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

Empowering Communities to Reduce Violence and Improve Economic Mobility

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Michigan Union

Annual Pre-College & Youth Outreach Conference

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9:00 am - 6:00 pm | Public Health I (Vaughan Building)

42nd Thomas Francis Jr. Memorial Lecture

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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

Leveraging the Power of Empathy to Build Equitable Health Care Systems

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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | School of Social Work Building

Leveraging the Power of Empathy to Build Equitable Health Care Systems

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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

All Means All: Schools Where Everyone is Somebody

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

The Connection Between Gentrification and Public Health in Detroit

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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

A Fair Work Week: Raising the Floor on Precarious Scheduling

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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

Inheritance: 11 Years in the Life of One Boy in the Opioid Epidemic

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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | School of Social Work Building

Inheritance: 11 Years in the Life of One Boy in the Opioid Epidemic

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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

INFO SESSIONS for Student Sustainability Coalition: Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund & Social and Environmental Grants

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

Where Research Meets the Real World

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

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

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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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

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

Ford School Dean's Symposium

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

Ford School Dean's Symposium

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Energy, Housing & Health

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

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

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

ACLU Criminal Justice Reform Panel

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

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

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

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

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

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

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

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

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Poverty Solutions Alumni Panel

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

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

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Navigating Lead Contamination in Neighborhoods

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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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

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

Creating Green Energy and Equitable Enterprise in Detroit

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Chelsea Eats: Basic Income and Food Security

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

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

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

The Injustice of Place

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

Policy Talks at The Ford School: The Injustice of Place

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

Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Using Eviction Data to Inform City Housing Policy in Michigan

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Public Resource & Awareness Fair of Mass Incarceration

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

LHS Collaboratory

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

The Eisendrath Symposium with Fred de Sam Lazaro of PBS NewsHour

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

Apply to be the next Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist!

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

Breaking the Cycle

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

LHS Collaboratory Joint Session with UM School of Dentistry

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

Amali Tower, 2023 Weerasinghe Lecture

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

Housing Instability, Housing and Neighborhood Design, and Healthcare

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

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

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

PSC Brownbag Series: The Unemployment Institution

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

PSC Brownbag Series: The Unemployment Institution

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

Ensuring that Postsecondary Credentials Pay Off for Low-Income Students

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

A Public Health Crisis, Not a Property Dispute

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

Air Pollution Research to Inform Public Health Policy and Action

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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

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

LHS Collaboratory

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

Lost Boys, Invisible Men: Policy Feedback After Marijuana Legalization

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

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

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

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

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

LHS Collaboratory

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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

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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

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

Water and Public Health: Inequity and Affordability

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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

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

The Interplay of Maternal Diet with Environmental Exposures in Pregnancy

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

PBBs in Michigan: Empowering an Exposed Community

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

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

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

LHS Collaboratory

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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"

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

Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues

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

Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues

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

5th Annual Business+Impact Showcase – 2022

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

Board Fellowship Information Session for Students

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9:00 am - 10:00 am |

Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues

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9:00 am - 10:00 am |

Cities on the Front Line: Urban Approaches to National Issues

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

LHS Collaboratory

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

UI reform: Where do we go from here?

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

UI reform: Where do we go from here?

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

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

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

Fluid Thinking: Water Justice in a Changing Climate

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

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

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

Getting the Story Told and Working with the Media

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

Masterclass in Activism: Dorothy Roberts, "Torn Apart"

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

Environmental Injustice in the Southend of Dearborn

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

The local impact of safety nets on communities of color

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

LHS Collaboratory

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

Integrating intersectionality into Environmental Health Sciences

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

Leadership in law and policy

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

Making TSCA Work: Demystifying the Risk Assessment Process

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

LHS Collaboratory

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren: Inequality

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

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

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10:00 am - 11:00 am |

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

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

Detroit Financial Well-Being Innovation Challenge Launch

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

Centering Lived Expertise to Improve Food Assistance and Food Access

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

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

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

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

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

Data Sharing: A Strategy for Housing and Workforce Systems Collaboration

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

LHS Collaboratory

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Lessons in using evidence to fight poverty

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

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Cohn: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

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

Shift Series: Tools for Dramatic Change

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

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

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

Detroit students and homelessness

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

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

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

Jeremy Levine: Constructing Community

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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

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

Neighborhood Greening for Stormwater Management: What Matters for Residents

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

Indivar Dutta-Gupta

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

Building Toward Flooding Resilience: Perspectives from the Field

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

Mayor Eric Garcetti in Conversation

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

4th Annual Business+Impact Showcase - 2021

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

Detroit Working Group: Land Contracts & Affordable Homeownership

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

20 Things Everyone Should Know about Slavery

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

Homelessness and School Discipline Discussion Panel

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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

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

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

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

Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice

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

The Rainbow Coat Panel

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

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

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

Homelessness and Mental Health Impacts

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

Poverty Doesn't Pause: Housing Insecurity During a Pandemic

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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

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

Detroit Communications Workshop

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

Helping Newborns Survive and Thrive in Low Resource Settings

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

The Poverty Narrative: Confronting Inequity

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

The Movement for Economic Equity in Detroit

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

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

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

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

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

Community Engaged Research: Reflections on MLK’s Legacy

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