Tinker, EMU’s facilities dog, helps students reduce stress in “open paw-fice hours”
Since fall 2024, Tinker the facilities dog has been available to students four days a week on campus.
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Ypsi schools’ Resiliency Center provides Christmas presents and more for families experiencing homelessness
The Ypsilanti Community Schools (YCS) Resiliency Center hosted its third annual holiday celebration Dec. 17, offering presents and games for about a dozen YCS students.
Ypsi schools’ new agriscience/botany program has students developing green thumbs
From planting an orchard to using photographs of plants for a postcard charity project, students in Ypsilanti Community Schools' new career and technical education program are getting their hands dirty.
EMU expands loan repayment assistance program to include 16 additional majors
Eastern Michigan University has seen success in a pilot loan repayment assistance program for education students, so the university is now rolling that same protection out to 16 additional academic areas of study.
Black women in Ypsi have been supporting community for over a century through the Palm Leaf Club
Ypsilanti's oldest African-American women's charitable organization, the Palm Leaf Club, grew out of a church club established in 1904.
Here’s how opioid lawsuit settlement funds are being used in Washtenaw County
$16 million in opioid settlement funds are coming to the county over the next 18 years. Here's how the first round of funds will be spent.
Ypsi activists advocate for women’s prison to address mold and related health concerns
Ypsilanti-based advocacy group Survivors Speak and its founder, Trische' Duckworth, are turning up the heat on legislators, asking them to address life-threatening mold at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Pittsfield Township.
Michigan’s first statewide restorative justice summit debuts in Ypsi
More than 200 people attended the first statewide Michigan Restorative Justice Summit Oct. 30-31 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.
All Hallows Illumination of Ypsi’s Frog Island Park returns after two-year hiatus
After a hiatus in 2024, hundreds of jack-o-lanterns will return to Ypsilanti's Frog Island Park for the All Hallows Illumination of Frog Island on Nov. 1 from 6-9 p.m.
EMU speech and hearing clinic has life-changing effects for variety of clients
From rehabilitating stroke patients to helping autistic or hearing-impaired clients communicate, EMU students and faculty are changing lives in Ypsilanti and beyond.
