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Dance students "Dream in Color" to create performance video
One UM-Flint student can do amazing things; put two UM-Flint students together and there's no limit to what they'll achieve. Two Dance students – Meredith Sheatzley (BA Dance, BSW '21) and Morgan Nichols (BA Dance '22) – teamed up to create "Dream in Color – A Dance Film." The video follows Meredith's performance from the[…]
UM-Flint introduces four new learning communities for Fall 2021
The Residential Learning Communities are the Promise Scholar program and Global Learning Community, and the theme communities are Innovation & Technology and Gender & Sexuality.
1,171 Students Named to Winter 2021 Dean's List
The University of Michigan-Flint is pleased to announce the Winter 2021 Dean's List. A full-time student who earns a 3.5 grade point average for a Fall or Winter semester with 12 or more graded hours is placed on the Dean's List in his or her school or college for that semester. In computing averages, only[…]
Accomplished Alumna: Marietta Robinson
Marietta Robinson (Psychology '73) believes true success comes from making the world a better place. A long list of professional accomplishments is evidence of her holding true to that principle. From founding a law firm focused on advocating for medical malpractice victims, serving as a federally appointed Dalkon Shield trustee, serving as a presidentially appointed[…]
See the year's best UM-Flint student artwork in this virtual exhibition
The University of Michigan-Flint Department of Art & Art History's annual Student Art Exhibition, which normally takes place at the Greater Flint Arts Council Gallery, continues online for 2021. The virtual gallery featuring more than 200 student art pieces launches May 7 at 4 p.m. ET at http://go.umflint.edu/2021VirtualGallery. The top five pieces from each art[…]
Becoming Uncomfortable: Caroline Markvluwer's Culturally-Inclusive Approach to Healthcare
Madre Canguro. That's Spanish for "Mother Kangaroo," an honorary title given to UM-Flint Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program (OTD) student Caroline Markvluwer in her time at Campamento Kewina, a four-day camp in Cochabamba, Bolivia dedicated to meeting the unique needs to Bolivian children with Down Syndrome. At the camp, Markvluwer was paired with Alejandro, a four-year-old[…]
Listen to this amazing collaboration between UM-Flint Music, local high schools
Close to 70 UM-Flint and area high school students have teamed up to create beautiful music, even when they couldn't be in the same room together. For the past 44 years, students from high school choirs have visited campus to collaborate with UM-Flint Chamber Singers and choir conductors during the Chamber Choir Invitational. After a[…]
UM-Flint offers education, survivor support during Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), and the University of Michigan-Flint students and staff are here to support survivors and continue to build a campus culture that is free of sexual violence.
UM-Flint student promotes COVID vaccines to "Save Summer 2021"
Students have big ideas at UM-Flint—and find the support to turn those ideas into reality. Freshman Biology major Christina El Zarka's big idea came after a conversation with friends. Many of them weren't planning on being vaccinated for COVID-19. She found that surprising (and upsetting), so she created an Instagram poll to survey more people[…]
Maize & Blue Distinguished Scholars
The Maize and Blue Distinguished Scholar Award is the highest academic award bestowed upon undergraduates of the University of Michigan-Flint. Below are the Maize and Blue recipients for Winter 2021. Of the students below, Jasmin Cambri, Lilian Farrehi, and Angela Longbucco have been selected as virtual commencement speakers. Jordyn R. AlgerBachelor of Arts in English[…]