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UM-Flint DPS receives $935K in grant funding for community development

The Department of Public Safety aims to help downtown residents connect with resources all throughout Flint.

Many know the University of Michigan-Flint's Department of Public Safety for offering services like Safe Ride, being visible at many campus events, and patrolling the streets of downtown Flint, thereby ensuring the safety of the campus community. However, this is only a portion of the work DPS does, as much of its work benefits the[…]

UM-Flint School of Nursing receives $3.94M grant to address rural nursing shortage

The UM-Flint Educates Rural Nurses program will increase health care professionals in settings like the McLaren Thumb Region Hospital.

The University of Michigan-Flint School of Nursing has announced the launch of an initiative aimed at addressing the critical nursing shortage in Michigan's Thumb region. The UM-Flint Educates Rural Nurses program, also known as the UM-FERN project, is backed by a four-year, $3.94 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration and seeks to[…]

UM-Flint student transforms UCEN gallery into interactive, child-friendly art exhibit

UM-Flint art and design major Rachel Landes has created an exhibit that encourages constructive, imaginative, sensory and physical play.

While things already look a little different in the University of Michigan-Flint's Harding Mott University Center this fall following a recent renovation, its art gallery, located on the first floor, has undergone some fun changes too. The transformation comes courtesy of Rachel Landes, a senior design major from Owosso, who has turned the space into[…]

UM-Flint faculty receive $18,000 grant to support "Unlocking the Arts in Flint" program

UM-Flint students and faculty came together for a workshop focused on the Youth Arts: Unlocked program and to talk about the "Unlocking the Arts in Flint" grant.

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's School of Nursing provides lifesaving gift to local church

Kristi Wilson, associate professor of nursing, presents Father Anthony of Pius X Catholic Church a new, automatic defibrillator.

Parishioners at St. Pius X Catholic Church hold their parish close to their hearts. And now, courtesy of a defibrillator from the University of Michigan-Flint's School of Nursing, they will be able to keep potentially lifesaving assistance just as near. The gift of the automatic external defibrillator was made possible by a grant from the[…]

Three UM-Flint Departments Will Join Effort to Improve Flint's University Corridor

University Avenue runs between Kettering University and UM-Flint.

Three University of Michigan-Flint departments will assist efforts to create a safe, walkable University Avenue corridor with the help of a $1 million federal grant to Kettering University that will support neighborhood revitalization efforts. UM-Flint's departments of Earth & Resource Science and Public Health & Health Sciences will share about $100,000 of the federal grant.