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EMU summer internship program offers paid opportunities for students seeking digital careers

The Digital Summer Clinic is designed to introduce current college students to tech industry professionals, and start the process of networking before they’ve finished their collegiate program.

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Auryon Azar and Cedrick Charles in front of the future New Lakeview Apartments at EMU.
Here’s how EMU is working to update all campus housing by 2025

Welcome Home 2025 is set to update all campus housing, some of it dating to the '70s, to better meet the needs of today's students.

A promotional image for the Ann Arbor PTO Council's fundraiser.
Ann Arbor PTO Council launches fundraiser to support economically disadvantaged schools

While some Ann Arbor PTOs have raised as much as $238 per student per year, others have been able to raise only $40 per student per year. The new fundraiser aims to help close that gap.

Behavioral Health Therapist Aaron Neal, Outreach & Education Manager Ashley Anderson, and Clinic Director Lori Bennett at Corner Health Center.
Ypsi’s Corner Health Center fills gaps in programming for young fathers, parents of transgender kids

As Corner enters its 40th year of serving the Ypsilanti area, it's launching a Fathers for Family program and a series of workshops called Stand Out! for parents of trans and non-binary kids.

Dylan Goings, Atomic Object accelerator manager and Baker and Cook Fellowship mentor.
Ann Arbor software consultancy offers fellowship for BIPOC high schoolers

Atomic Object's Baker and Cook Fellowship will provide $2,500 annually, up to $10,000, throughout fellows' time studying computer science in higher education.

Actors Josiah Jones and Onyx Ellerthorpe rehearse "This Is Real," a short play about mental health, at Corner Health Center in Ypsilanti.
Voices of Youth: Washtenaw County youth seek authentic, trustworthy conversations on mental health

For young people facing anxiety, depression, and other mental health struggles, finding the right words to unpack what's going on can be a challenge in itself.

Ypsilanti Community High School student Ashley M. says other Latinx students have been her rock since she emigrated from Honduras.
Voices of Youth: Washtenaw County’s immigrant youth seek sense of community and other supports

Young immigrants in Washtenaw County have a variety of unique needs, ranging from academic support to help with documentation, but one of the things they yearn for most is to spend time with others like themselves. 

A flyer for the "Just a Kid From Ypsi" panel discussion, which is part of Ypsilanti Community Schools' Black History Month Series.
Ypsi schools’ Black History Month events include panel discussion, concert, scholarship presentation

Ypsilanti Community Schools are offering a robust slate of free activities for Black History Month, most of them open to the public.

Jashila Daniels and Jamonte Applewhite recently completed their high school graduation requirements online.
14- and 16-year-old siblings graduate early from Ypsi Township’s ACCE High School

Jashila Daniels and Jamonte Applewhite were able to complete their high school graduation requirements in just four and a half months, though they'd started out as 10th- and 9th-graders.

Peach blossom jellyfish in the Eastern Michigan Biology Lab.
EMU students study invasive freshwater jellyfish in Dexter Township through new course

EMU Professor of Biology Cara Shillington says she was surprised that there wasn't much research published on the topic of the tiny freshwater jellyfish that her students examined in Pickerel Lake.

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