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May 1

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 24

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 22

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 17

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 16

8:00 am - 9:15 am | Off Campus Location

Front Burner: How Business Model Innovation is Driving the Clean Cooking Industry

Apr 15

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 15

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Institute For Social Research

PSC Brownbag Series: Effects of Expanding Contraceptive Choice: New Evidence from Virginia’s Contraceptive Access Initiative

Apr 12

9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Weill Hall (Ford School)

Ford School Dean's Symposium

Apr 11

11:00 am - 4:30 pm | Weill Hall (Ford School)

Ford School Dean's Symposium

Apr 10

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 8

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 3

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Apr 2

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Energy, Housing & Health

Apr 1

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Mar 27

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Mar 25

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Mar 22

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Ross School of Business

Understanding Working Women’s Lives: An Exploration of Postpartum Allyship in Organizations

Mar 20

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Mar 18

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Mar 13

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Mar 11

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Mar 6

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Mar 4

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Feb 28

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Feb 26

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Feb 21

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Feb 19

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Feb 16

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Weill Hall (Ford School)

ACLU Criminal Justice Reform Panel

Feb 14

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Feb 12

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Feb 7

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Feb 5

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Jan 31

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Jan 30

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

What’s All That Dust? The Need for Fugitive Dust Controls

Jan 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Jeff T. Blau Hall

It Takes Two to Tango : The Importance of Public and Private Sector Collaboration

Jan 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Jan 24

10:00 am - 11:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Jan 22

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Institute For Social Research

PSC Brownbag Series: Does the EITC crowd out financial assistance from parents?

Dec 12

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Making Healthy Environments a Legal Right in Michigan: Legislation or Green Amendment

Nov 27

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Nov 24

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Nov 20

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Nov 17

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Nov 13

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Nov 10

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Nov 6

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Nov 3

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Poverty Solutions Alumni Panel

Nov 3

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 30

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 27

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental and Mixed Methods Evidence on Neighborhood Choice

Oct 27

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 24

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Navigating Lead Contamination in Neighborhoods

Oct 23

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 23

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Institute For Social Research

PSC Brownbag Series: The 2021 Child Tax Credit, housing affordability, and the living arrangements of families with low incomes

Oct 20

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Creating Green Energy and Equitable Enterprise in Detroit

Oct 20

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 16

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 13

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Chelsea Eats: Basic Income and Food Security

Oct 13

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 9

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 6

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

The power in a single story: Scaling social change by focusing on individuals

Oct 6

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Oct 4

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Weill Hall (Ford School)

The Injustice of Place

Oct 4

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Weill Hall (Ford School)

Policy Talks at The Ford School: The Injustice of Place

Oct 2

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

Sep 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

The United States pays reparations every day—just not to Black America?

Sep 22

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Sep 6

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Children Living in Grandparent-Led and Multigenerational Families: Implications for Policy and Practice

Apr 14

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Using Eviction Data to Inform City Housing Policy in Michigan

Apr 13

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Michigan Union

Race, Politics, and the Modern Metropolis: A Conversation with Thomas J. Sugrue

Mar 29

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Off Campus Location

It's an Emergency! What are we doing about it? Environmental Justice & Emergency Response in Detroit

Mar 25

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Chrysler Center

Where Do We Go From Here? People of Action Coalition Town Hall Meeting

Mar 25

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Duderstadt Center

Public Resource & Awareness Fair of Mass Incarceration

Mar 23

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Off Campus Location

LHS Collaboratory

Mar 16

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)

The Eisendrath Symposium with Fred de Sam Lazaro of PBS NewsHour

Mar 15

12:00 am - 11:59 pm | Off Campus Location

Apply to be the next Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist!

Mar 10

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Breaking the Cycle

Feb 21

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Off Campus Location

LHS Collaboratory Joint Session with UM School of Dentistry

Feb 15

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Weiser Hall

Amali Tower, 2023 Weerasinghe Lecture

Feb 10

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Housing Instability, Housing and Neighborhood Design, and Healthcare

Jan 31

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Using Community-based Participatory Research to Address Immigrant Latinx Workers’ Health & Safety

Jan 23

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Institute For Social Research

PSC Brownbag Series: The Unemployment Institution

Jan 23

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Institute For Social Research

PSC Brownbag Series: The Unemployment Institution

Nov 18

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Ensuring that Postsecondary Credentials Pay Off for Low-Income Students

Nov 17

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

A Public Health Crisis, Not a Property Dispute

Nov 15

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Air Pollution Research to Inform Public Health Policy and Action

Nov 11

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

The Color of Power: The Evolving Relationship Between Race, Skin Color and American Politics

Nov 8

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

LHS Collaboratory

Nov 4

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Lost Boys, Invisible Men: Policy Feedback After Marijuana Legalization

Oct 28

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Biodiversity, Coffee Production, and Dignified Livelihoods Under a Globalized Economy

Oct 21

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Politics, Policy, and Poverty: Medical Debt and Other Financial Reforms

Oct 20

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Off Campus Location

LHS Collaboratory

Oct 19

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - How to Draw a Nationally-Representative Sample: Updating and Reassessing Monitoring the Future's Sampling Procedures

Oct 14

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

Pursuing Justice in the Prosecutor’s Office: Racial and Economic Equity in a Stratified Community

Oct 11

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Water and Public Health: Inequity and Affordability

Oct 7

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | School of Social Work Building

In Deep Water: The Role of Municipal Debt in Environmental Crises and Racial Disparities

Oct 4

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

The Interplay of Maternal Diet with Environmental Exposures in Pregnancy

Sep 27

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

PBBs in Michigan: Empowering an Exposed Community

Sep 22

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Weill Hall (Ford School)

Policy-focused solutions to the firearm epidemic: What we know works

Sep 22

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Palmer Commons

LHS Collaboratory

Sep 14

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Michigan Union

"Social Change in Action: How to be a change agent in a world that feels out of control"

Sep 12

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Art and Architecture Building

Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues

Sep 12

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues

Sep 8

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Ross School of Business

5th Annual Business+Impact Showcase – 2022

Sep 1

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Jeff T. Blau Hall

Board Fellowship Information Session for Students

Aug 22

9:00 am - 10:00 am |

Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues

Aug 22

9:00 am - 10:00 am |

Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues

Jun 21

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

LHS Collaboratory

Jun 17

10:00 am - 3:00 pm | Off Campus Location

UI reform: Where do we go from here?

