U-M Engagement
- A Way to Help Flint for the Long-Term by Patricia BerryU-M Development Specialist blogs in LinkedIn about how to help Flint.
- U-M faculty, Flint community partners team up...University Record article, March 21, 2016, describes research efforts in response to the Flint water crisis.
- Community, Multiuniversity Partnership to address Flint Health ChallengesFlint community partners and three major Michigan university campuses today announced a new partnership to help address, through coordinated research efforts, the current and future status of residents and their health.
- Google, U-M to build digital tools to help manage Flint water crisisA partnership between Google and U-M's Flint and Ann Arbor campuses aims to provide a smartphone app and other digital tools to help Flint residents and officials manage that city's ongoing water crisis. The app and other tools will help predict where lead levels will be highest in the city's water.
Events
Flint Water Crisis: Fixing It
Lecture: Dr. Martin Kaufman, U-M Flint Geography, Planning and Environment Department
Monday Sept. 12, 2016
6:30 - 8:30
Walgreen Drama Center, Stamps Auditorium
"The Environmental Hazards of Aging Infrastructure in Flint, Michigan"
Past
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery
Dr. Martin Kaufman, the David M. French Professor of Earth Science at the University of Michigan-Flint, presented a public talk entitled "The Environmental Hazards of Aging Infrastructure in Flint, Michigan" as part of the Emergent Research Conversation Series. He detailed results of his recent efforts to map the lead-based water infrastructure in Flint, Michigan, using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and the use of these maps to generate additional research inquiry. Linkages between hazard identification and hazard response during an environmental crisis were also explored.
Related: City of Flint news
Water Access and Management in Communities of Color: Who Else? Who's Next? What Now? (video of event)
Date: February 19, 2016
Running Time: 121:48
Panelists from Flint, Detroit, and Muskegon Heights discuss issues around water access and management and its impact on communities of color.
Sponsored by Multi Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) in recognition of Black History Month.