Stories of support, collaboration, research and community engagement
Emma Davis, theatre and dance lecturer, and Jason Kosnoski, associate professor of political science, recently received a $25,000 U-M Arts Initiative award to engage with Flint-native musical artist Tunde Olaniran for the creation of a public performance festival in Flint this Summer. The collaborators will work to bring together a variety of performance artists from
On May 12, 2023, the Riverfront Conference Center was a bustle of interdisciplinary conversations as UM-Flint hosted the return of an in-person annual Student Research Conference. Forty-six student researchers from UM-Flint, Kettering, and Mott Community College delivered oral and poster presentations to faculty, friends, and family. Opening Remarks Randall Duncan, veteran researcher and executive director
Founded with generous support from the Ben Breyer Foundation and supported by Office of Research and Economic Development funds, the CoARC has made a strong case for interdisciplinary research to address challenges and opportunities associated with an aging population. The cluster is co-directed by Sheryl Groden and Allon Goldberg, who have facilitated a new conversation
This Friday, May 12, 2023 University of Michigan-Flint will host a return to an in-person student research symposium known as the Student Research Conference. Students from UM-Flint, Mott Community College, and Kettering University will showcase the research projects they’re working on at the Riverfront Conference Center. There will be 30 posters spread across two morning
On Thursday, April 27th, 2023, University of Michigan-Flint alumnus, Dallas Anderson visited his Baccalaureate alma mater. It wasn’t just a trip down memory lane, though; Anderson came as a representative of the National Institute of Aging, a division of the National Institute of Health, where he works as a program director for the Division of
On April 5, 2023, dozens of attendees converged on a lecture hall in the White building on University of Michigan-Flint’s campus for a presentation on how a focus on human-centered design can help us to have more equitable access to government and community resources. Researchers and designers, Kristen Uroda and Maki Nakagawa from Civilla were
James Alsup, professor of physics at UM-Flint guides undergraduate students in a research project to gain understanding of how quantum computing models can help further our understanding of the shape of molecules. These students are gaining hands-on experience with state-of-the-art computational and collaborative tools.
How do rational people discuss the economy, inflation, de-industrialization, labor unions, and profits today? “While we can each form our own opinions from reading and consuming the literature from the experts, it seems there are many experts defending positions that are unique and contradict one another,” according to UM-Flint undergraduate student Luís Martinez. They are
The phrase ‘Publish or Perish’ is commonly used by researchers, and their work greatly impacts their evaluations. Stanford University professor John Ionnaidis has worked diligently for years to improve the system used to standardize the evaluation process by looking at how often researchers’ work is used as a reference, cited by other researchers. He has
In January 2020, the Mellon Foundation made a $600,000 award to University of Michigan – Flint professors Daniel Birchok and Jacob Lederman, just before the emergence of the COVID pandemic. The project, entitled ‘Borders and Crossings: Exploring Global Questions at the University of Michigan-Flint,’ began with the premise that community-engaged humanities courses needed to be