State & Community

  1. February 1, 2024

    Poverty Solutions at U-M grows partnerships in poverty alleviation in 2023

    Poverty Solutions’ policy impacts and other accomplishments from the past year at the national, statewide, local and campus levels are outlined in the presidential initiative’s 2023 impact report.

  2. January 29, 2024

    Innovation Partnerships awarded $5M for statewide venture fund

    U-M’s Innovation Partnerships recently was awarded $5 million to establish the Michigan University Innovation Capital Fund and the Michigan University Innovation Capital Consortium.

  3. January 26, 2024

    U-M’s Semester in Detroit offers inclusive, immersive experiences

    U-M’s Semester in Detroit program brings undergraduate students from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses together at the university’s Detroit Center.

  4. January 22, 2024

    State’s knowledge economy lagging, study shows

    Twenty years after issuing their first report on the future of Michigan’s economy, researchers at U-M and Michigan Future Inc. say the state is headed down the wrong path.

  5. January 22, 2024

    U-M program helping solve state’s teacher shortage

    The Michigan Alternate Route to Certification allows participants with a bachelor’s degree to work as certified teachers while they earn a standard Michigan teaching certificate.

  6. January 17, 2024

    Finalists selected for Michigan Health Equity Challenge

    The Michigan Health Equity Challenge recently announced the selection of 10 project finalists that address health equity challenges in southeast Michigan.

  7. January 15, 2024

    Ross School to boost neighborhood entrepreneurs in Detroit

    U-M’s Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project, which has helped nearly 700 small businesses since its introduction in 2016, has moved to the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

  8. December 14, 2023

    UMCI groundbreaking

    Photo and caption listing those pictured at the groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Michigan Center for Innovation in Detroit.

  9. December 7, 2023

    U-M Health, Holland Hospital announce strategic alliance

    The Board of Regents have approved a strategic alliance between U-M Health and Holland Hospital that will benefit health care patients across west Michigan.

  10. December 4, 2023

    U-M Innocence Clinic helps free wrongly convicted from prison

    Since 2009, the Law School Innocence Clinic has been correcting injustices inflicted upon wrongly convicted people, winning the release of 41 people who were wrongly convicted of criminal crimes.