Christopher Paul Curtis (’00 BGS) has won his second Newberry Honor Book award.  He won the same award in 1996 and is also the recipient of a Coretta Scott King Award.Curtis received the award for his book Elijah of Buxton  (Scholastic).

 

A new medical research laboratory will be dedicated at the University of Michigan-Flint on Thursday, January 31, 3 p.m., Room 283 Murchie Science Building. The Dr. Ben F. Bryer Medical Research laboratory is being dedicated in recognition of a gift for medical research from the Ben F. Bryer Foundation. 

A founding faculty member of the University of Michigan-Flint has left the largest single gift from an individual donor to the University. The gift from the estate of Dorothea E. Wyatt, Ph.D., will take the history program to the next level of excellence.

 

                           

Another University of Michigan-Flint faculty member has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar grantee.  Susan Gano-Phillips, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences will travel to Hong Kong for the 2008-09 academic year.

A new journalism program that emphasizes online and community news was approved at the May 15 meeting of the U-M Board of Regents for a fall launch at the University of Michigan-Flint. 

A unique new program, to begin in fall 2008, will help prepare Lapeer High School seniors for a future career in engineering, and give them a jump on their college education.  The University of Michigan-Flint is joining with the Lapeer County Intermediate School District Education and Technology Center to offer the pre-engineering program. 

If you are looking for a job, want a better job, or are planning on re-entering the labor force you need to make sure that your resume is the best that it can be. The University of Michigan-Flint invites you to a FREE workshop where you will learn “How to Write A Winning Resume.” It will take place Saturday, September 27, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. in the Happenings Room on the UM-Flint campus.  Reservations are required.

You probably heard it said...’a picture is worth
 a thousand words.’  But some pictures could
 be worth even more. Find out why from
Jonathan Schroeder, Chaired Professor of Marketing at the University of Exeter Business School, England. He will be the guest speaker
at the University of Michigan-Flint on
October 30.  
Schroeder is a guest of the Student Communications Association and will deliver his presentation at 12:30 p.m. in the Michigan Rooms of University Center. Because of the interest in Schroeder’s research, the event is open
 to the public.