program in public scholarship

Learning and Growing from the Teachings of Young Women of Color

May 29, 2018 | Student Voices

As a recipient of the Rackham Public Scholarship Grant, I have worked collaboratively with Sadie Nash Leadership Project’s (SNLP) ELLA Fellows over the past seven months. There are 14 fellows, high school and college-aged women of color, who exemplify leadership...

Announcing the 2018 Public Scholarship Grant Award Winners

May 21, 2018 | News

The Rackham Program in Public Scholarship, with support from the U-M Office of Research, is pleased to announce its 2018 Public Scholarship grant awards to graduate students. The grants, totaling more than $41,000, support research projects created in partnership...

Transformative Public Scholarship: Closing the Gap Between Research and Impact

Apr 24, 2018 | Student Voices

My intellectual journey as a graduate student has taken a few twists and turns since I arrived in Ann Arbor, but one particular turn stands out as the definitive inflection point, permanently altering my research agenda and career trajectory. In December 2015, I began...

Building and Disseminating a Tax Foreclosure Prevention Toolkit in Detroit

Mar 20, 2018 | Student Voices

Erika Linenfelser (Master’s Student, Urban Planning and Urban Design) and Alexa Eisenberg (Ph.D. Student, Health Behavior and Health Education) received a public scholarship grant to work on this project in 2017. You can learn more about their work at...

It Takes a Village!

Mar 9, 2018 | Student Voices

Promoting linguistically and culturally competent language services in community settings has been a dream of mine for many years. This dream was forged thorough years of work as a Spanish medical interpreter at the University of Michigan Health System, and as a...