Month: January 2011

01/27/11

Student Research Conference Registration Now Open

Registration is open for both the Meeting of Minds Undergraduate Research Conference and the UM-Flint Student Research Conference.

Meeting of Minds (MOM) is a collaborative event, co-sponsored by UM-Flint, UM-Dearborn, and Oakland University; with particular interest in undergraduate research and creative activity. Oppositely, the UM-Flint Student Research Conference (SRC) is a campus-only event showcasing research and creative activities from BOTH undergraduate and graduate students.

Both conferences provide students an opportunity to do oral presentations, poster presentations, performances, and demostrations. Additionally, students who present have the opportunity to have the papers they present published in the conference journal.

Oakland University is the site for this year’s MOM. The event will take place on Friday, May 13, 2011. The UM-Flint SRC will take place here at the University of Michigan-Flint on Friday, April 1, 2011. For more information, visit the following sites:

For Meeting of Minds: www.umflint.edu/research/MOM

For the UM-Flint Student Research Conference: www.umflint.edu/research/SRC

Sign up today!

01/13/11

UM-Flint Students Help Preserve Buick’s History

From the Mel Serow, University Relations:

Sloan Museum’s Buick Gallery and Research Center houses the history of the once Flint-based Buick Motor Division. Each semester, the staff of the center welcome history students from the University of Michigan-Flint for a unique learning experience as Collections Management Interns. Interns receive supervised, hands-on experience working directly with the faculty and staff, curating the museum’s collection of records that chronicle the history of the carmaker.

Staff members provide the most direct supervision working with the interns on defined projects as part of the learning strategy developed by the interns’ faculty supervisor. Over the course of one semester, students complete 100 hours of supervised work, learning methods in museum practices and records management.

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[UM-Flint History Professor Thomas] Henthorn hopes to use the Buick collections internship as a model for other community partnerships that will help the university expand its internship program and meet the learning needs of the student as well as the needs of the community.

Full article

01/10/11

Faculty and Staff Awards

Congratulations to the following faculty and staff for receiving funding awards:

Murali Mani, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who recently received a grant from The National Science Foundation for the following project: SGER: Towards a Generic Provenance Metadata Management System:  $ 58,619

Jonathan Jarosz, Interim Director of University Outreach, who recently received a grant from The Land Trust Alliance for the following project: Land Conservancies of Southeast Michigan: Phase 1- Southeast Michigan Green Plan:  $6,450

Rajib Ganguly, Assistant Professor of Physics, who recently received a grant from the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) for the following project: A Multivariate, Panchromatic Investigation of Outflows as a Function of Quasar Property:  $31,039