Selma Blair,[167] and filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan.[167] Many Broadway and musical theatre actors, including Gavin Creel,[167] Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and his sister Celia Keenan-Bolger attended U-M for musical theatre. The creators of A Very Potter Musical, known as StarKid Productions, also graduated from the University of Michigan. A member of Starkid, actor and singer Darren Criss, is a series regular on the television series Glee.
Musical graduates include operatic soprano Jessye Norman,[167] singer Joe Dassin, jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon, and Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis.[167] Classical composer Frank Ticheli and Broadway composer Andrew Lippa attended. Pop Superstar Madonna[167] and rock legend Iggy Pop[167] attended but did not graduate.
Other U-M graduates include Donald Kohn (past Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Temel Kotil (president and CEO of Turkish Airlines), current Dean of Harvard Law School Martha Minow, assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian,[167] Weather Underground radical activist Bill Ayers,[177] activist Tom Hayden,[167] architect Charles Moore,[178] Rensis Likert (a sociologist who specialized in management styles and developed the Likert scale), the Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg,[179] and Benjamin D. Pritchard (the Civil War general who captured Jefferson Davis).[180] Neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta attended both college and medical school at U-M.[181] Clarence Darrow attended law school at U-M at a time when many lawyers did not receive any formal education.[167] Frank Murphy, who was mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, attorney general of the United States, and Supreme Court justice was also a graduate of the Law School.[167] Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is another U-M law school graduate (J.D. 1988).[167]
Vaughn R. Walker, a federal district judge in California who overturned the controversial California Proposition 8 in 2010 and ruled it unconstitutional, received his undergraduate degree from U-M in 1966.[182]
Some more notorious graduates of the University are 1910 convicted murderer (though perhaps wrongfully so)[183] Dr. Harvey Crippen,[167] late 19th-century American serial killer Herman Mudgett,[167] and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.[167]
U-M athletes have starred in Major League Baseball, the National Football League and National Basketball Association as well as other professional sports. Notable among recent players is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots.[167] Three players have won college football's Heisman Trophy, awarded to the player considered the best in the nation: Tom Harmon (1940), Desmond Howard (1991) and Charles Woodson (1997).[150] Professional golfer John Schroeder and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps also attended the University of Michigan, with the latter studying Sports Marketing and Management. Phelps also swam competitively for Club Wolverine, a swimming club associated with the university.[184] NHL players Marty Turco, Chris Summers, Max Pacioretty, Carl Hagelin, Brendan Morrison,[167] Jack Johnson, and Michael Cammalleri[167] all played for U-M's ice hockey team. Baseball Hall of Famer, George Sisler played baseball at the university, also Barry Larkin of the Cincinnati Reds.[167]
The university claims the only alumni association with a chapter on the moon, established in 1971 when the crew of Apollo 15 placed a charter plaque for a new U-M Alumni Association on the lunar surface.[167] The plaque reads: "The Alumni Association of The University of Michigan. Charter Number One. This is to certify that The University of Michigan Club of The Moon is a duly constituted unit of the Alumni Association and entitled to all the rights and privileges under the Association's Constitution." According to the Apollo 15 astronauts, several small U-M flags were brought on the mission. The presence of a U-M flag on the moon is a long-held campus myth.[171]University of California, Los Angeles
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y short musical arrangement written by former students Joseph Carl, a sousaphonist, and Albert Ahronheim, a drum major.[162] Before "The Victors" was officially the University's fight song, the song "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" was considered to be the school song.[163] After Michigan temporarily withdrew from the Western Conference in 1907, a new Michigan fight song "Varsity" was written in 1911 because the line "champions of the West" was no longer appropriate.[164] In 2011, the Band Pop Evil wrote and recorded a rock and roll anthem for the Wolverines called "In the Big House."[165] Alumni[edit]
ord-breaking attendance has become commonplace at Michigan Stadium, especially since the arrival of head coach Bo Schembechler. U of M has fierce rivalries with many teams, including Michigan State, Notre Dame, and Ohio State; ESPN has referred to the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry as the greatest rivalry in American sports.[154] U-M has all-time winning records against Michigan State University, University of Notre Dame, and The Ohio State University.[155]
Ray Fisher baseball stadium
The men's ice hockey team, which plays at Yost Ice Arena, has won nine national championships,[156] while the men's basketball team, which plays at the Crisler Center, has appeared in five Final Fours and won the national championship in 1989. However, the program became involved in a scandal involving payments from a booster during the 1990s. This led to the program being placed on probation for a four-year period. The program also voluntarily vacated victories from its 1992–1993 and 1995–1999 seasons in which the payments took place, as well as its 1992 and 1993 Final Four appearances.[157]
Through the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, 178 U-M students and coaches had participated in the Olympics, winning medals in every Summer Olympics except 1896, and winning gold medals in all but four Olympiads. U of M students have won a total of 133 Olympic medals: 65 gold, 30 silver, and 38 bronze.[158]
School songs[edit]
