Stories of support, collaboration, research and community engagement
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
Shirl Donaldson is an assistant professor of project management, STEM education and entrepreneurship in the University of Michigan-Flint’s College of Innovation and Technology. She is researching Donk car racing and whether it can help change the way minoritized kids think about STEM subjects in relation to themselves. “When it comes to racing, tons of money
Most students use their first year in college to take care of the basics, like exploring student clubs or learning how to find their way around campus. For Taylor Culinski, a junior psychology major from Swartz Creek, Michigan, her first year was the perfect time to begin conducting research alongside her professors. And it was
Matthew Thelen likes to get right to the root of a problem. And as a molecular biology major, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Why deal with things on the surface when the truth lies beneath? It’s that curiosity to reveal the origin of an issue that has led the junior from Metamora to pursue
Nathaniel Cordova is a full-time undergraduate student at the University of Michigan-Flint slated to graduate with a Bachelor’s in Psychology in December 2022. Shortly after he transferred from Youngstown State University in Ohio, he asked psychology professor Thomas Wrobel what he should do to better prepare for a PhD or Master’s program. Wrobel told him