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Monday, March 25, 2013  A Flint blood drive is calling on at least 66 members of the community to donate. 66 donations, to match the 66 lives lost in Flint last year. University of Michigan-Flint graduate students together with the American Red Cross are coming together to honor the victims for a good cause.

Friday, March 15, 2013  23-year-old Marjanl Abdur-Rahman was arrested in connection to the murder.

Thursday, March 14, 2013  Mojtaba Vaziri was one of three professors given the honor.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013  Now local military veterans will have a single place to go to get the benefits they have earned.

Monday, March 11, 2013  The sequester axe is being felt nation wide for current and aspiring college students. Prior to the mandatory budget cuts military veterans could take advantage of 100 percent tuition as well as additional funding.

Thursday, February 14, 2013  The scorecards show how Michigan Universities compare nationally

Friday, January 11, 2013  A group of UM-Flint students are trying to bring some much needed health services to the underserved in our community.

Friday, November 30, 2012  Seven michigan colleges and universities are sharing an $800,000 grant to provide former foster youth with a support program to help them succeed in higher education.

Sunday, October 28, 2012  The city of Flint has not had a master plan guiding the area in more than 50 years… Until now that is. NBC 25’s Josh Marshall caught up with the group that’s getting the ball rolling.

Friday, March 23, 2012  UM Flint students are drafting a set of guidelines to put in curb cuts, widen the bike lanes and fix the sidewalks in the neighborhood around Durant Turi Mott Elementary School.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012  A University of Michigan reseracher has concluded 11 years of study on breast cancer complications.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012  Flint's problems are well known.  Crime, unemployment and blight among them.  But recently there have been subtle signs of a shift in Flint's economy.

Wednesday, January 04, 2012  The 2010 census pegged Michigan as the only state to lose population over the last 10 years, but there are signs that the population has stabilized, and that most of us left here may be here to stay.

Monday, July 25, 2011  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has recently awarded over $2.1 million in new grants to the University of Michigan-Flint Nursing Department

Friday, June 17, 2011  The University of Michigan-Flint and Pat Tillman Foundation are proud to announce two students have been selected as Tillman Military Scholars for the 2011-2012 academic year.  They are Kyle Cawood, a Nursing Major, who will attend UM-Flint in fall 2011, and Tiffany Johnson, whose husband is a veteran. She is working on her MBA.