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President Mary Sue Coleman Says U-M in Good Financial Shape: Video »
President Coleman talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman and Mark Crumpton about the University's finances and partnership with Google Inc. to digitize books. Coleman says the university is in "very good financial shape."

Time Magazine names President Mary Sue Coleman one of the nation's ten best college presidents »
Fundraising. It's every university president's bane; it's every university president's salvation. And those in the maize and blue have long seen the writing on the wall.

Law School receives $10M gift for ongoing building project »
Robert and Ann Aikens have made a $10 million gift to the Law School for its ongoing building expansion and renovation project.

Perrigo Fellowships Train—and Keep—Top Talent in Michigan »
Michigan powered the engine of America's twentieth-century manufacturing economy. Now the Perrigo Undergraduate Fellowships at UM's Life Sciences Institute prepare the state to spark the twenty-first-century knowledge economy.

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