CATEGORY: PUBLIC GOOD

Second year Doctor of Physical Therapy student Desiree Frantum measures the angle of a patient’s bent knee.

Healing through movement

As the program celebrates its 70th anniversary this year and boasts the No. 1 physical therapy program in the state of Michigan, UM-Flint is not only preparing the next generation of physical therapists, but also producing research helping to advance the field, thanks, in part, to donor support.
Published 7.18.2023
Photo of the corner walls of a room with a photo of Mike Wallace, Emmy statues, books, and other memorabilia.

News break

For 50 years, U-M’s Knight-Wallace Fellowship has offered journalists an academic year of study, collaboration, and time to recharge. In the face of decimated newsrooms, widespread disinformation, and distrust for news media, its work remains vital.
Published 5.16.2023

Urgent care

Ongoing health disparities could have catastrophic consequences. U-M experts are working to prevent them by bringing together efforts across campus—and private philanthropy—to not only treat life-threatening diseases, but root out the conditions that make so many people more susceptible to them.
Published 1.16.2023

Giving Tuesday: Med students bring preventative care to underserved with community support

Wolverine Street Medicine helps fill the health care gap in SE Michigan thanks to a big response on the world’s largest day of giving.
Published 11.15.2022
Collage of clasping hands and the word altruism surrounded by oxytocin molecules

Hardwired to help

U-M psychologist and author Stephanie Preston discusses the evolutionary roots of altruism, why helping others helps us, and how to thrive in this giving season.
Published 11.15.2022
Hands making the shape of a heart.

‘Lift as we climb’

Celebrating the impact of Black philanthropy at U-M.
Published 8.29.2022
A photo of a beachfront home on Lake Michigan with a seawall around it.

Saving our pleasant peninsula

Michigan’s great outdoors is being threatened by climate change. Here’s what U-M researchers are doing to help track, slow, and stop its effects.
Published 7.12.2022
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