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UM-Flint faculty receive $18,000 grant to support "Unlocking the Arts in Flint" program
An $18,000 grant from the U-M Arts Initiative will assist three University of Michigan-Flint faculty members in helping to foster social change in Flint and Genesee County. The grant will support and strengthen a program titled "Unlocking the Arts in Flint," a joint venture between the Flint-area nonprofit Youth Arts: Unlocked and the UM-Flint Arts[…]
UM-Flint alum, history student work together in archive digitization project
A University of Michigan-Flint alum is diligently working to ensure that Hartland residents can easily access information from the past and is doing so with a current UM-Flint history student to make it happen. Clio resident Rachel Stock, a 2016 UM-Flint graduate with a bachelor's degree in history and two-time Wyatt Endowment scholar, works as[…]
UM-Flint student explores mental health in the criminal justice system
While Shelby Tracy may have spent her summer at the Sanilac County Sheriff's Office, it was not for breaking any laws. Rather, the University of Michigan-Flint senior psychology major from Sandusky was there to study the interactions between law enforcement officers and inmates, while gaining experience in the criminal justice field ahead of her projected[…]
UM-Flint Biology teams up with For-Mar for School Day Bioblitz
This fall, a "blitz" won't just happen on the football field as For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum will host its annual School Day Bioblitz Sept. 29. The event, now in its sixth year, originally began as a partnership between the Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission and the University of Michigan-Flint in 2014. The event[…]
Achtung!: UM-Flint students can travel to Berlin for (nearly) free
Whether it's a visit to the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag Building or the Berlin Wall, Germany's capital city is brimming with history no matter where you turn. The city, which dates back to the 13th century, remains one of the world's most popular tourist destinations. Now imagine being able to immerse yourself in the history[…]
UM-Flint's Promise Scholars Program helping students lay groundwork for their futures
While classes have just begun at the University of Michigan-Flint, a group of about 30 students have already begun laying the groundwork for their futures. It's all part of the seven-week Promise Scholars Program, which has been around since the late 1960s. While its name has changed a handful of times, the goal has remained[…]
Student Research Spotlight: Matthew Thelen
Matthew Thelen likes to get right to the core of a problem. And as a molecular biology major, that shouldn't come as a surprise. Why deal with things on the surface when the truth lies beneath? It's that curiosity to reveal the origin of an issue that has led the junior from Metamora to pursue[…]
UM-Flint history student preserves Flint's past with Sloan Museum
There was no cooler place for Rachelle Gonzalez to have worked this summer than in the archives department of the Sloan Museum of Discovery. In order to preserve the thousands of postcards, letters, photos, scrapbooks and other documents included in the museum's collection, they are housed in a climate-controlled room between 67 and 68 degrees[…]
Preservationists breathing life back into Flint cemeteries
Chances are you've heard of gravediggers, grave circumstances and even grave robbers. But have you ever heard of grave cleaners? Well, that's exactly what Thomas Henthorn, a University of Michigan-Flint associate professor of history, and a team of students and community volunteers are doing as the group works to breathe life back into Flint-area cemeteries. […]
Work, research continues on Flint's Hamilton Dam removal
Imagine wildlife quietly making its way along the shoreline of the Flint River as kayakers paddle past the William S. White Building and anglers excitedly discuss their days' catch. Those visions could soon become reality when the last remaining pieces of the century-old Hamilton Dam, located in the heart of the UM-Flint campus between Harrison[…]