Last week I was headed to New York City for the prestigious Livingston Awards ceremony honoring young journalists (blog post to come). Knowing I would have a few hours free the evening before, I queried my Facebook friends for suggestions on how to spend my small window of time. In addition to several restaurant recommendations, [more]

Sam Hamburger closed a dozen real estate deals in downtown Detroit this past year. Oh, and he graduated from the University of Michigan a dozen months ago. Hamburger is a 2012 LSA alumnus, part of a new generation of highly skilled professionals living and working in downtown Detroit.  He works for the Quicken Loan family [more]

It started with a hashtag. Earlier this spring we announced that U-M alumnus and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo would be the 2013 commencement speaker. So naturally we needed a hashtag for graduation weekend to facilitate a shared experience in the Twittersphere. Our commencements are always memorable, for sure. Honorary degree luminaries and 20,000-plus in the [more]

There is nothing like a late-day meeting with Michigan students to re-charge my flagging energy level and remind me, again, why I have the best job in the world. Six undergrads hailing from different academic units converged last week to share their driving passion: entrepreneurship at Michigan. They are the leadership of our student entrepreneurship [more]