In an effort to preserve other Detroiters’ memories and neighborhoods, Dowdell — a Detroit Native — is a partner at Century Partners, a Detroit-based real estate development firm that aims to revitalize city neighborhoods while connecting residents to investment opportunities.
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November 9, 2018
Survey asks Detroiters about housing, employment, mobility and race relations
The majority of Detroiters either know someone who has been evicted from their home during the past year or have been evicted themselves, and an even larger number of Detroiters know someone who has lost a job in the past year or have lost one themselves.
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October 29, 2018
From foster care to fulfillment: U-M program gives hope to foster students across Michigan
Cherish Fields graduated from U-M with the aid of a Blavin Scholarship, a program to help foster children attain college degrees. Today, as a social worker at a Detroit agency that assists children who are wards of the state, she is helping children just like herself.
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October 25, 2018
Flying cars are coming
Jon Rimanelli is quietly engineering a revolution with industry-shifting ideas, existing technology and a really old company. The new vision for the Detroit Aircraft Corporation could return this century plus old company to prominence.
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October 17, 2018
RIPPLE EFFECT
Valerie and Tony Russell are rolling. On a 90-degree day in late May, their SUV cruises the streets of Detroit’s Osborn neighborhood, their home.
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October 16, 2018
Developing future leaders of Detroit starts with a summer internship
Program graduates will have the skills to preserve and transform places and programs that are vital to the city’s history and growth.
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October 4, 2018
U-M alumna Dominique Morisseau named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow
A native Detroiter, Morisseau (BFA ’00, theatre) began writing plays as a student at SMTD, studying with Professor OyamO (Charles Gordon). Her three-play cycle, The Detroit Project, includes Skeleton Crew, Paradise Blue, and Detroit ’67.
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September 26, 2018
This urban farm is on path to sustainability
Akoaki, a design studio in Detroit, has been working with the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm for nearly four years to develop a vision and “guiding plan” to make it self-sufficient and sustainable.
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September 19, 2018
Unique online course aims to prepare students, others for work with communities
Experts from eight units across the university and a group of 15 students teamed up to create the Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change massive open online course (MOOC).