Amy Emmert took what she learned from her early career, her education at U-M, and time spent abroad with her when she moved back to Detroit and assumed the role of school program coordinator at the Belle Isle Aquarium. Emmert had volunteered at the Belle Isle Nature Center, and was excited to return to the island.
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December 24, 2024
Camille Wilson and co-authors receive the Marie O. Weil Best Article Award
Camille Wilson and co-authors receive the Marie O. Weil Best Article Award from The Association for Community Organization & Social Action and the Journal of Community Practice. The award recognizes the timeliness and creativity of Wilson and her colleagues’ scholarship.
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January 3, 2025
Marsal School gift funds resources at The School at Marygrove
Emil and Julie Michael created a gift fund to provide books and other resources for the K-12 libraries at The School at Marygrove.
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January 24, 2025
Transportation insecurity in Detroit and beyond
Alexandra Murphy discusses why 36% of Detroiters have trouble getting where they need to go and how a new tool could guide better transportation solutions.
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January 24, 2025
Lecturer Rashid Faisal wants you to remember — and see yourself in — Cornelius Henderson
With an Inclusive History Project grant, Rashid Faisal is challenging his students to reckon with the nearly forgotten life story of a 1911 African American U-M grad who became an accomplished Detroit civil engineer.
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December 24, 2024
Taubman College researchers receive NSF grant to help rehabilitate vacant Detroit homes
The initiative, “Rehab for America: Housing Resilience for Detroit Communities,” addresses the nation’s housing affordability crisis by creating resources for and efficiencies in the process of rehabilitating abandoned homes.
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December 24, 2024
Building up communities by empowering residents with real estate knowledge
Chase Cantrell brings a new perspective to real estate development with online course focused on helping residents invest in their own communities. Nearly a decade after the launch of Building Community Value, Cantrell is taking that same education and empowerment mindset beyond the boundaries of southeast Michigan with an open online course on real estate development-a course open to anyone with Internet access.
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December 20, 2024
Detroit’s reparations task force now has until 2025 to make its report, but going slow with this challenging work may not be a bad thing
We are a team of University of Michigan-based scholars of political science and sociology specializing in public opinion and attitudes toward reparations. Our research provides important context for understanding the challenges Detroit’s reparations committee faces.
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December 9, 2024
U-M closes on nearly 2.3 acres of land in Detroit
U-M closed on a parcel of land for $9.5 million. The parcel, strategically located across the street from the U-M Center for Innovation, is expected to support the center’s future needs. Part of the nearly 2.3-acre parcel will be used for a parking structure.
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In The News
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January 24, 2025
Crain's Detroit Business
Detroit-Ann Arbor link vital to future of Michigan’s tech economy
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January 24, 2025
Crain's Detroit Business
Dug Song wants to keep Michigan from being ‘strip-mined’ for tech talent
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January 24, 2025
The Detroit News
Here are the Detroit development projects to watch in 2025
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January 16, 2025
Crain's Detroit Business
New I-75 cap renderings show park spaces bridging downtown
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January 16, 2025
Planet Detroit
Detroit vs. Everybody teams up with We the People of Detroit for ‘Water for Everybody’ campaign
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January 24, 2025
Crain's Detroit Business
