We Choose Flint

Flint is for Innovators

• Kettering University and Flint are partners in the national U.S. Ignite initiative.
• Kettering University, University of Michigan-Flint, Mott Community College and soon, a Michigan State University medical school, combine to make the downtown Flint area home to thousands of college students every day.
• Kettering has played a key role in helping Harvesting Earth, a Flint area urban farm, expand.
• A Mott Foundation grant will help Flint transform a vacant lot in Carriage Town near Kettering’s campus into this park.
• In 2012, CNN featured Flint Police Operations, a volunteer group in Flint dedicated to keeping residents informed about crime.
• Swedish Biogas International is a partner of Flint and Kettering University and has researches in the Innovation Center on Kettering’s campus as the company works to bring alternative energy solutions to Flint.
• A Phytoremediation Project at the former Chevy in the Hole land bordering Kettering’s campus is an innovative approach to Brownfield redevelopment.
• Venture capitalist Bob Kagle, a Flint area native and Kettering University graduate, launched the Kagle Leadership Initiatives to help families and students in the Flint area.
• Diplomat Pharmacy recently moved its corporate headquarters and research facility to Flint.
• Kettering University was part of a major biodefense contract with several other major universities in 2012.
• Kettering Provost Robert Simpson was quoted in this Washington Post insert, ‘A Positive Outlook for STEM Job Growth.’
• In 2009, Flint’s Farmer’s Market was named the ‘most loved’ in America.
• The Flint Local, a concert venue downtown showcasing local bands and artists, reopened in 2012.
• The Crim Festival of Races in Flint is one of the country’s best-known road races.
• Kettering students have played a key role in the Flint community, completing a variety of capstone projects that have helped Flint area hospitals, governmental institutions and helped improve quality of life for many local residents.