Tag Archives: OED

Innovative ideas fuel UM-Flint student competition

Shanna Haver (right), an occupational therapy graduate student, won first place for an innovation that increases accessibility in sailing. Haver is pictured here with Nic Custer, innovation services manager, in the Office of Research and Economic Development.

A quartet of University of Michigan-Flint students recently took the ancient proverb, "necessity is the mother of invention," to heart via the Office of Economic Development's UMake the Change Student Innovation Competition. The competition encourages an innovative mindset among UM-Flint students from all disciplines. Students must submit a short video pitch and PowerPoint describing their[…]

UM-Flint research team establishes citywide weather sensor network

UM-Flint researchers are studying patterns of extreme heat in Flint and how to reduce its threats to residents.

A research project launched last December by the University of Michigan-Flint's Department of Natural Sciences and the Office of Economic Development's Geographic Information Systems Center is turning up the heat on its plan to examine heat-related risk in urban environments. Now partnering with the Mass Transportation Authority, the team, led by Martin Kaufman, UM-Flint professor[…]

A win-win: Working together to increase the impact

UM-Dearborn student Jacques Jones cuts down small trees and trims overgrown brush in the alley way. Photo by Sarah Tuxbury

A jointly sponsored UM-Dearborn – UM-Flint Collaborative Research Funding Program awarded up to $160,000 for four collaborative research projects. Detroit residents are reclaiming and repurposing underused spaces for neighborhood use. They've removed tires and trash from alleyways, organized meetings to discuss community space needs, helped install rain barrels in alley-facing garage downspouts and more. And[…]

Innovation and entrepreneurial mindsets thrive with MWIN

MWIN teaches faculty and students how their ideas can be brought to market.

The second cohort of the Michigan Wolverine Innovation Network Faculty Innovation Fellows Program recently completed work. In this interdisciplinary initiative offered through the University of Michigan-Flint's Office of Economic Development, faculty innovation fellows from each UM-Flint school and college worked together to solve research problems with real-world applications. The goal of the program is to[…]