Nursing students at EMU are volunteering to help in any way they can at drive-through testing locations: taking phone calls, creating screening charts, managing testing tents and swabbing those who are sick.
MLive
(April 1, 2020)
Eastern Michigan University is providing temporary living arrangements for staff at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital and IHA, a large Southeast Michigan medical group at the university's Village Apartment complex.
EMU Today
(April 6, 2020)
Central Michigan University
Students and staff working remotely are using 3D printers at CMU's Makerbot Innovation Center to make reusable rigid versions of N95 respiratory masks to be fitted with small replaceable filters.
Morning Sun
(April 6, 2020)
Central Michigan University College of Medicine fourth-year medical students recently volunteered to help out at Great Lakes Bay Health Centers' drive-through COVID-19 testing center.
Morning Sun
(April 6, 2020)
Ferris State University
Dr. Elizabeth Albright, who graduated from Ferris' College of Arts and Sciences in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Biology with a Pre-Medicine concentration, is on now on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight, helping staff Metro Health's Primary Care office in Caledonia.
She's one of many Ferris alumni health care professionals facing the reality that every patient that arrives suffering from a stroke, broken bone, or other ailment is received as a potential COVID-19 carrier.
Ferris State University News
Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley's Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences has been prepared to take overflow patients from Spectrum Health hospitals in Grand Rapids if the coronavirus pandemic results in patient overflow.
MLive
(March 24, 2020)
Even with school out of session for the rest of the school year, Grand Valley State University continued to grow crops on their educational farm to donate to those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.
WWMT
(April 4, 2020)
Lake Superior State University
LSSU is providing hospital beds, IV pumps, N95 masks and face shields to Sault Ste. Marie's War Memorial Hospital for the fight against COVID-19, pulling together existing resources from Nursing Labs, Chemistry and Biology areas.
Lake Superior State University Campus News
(April 2, 2020)
Lake Superior State University has provided additional materials and supplies to War Memorial Hospital to strengthen the fight against the coronavirus.
The Sault News
(April 3, 2020)
Michigan State University
Michigan State University researchers have validated a test to detect coronavirus that is more accurate than those currently available and could help address the national shortage of testing kits.
MSU Today
(April 3, 2020)
Michigan State University researchers have found a way to decontaminate N95 masks using commercial ovens, a method they say promises to help stave off protective mask shortages and save the lives of healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus outbreak. An MSU Extension team met with Sparrow Hospital officials, including President Alan Vierling and Bill Degg, last week to see if they could use MSU's resources to sanitize or decontaminate personal protective equipment so healthcare workers can reuse them.
Lansing State Journal
(April 3, 2020)
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Tech computer science, engineering and health professionals are working together to help put on-line instructions on how to use 3D-printed lab hardware and open-source tech to let innovators build their own ventilators in ways that are cost-effective and encourage design improvements.
Michigan Tech University Unscripted Research Blog
(March 20, 2020)
A group of engineers at Michigan Tech have turned a refrigerated shipping container into a "Mobile Thermal Utility Sanitizer" to disinfect personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, gowns, and face shields. "It's just a sauna. We made a really big sauna using residential heating units, some forced air blowers, and it works really great," said Andrew Barnard, director of Michigan Tech's Great Lakes Research Center.
Upper Michigan's Source
(April 9, 2020)
Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University human-centered design professor Peter Pless is developing plexiglass canopies that will encase patients being intubated in the ER, helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Intubation is vital to saving lives from COVID-19, but it endangers health professionals who must lean in close to patients' faces during the procedure.
UP Matters
(April 2, 2020)
Yoopers and Wildcats are working together to help make sure the local economy stands strong and weathers the COVID-19 storm. NMU's Invent@NMU and Innovate Marquette SmartZone in collaboration with Northern Michigan University, LucidCoast, and Campfire CoWorks are providing FREE services to hard-impacted local businesses.
Invent at NMU
Oakland University
At Oakland University, professors are putting together an intensive two-week class to prepare medical students as they rush into work at health care systems overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their work will be synthesized into recorded presentations that will make their way into the hands of other students who are unable to take the course. They'll also be distributed among the local medical community.
