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UM-Flint lauded for nation's highest student voting rate in 2022 midterms

Ryan Seifferlein, Alimatou Sarr and Alyssia Washington host a nonpartisan Dinners for Democracy event.

When Alimatou Sarr, a 2024 University of Michigan-Flint graduate with a bachelor's degree in political science, joined the university's chapter of Turn Up Turnout in early 2022, the student organization was just getting started.  "Voter registration and resources weren't a regular feature at campus events, and so our initial focus was to build relationships between[…]

Riverbank Arts to host "Phranc in Flint: Butch Essentials" pop-up exhibition during Flint Art Walk

“Phranc in Flint: Butch Essentials,” a pop-up event and hands-on paper bow-tie-making workshop, will take place at Riverbank Arts during the Flint Art Walk,  6–9 p.m., Sept. 13. 

What would a retrospective of your life's work look like?  For Jewish folk singer, queer activist and multimedia artist Phranc, it's comprised of vibrant paper sculptures of clothing, accessories and other artifacts that follow her development as a young girl in the 1960s to coming out as a lesbian and beginning to engage in the[…]

GRAVE CIRCUMSTANCES (Cemetery preservation video)

The Cemetery Preservation Project, managed through the UM-Flint History program, is now in its eighth year.

What comes to mind when someone says "summer?" Sun? Sand? Waves along a beach? What about cemeteries, gravestones and a sense of community? Well, for a group of UM-Flint students, led by Thomas Henthorn, the university's Dorothea E. Wyatt Professor of United States History, the latter is exactly what it's all about. The group will spend[…]