Tag Archives: CIT

Meet the CIT Faculty: Thiago Ferreira

Thiago Ferreira is beginning his first year as an Assistant Professor of Information Technology & Informatics in UM-Flint's College of Innovation and Technology. Ferreira has most recently held academic appointments (postdoctoral fellow and intermittent lecturer) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He investigates software refactoring, which is the restructuring of source code for the purpose of[…]

EDA Grant Supports New Innovation and Technology Center at the University of Michigan-Flint

A building designed for teaching, collaborating, and inspiring the innovators of the 21st century will be built at the University of Michigan-Flint. The U.S. Economic Development Administration awarded a $3.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to build the Innovation and Technology Center at UM-Flint. The grant will be matched with $4.9 million in additional[…]

"Going All the Way to the Top": Samantha Hunsinger's Journey as a UM-Flint Mechanical Engineering Student

Samantha Hunsinger takes a hands-on approach to her own vehicle trouble, and recently changed the exhaust and rear brakes on her own car. Samantha Hunsinger/via Linkedin

At age 4, Samantha Hunsinger rode beside her Grampie in his Cessna 152 airplane and fell in love with aircraft, rockets, space, and mechanics. Now, Hunsinger is a mechanical engineering student at the University of Michigan-Flint, making these passions a reality. "I am always wanting to learn about the universe," Hunsinger said. "Engineering just seemed[…]

Big opportunities, small campus: Ayana's journey from UM-Flint to a national laboratory

Ayana used the Physics research experience she found at UM-Flint to earn her PhD and find positions at prestigious national research laboratories.

All it took was a conversation with her professor for Ayana Ghosh, PhD (Physics/Abstract Mathematics '15) to begin studying simulated black holes and higher dimensions. That's quite a step for a college freshman, whose only experience (at the time) was the introductory physics course in which she was enrolled. Despite Ghosh's inexperience, Associate Professor of[…]