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Eastern Michigan University
Students, faculty and staff at Eastern Michigan University are engaged in a broad effort to make supplies for area healthcare professionals and front-line organizations battling the COVID-19 crisis. The project involves more than 100 EMU community members making masks, parts for face shields and face shields.
EMU Today
(April 15, 2020)
Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University students, faculty and alumni are playing key roles in a coronavirus testing chain that begins with nasal swabs in parking lots and ends in laboratories of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
CMU News
(April 17, 2020)
Ferris State University
A group of Ferris State University faculty and fourth-year pharmacy students have spent weeks assessing more than 3,500 articles detailing research on the coronavirus. The efforts are are aimed at helping put the best coronavirus information before doctors and other health care professionals in the Spectrum Health integrated health system.
Big Rapids Pioneer
(April 15, 2020)
Grand Valley State University
The GVSU Family Health Center has established telehealth services to ensure patient needs continue to be met during the COVID-19 pandemic. Operated by the Kirkhof College of Nursing, the center is in Grand Rapids' Heartside District. It serves Grand Valley students, faculty and staff members, plus Heartside and surrounding community members.
Grand Valley State University News
(April 16, 2020)
Lake Superior State University
As the need for quality internet access has increased due to remote learning, Lake Superior State University is helping people without access. LSSU is extending its current WI-FI range on campus to members of the community who lack access to high-speed internet.
Lake Superior State Campus News
(April 3, 2020)
Michigan State University
Brett Etchebarne, an emergency medicine physician and assistant professor in Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine, is addressing the need for faster, more accessible testing. Etchebarne's goal was to create a COVID-19 test that could be performed by emergency room doctors on many patients in a short time, on equipment all hospitals own.
MSU Today
(April 10, 2020)
Michigan Technological University
Engineers and professors at Michigan Tech spent a week improvising a giant sanitizer to fight COVID-19. It is a 40-foot shipping container that has been converted into a giant oven, using everyday materials to show how this could be done anywhere in an inexpensive manner. The goal of this oven is to protect the healthcare workers and first responders from getting infected when they perform COVID-19 testing.
Detroit Free Press
(April 13, 2020)
Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University is utilizing its resources to supply UPHS with medical equipment. NMU donated two drying ovens and has developed acrylic canopies that can reduce the spread of COVID-19.
The Mining Journal
(April 9, 2020)
Oakland University
Tyler Sirut, former hammer thrower for Oakland's track and field program, accepted a nursing position at a local hospital in February, and approximately 10 shifts into his new full-time position he was on the frontline in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
C&G Newspapers
(April 14, 2020)
Saginaw Valley State University
A member of the staff at Great Lakes Bay Health Centers, Saginaw Valley State University educator and alumna Smriti Pant and her colleagues have collected nasal swab samples from more than 230 people since March 24 at a drive-through sampling site built in the parking lot of the Great Lakes Bay Health Centers downtown Saginaw headquarters.
WSGW
(April 10, 2020)
University of Michigan
Research projects and innovations related to COVID-19 have ramped up quickly across the University of Michigan, spurred by doctors, public health experts, scientists, economists and engineers, and encouraged by research leaders. Hundreds of people from many of U-M's 19 schools and colleges have connected virtually to start new projects, or adapt their existing work, to address many aspects of the global health crisis.
University of Michigan News
(April 6, 2020)
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Political Science Professor Mitchel Sollenberger, who's a political source for USA Today, C-SPAN, The Hill, Washington Post and others, talks about how the COVID-19 crisis may impact the U.S. Presidential election in November.
UM-Dearborn News
(April 8, 2020)
University of Michigan-Flint
A local father-son duo with strong ties to UM-Flint are doing their best to help healthcare workers, using 3D printing technology. Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, Flint doctor and philanthropist, and his son, Nikhil, UM-Flint student, recognized early that healthcare workers were facing a shortage in needed surgical masks and developed a model using a free open source design file that has been downloaded and shared in 148 countries.
Mukkamala unites students and Flint "makers" to craft surgical masks for local healthcare workers
UM-Flint News
(April 16, 2020)
Wayne State University
Ford Motor Co., Wayne State University, the Wayne State University Physician Group and ACCESS are launching a new initiative that will improve access to COVID-19 testing for symptomatic first responders, health care workers and corrections officers in Michigan. Ford is providing vehicles, drivers and equipment to help create the first mobile testing service in Michigan.
Wayne State University School of Medicine News
(April 15, 2020)
Western Michigan University
Hospitals across the country are seeing an influx of patients related to COVID-19. In order to save lives and protect vital frontline health workers, they need supplies and professional reinforcements-and they need them now. Western Michigan University College of Aviation alumnus
Noam Morgenstern
is among the fleet of pilots helping to deliver. Morgenstern has logged thousands of miles transporting critical people and cargo to more than 115 destinations across North America.
Western Michigan University News
(April 15, 2020)
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