FLINT, Mich. – Michigan State University College of Human Medicine will cut the ribbon on its second building in downtown Flint, expanding its partnership with the people and city of Flint, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation.
The 40,000-square-foot Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health facility is an expansion to the College of Human Medicine’s Flint Campus, which occupies the former Flint Journal building. The expansion, made possible by a public-private partnership, will be home to 18 new researchers and their staff. It is part of the College of Human Medicine’s continued collaboration with the city of Flint and a robust public health research program.
Date/time: Tuesday, Aug. 26 from 11:00 a.m. to noon (remarks begin at 11:10 a.m.)
Address/parking:
200 E. First Street, Flint (Free parking available at the Flint Downtown Development Authority Flat Lot, 125 E. Kearsley St. until 1 p.m.)
Expected speakers:
- Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., president, Michigan State University
- Aron Sousa, M.D., dean, MSU College of Human Medicine
- Sheldon Neeley, mayor, city of Flint
- John Cherry, Michigan state senator
- Neal Hegarty, vice president of Programs, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Tim Herman, president, Uptown Reinvestment Corporation
- Jennifer E. Johnson, Ph.D., founding chair, Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health at MSU College of Human Medicine
- Bishop Bernadel Jefferson, Flint community partner
Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for 170 years. One of the world’s leading public research universities, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery to make a better, safer, healthier world for all while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 400 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.
For more than 60 years, the College of Human Medicine has drawn upon MSU’s land-grant values to educate exemplary physicians, discover and disseminate new knowledge and respond to the needs of the medically underserved in communities throughout Michigan. The medical school’s statewide footprint includes eight community-integrated campuses: Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Midland Regional, Southeast Michigan, Traverse City and the Upper Peninsula Region. The Grand Rapids Research Center houses more primary investigators studying Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, autism, women’s health and cancer. The college’s Flint campus is home to MSU’s public health program.
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