Staff indicated that they wanted to learn about the best practices for supporting students affected by depression, anxiety, trauma, or PTSD. But, only 38% of staff reported knowledge of a protocol to screen or identify students in need of mental health services.
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March 25, 2022
Gräbner and Hansen: scaling social sustainability
To help emerging architects develop the technical skills and realistic experience they will need in actual practice, Hansen and Gräbner work each fall with students in Taubman College’s Systems Studio.
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March 17, 2022
Arquero de Alarcón: giving a voice to underserved communities from Detroit to São Paulo
María Arquero de Alarcón is interested in bringing design and planning capacities to under-resourced communities that are typically overlooked by mainstream professional practice.
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March 15, 2022
Return to beauty: The long, hard push to revive a neighborhood
A graduate student project led by Margaret Dewar, professor emerita of urban and regional planning at the Taubman, has helped boost MorningSide community efforts to improve housing stock and draw businesses to the area.
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February 28, 2022
Urban Tech Prototype Grant awardees to explore air quality, monetizing geolocation data, and intergenerational storytelling
The grant program is the latest example of Taubman College’s leadership in the burgeoning field of urban technology. Taubman College launched a new Bachelor of Science in Urban Technology that welcomed its first cohort of students in January 2022.
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February 25, 2022
New faculty grant supports research on pressing matters
Taubman College is excited to announce the inaugural recipients of Pressing Matters grants. The new research incentive funding program will support work that advances the state of knowledge and/or practice…
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February 25, 2022
Two-directional learning helps small businesses and students thrive
Lily Hamburger says that DNEP’s presence in Detroit has generated trust and new projects, such as the DNEP+Impact Studio for Local Business, which helps entrepreneurs pivot in the post-pandemic economy.
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February 23, 2022
Taubman students explore counter-mapping and storytelling on Detroit’s Belle Isle
Led by María Arquero de Alarcón, associate professor of architecture and urban and regional planning, students explored Wahnabezee — or Belle Isle, as the island park is known today — through oral and written histories, archival material, maps, photographs, and site visits to gain a multi-layered reading of the island and its hidden stories.
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February 18, 2022
U-M forecast: Detroit economy showing ‘resilience’ in face of pandemic downturn, though challenges persist
The Detroit Economic Outlook for 2021-26, released Friday, notes challenges in gathering economic data during the pandemic but says the city “has shown resilience in the face of an unprecedented downturn.”
