Lane Hall Artwork moves to UMMA
For nearly 20 years, Joanne Leonard’s 22-foot-long scroll, Reel Family, has graced the back hallway of Lane Hall’s first floor. Visitors, students, and building occupants have admired and studied the delicate texts and images that spread out like a timeline. Leonard created her photo-collage in 1999 and gifted the piece to IRWG and the Department ...
How U-M Provided Abortion Care Before Roe: Archival research offers lessons for post-Dobbs era
September 2022 A new report provides historical insight on how administrators and counselors at the University of Michigan supported students, faculty, and staff seeking abortion care in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when abortion was illegal statewide. U-M doctoral student Rianna Johnson-Levy authored the report, “Before Roe: The University of Michigan’s Task Force for ...