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New UM-Flint Research Shows Location of Lead Pipes in Flint

Troy Rosencrants, GIS Center manager, supervised the day-to-day efforts of the team.

The research analyzed the City of Flint's hand-written records, paper maps, and scanned images to create a complete digital database of all the information available so far about lead service pipes used in the city. Flint Mayor Dr. Karen Weaver plans to use data to target her Fast Start pipe removal initiative.

Q & A: UM-Flint Physics Professors Discuss Impact of Gravitational Wave Discovery on Their Research

UM-Flint physics professor Rajib Ganguly, PhD discusses super-massive black holes with students.

UM-Flint physics faculty members Rajib Ganguly, PhD and James Alsup, PhD answer questions about the discovery of gravitational waves. Both Ganguly and Alsup have focused their research on black holes and rely heavily on Einstein's general theory of relativity, which predicted the existence of gravitational waves. Here, the professors offer an overview of the discovery, their initial reactions, and its implications.