Abraham Alzoubi, M.Arch ‘25 was awarded a summer research grant by the U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) to investigate the various land uses in Detroit and Palestine. It was one of 19 grants given to graduate students and teams at the University of Michigan through the provost-funded Anti-Racism Collaborative. Alzoubi plans to use the grant to fund field expeditions to Detroit and Palestine and learn more about the ongoing efforts of activists to fight against land commodification.
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October 24, 2024
Innocence Clinic helps exonerate man more than 22 years after wrongful murder conviction
A judge has vacated the double murder conviction and sentence of Michigan Innocence Clinic client LaVone Hill, providing him the relief he has been seeking for more than 22 years. Hill was convicted in 2002—in part due to the police corruption—of two murders he did not commit.
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October 30, 2024
Introducing the 2024 David Bohnett Foundation Leadership and Public Service Fellows
First-year MPP students, Delaney McDermott (MPP/MPH ‘27) and Bradley Popovich (MPP ‘26) have been selected as the 2024 Bohnett Fellows at the Ford School of Public Policy. They will receive two years of in-state tuition support and a funded internship in the city of Detroit mayor’s office.
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November 7, 2024
DNEP’s Community Tech Worker project expands with NSF grant
The Community Tech Worker program expands to help bolster small businesses after the School of Information was awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project, which started the program on the city’s east side, has partnered with Live6 Alliance to make it available to small businesses on the city’s northwest side.
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November 4, 2024
Beating the odds: Students at Detroit public schools are less depressed, anxious
The share of 8th-12th grade students reporting depression and anxiety symptoms fell below pre-pandemic levels in 2022-23 in the Detroit Public School Community District—which is the opposite of national trends.
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October 30, 2024
Barbara Israel: Driven to give back
She’s the pioneering community-based participatory researcher whose work in developing collaborative partnerships has had a significant impact on the health and well-being of Detroit residents. Barbara Israel now commits to fostering future public health leaders as professor emerita of Health Behavior & Health Equity.
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October 22, 2024
Stamps professor seeks to create inspiring ‘interruptions’
“My purpose shouldn’t be to be busy or to make people feel busier or to add to the clutter of the world, but to remind myself and others that we have the opportunity to turn the privilege of being alive into something that could be surprising, and it needn’t be radical, but it could just be an interruption.”
~ Nick Tobier, professor of art and design in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
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October 8, 2024
Apply for Semester in Detroit’s next session by Jan. 1, 2025
Rooted in the principles of respect, solidarity, and justice, Semester in Detroit has been engaging students with Detroit and Detroiters since 2009. The program engages U-M undergraduates in substantive, sustained and reciprocal relationships with the people and communities of the city of Detroit.
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October 8, 2024
Albert Pak joins Law School faculty dedicated to supporting community groups
Albert Pak joined the Michigan Law faculty this fall, working in the Community Enterprise Clinic. Although he comes to the faculty from private practice, the things that appeal to him most about academia have long been a part of his career.
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In The News
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October 31, 2024
Bridge Detroit
Chickens, ducks and bees on the menu
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October 31, 2024
Crain's Detroit Business
This is what the I-75 ‘lids’ in Detroit could look like
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October 31, 2024
Detroit Free Press
Melia Howard named Detroit’s new deputy mayor, to replace Todd Bettison
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October 31, 2024
Crain's Detroit Business
Duggan names a deputy mayor as city backfills with police chief’s departure
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October 28, 2024
Outlier Media
Detroit’s Latinx communities tend to have low voter turnout. This organizer is trying to change that
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October 31, 2024
Bridge Detroit
