University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UM, UMich, or U of M), oftentimes noted merely as Michigan, could be a public analysis university placed in metropolis, Michigan, u. s.. Originally, supported in 1817 in metropolis because the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, twenty years before the Michigan Territory formally became a state, the University of Michigan is that the state's oldest university. The university rapt to metropolis in 1837 onto forty acres (16 ha) of what's currently called Central field. Since its institution in metropolis, the university field has dilated to incorporate over 584 major buildings with a combined space of over thirty four million gross sq. feet (781 acres or three.16 km²) unfolded over a Central field and North field, has 2 satellite campuses placed in Flint and Dearborn, and a middle in Detroit. The University was one of the founding members of the Association of American Universities.

Considered one in all the foremost analysis universities within the u. s.,[8] the university has terribly high analysis activity and its comprehensive graduate program offers scholar degrees within the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) further as skilled degrees in design, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social service, public health, and medicine. Michigan's body of living alumni (as of 2012) includes over five hundred,000. Besides educational life, Michigan's athletic groups vie in Division I of the NCAA and ar conjointly called the Wolverines. they're members of the massive 10 Conference.

The University of Michigan was established in Detroit on August 26, 1817 as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, by the governor and judges of Michigan Territory. The Rev. John Monteith was one of the university's founders and its first President. Ann Arbor had set aside 40 acres (16 ha) in the hopes of being selected as the state capital; when Lansing was chosen as the state capital, the city offered the land for a university. What would become the university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 thanks to Governor Stevens T. Mason. The original 40 acres (160,000 m2) was the basis of the current Central Campus.[9] The first classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with six freshmen and a sophomore, taught by two professors. Eleven students graduated in the first commencement in 1845.



By 1866, enrollment increased to 1,205 students, many of whom were Civil War veterans. Women were first admitted in 1870. James Burrill Angell, who served as the university's president from 1871 to 1909, aggressively expanded U-M's curriculum to include professional studies in dentistry, architecture, engineering, government, and medicine. U-M also became the first American university to use the seminar method of study.[12] Among the early students in the School of Medicine was Jose Celso Barbosa, who in 1880 graduated as valedictorian and the first Puerto Rican to get a university degree in the United States. He returned to Puerto Rico to practice medicine and also served in high-ranking posts in the government.

From 1900 to 1920, the university constructed many new facilities, including buildings for the dental and pharmacy programs, chemistry, natural sciences, Hill Auditorium, large hospital and library complexes, and two residence halls. In 1920 the university reorganized the College of Engineering and formed an advisory committee of 100 industrialists to guide academic research initiatives. The university became a favored choice for bright Jewish students from New York in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Ivy League schools had quotas restricting the number of Jews to be admitted. Because of its high standards, U-M gained the nickname "Harvard of the West," which became commonly parodied in reverse after John F. Kennedy referred to himself as "a graduate of the Michigan of the East, Harvard University" in his speech proposing the formation of the Peace Corps while on the front steps of the Michigan Union. During World War II, U-M's research supported military efforts, such as U.S. Navy projects in proximity fuzes, PT boats, and radar jamming.


After the war, enrollment expanded rapidly and by 1950, it reached 21,000, of which more than one third (or 7,700) were veterans supported by the G.I. Bill. As the Cold War and the Space Race took hold, U-M received numerous government grants for strategic research and helped to develop peacetime uses for nuclear energy. Much of that work, as well as research into alternative energy sources, is pursued via the Memorial Phoenix Project.