The Oakland Press
(April 3, 2020)
Exhausted doctors and nurses are moving into at Oakland University's Hillcrest Hall student housing, saving them priceless minutes between shifts as they battle COVID-19 in Southeast Michigan. Ora Pescovitz, president of the university, offered campus resources to local health care providers as classes and student housing closed down.
The Oakland Press
(April 7, 2020)
Saginaw Valley State University
Saginaw Valley State University is teaming up with Old Town Distillery to make hand sanitizer to fight COVID-19. Old Town Distillery, based in Saginaw, donated 270 gallons of 190 proof alcohol to help make the hand sanitizer.
WNEM
(March 27, 2020)
A Saginaw Valley State University-operated initiative is taking the lead - on a global scale - in providing expert solutions that support one of the populations left most vulnerable to COVID-19 people recovering from substance use disorders.
Saginaw Valley State University Newsroom
(April 2, 2020)
University of Michigan
University of Michigan engineers are working quickly to address the shortage of personal protective equipment by developing efficient, effective, and scalable ways to disinfect masks, which are typically discarded after one use.
University of Michigan News
(April 6, 2020)
The University of Michigan's Economic Growth Institute is connecting Michigan's small businesses and the health care needs of the COVID-19 fight. Jacquart Fabric Products, maker of Stormy Kromer hats, has quickly shifted its production to make masks and garments and have quickly shifted their production to do so. Petoskey Plastics in Petoskey makes garbage bags - now they are integrating into the protective garment product stream. In the Ann Arbor area, Akervall Technologies makes mouth guards for sporting equipment. They shifted and are making face shields.
University of Michigan News
(April 6, 2020)
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Parents are struggling to help their students learn at home. A UM-Dearborn student teacher is giving tips - and reading stories to her students in on-line encounters while wearing costumes.
UM-Dearborn News
(April 6, 2020)
Psychology Associate Professor Brenda Whitehead, a gerontologist whose research focuses on stress in later life, is examining the effect of the pandemic on older adults through time-limited surveys following historic markers such as Michigan's Shelter-in-Place order and the approval of the Coronavirus Stimulus Package. The goal: Map older adults' experiences onto what is happening in the U.S. at a given moment as it relates to COVID-19, to help in future similar situations.
UM-Dearborn News
(March 30, 2020)
University of Michigan-Flint
Dr. Robert Buckingham, a professor of public health at the University of Michigan-Flint, is helping inform decision makers worldwide on how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, helping provide and analyze data that can help public health
officials, along with government agencies and leaders make the correct decisions for each specific population.
UM-Flint Now
(March 25, 2020)
The University of Michigan-Flint will open its First Street Residence Hall to medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Detroit Free Press
(April 1, 2020)
Wayne State University
The WSU School of Social Work and the College of Nursing has launched a crisis hotline for Metro Detroit first responders and healthcare professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The crisis line will be staffed six days a week by professionally licensed social workers, psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners, and psychologists, who will offer critical emotional support for health care professionals working under extremely stressful conditions: intense grief, ethical dilemmas, and fears about the well-being of themselves and their family members.
Today at Wayne
(April 3, 2020)
WSU's Office of Women's Health and Make Your Date Detroit, a free program for expectant mothers, is available to help pregnant women being affected by COVID-19. It's assembled resources for food, transportation, medical and mental health support, and even items for the baby, things that are harder than ever to get - safely - during the current social distancing shutdown.
Today at Wayne
(April 10, 2020)
Western Michigan University
A team of faculty members in Western Michigan University's Gwen Frostic School of Art is getting creative to help prevent the infection of medical personnel. They are leading the charge locally to design and develop aerosol boxes - acrylic cubes that doctors can place over a patient while performing an intubation, using ideas coming from a Taiwanese doctor who invented the device to help medical workers in China who were running out of resources. The goal is to prevent infection of medical personnel.
Western Michigan University News
(April 1, 2020)
Western Michigan University began 3D-printing essential medical supplies that doctors and nurses needed to protect themselves from COVID-19. The WMU information technology department collaborated with the College of Aviation and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, using their 3D printers to create face shields for medical workers.
WWMT
(April 4, 2020)