Jun 16

10:00 am - 3:00 pm | Off Campus Location

UI reform: Where do we go from here?

Jun 10

10:00 am - 11:30 am | Off Campus Location

Lessons Learned: Michigan's Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities

Jun 8

8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Fluid Thinking: Water Justice in a Changing Climate

May 6

10:00 am - 11:30 am | Off Campus Location

Two Years Later: Reflecting on the National Response to COVID-19's Racial Disparities

Apr 12

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Getting the Story Told and Working with the Media

Apr 5

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Masterclass in Activism: Dorothy Roberts, "Torn Apart"

Apr 5

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Environmental Injustice in the Southend of Dearborn

Apr 1

10:00 am - 11:30 am | Off Campus Location

The local impact of safety nets on communities of color

Mar 22

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Off Campus Location

LHS Collaboratory

Mar 15

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Integrating intersectionality into Environmental Health Sciences

Mar 14

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Weill Hall (Ford School)

Leadership in law and policy

Mar 8

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Making TSCA Work: Demystifying the Risk Assessment Process

Feb 24

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Off Campus Location

LHS Collaboratory

Feb 22

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Activities & Experiences of the Climate Hazards, Housing, & Health (CHHH) Community-Academic Partnership

Feb 17

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Off Campus Location

WDI, U-M Poverty Solutions Hosts Inclusive Fintech Pioneer Collins

Feb 11

4:00 pm - 4:50 pm | Off Campus Location

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren: Inequality

Feb 8

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Long-term Air Pollution and Incident Dementia in U.S.

Feb 3

10:00 am - 11:00 am |

WDI, U-M Poverty Solutions Hosts Inclusive Fintech Pioneer Collins

Feb 2

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Detroit Financial Well-Being Innovation Challenge Launch

Feb 1

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Centering Lived Expertise to Improve Food Assistance and Food Access

Jan 31

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Josh Tetrick (Eat JUST, CEO) - Social Entrepreneurship, Cell-Based Meat Sector, Start-Ups

Jan 24

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Road to economic recovery: Inflation, wages, and changing labor force dynamics

Jan 19

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Data Sharing: A Strategy for Housing and Workforce Systems Collaboration

Jan 18

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Off Campus Location

LHS Collaboratory

Jan 18

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Advancing Climate Justice & Environmental Health: people-centered approaches to transformational research

Dec 8

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Interpreting Structural Inequality Through a Complex Systems Framework: Emergence and Robustness

Nov 8

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Measuring Child Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data

Nov 5

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

H. Luke Shaefer: The Story of the Expanded Child Tax Credit

Nov 3

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Weill Hall (Ford School)

Lessons in using evidence to fight poverty

Nov 3

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

How close and how much? Linking health outcomes to spatial distributions of built environment features

Oct 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Oct 22

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Jonathan Cohn: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

Oct 20

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Shift Series: Tools for Dramatic Change

Oct 15

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Terri Friedline: Why Financial Technology Won’t Save a Broken System

Oct 12

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Detroit students and homelessness

Oct 8

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Carolyn Barnes: Low-Income Families and the New Welfare State

Oct 1

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Jeremy Levine: Constructing Community

Sep 29

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Institute For Social Research

Unprecedented: The Expansion of the Social Safety Net During the COVID Era and Its Impacts on Poverty and Hardship

Sep 28

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Neighborhood Greening for Stormwater Management: What Matters for Residents

Sep 24

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Indivar Dutta-Gupta

Sep 21

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Building Toward Flooding Resilience: Perspectives from the Field

Sep 17

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm | Off Campus Location

Mayor Eric Garcetti in Conversation

Sep 14

11:00 am - 1:00 pm | Ross School of Business

4th Annual Business+Impact Showcase - 2021

Jul 22

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Detroit Working Group: Land Contracts & Affordable Homeownership

Jun 18

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Off Campus Location

20 Things Everyone Should Know about Slavery

Jun 2

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Homelessness and School Discipline Discussion Panel

May 20

10:00 am - 11:30 am | Off Campus Location

The Struggle to Survive in Central America: A Portrait of Life from a Grassroots, Human Rights Perspective

Apr 20

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit

Apr 13

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location

Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice

Apr 12

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Off Campus Location

The Rainbow Coat Panel

Apr 8

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Off Campus Location

The evolving role of banks in addressing opportunity ladders for the underserved

Apr 5

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Homelessness and Mental Health Impacts

Mar 25

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Off Campus Location

Poverty Doesn't Pause: Housing Insecurity During a Pandemic

Mar 24

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Off Campus Location

James S. Jackson’s Continuing Legacy and Contributions to Social and Behavioral Research on Black Americans

Mar 24

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Detroit Communications Workshop

Mar 15

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Helping Newborns Survive and Thrive in Low Resource Settings

Mar 5

9:00 am - 2:30 pm | Off Campus Location

The Poverty Narrative: Confronting Inequity

Mar 4

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Off Campus Location

The Movement for Economic Equity in Detroit

Feb 19

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Off Campus Location

Book Talk | Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Feb 9

12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Off Campus Location