Our group successfully developed an action plan to increase awareness of waste and consumption through a university-wide zero waste challenge. The invitations to our challenge were well received and enough people participated to the point where we reached our maximum capacity for gift handouts. We were granted a BLI small grant to order custom water […]
The goal of Victors Volunteer is to spread awareness of the volunteer communities on and around campus, as well as spread awareness of the positive impacts helping others has had on our Michigan peers. We choose to take a ‘Humans of New York’ approach by sharing a personal volunteer-related story and photo on multiple (Facebook,
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It has been quite an honor to participate in the BLI’s inaugural Senior Capstone Project. Suffice to say, the Capstone has been equal parts more than we could imagine and also what you would expect. It’s been a long and at times arduous process, but also the most meaningful thing either of us has
Team Projects and Members UM Intelligent Ground Vehicle Team (UMIGV) DescriptionThe University of Michigan Intelligent Ground Vehicle is a new student design team working to create the first student-led autonomous ground vehicle to compete in an international competition. We believe in a hands-on, educational approach to enlighten students and our communities about autonomous and robotic
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The Global Health Symposium is an annual lecture-based symposium hosted by M-HEAL and Timmy Global Health to promote active learning and engagement in global health efforts in the university community. With generous grants from BLI and other organizations, we were able to successfully carry out our event. This year, 124 students from various majors were able
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This fall semester, I had the great privilege to work with a group of independently organized students to show solidarity with the water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Though our project originally formed through the Graham Sustainability Institute’s undergraduate scholars program’s interdisciplinary courses, our team grew to incorporate a larger group of students from
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By Andrea Kopitz As the community coalition, our mission was to create genuine, positive connections among our peers at the University . We planned to do this by bringing students together for small, informal gatherings that would allow them to connect with one another through intentional dialogue. So that’s what we did: we hosted an
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By Ethan Hopper Over 70 students gathered in Mason Hall on the night of Tuesday, November 8 for Pizza and Politics, an event hosted by the Public Activities Committee of LSA Student Government and made possible by grants from the Barger Leadership Institute, the Department of Statistics, and the Department of Political Science. This was
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By Jacob Behrmann After interning in the City of Detroit for the last two summers, I knew that I wanted to pursue an idea that allowed me to continue similar work in the City, the Barger Leadership Institute (BLI) Small Grant has allowed my group and I to do just this. Our project, OffMarket, centered
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By Ava Landgraf Pantanal’s Solar Project Pantanal is the largest wetland in the world, where Pantanal Partnership travels to implement sustainable technology. Shift in Leadership Perspective While in Brazil I learned that culture plays a big part on roles, especially in terms of gender. In the community where we installed the solar-powered refrigerator, women were
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