Claim: Norie Sato moved to the United States with her family when she was 4 and graduated from the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Evidence: Sato was born in Sendai, Japan and moved to the United States with her family when she was 4. After spending some years in Michigan she graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking in 1971. The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.