Branstrom Book Prize Details

Branstrom Freshman Prize recipients may select a book prize, which will include an inscribed bookplate with their name, the award, and the date of the Honors Convocation. Branstrom Freshman Prize recipients may obtain their book prize from their campus bookstore; details are below.

Ann Arbor Branstrom Freshman Book Prize

Ann Arbor Branstrom Freshman Book Prize recipients are eligible to select a book prize from the list provided. Ann Arbor students will be sent an email and asked to complete a Google Form by Thursday, March 6 that includes their book selection. Books will be available for pickup from Barnes & Noble at the University of Michigan, located in the Michigan Union, beginning Thursday, March 27 through Friday, April 11, 2025.

For bookstore hours, please visit their website.

Phone: 734-205-2401

Along with the book prize, recipients will receive a personalized label with their name, the award, and the date of the Honors Convocation.

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Dearborn Branstrom Freshman Book Prize

Dearborn Branstrom Freshman Book Prize recipients are eligible to select a book prize from the list provided. Dearborn students will be sent an email survey from the bookstore asking them to pre-select a book so that it can be available for pickup beginning Monday, March 17 through Friday, March 28, 2025. The bookstore is open Monday-Thursday, 9:00-4:30 and Friday 9:00-12:00.

Along with the book prize, recipients will receive a personalized label with their name, the award, and the date of the Honors Convocation.

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Flint Branstrom Freshman Book Prize

Flint Branstrom Freshman Book Prize recipients are eligible to select a book prize from the list provided. To assist students with their selection, the University of Michigan-Flint Bookstore, located at 303 South Saginaw Street, 106 Pavilion, will have these books on display and available for pickup beginning Monday, March 17 through Friday, March 28, 2025. Please stop by the bookstore with your student ID and let the bookseller know you are a Branstrom recipient.

The bookstore is open Monday-Thursday 9:00-4:00 and Friday 8:00-3:00.

Phone: 810-762-3030

Along with the book prize, recipients will receive a personalized label with their name, the award, and the date of the Honors Convocation.

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William J. Branstrom Freshman Book Prize Selection—March 2025

  • American Medical Association: American Medical Association Family Medical Guide
  • Apel: Harvard Dictionary of Music
  • Bartlett/O'Brien: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  • Bennett: The Book of Virtues
  • Burkholder/Grout/Palisca: History of Western Music
  • Chmura/Consolino: Historic Photos of the University of Michigan
  • King: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume 7
  • Lessing/Pomarede: Louvre: All the Paintings
  • MacAulay: The New Way Things Work
  • Mankoff: The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-Serious A-to-Z Archive
  • Merriam-Webster: Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus
  • Miranda: Hamilton: The Revolution
  • Mosby: Mosby's Medical Dictionary
  • National Geographic: Visual History of the World
  • Oxford: Oxford Atlas of the World
  • Oxford: Oxford Spanish Dictionary
  • Rowling: Special Edition Harry Potter Boxed Set
  • Shakespeare: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • Tolkien: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Pocket Set
  • University of Chicago Press: Chicago Manual of Style

Ann Arbor students, please note:

  • you must complete the selection form by March 6 in order for your book to be available;
  • you can pick up your book beginning March 27, 2025;
  • the last date to pick up your book is Friday, April 11, 2025.
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