Brightmoor Maker Space, a community workshop space in Detroit co-founded by Stamps Professor Nick Tobier and Detroit Community Schools founder Bart Eddy, has been selected as one of 52 design practices for PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity, the U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the 19th Venice Biennale.
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March 17, 2025
Students create digital timeline chronicling school integration efforts in Detroit
Two students in Professor Michelle Adams’s Race, Law and History class were so inspired by class readings on school desegregation that they launched a digital project to extend and share their learnings. Now, they hope their work will in turn inspire others to create similar projects all around the country.
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February 20, 2025
U-M SEAS Detroit Sustainability Clinic announces Lemir Teron and Juan Shannon as inaugural Urban Sustainability and Justice Fellows
The University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability Detroit Sustainability Clinic has launched of its Urban Sustainability and Justice Faculty and Community Fellows Program. The fellowship invites academic scholars from external institutions to connect with the U-M and Detroit communities on advancing smart, actionable and equitable urban sustainability and climate solutions.
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April 3, 2025
From the Peace Corps to The Greening of Detroit, Fai Foen connects people to their natural environment
Lessons from her Peace Corps work in West Africa led alum Fai Foen to want to foster connections through landscape architecture.
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April 1, 2025
For a UM-Dearborn student and professor, the influence goes both ways
What started as a project to add energy efficiency measures at the Engineering Lab Building in 2020 turned into a friendship and research work relationship for Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Wencong Su and LaRico Andres, at that time a sophomore and recent transfer from Henry Ford College.
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April 1, 2025
Black architects and the Smithsonian National African American Museum
Now through April 21, the Detroit Historical Society hosts an exhibit conceived and curated by U-M architecture Professor Craig Wilkins that examines the significance of the work of Black architects despite systemic challenges.
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April 1, 2025
Poverty Solutions report on Detroit home wealth lauded by Mayor Duggan
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan promoted a Poverty Solutions study which shows that Detroit homeowners’ home wealth rose by $700 million in 2023. Detroit homeowners gained nearly a 10% increase in one year, and Black homeowners saw 75% of total gain, amassing $3.2 billion in added home wealth since 2014, nearly doubling in value.
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April 1, 2025
Alum Jena Brooker credits studies and work at U-M for career inspiration
Jena Brooker, the environment and food reporter for BridgeDetroit gives credit to U-M for inspiring her career with its focus on interdisciplinary academics and her experience managing the U-M Campus Farm.
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March 17, 2025
DTE Energy Foundation grant helps kids set sail with the Detroit River Schooner program
The Schooner program first hoisted its sails four years ago as an opportunity for local students to experience the Detroit River and learn about the environmental and cultural heritage of their home communities from the decks of a tall ship.
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In The News
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March 24, 2025
Fox 2
Detroit homeownership wealth grows to $4.6 billion since 2014
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March 24, 2025
Detroit Free Press
Detroit home values increased by $700 million in 2023, according to U-M study
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March 17, 2025
The Detroit News
Detroit’s Reparations Task Force asks for more time to complete report of recommendations
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March 17, 2025
Planet Detroit
Climate change could trigger more water main breaks like Southwest Detroit disaster
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March 17, 2025
Detroit Free Press
Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II joins race to serve as Michigan’s next governor
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March 24, 2025
Fox 2
