The Flint Neighborhood Oral History Project aims to showcase the history of Flint residents using audio and video storytelling.

UM-Dearborn student Penny Kane won campus’ first Policy Pitch Competition, where students presented public policy changes they’d like to see at the local level and beyond.

A University of Michigan research team at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics has received a $4 million grant to map the unequal distribution of wealth and opportunity across the United States.

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will soon be home to a new National Endow­ment for the Arts Research Lab: Com­mis­sion­ing Public Art Through Com­mu­nity Engage­ment Arts to Improve Health, and Social/​Emotional Well-Being by Reduc­ing Youth Firearm Injury.

Four Detroit organizations will receive funding and support from the University of Michigan to enhance the economic stability of affordable housing residents, improve the accessibility of mental health services, teach youth wealth-building strategies, and scale on-the-job training and apprenticeship programs.

With more than 150 students from the Ross School of Business as members, the graduate and undergraduate chapters of Net Impact are highly popular clubs on campus.

With the support of a $2.78 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers are teaming up to develop wearable technology able to identify particulate matter pollution generated by cars, trucks and industrial sources.

The U.S. Department of Energy is providing $3.1 million to one U-M team and $300,000 to another team for projects that are working to improve heat-trapping materials for solar thermal energy, which could help the United States meet a goal of cutting solar energy costs in half by 2030.

A pilot project by the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) at U-M’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, in partnership with the city of Flint, will examine whether a new fiscal reporting mechanism can help increase transparency.