SUMMER 2026
In THE ISSUE
In
THE
ISSUE
Basketball Feature
In an era defined by NIL deals and rapidly changing rosters, head coach Dusty May built a championship-winning team around chemistry and sacrifice.
Basketball Feature
Fab Five icon Jalen Rose, HLHD’26, reflects on legacy and lived values for his Spring Commencement speech.
Plus, check out how father and son Wolverines helped recreate Michigan basketball history.
Feature
Eli Neiburger, ’96, leads the Ann Arbor District Library and its popular Summer Game, making the library much more than a place to borrow books.
Feature
How Claude Shannon’s, ’36, HDSC’61, mid-century discoveries built the roadmap for the future of artificial intelligence.
Feature
Matthew Cybert, ’97, spent 26 years protecting government leaders, investigating financial crimes, and serving multiple presidential administrations.
Guest Column
Ayanna McConnell
Celebrating Scholarship
As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th year of its birth, there are some milestones at the University that deserve recognition. At the 2026 Spring Commencement ceremonies, the University granted its 1 millionth degree.
Around THE U
Around
The U
Basketball Features
In an era defined by NIL deals and rapidly changing rosters, head coach Dusty May built a championship-winning team around chemistry and sacrifice.
Plus, Fab Five icon Jalen Rose, HLHD’26, reflects on legacy and lived values for his Spring Commencement speech; and check out how father and son Wolverines helped recreate Michigan basketball history.
Feature
Long before artificial intelligence permeated almost every corner of business, before the internet connected continents and digital technology revolutionized the modern world, a quirky polymath and University of Michigan alum was quietly putting the mathematical pieces together that would lay the groundwork for it all.
Feature
Long before artificial intelligence permeated almost every corner of business, before the internet connected continents and digital technology revolutionized the modern world, a quirky polymath and University of Michigan alum was quietly putting the mathematical pieces together that would lay the groundwork for it all.
Feature
During Matthew Cybert’s, ’97, first week in the White House, he’d hardly even laid eyes on the president.
In 2004, Cybert was serving on then-President George W. Bush’s Secret Service detail. He was on the midnight shift, standing guard outside the president’s bedroom, taking in what he could of the dark, quiet building.
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SUMMER 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 | Wendell 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; Linda Zhang, ’96, MSE’98, MBA’11
