Articles written by UM-Flint News

  • UM-Flint Students Receive Regional Addy Awards

    Two University of Michigan-Flint students were recent recipients of Silver Addy Awards at the regional competition level. Both students are BFA Visual Communication majors in the graphic design concentration and created their work last winter.

     

  • UM-Flint Observes World Voice Day: Love Your Voice

    On Friday, April 16, a multidisciplinary seminar, based on extensive experience in vocal training and rehabilitation, will be presented in Room 161, French Hall. It is designed to help all voice users protect and strengthen their vocal instrument. By participating, you will gain knowledge, techniques, and materials that will benefit you for a lifetime. Learn how to amplify your speaking power and expression while protecting your voice from injury.

    The seminar is free and open to the public

     

  • May 2010 Student Speaker

    It was a visit to campus while still in high school that may have played the biggest role in Patricia Dziekonska's decision to attend UM-Flint. She only visited one campus before deciding.

    The Sunday, May 2, 2010 Commencemnt Ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Perani Arena and Event Center. It is expected to be one of the largest for UM-Flint with 600 graduates expected to participate.

     

  • May 2010 Commencement Speaker

    What Gary Lipe learned in his 44 year career as an educator is that there is a lot of validity in the axiom "that which gets measured gets done."

    The first year of his career-1962- was spent in the Flint Community Schools as an elementary teacher. In 1963, Lipe moved to Grand Blanc Schools where he would serve as a counselor, middle school administrator, assistant superintendent for curriculum, and in 1992, he was named superintendent until his retirement in 2006.

    Lipe will be the Commencement Speaker at the Sunday, May 2, 2010 ceremony at Perani Arena and Event Center. The program starts at 2:30 p.m.

     

  • UM-Flint Students to Receive Award for Dedication to Community Service

    Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) announced 11 students from the University of Michigan-Flint will be awarded for their dedication and commitment to community service during the 14th annual Outstanding Student Service Awards, April 10, 2010, at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center in East Lansing, Mich.

     

  • Because We Can, Should We?

    Should you eat genetically engineered foods? Should athletes be allowed to use prosthetic legs, or inhale oxygen when competing at high altitudes? Should the highest bidder win a donated organ? These advancements prompt the question just because it's possible, should we?

    Join a special panel discussion Thursday, April 8, 11 a.m. in the Happenings Room in University Center featuring renowned expert on biotechnology and bioethics, Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.

     

  • Leadership Genesee Participants Organize T-shirt Drive for Haiti

    Are you a member of an organization that has some new t-shirts that were left-over from a past event? Don't let them just sit there!

    Leadership Genesee participants, including the Crim Fitness Foundation, Hurley Medical Center, the American Cancer Society, and the University of Michigan-Flint, have joined forces to gather a supply of t-shirts to send to Haiti in support of ongoing relief efforts. Local organizations are invited to join by searching their supply closets for left over t-shirts that can be donated.

     

  • UM-Flint invites you to judge a bookstore by its new cover

    You can only judge a book after you read it, but one look at the newly renovated campus bookstore and you're likely to be wowed.

    In just three weeks, fixtures were upgraded, the floor plan changed for more consumer convenience, and softer colors now decorate the walls.

     

  • SOM students get a timely lesson in crisis communications

    "Be prepared for anything and learn from the mistakes of others," was just some of the advice given to students in the University of Michigan-Flint School of Management (SOM) recently, by a senior member of the U.S. Toyota Corporate Communications team.

    John McCandless, an executive with more than 30 years in the automotive industry, was able to provide SOM's students with a real-life look at a company in crisis and touched on the difficulties that executives can face when dealing with challenges, and competing views within an organization.

     

  • UM-Flint to explore benefits of urban gardening

    Suppose you had a deli near downtown Flint that was looking for an environmentally friendly source for lettuce, tomatoes and other toppings for its sandwiches. Currently, those items have to travel a long way by truck before they become part of a Flint-made sandwich. That means using gasoline and other forms of energy to get the food items to the deli. However, if there was an empty lot next door to the deli, you could consider growing those foods right there. Can't get much fresher.