Fall 2026
In THE ISSUE
In
THE
ISSUE
Cover Story
The University of Michigan’s newest residence community houses 2,300 students in a complex designed to give students more space to live, study, and build community.
Feature
Amy Tseng, ’18, bridges the gap between art and engineering as a technical director for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Feature
Beili Liu, MFA’03, uses small acts to create meaningful, large-scale artwork.
President’s Column
Ayanna McConnell
Welcome Team
Move-in day at the University of Michigan conjures feelings of nostalgia and bittersweet memories of a late-summer day in 1993 when my single mother, close friends, and I pulled up in front of Stockwell Hall.
Around THE U
Around
The U
Cover Story
Alum AnneMarie Suarez-Davis, MBA’99, MSW’25, returned to campus once more in August, this time for a different U-M milestone: to help her son, Miles, move into the Wolverine Village residence complex ahead of his first year at the University of Michigan. She called the new quad “stunning.”
Feature
Rabbits driving cars at breakneck speed, giant pit vipers flying through the air, and a fox wearing a police uniform — these circumstances aren’t uncommon for Amy Tseng, ’18, a technical director for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Feature
A woman sits at a small table, wordlessly sewing together pieces of white cloth as visitors watch. Above her head, 1,500 pairs of gleaming Chinese iron scissors are suspended, point-down, from the gallery ceiling.
Your
Association
Where in the World is Blue?
Show your
As you travel around the world or around the block, show us your Michigan pride! Don your Maize and Blue or Block M, snap a photo, and submit it to Michigan Alum for the chance to appear in a future issue. Check out the current issue’s gallery here.
Alumni
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Michigan Alum
Fall 2026
Editorial Team
CHAIR Kurtis Wilder, ’81, JD’84 | PAST CHAIR Mary Kay Haben, MBA’79 | TREASURER Thomas W. Hawkins, ’83 | SECRETARY Gabriela Teran, ’96 | EX OFFICIO Ayanna McConnell | Wendall Brooks, ’87 | Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, ’93 | Wayee Chu, ’97 | Salene Hitchcock-Gear, ’84 | Monica Howard Douglas, ’94 | Joseph Giles, ’96, MBA’01, JD’01 | Li Li Leung, ’95 | Alison Miller, ’00 | Prakash Patel, ’89 | Anup Popat, ’95 | Emilie Rubinfeld, ’96 | John Sabat, ’95| Charles F. Schwartz, ’90 | Rajiv Shah, ’95 | Kent Syverud, JD’81, MA’83, HLHD’26 | Steve Shindler, ’85 | Jordan Wertlieb, ’86 | Sophie Wong, ’97 | Lynn Wooten, PHD’95 | Linda Zhang, ’96, MSE’98, MBA’11
