Archive

  • Barriers and Bridges to Children’s Oral Health in the City of Flint

    Posted: by UM-Flint Professor of Political Science Peggy Kahn, Ph.D.

    For parents and policymakers alike, dental healthcare is not separate from healthcare.

  • Rivalry in the Arts

    Posted: by Dr. Sarah Lippert, co-coordinated by Bob Mabbitt

    Exploring how competition, historically and in contemporary media, impacts artists and their work

  • 12 in 2012

    Posted: by By Jennifer Hogan

    Honoring the Top 12 Difference-makers at UM-Flint in 2012

  • Workspace 2012 - Stress, Identity, and Ownership

    Posted: by By Jennifer Hogan & Mel Serow

    The work place is experiencing a new normal, and this new normal is leading to reported higher levels of stress among workers.

  • Building a Better Higher Education System in Bangladesh

    Posted: by By Mel Serow

    Professor of Engineering Quamrul Mazumder is transforming higher ed in his native Bangladesh.

  • More Than One Write Answer | How The Writing Center Helps Tutors Too

    Posted: by By Megan Breidenstein

    Marian E. Wright Writing Center tutor Megan Breidenstein writes about overcoming challenges

  • Engaged Teaching = Engaged Learning

    Posted: by Bob Mabbitt & Jan Worth-Nelson

    TCLT Director Jan Worth-Nelson Challenges Faculty to Take Learning Beyond the Classroom

  • Q & A with Winegarden Visiting Professor Kenneth Waltzer, Ph.D.

    Posted: by Jennifer Hogan

    Winegarden Visiting Professor Kenneth Waltzer, Ph.D. is an internationally known historian of the Holocaust.

  • The Liquid of Life

    Posted: by Martin Kaufman, Ph.D. | UM-Flint Professor of Earth and Resource Science

    This excerpt from Earth and Resource Science Professor Marty Kaufman's recent book serves as a primer for the complex factors communities like Flint must face regarding water.

  • Critical Issues Redux

    Posted: by Jennifer Hogan | Special thanks to UM-Flint Archivist Paul Gifford

    A look back at nearly three decades of speakers tackling the critical issues of our time.

  • RISING (Scene 4)

    Posted: by Carolyn Nur Wistrand | Photos by James Thigpen

    Scene 4 Excerpt - October 27, 1862, Parlor. Fripp Plantation. St. Helena Island, South Carolina

  • Lessons from Taiwan

    Posted: by Bob Mabbitt, Roundtable Coordinator | Photos by Patricia Harrold

    Participants in last spring's School of Management trip to Taiwan examine the issue of keeping productive capacity operating longterm.

  • There's a Class for That!

    Posted: by by Mel Serow

    Assitant Professors of Computer Science Suleyman Uludag and Stephen Turner collaborate with UM-Flint student Murat Karakus on how to develop computing curriculum that is exciting, accessible, and impactful across disciplines.

  • Social Media in Academia — A Debate

    Posted: by Marcus Paroske & James Schirmer | Coordinated by Alaina Wiens

    What role should social media play in the college classroom? Two UM-Flint professors on opposite sides of the proverbial fence explore the pros and cons.

  • Comic Book Credentials : A New Dimension of Learning

    Posted: by Mel Serow & Bob Mabbitt | Photos by Sarah Reed

    UM-Flint class explores past, present, and future of comics and other "visual narratives."

  • Return To Poland

    Posted: by Theodosia Robertson

    It’s a truism that travel is a form of education. In past eras, the sons (and less frequently, the daughters) of wealthy elites traveled as part of their education—or perhaps in place of college or university instruction.

  • Lost Boy

    Posted: by Mel Serow

    Every student at the University of Michigan-Flint has a story about the path they traveled to reach college. Anjelo Upieu has a saga. Anjelo is an international business and finance student at UM-Flint.

  • Glenwood

    Posted: by Bob Mabbitt

    We often describe localities, particularly cities, with language originally intended to describe the personality or character of living, breathing human beings. Friendly. Hard-working. Cool. Why do we do this?