At Ross:
Eight MBC – Seigle Impact Track Teams Advance
Congratulations to these social entrepreneurs for moving on to Round Two of this competition, taking place on Fri, Feb. 8!
- BLIP – aiming to reduce the amount of time and effort women in rural Gujarat, India, spend to collect potable water, alleviating pain and reducing “time poverty.”
- Dear Black Women – an affirmation movement and social network, online and offline, that grows the social capital of black women.
- Dough – personalizing student loan management from matriculation through repayment to reduce debt burdens and default rates.
- NeoHealth – a low-cost device that can be used to detect counterfeit antimalarials in developing countries.
- Peerstachio – a peer-to-peer learning community platform that helps undergraduate college students improve their grades by connecting underclassmen with trusted upperclassmen.
- Practical Prosthetics – providing affordable, accessible and functional 3D-printed prosthetics.
- SubQ Assist – a task-shifting device to aid in the safe administration of subcutaneous contraceptive implants for people in rural areas.
- ValCycle – an end-to-end reverse logistics platform that connects unused product to the people who need it most.
The MBC – Seigle Impact Track is sponsored by the Mark and Robin Seigle Entrepreneurial Innovation Fund and co-managed by Business+Impact at Michigan Ross, the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, and the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies.Â
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Impact Assessment Workshop
Wed, Jan. 16, 5-6:30 pm
R1230, Ross School of Business
Ross Event Highlights:
Sanger: Leadership Crisis Challenge Finals
Fri, Jan. 18 @ 3-5 pm
Michigan Stadium
Ross Events:
MLK Keynote Lecture: Tim Wise, Julia Putnam
Mon, Jan 21 @ 10 am
Hill Auditorium
All of these events are open to the public. For a complete list of impact events in the coming month, visit the Business+Impact Impact Gateway at RossImpact.com
Ross Accounting Outreach Program Seeks Coordinators
As Ross Accounting Outreach continues to offer free financial projections and accounting support to Detroit entrepreneurs, it’s looking to recruit new paid program coordinators to help manage and run this program next semester and through the summer. Candidates are required to have some experience with accounting and availability during summer.
Position Information
Several Impact Summer Internships
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- EDF’s Supply Chain Safer Chemicals Internship
 - EDF’s Supply Chain Climate and Energy Internship
 - EDF’s Sustainable Food Supply Chain Internship
 - CCA Summer Associate Internship
 - 4 Coding It Forward Internships
Impact News & Notes
- Read blogs and watch vlogs highlighting 2018 Ross Open Road – B+I
 - Videos, photos and highlights from “Shared Prosperity Conference” – B+I
 - “New U-M Professorship to support social justice research, action” – Michigan News
 - “How to Bridge the Political Divide at the Holiday Dinner Table” – Andy Hoffman
 - “New Report Gives Advice To Those Partnering With USAID” – WDI
 - “Michigan Ross Alum Collects More Than 1,000 Bikes To Give To Detroit Youth This Holiday Season” – Michigan Ross
 - “Positive social relationships in neighborhood tied to high academic results” – Michigan News
 - Ford School’s Dean Michael Barr addresses the likelihood of housing finance reform in the wake of midterm results– Ford School
Spotlight:
Karen Biddle Andres, MBA/MPP ’08
As a dual major, Karen Biddle Andres learned quickly to speak the language of business and policy, and more importantly how to use her time and talents effectively. We had the opportunity to speak with her recently about the things she learned at Michigan, and discoveries made since she began her career improving the financial health of everyday people.
At the University:
Bioethics Discussion: Race
Tues, Jan. 15, 7 – 8:30 pm
Room 2185, Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering will host a program on (in)equality that is more than skin deep. Subjects will include “Racial disparity in emergency department triage,” “Dealing with the realities of race and ethnicity,” “Race/ethnicity and success in academic medicine,” and “Race and trust in the healthcare system,” and others.
Roundtable information
Semester in Detroit
Spring/Summer Application Deadline: Wed, Jan. 9
The Semester in Detroit program accepts undergraduate students from all schools and departments at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. The most successful program participants typically have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA. Applicants should have a strong interest in the city of Detroit and in community-service learning.
Application Info
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 Containment and the Carceral State
Wed, Jan. 16, 5:30-7:30 pm
Hatcher Graduate Library
The Carceral State Project 2018-19 Symposium is the first major undertaking hosted by the University of Michigan Carceral State Project. The symposium series will feature six roundtable discussions that interrogate the meaning of the carceral state—broadly defined—and its intersection with criminalization, policing, containment, surveillance, activism, and community building. This is the first event in the series.
Register here
In the Impact Community:
Hult Prize
App Deadline: Sun, Dec. 30 @ 11:59 pm EST
In partnership with former President Clinton, the Hult Prize is a student movement dedicated to solving the world’s social issues. This year’s competition challenges participants to build a scalable, sustainable social enterprise that addresses youth unemployment issues.
 
Humanity in Action
App Deadline: Sun, Jan. 6 @ 11:59 pm PST
Intensive and demanding, the Humanity in Action Fellowship brings together international groups of university students and recent graduates to explore national histories of discrimination and resistance, as well as examples of issues affecting different minority groups today. Fellowships in Europe run during June and in Atlanta during July.
Apply here
Ethnographic Field School in Detroit
Enrollment currently open
After decades of disinvestment and white flight, the idea of Detroit as a place of opportunity is resurgent; but whose conditions are improving, and on what terms? During the field school, students will live collectively and travel in teams to conduct fieldwork throughout Detroit’s neighborhoods. Then they will write up and present a program evaluation that ProsperUS and similar organizations can use to document the organization’s impact and improve future programming.
Info and Application
