<a href="http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all;o p2=And;rgn2=ic_all;rgn3=bhl_da;op3=And;med=1;q1=willow%20run;size=20;c=bhl;back=back1185297055;subview=detail;resnum=4;view=entry;lastview=thumbnail;cc=bhl;entryid=x-bl005659;viewid=BL005659" target="_blank"> <img border="2" src="willowrun.png" align="right">></img></a> The University acquired the laboratories at Willow Run from the War Department, which maintained control of some of the facilities. Willow Run became the site for the first innovations in computing at the University of Michigan. <p> <i><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=umregproc;cc=umregproc;rgn=full%20text;idno=ACW7513.1945.001;didno=ACW7513.1945.001;view=image;seq=00000396" target="_blank">Regents' Proceedings, May Meeting, 1946, pg. 364.</a> <p> John Walsh "Willow Run Laboratories: Separating from the University of Michigan" Science Vol. 177, No. 4049 (August, 1972), 594. <p>Ann Arbor News, August 28, 1953. <p>Engineering Research Institute News, Vol. 4, No. 6 (Dec. 1955). <p><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9551;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-9551;subview=standard;focusrgn=frontmatter;cc=bhlead;byte=29053779" target="_blank">Conference presentation, MAD conference, Nov. 15, 1960, Computing Center Records Box 1.</a>