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Media Mention: Gun safety bill would add firearm education for middle and high school students
LANSING – A new firearm safety bill by Sen. Jon Bumstead, R-North Muskegon, is intended to bring gun education into schools for students between 6th and 12th grade. When crafting the bill, Bumstead worked with the Department of Education and agreed there would be no live rounds or weapons brought onto school grounds during training. […]
Twenty U-M faculty leaders named Innovation Champions
A new program providing research commercialization support throughout the University of Michigan’s three campuses has named 20 faculty innovators to serve as “champions” in their schools, colleges and departments. Innovation Champions is led by Innovation Partnerships, the university’s central hub for research commercialization and a unit within the Office of the Vice President for Research. […]
Media Mentions: Wisconsin School Shooting
Institute team members are available to discuss various aspects of the school shooting in Wisconsin, from firearm injury prevention to public policy and the psychology of traumatic events with children. Mentions: USA Today Business Times Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Live Now Fox (1) Live Now Fox (2) Fox 2 KTVU
Media Mention: Responding to gun violence at schools
Dr. Justin Heinze speaks with Fox 2 KTVU about a school shooting in California and the importance of a comprehensive school safety plan.
Media Mention: As fights disrupt Michigan schools, districts try ways to resolve violence
Brawls between students are disrupting some Michigan schools this fall and even prompting shelter-in-place protocols in some cases that usually are reserved for threats of gun violence ― a situation that one official said reflects a statewide increase in “more challenging behaviors” in schools. Justin Heinze, an associate professor in University of Michigan’s School of […]
Media Mention: En Portada Documentary
En Portada explores gun culture from the perspective of an instructor at a shooting range, or the efforts of doctors and researchers to prevent the public health crisis unfolding in the U.S. Dr. Justin Heinze and Jessica Roche speak to what the research shows and how we can use evidence-based approaches to prevent firearm-related harms. […]
$998K awarded to U-M researchers to evaluate effectiveness of school-based firearm storage campaign
In February 2024, Michigan enacted a safe storage law mandating secure firearm storage when minors are present, seeking to prevent children’s unintended access to firearms and ultimately curb firearm injury and death, the top cause of death in children in the United States. Evidence-based interventions are needed to address this pressing public health issue, and researchers from the University […]
Media Mention: U-M selected as NIH research hub for nationwide effort to enhance community-led, health equity work
With the goal of building the science that can strengthen efforts to reverse health disparities—which keep millions of Americans in poorer health due to lack of access to food, health care and other needs—the University of Michigan will receive $6.75 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish a health equity research hub. U-M […]
Media Mention: Springfield students suffer collateral damage over anti-immigrant conspiracy theory
The students of Springfield, Ohio, are caught in a mess they had nothing to do with. Schools had to shut down for multiple days after 33 separate bomb threats, and two universities moved classes online after threats of a shooting, one specifically targeting “members of the Haitian community”. Experts worry not only about the students’ ability to […]
Media Mention: College students’ mental health improving, more finding support
The latest annual Healthy Minds Study, which surveyed 100,000-plus college students from 200 universities across the United States, has good news to report: There are decreases in symptoms of anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide, and increases in receiving mental health care and support. In general, the latest report from the Healthy Minds Network found that […]
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