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April 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Fabulous and Fantastical Stories from U-M’s Past: A History Roundtable

How do you build a 40-foot-long portable telescopic camera, and what can you do with it? How did U-M's first African American PhD astronomer pursue his effort to solve the "painfully absurd" mystery of what makes the stars shine? Where was William Fletcher -- one of the first U-M Regents and the first Michigan Supreme...

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