The Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention researchers at the University of Michigan respond to the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022 which killed 19...
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Media Mention: Sandy Hook Promise: School shootings don’t have to be inevitable
Researchers at the University of Michigan are evaluating the effectiveness of Sandy Hook Promise programs and have found encouraging signs. (May 27, 2022) Link to the full article by the Christian...
Study: Asian Americans armed themselves during the pandemic in response to racial acts
Asian Americans who experienced increased acts of racism at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to acquire firearms and ammunition for self-defense, according to a study by...
Media Mention: Inside the Secret Service study that analyzed school attack plots
WXYZ Detroit interviews researchers from the National Center for School Safety, Drs. Justin Heinze and Hsing-Fang Hsieh in a report published this spring, the Secret Service analyzed 67 disrupted...
Media Mention: How Mass Shootings Like Oxford Impact Communities and Mental Health
University of Michigan public health and psychology expert Dr. Marc Zimmerman talks about how mass violence affects everyone and how to cope on National Public Radio's WDET 101.9 FM in Detroit,...
Media Mention: Manslaughter charges against Michigan shooter’s parents break new legal ground
Reuters writes about the first case against parents of a teenager for failing to secure a gun used by a student in a school shooting. Read the full article.
Media Mention: Examining firearm violence in the wake of the Oxford shootings
Co-Director of the Institute for Firearm Injury prevention and Co-Principal Investigator of the National Center for School Safety, Marc Zimmerman talks with ABC Channel 7's WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan...
Stateside Podcast: When the shooter is a child
Listen to Michigan Radio's Stateside Podcast following the school shooting in Oxford, Michigan on December 1, 2021 including Dr. Marc Zimmerman, Co-director of the Institute for Firearm Injury...
Media Mention: Teenage homicides sharply rise in Michigan, FBI crime stats show
The number of Michigan teenagers killed by homicide jumped by 70% from 50 in 2019 to 85 in 2020. That’s more than double the 31% increase of all homicides for the same period, according to the FBI’s...
Childhood exposure to gun violence increases risk of violent behavior as adults
Witnessing gun violence in real life or in fiction can have a mental toll on children. The effects, including using guns themselves, sometimes are seen many years later, according to a new...
Media Mention: Gun violence is preventable. Four steps Lansing could take to save lives.
Gun violence is at crisis levels in the Lansing area. Read the full article here on July 5, 2021 by the Lansing State Journal with strategies for prevention including interview with Marc Zimmerman,...
Cindy Ewell Foster, PhD; Preventing Youth Suicide, Michigan Minds Special Series: Firearm Injury Prevention
Cindy Ewell Foster is partnering with residents in the Upper Peninsula to develop a firearm safety education program that aims to reduce morbidity and mortality among youth. Listen to this 16 minute...