Students News

Mackenzie Mann won third place in the Learning Community on Poverty and Inequality Policy Memo paper competition. The paper was titled, "NASW Response to the Agricultural Guestworker Act, H.R. 4092."

Margaret Cease won first place in the Learning Community on Poverty and Inequality Intervention paper competition. The paper was titled, "The Special Meals Project."

Zainab Farhat won second place in the Learning Community on Poverty and Inequality Policy Memo paper competition. The paper was titled, "Dismantling Zero Tolerance: Achieving Equity in School Discipline."

Elizabeth Vestal won first place in the Learning Community on Poverty and Inequality Policy Memo paper competition. The paper was titled, "Retention and Continued Service for Transgender Members of the Armed Forces."

Associate Professor Joe Ryan was a panelist for the Celebrating University of Michigan Faculty Impact, Now and Future program. The panel was moderated by President Mark Schlissel and discussed how faculty leverage their research to inform social change.

Taha Rauf was selected to receive a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.  The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing. They support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.

Professor H. Luke Shaefer, Ph.D., joined Stateside Radio to discuss the issue of poverty and what the government can do to help.

Associate Professor Daphne Watkins will be a featured speaker at Michigan State University’s Making Relationships Work: A Summit on Black Male Academic Success and Inclusion.  She will be presenting her work on the YBMen Project, an educational and social support program for young black men which serves as a mechanism through which we can learn about the strategies that influence and shape young black men’s ideas and experiences with mental health.