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The Community Journalism Playbook: Reporting on Urban Planning in your Detroit Neighborhood
(2024-05)
The best, most equitable and community-responsive urban planning is inseparable from local journalism. A cornerstone of democracy, local news outlets promote information access and provide a public platform for community ...
Planning for an Intergenerational Future: Planning and Design Collaboration for the Ypsilanti Senior Center's Intergenerational Transition
(2024-05)
In today’s day and age there is an increasing need to create intergenerational spaces and places by design to address growing rates of social isolation for older adults and children alike. One possible solution is ...
Novel Impressions: Prints, Textiles, and the Visual Economy in Europe, 1815-1851
(2021)
During a key transitional period within the Industrial Revolution between the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the 1851 opening of the Great Exhibition of All Nations, British and French textile designers ...
Proto-Modern Morris: Divine Possession, Inhuman Force, and Eternal Return in William Morris's Epic Poems
(2023)
This dissertation reconstructs a neglected strand of nineteenth-century imagination—an atavistic but innovative challenge to humanism—in William Morris’s prose and poetry, with a focus on the mythological epics of his ...
A Jazz-centered Transcultural Approach to Improvisational Studies: An Overview for Music Educators at the Middle School, High School, and University Levels
(2024)
The intent of this treatise is to provide an overview of tools, musical concepts, scales, tonalities, pedagogical perspectives and/or schools of thought that can be used to develop improvisation skills through a transcultural ...
Summary of Dissertation Recitals: Three Choral Programs
(2024)
These three dissertation recitals were presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Doctor of Musical Arts (Music: Conducting) at the University of Michigan. These recitals represent choral music from the ...
The Learning Experiences of Musical Theatre Teaching Artists in a Performing Arts High School
(2024)
This study examines the learning experiences of four teaching artists (musical theatre) working in one school setting through a single case study design. Kolb’s (2015) experiential learning cycle provided a theoretical ...
Summary of Dissertation Recitals: Three Choral Programs
(2024)
These three dissertation recitals were presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Doctor of Musical Arts (Music: Conducting) at the University of Michigan. They consist of choral music from a broad variety ...
Evaluating Funding for Public Transit to Advance Michigan's Climate Goals
(2022-05)
Michigan is committed to addressing climate change throughout the state. The MI Healthy Climate Plan lays out a broad vision for fulfilling Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. However, ...
Envisioning a Decentralized Compost System for Detroit
(2020-05)
Over the past decade, new businesses and non-profits have formed with missions focused on repurposing food scraps as a means to reduce carbon footprints, remediate environmental contamination, and create closed loop ...