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  • Lani Manners' professional headshot and view of the William S. White Building

    UM-Flint nursing graduate finds purpose in loss, charts path to nurse an…

    May 21, 2025
  • University of Michigan-Flint nursing students and faculty prepared packages for new babies and families as part of the NurtureFirst initiative. Pictured from left to right are Denise Campbell, Megan Keiser, Michelle Smith, Maureen Murphy, Elizabeth Fulks, Jenna Depollo, Lisa Tedrow, Asia Suggs, Imani Hasty, Libby Bell

    UM-Flint student-led program nurtures newborns and families to combat in…

    February 24, 2025
  • The fall 2023 cohort of SANE participants

    UM-Flint nursing professors secure $1.5M grant to expand assault survivo…

    September 12, 2024
  • Group of UM-Flint nursing students

    UM-Flint nursing student champions community health…

    April 23, 2024
  • Group of UM-Flint participants in Virginia

    Five ways service learning improves lives through nursing education…

    April 9, 2024
  • Three representatives from UM-Flint's School of Nursing sit around a conference table

    UM-Flint doctoral nursing grads make clinical practice impact…

    December 19, 2023
  • Image of Monroe County Community College, Lansing Community College, and Wayne County Community College

    UM-Flint partners with community colleges to expand nursing education…

    September 11, 2023
  • Exterior of a Trinity Health-Michigan hospital

    UM-Flint Nursing, Trinity Health-Michigan enter partnership to increase …

    July 26, 2023
  • Japari Gadzama wears graduation cap and gown as she smiles and points to signage outside the nursing offices UM-Flint

    UM-Flint nursing degree advances career of an alum…

    June 26, 2023
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