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Professor Daphne Watkins spoke with the Associated Press about the lack of mental health resources available in Black communities. Watkins is the founder of the YBMen Project, which provides young Black men with mental health education and social support.

Black men tend to forego mental health...

Clinical Assistant Professor Ayesha Ghazi Edwin won a Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize (TIP) for her redesign of the class Community-Engaged Understandings of Homelessness: Connecting Past Policy to Present Conditions. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, CRLT and the University Library, this...

Associate Professor Shanna Kattari discussed breaking the silence around sex and disability earlier this week as a featured guest on National Public Radio's 1A. The conversation covered meeting partners, using props and developing communication strategies to express needs. Kattari also stated the...

The IMPACT Awards honor outstanding students, faculty, staff and student organizations who are committed to uplifting our community and advancing the School’s mission. The awards are presented annually by the School’s Flourish Office.

Student IMPACT Award: PhD Student Nico Juárez

Nico Juárez is a...

Professor Rogério Pinto spoke with WDET about his new art installation “ICEBREAKER,” which honors the lives lost to ICE and in detention centers. Pinto was inspired by the response and resistance of Minnesotans to Operation Metro Surge, the controversial immigration enforcement operation by the U.S...

Professor Katie Edwards has received the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) Christine Blasey Ford Woman of Courage Award. The committee unanimously selected Edwards in recognition of her “courage in fighting the devastating cuts for psychological research, among other acts of good trouble.”

“I...

Lecturer Lexx Brown-James was a guest on a recent conversation on NPR’s 1A on sex and intimacy in middle age. The wide-ranging conversation discussed how physical changes  — as well as emotional, psychological and social issues, including trauma and shame — can affect sex lives. The discussion also...

Associate Professor M. Candace Christensen spoke with the Guardian in an article about the relationship between theatre and resistance and how workshops based on Paulo Freire's Theater of the Oppressed can inspire social change.

“There’s a lot of time spent on building that trust and comfort with...

Associate Professor Lisa Fedina spoke with NBC’s WOOD TV about her recent study showing that LGBTQ+ young adults face suicide-related risks two to five times higher than their counterparts.

"LGBTQ young adults face more barriers to safety, to stability, and to a sense of belonging during this...

Associate Professor Kristin Seefeldt spoke with WDIV about a new report on the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor (GIG A2), a basic income pilot program. The city partnered with Poverty Solutions to run the program and conduct the study. “We didn’t find that people who received the guaranteed...