Tag: UM-Flint

02/24/11

UM-Flint Student Creates Android Applications

From the M-Times:

Having trouble learning Mandarin? Do you have dif­ficulty distinguishing colors? A UM-Flint student has created two Android Apps that help the user with these problems.

Dan Lamb, a senior ma­joring in business, has been programming for 15 years.

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While at UM-Flint, Lamb studied Mandarin Chinese for two semesters. Eventually, he got tired of making flashcards, so he made an Android App to help him study. The App is called ChineseFlashcards and includes 20 units of vocabulary from “Cheng & Tsui Inte­grated Chinese, Level 1 Part 1 & 2.”

Lamb’s other Android App is Colorvision, a program that uses the phone’s camera to identify what color is in the on-screen crosshairs. It has a mode for either a simplified color palette, or a standard palette of 145 colors. Lamb’s inspiration for this application was his own red/green colorblindness.

Lamb is currently working on several games for the An­droid when he has extra time, which has not been often this semester.

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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!

11/23/10

Research & Creative Activity Fund Recipients- Fall, 2010

 The Research & Creative Activity Committee and the Office of Research are pleased to announce the results of the fall 2010 Request for Proposals.  Nine proposals were received, requesting more than $122,000 in funding.   In total, 4 awards were made for the following proposals:

– Min-Hui Huang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, SHPS:   A Task-Specific Rehabilitation Program to Improve Limb-Posture Control in Older Adults

– Nicholas Kingsley, Ph.D., Chemistry & BioChemistry Department, CAS:  New Ligand Design for the Development of Hydroamination Catalysts

– Murali Mani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering & Physics, CAS:  Enabling On-Time Response through Efficient Event Stream Processing

– Greg Rybarczyk, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Earth & Resource Science, CAS:   An Areal Analysis of Crime Risk in Flint, Michigan

Congratulations to all of our recipients!