The University of Michigan's fight song, "The Victors," was written by student Louis Elbel in 1898 following the last-minute football victory over the University of Chicago that won a league championship. The song was declared by John Philip Sousa as "the greatest college fight song ever written."[159] The song refers to the university as being "the Champions of the West." At the time, U-M was part of the Western Conference, which would later become the Big Ten Conference. Michigan was considered to be on the Western Frontier when it was founded in the old Northwest Territory. Although mainly used at sporting events, the fight song can be heard at other events. President Gerald Ford had it played by the United States Marine Band as his entrance anthem during his term as president from 1974 to 1977, in preference over the more traditional "Hail to the Chief"[160] and the Michigan Marching Band performed a slow-tempo variation on the fight song at his funeral.[161] The fight song is also sung during graduation commencement ceremonies. The university's alma mater song is "The Yellow and Blue." A common rally cry is "Let's Go Blue!," had a complementary short musical arrangement written by former students Joseph Carl, a sousaphonist, and Albert Ahronheim, a drum major.[162]
Before "The Victors" was officially the University's fight song, the song "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" was considered to be the school song.[163] After Michigan temporarily withdrew from the Western Conference in 1907, a new Michigan fight song "Varsity" was written in 1911 because the line "champions of the West" was no longer appropriate.[164] In 2011, the Band Pop Evil wrote and recorded a rock and roll anthem for the Wolverines called "In the Big House."[165]
Alumni[edit]
Main article: List of University of Michigan alumni
In addition to the late U.S. president Gerald Ford, the university has produced twenty-six Rhodes Scholars. As of 2012, the university has almost 500,000 living alumni.[166]
More than 250 Michigan graduates have served as legislators as either United States Senator (40 graduates) or as a Congressional representative (over 200 graduates), including former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt[167] and U.S. Representative Justin Amash, who represents Michigan's Third Congressional District.[168] Mike Duggan, Mayor-elect of Detroit, earned his bachelor and law degree at Michigan, while Michigan Governor Rick Snyder earned his bachelor, M.B.A., and J.D. degrees from Michigan. U-M's contributions to aeronautics include aircraft designer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson of Lockheed Skunk Works fame,[169] Lockheed president Willis Hawkins, and several astronauts including the all-U-M crew of Gemini 4[170] and the all-Michigan crew of Apollo 15.[171] U-M counts among its matriculants nineteen billionaires and prominent company founders and co-founders including Google co-founder Larry Page[172] and Dr. J. Robert Beyster who founded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in 1969.[173] Several U-M graduates contributed greatly to the field of computer science, including Claude Shannon (who made major contributions to the mathematics of informat
Ray Fisher baseball stadium
The men's ice hockey team, which plays at Yost Ice Arena, has won nine national championships,[156] while the men's basketball team, which plays at the Crisler Center, has appeared in five Final Fours and won the national championship in 1989. However, the program became involved in a scandal involving payments from a booster during the 1990s. This led to the program being placed on probation for a four-year period. The program also voluntarily vacated victories from its 1992–1993 and 1995–1999 seasons in which the payments took place, as well as its 1992 and 1993 Final Four appearances.[157]
Through the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, 178 U-M students and coaches had participated in the Olympics, winning medals in every Summer Olympics except 1896, and winning gold medals in all but four Olympiads. U of M students have won a total of 133 Olympic medals: 65 gold, 30 silver, and 38 bronze.[158]
School songs[edit]
The University of Michigan's fight song, "The Victors," was written by student Louis Elbel in 1898 following the last-minute football victory over the University of Chicago that won a league championship. The song was declared by John Philip Sousa as "the greatest college fight song ever written."[159] The song refers to the university as being "the Champions of the West." At the time, U-M was part of the Western Conference, which would later become the Big Ten Conference. Michigan was considered to be on the Western Frontier when it was founded in the old Northwest Territory. Although mainly used at sporting events, the fight song can be heard at other events. President Gerald Ford had it played by the United States Marine Band as his entrance anthem during his term as president from 1974 to 1977, in preference over the more traditional "Hail to the Chief"[160] and the Michigan Marching Band performed a slow-tempo variation on the fight song at his funeral.[161] The fight song is also sung during graduation commencement ceremonies. The university's alma mater song is "The Yellow and Blue." A common rally cry is "Let's Go Blue!," had a complementary short musical arrangement written by former students Joseph Carl, a sousaphonist, and Albert Ahronheim, a drum major.[162]
Before "The Victors" was officially the University's fight song, the song "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" was considered to be the school song.[163] After Michigan temporarily withdrew from the Western Conference in 1907, a new Michigan fight song "Varsity" was written in 1911 because the line "champions of the West" was no longer appropriate.[164] In 2011, the Band Pop Evil wrote and recorded a rock and roll anthem for the Wolverines called "In the Big House."[165]
Alumni[edit]
Main article: List of University of Michigan alumni
In addition to the late U.S. president Gerald Ford, the university has produced twenty-six Rhodes Scholars. As of 2012, the university has almost 500,000 living alumni.[166]
More than 250 Michigan graduates have served as legislators as either United States Senator (40 graduates) or as a Congressional representative (over 200 graduates), including former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt[167] and U.S. Representative Justin Amash, who represents Michigan's Third Congressional District.[168] Mike Duggan, Mayor-elect of Detroit, earned his bachelor and law degree at Michigan, while Michigan Governor Rick Snyder earned his bachelor, M.B.A., and J.D. degrees from Michigan. U-M's contributions to aeronautics include aircraft designer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson of Lockheed Skunk Works fame,[169] Lockheed president Willis Hawkins, and several astronauts including the all-U-M crew of Gemini 4[170] and the all-Michigan crew of Apollo 15.[171] U-M counts among its matriculants nineteen billionaires and prominent company founders and co-founders including Google co-founder Larry Page[172] and Dr. J. Robert Beyster who founded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in 1969.[173] Several U-M graduates contributed greatly to the field of computer science, including Claude Shannon (who made major contributions to the mathematics of informat
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