Drinking water supplies at 108 Army and Army National Guard installations are contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, according to a report released by the Environmental Working Group on Wednesday.
Contaminated sites include Grand Ledge Army Aviation Support and Jackson Readiness Center in Michigan. The report added 90 installations to the existing 18 which were known to have contamination.
Knight-Wallace Fellow Emilio Gutiérrez Soto is currently awaiting his ruling in a political asylum case officially opened in 2008, when he fled Mexico with his son, Oscar, upon discovering his name on a military hit list after writing an article about soldiers robbing a hotel. He was detained for nearly eight months in 2017 and released one day before a deadline for the federal judge to produce documents explaining the reason for his detainment.
LSA sophomore Catherine Garton was motivated to found the University of Michigan’s chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby this semester, because of a core belief that students’ voices are imperative for creating policy to combat climate change. For two years, Garton was a member of CCL’s Ann Arbor chapter, one of 489 active chapters the organization maintains. Its main goal is to lobby for national policies that address carbon emissions and climate change in every congressional district.
The Unappointed Advisory Committee on Academic Freedom held a panel discussion and general assembly on Tuesday evening to discuss the history of noncompliance, divestment and boycott at the University of Michigan in an effort to contextualize the recent disciplining of Prof.
The University of Michigan’s office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs held its 11th event for Native American Heritage Month this year, sponsoring a food drive with the American Indian Health and Family Services on Tuesday afternoon. The drive took place at the AIHFS community center in Detroit and was sponsored by the Native American Student Association. The event marked the first collaboration between the University and AIHFS.
Students and faculty gathered Friday night for a Native American Heritage Month event, a historical discussion of the Burt Lake Burnout led by historian Richard Wiles and the Burt Lake Tribal Council. The event first centered around the history of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and later discussed the band’s ongoing struggle to achieve federal tribal recognition.
Starting in 2008 and 2009, a wave of universities mobilized around the nation to aim for carbon-neutral campuses.
More than 100 students, faculty and staff attended the event “There’s Always Someone Who Doesn’t Want You to Vote” Tuesday at Tisch Hall at the University of Michigan. The event discussed historical targeting of minority groups and infringement of voting rights throughout the voting process ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections.
In honor of Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Month, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center staged a demonstration Wednesday afternoon on the Diag. Student volunteers set up 226 flags — each represented 20 students — to represent a total of 4,250 students from the the 2015 campus climate survey who reported experiencing intimate partner violence.
On Monday, University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Journalism fellow Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and his son Oscar had an immigration hearing in El Paso, Texas as part of their effort to be granted asylum. Gutiérrez and his son have been seeking asylum in the U.S. for 10 years ever since the journalist received threats from the Mexican military.