Grace Walker
Newsroom InternGrace Walker is a newsroom intern for WCMU and The Alpena News.
She is also the news editor at the student-run newspaper Central Michigan Life and president of the Society of Professional Journalist chapter at Central Michigan University.
Walker is a senior working on a double major in journalism and political science. She has been working at CM-Life since 2024. Before CMU, she worked as one of the last reporters for Michigan Times, the student-run newspaper at the University of Michigan - Flint.
After graduation, Walker wants to pursue a career in political reporting. Her two favorite destinations in Michigan are Marquette, for her love of Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula and her hometown Flint, Michigan.
Emailer her your story ideas to: walke1ge@cmich.edu
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In partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Ferris State University is now developing the state's first dental therapy program to help make dental care more accessible. -
Munson Healthcare announced it will begin the next two phases of drone research this May. A recent report showed the first tests had a 91% success rate after nearly 70 flights. -
The state's most recent Mobility Report shows that Michigan is one of the top states for apprenticeships completed in the mobility sector. -
The nonprofit organization ReLeaf Michigan organized the 2025 Big Tree Hunt. -
The bill removes the gray wolf from the endangered species list, and allows states to make their own decisions on managing wolf populations. -
Bay Mills Community College received the donation from the Mackenzie Scott Foundation. The foundation said the college can use the money however they see fit. -
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine announced its new partnership with Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital in northern Michigan. The partnership will be part of a program to train medical students in rural hospitals. -
![The Cheboygan River Dam's sea lamprey trap can hold up to a thousand lamprey. When sea lamprey are returning to the river to spawn in the spring, the trap needs to be emptied multiple times a day. The blue crane [on the far left] by the dam is used to lift the trap out of the water.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4717d54/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3474x1936+0+249/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F3c%2F81307d274e889e4b036955cbea28%2Fimg-1299.jpg)
The Dam Risk Reduction Grant Program recently announced its last allocations for projects for 19 dams statewide. -
Across the state, schools saw a higher success rate in passing bonds than in the past two elections. Still, central and northern school districts mostly rejected bond proposals. -
A person was confirmed dead at the Mackinac Bridge by the Mackinac County Sheriff's Office Tuesday. Officials are investigating the incident as a suicide.
![The Cheboygan River Dam's sea lamprey trap can hold up to a thousand lamprey. When sea lamprey are returning to the river to spawn in the spring, the trap needs to be emptied multiple times a day. The blue crane [on the far left] by the dam is used to lift the trap out of the water.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/941e9c9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3474x1936+0+249/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F3c%2F81307d274e889e4b036955cbea28%2Fimg-1299.jpg)
