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Earth and Resource Science
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UM-Flint Helps City Earn Bicycle Friendly Designation
The Crim Fitness Foundation, who partnered with the City of Flint in completing the Bicycle Friendly application, gathered much of the information from the UM-Flint Walk and Bike Work Group.
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UM-Flint’s Earth and Resource Science Department Offers City and Regional Planning Minor
The new University of Michigan-Flint minor lets students from a variety of academic backgrounds delve into the dynamics of urban planning. It also empowers students to contribute to community initiatives,…
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UM-Flint Urban Alternatives House Awarded for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) developed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, commonly known as LEED, as a rating system to measure the quality and sustainability of…
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Three UM-Flint Departments Will Join Effort to Improve Flint’s University Corridor
Three University of Michigan-Flint departments will assist efforts to create a safe, walkable University Avenue corridor with the help of a $1 million federal grant to Kettering University that will…
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UM-Flint’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day: Seeing the World from New Perspectives
GIS Day is a grassroots event that serves to promote and increase access to the powerful tools available through the new UM-Flint Geographic Information Systems Center (GISC), including analysis techniques,…
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University of Michigan-Flint to Open Geographic Information Systems Center
Geographic Information Systems consist of computer software programs capable of inputting, displaying, and analyzing any data with location information, and the means to produce maps from those data.
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UM-Flint Named a Bicycle Friendly University by the League of American Bicyclists
The BFU program is revolutionizing the way universities evaluate their efforts in sustainability, transportation options, and campus dwellers’ quality of life, while allowing administrators to benchmark their progress toward improving…
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UM-Flint Researcher Part of Statewide Food Security Study
Rybarczyk was invited to join with researchers at U-M’s School of Natural Resources and Environment. He will be involved with mapping and spatially analyzing data in 18 small- to mid-sized…
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UM-Flint Debuts Bicycle Road Skills Course
The Bicycle Road Skills Course, which will be a permanent part of the campus, is believed to be the first of its kind installed on a college campus.
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UM-Flint “Urban Alternatives House” Prepares Second Launch
A new house that will be used as both a classroom and laboratory to explore better ideas for urban living has been selected in Flint’s Central Park Neighborhood.