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Institute student wins U-M Data Science & AI Summit Poster Competition
Anay Halwasiya has been selected as a winner in this year’s U-M Data Science & AI Summit Poster Competition. The winning poster was titled: “Overcoming Moderation Barriers: Applying LLMs to Sensitive Narrative Datasets”
Institute team members attend, present at the 2025 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms
The fourth annual National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms was held in Tempe, AZ last week, bringing together more than 560 researchers to discuss the latest trends and findings in the field of firearm injury prevention science. Institute faculty, junior faculty, staff and postdoctoral students led more than 35 presentations during the […]
University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention Researchers Receive CDC Funding to Develop Crime-Prevention Program for Lakota Youth
University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention researchers Dr. Katie Edwards and Dr. Marc Zimmerman have received a $1.2M, three-year research award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to advance community-driven approaches to violence and crime prevention for Indigenous youth. The project, “Development and Rigorous Evaluation of Culturally Grounded Crime Prevention […]
New Gun Violence Prevention Task Force report makes commonsense recommendations to reduce gun violence, save lives in Michigan
The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, which includes community partners, state departments, medical experts, law enforcement professionals, tribal representatives and academic researchers, released a new report today with recommendations designed to reduce gun violence. Developed over the last year with input from a wide range of advocates, the report focuses on the importance of implementing proven […]
Media Mention: School matters: Resource program curbs Michigan’s high absenteeism rate
A program that puts caseworkers in schools where students struggle to regularly attend is apparently working in Michigan: The chronic absenteeism rate dropped by 8%. Chronic absenteeism, or missing 10% or more school days, in K-12 schools is surging nationwide. Michigan is among the hardest-hit states. A new University of Michigan analysis, which was federally […]
Media Mention: Mankind Murals Celebrates 10 Years of Helping Revitalize Mansfield Community
Over the cheers of a gathered crowd, an audible “pop!” could be heard as Luke Beekman popped the cork on a bottle of champagne. A ceremony was held Thursday to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the non-profit project Mankind Murals, Inc., which has been helping to revitalize public spaces in the Mansfield community. Beekman, the Director […]
Media Mention: Reframe adolescent firearm fatalities in public health, not politics
Since 2020, firearms have been the leading cause of death for children between ages one and 17. In 2021, about 4.6 million children lived in homes that stored guns loaded and unlocked, even though firearms are the leading injury method of accidental deaths. In 2021, of the nearly 17,000 high school students surveyed, 3% reported bringing a weapon to school at least once […]
Gun Violence and Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of the Literature and Where We Stand
Institute faculty member, Dr. April Zeoli and Institute postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Stephen Oliphant, will serve as a panelists on a joint webinar hosted by The Joyce Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation on December 3 at 12:00 p.m. EST. Webinar Title: Gun Violence and Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of the Literature and Where We Stand […]
Media Mention: Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s new mayor. Here are some of her top priorities
For the first time in its history, Detroit will be led by a woman when Mary Sheffield takes office in January. Sheffield defeated the Rev. Solomon Kinloch locking up about 77% of the vote. “We will invest in every corner of our city, rebuilding our neighborhoods, investing in our commercial corridors. Every family will feel […]
Media Mention: More Than a Third of Middle Schoolers Turn to Technology for Reporting Peers in Distress
More than a third of middle school students have used technology-facilitated reporting systems (TFRS) to report concerns about friends who are in distress, according to a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The study, led by Institute faculty members Elyse Thulin, PhD, Justin Heinze and Kate (Hsing-Fang) Hsieh was featured in the most recent issue of the American Psychiatric Association‘s newsletter, Psychiatric News. Learn […]
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