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In the News
- IIA Alum Kate Wilhelmi pens piece on “Team Dynamics” for The Pursuit, February 9, 2018
- Students reflect on Design Jam with Wayne County Health, Veterans, and Community Wellness, January 28, 2018
- “Staying Well” Design Charrette at U-M STAMPS includes IIA winner and IIA Managing Director, Ann Verhey-Henke, December 2017
- Find Your Ditto’s Parisa Soraya featured in MHI news, December, 2017
- “3 Tips for Aspiring Public Health Entrepreneurs,” by Anna Sadovnikova, November, 2017
- Canopy takes Grand Prize in Accelerate Michigan Student Competition, November, 2017
- CART featured in NYTimes Travel, “Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America?” November 20, 2017
- Find Your Ditto selected as one of four companies in Desai Accelerator’s summer cohort, July 12, 2017
- Find Your Ditto: Disrupting the Support Group, June 27, 2017
- ArborThotics a Finalist for the Commonbond Social Impact Award, June, 2017
- Cart featured in ASPPH, April 14, 2017
- IIA Alumni teams take first, second place in Ford’s #GoDetroit Challenge, March, 2017
- Canopy takes Grand Prize in Innovation in Action Public Health Challenge, March 13, 2017
- Ann Verhey-Henke Featured on “Small Talk” podcast, (45 min mark), March 5, 2017
- Find Your Ditto takes third place in the Social Impact Track of the Michigan Business
Challenge, February, 2017 - IIA Student Charlie Brink pens two articles for the School of Social Work’s “Field
Notes,” Winter 2016 - Student Innovations Offer Solutions for Health Concerns, World Class, March 28, 2016
- IIA Teams featured in “Wolverine Women to Watch 2016,” Innovate Blue, March 25, 2016
- Students to Pitch Innovative Health and Education Solutions in Third Year of Challenge, World Class, March 3, 2016
- University of Michigan Named to List of World’s Most Innovative Universities, Reuters, September 15, 2015
- 15 Innovative Female Students to Watch in 2015, Innovate Blue, March 27, 2015
- Michigan Students Compete to Find Innovative Solutions to Public Health Challenges, ASPPH, March 26, 2015
- Solving Public Health Challenges through Innovation, UofM Risk Science Center, March 16, 2015
- 2014 IIA Finalist RIME Make BTN News!, BTN News, February 26, 2015
- Competition challenges issues in public health, The Michigan Daily, March 16, 2014
- Students tackle public health problems in SPH innovation competition, The University Record, March 10, 2014
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