University of Michigan Flint News

People were able to get many tests including blood pressure and blood sugar checks, kidney tests, and foot screenings.

The office dedicated to veterans returning to school at the University of Michigan-Flint will get its own dedication today.

The Global Issues Film Festival kicks off this weekend at Mott Community College.

A former University of Michigan-Flint student wants the school to pay him $40 million for something he says began as a simple grade dispute over a Spanish quiz.

For a while there, it looked like Mott Community College and a few others in Michigan would share the economic pain of their students to help them achieve a higher education.

Every week, Nicole Terry spends time with a 14-year-old girl who got in trouble with the law - to be a mentor, offer a listening ear and encourage her to make better decisions.

University of Michigan-Flint economics professor Mark Perry recently faced off with another economist in a BBC report about what's ahead for U.S. workers and consumers.

The University of Michigan-Flint is among a handful of groups supporting a new training program for home-bound disabled veterans, according to this Web site.

For Kristi Starnes, words like "has" were just too hard to spell. Simple math was overwhelming.

Let's hope Augie Visocchi doesn't have the gift of the reverse jinx. Calling on the phone a good hour after the appointed interview time, the guitarist/singer for Detroit's Hard Lessons is sleepy and apologetic while explaining that the previous night's gig in Lansing had gone far, far better than he or his bandmates had expected.

Official data has indicated that the US economy has come out of recession, but analysts warn the continuing recovery will be slow.

The Mott Children's Center is offering families testing for lead poisoning today at the University of Michigan-Flint's William S. White building.

To a few extremely generous members of our community: As October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a few of my classmates and myself at the University of Michigan-Flint decided to have a toiletry drive for the YWCA SafeHouse in Flint.

When I worked in Palm Springs I held a tape recorder for a gentleman during the therapy session who was recounting his time in the war and in great detail his time in Burma.

Local colleges are preparing for a possible H1N1 outbreak on campus. Most local colleges have no confirmed cases of the virus, but there is a possible case at the University of Michigan-Flint. That student was sent home last week after developing flu-like symptoms that may be caused by the H1N1 strain.

The University of Michigan Flint College of Arts and Sciences presents Arts Launch 2009! at 6:30 p.m. Oct.

The Disability Network will hold its annual awards luncheon at noon Friday at the Holiday Inn Gateway Centre in Mundy Township.

The University of Michigan-Flint is marketing itself as a college town on the move, Chancellor Ruth Person told the UM Board of Regents today at a meeting on the Flint campus.

Freelance journalist Alison Weir, who has covered the Arab-Israeli conflict since 2001, will speak at 3:30 p.m. today on the University of Michigan-Flint campus.

Her love for history is why she left nearly her entire estate to the University of Michigan-Flint - and now Dorothea E. Wyatt's legacy will live on through history students.