To the Campus Community:
The scale of devastation and heartache wrought by the earthquake in Haiti is almost too tragic to comprehend. And while we may feel helpless, there are, in fact, many ways for the Michigan community to make a difference in the lives of Haitians.
No gesture is too small, and I encourage you to support a charitable organization that is responding to this disaster. Thank you.
Mary Sue Coleman
President
Pike Comedy Night hosts Stephen Lynch for Haiti relief
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity presents the Pike Comedy Night Haiti Relief Benefit Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Michigan Theater.
Doctor finds Haitian volunteer experience uplifting
Dr. Hari Conjeevaram volunteered in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, but the associate professor of internal medicine in the Medical School found his recent experience volunteering in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake particularly moving and uplifting.
UMHS team deploys to Haiti
Wolverine Team 1 – a group of U-M Health System physicians, nurses and pharmacists – is on its way to the U.S. Naval Ship Comfort to relieve caregivers who have provided assistance to victims of last month’s disaster.
More ways to give: Feb. 14 ‘I Heart Haiti’ benefit concert at the Kerrytown Concert House and Hispanic & Latino Business Students Association’s Ross Haiti Relief Fund
U-M Student Nurses' Association raises funds to help Haitian peers
Within 30 minutes of last month's Haitian earthquake, students and faculty at the nursing school in Léogâne, a city near the epicenter where 80 to 90 percent of the buildings were flattened, began to treat hundreds of victims.
On Feb. 20, the U-M Student Nurses' Association will sponsor the 3rd annual Hope for Haiti Charity Ball to raise money for the school.
UM-Flint student nurses reach donation limit
Student nurses and their faculty advisor who are heading to the Dominican Republic to help Haiti earthquake victims say they are unable to take more donations of supplies but welcome additional monetary contributions.
Disaster Relief Food Fundraiser
The Black Business Students Association is holding a Haiti Disaster Relief Food Fundraiser: Caribbean & Soul Food Taste Fest, 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM Feb. 4, Colloquium (6th Fl), Ross School of Business.
U-M officials say now is not the time for students to travel to Haiti
Students who want to spend their winter break helping others naturally have wondered about traveling to Haiti, but U-M officials and others say it’s too soon for student volunteers to travel to the island nation where buildings are unsafe, travel is almost impossible, people are living in tent cities, and access to food and water is unpredictable at best.
Vigil on the Diag: Remembering victims of the Haiti earthquake
Members of the campus community braved a windy winter evening at a candlelight vigil honoring the victims of an earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12.
UM-Dearborn students, faculty, staff and alumni are helping Haiti
More than 15 UM-Dearborn on-campus student organizations have joined together to establish plans for ongoing fund-raising efforts, including a Pizza Fundraiser 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in Kochoff Hall.
UM-Flint student nurses seek donations for trip
The clinics and hospitals where UM-Flint nursing students will be volunteering in the Dominican Republic, as part of their International Service Learning courses, are filled with Haitian earthquake victims. Because of the great need, the students will seek donations for orthopedic items.
HAITI RESPONSE: U-M doctor tells of mission to aid quake victims
Dr. Sacha Montas, a resident in emergency medicine, is part of a mission to aid victims of the Haiti earthquake. He is working in the Dominican Republic, treating Haitians who have traveled across the border and is blogging about his mission.
Patients from Haiti have arrived at UMHS
Two patients from Haiti with injuries that require complex care have arrived at UMHS. They were transported by the Survival Flight fixed-wing aircraft.
Students answer Haitians’ call for help
U-M students are uniting to help those whose lives have been devastated by the massive earthquake, including seeking donations for silicone bracelets in Haitian national colors that read "Haiti Kenbe la" meaning "Haiti hang in there," and coordinating volunteers.
Voice from the field: Dr. Sacha Montas
Read an update from Dr. Montas, 4th-year resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine, who embarked on a medical mission Jan. 17 to Haiti with a group of clinicians from Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey.
Nursing foundation leader discusses health care challenges in Haiti
Potholes as large as buildings. Hospitals that don’t provide sheets, meals or medication on site. Treeless hills that enable massive flooding, and garbage filled drainage systems. These were all health care problems before the earthquake struck Haiti. Rosemarie Rowney, an emeritus faculty member, can only imagine what’s to come.
U-M Health System offers medical supplies, air ambulance to Haiti
UMHS is coordinating staff volunteers who want to join relief efforts in Haiti, shipping medical supplies and offering Survival Flight jet transport in response to the crisis in Haiti.
U-M Health System commits personnel, facilities and resources
UMHS is coordinating a response that may include providing medical and support personnel on the scene in Haiti, use of our clinical facilities in Ann Arbor and coordination of organized distribution of medical and pharmaceutical supplies through established international medical relief channels.
SPH involved with several relief efforts
The School of Public Health has several activities under way to help with the Haiti disaster relief effort, including offering a disaster course and organizing fund-raising efforts.
Obama appoints U-M alumnus to lead U.S. rescue project
Six days after U-M alumnus Dr. Rajiv Shah was sworn in as the new administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, President Barack Obama tapped him to serve as the government’s unified disaster coordinator for U.S. rescue and recovery efforts in Haiti following Tuesday’s devastating earthquake.
Associate professor emerita learns U-M grads survived Haiti earthquake
A retired associate professor of nursing who helped start a nursing school in Haiti learned late Wednesday that two associates — both U-M graduates — had been found after being caught in Tuesday’s devastating earthquake.
