By Tess Carichner As a nursing major who has a lifetime of experience and participation in the disability community, integrating my disability cultural values into my college transition and general life work has always been important to me. I lead a group called Disability Justice @ Michigan and work in the Digital Accessible Futures Lab, […]
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By Alisha Keshwani Alisha and Alina Keshwani are both sophomores at the University of Michigan on the pre-medical track. They are the founders and Co-Presidents of the University of Michigan Chapter of the American Lung Cancer Screening Initiative (ALCSI) and have been actively involved in health advocacy since high school. Through their work, Alisha and
By Ariana Kertsman This summer I interned with the Racial Justice Clinic (RJC) at the University of San Francisco’sLaw School, where I researched cases of people currently incarcerated in California’s prison system,wrote memos and case summaries, and performed organizational tasks assigned to me. I am grateful tothe attorneys at the clinic who were willing to
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By Sadie Esch Laurent The BLI grant helped pay for a summer studying and working in Dublin. I interned at a hotel andtook two classes during my two months in Ireland. My main challenge was that my internshipwas not as it was initially described. Before starting, I was told certain tasks that I would bedoing
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By Colleen Hardman Thanks to the Barger Leadership Student Grant, I was able to take the Leadership in Energyand Environmental Design Green Associate exam through the United States Green BuildingCouncil, an organization that is focused on sustainability within the building industry throughboth revitalization of existing infrastructure and the creation of new buildings. This certificationserves as
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For our summer research, we seeked more information surrounding studies on education during COVID in addition to receiving direct input from students about their learning experiences online. The data we collected was descriptive— we were able derive meaning from the students’ input on various matters like academics, mental health, and how the pandemic has affected
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CONOR FLOOD Before the BLI Capstone Bootcamp our idea of 3 Degrees was to change the culture of sustainability for the city of Ann Arbor. This idea consisted of socially, spreading the idea of sustainability to the students of Michigan, economically lowering the prices of sustainable goods using a Group Purchasing Organization model in order
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YASH PATEL Prior to coming to Bootcamp, Blueprints for Pangaea was already an organization and had been for five years. Primarily, we were looking to learn the means by which we could establish an inventory application that would make the process of inventorying faster. Thus, our project idea was to develop a scanning application that
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Live in Color (LINC) is a student-run not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the University of Michigan’s campus environment through carefully designed and brightly colored murals and art. We are interested in creating a new series of mural installations across U-M’s campus over the coming year. We have been in operation since fall of 2017 and
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The vision of Host Your Voice was to enable a nonprofit’s reach to more potential donors, volunteers, and individuals to be impacted by the nonprofit’s cause. When Amulya founded Host Your Voice 5 years ago, his initial vision behind the organization was to help nonprofits reach by teaching them how to apply for a Google
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