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  1. Building a historic partnership at Eastern Market

    With 150-plus businesses, Detroit’s Eastern Market is the largest historic public market district in the U.S. Each year, millions visit the market, taking in its grand size and rich history, making it a popular attraction for guided tours — and UM-Dearborn students play a role in the information that’s shared. 

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Amy Emmert: Leading environmental education at Belle Isle in Detroit

    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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.