5/12/2020
COVID-19 and older adults research findings
From late March though now, Psychology Associate Professor Brenda Whitehead has heard from more than 1,500 older adults nationwide about their pandemic stressors and joys. Here are some preliminary results of her research....
5/11/2020
Study finds that wearing really is about caring
Wanting to better understand people’s behavior when it comes to precautionary measures against COVID-19 like mask wearing, a business professor started a research project — and discovered that most people are choosing to be socially responsible....
4/8/2020
How COVID-19 could affect the U.S. Presidential Election
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 what happens on November 3....
3/30/2020
Spreading joy to older adults in a time of social distance
Psychology Associate Professor Brenda Whitehead, a gerontologist whose research focuses on stress in later life, developed a survey for people ages 60+ to hear about their stressors and joys during this historic pandemic. ...
3/30/2020
Professor helps celebrity find their roots on PBS show
With 45 years of research work on the World War I African experience and more than 150 oral histories with African WWI veterans, Professor Joe Lunn was contacted by the "Finding Your Roots" team to help interpret WWI ancestor's documents for show. ...
2/18/2020
UM-Dearborn is named a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars
The exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, awarded multiple grants to UM-Dearborn faculty in the 2019-2020 cycle. ...
1/16/2020
In the renewable energy era, the ‘smart grid’ is going to have to be unbelievably smart
Associate Professor Wencong Su explains why retrofitting the electric grid to accommodate electric vehicles and wind and solar power is such a complex challenge....
1/9/2020
UM-Dearborn research prompts Detroit to review link between housing instability and tax auctions
Assistant Professor Joshua Akers' working paper outlines the housing policies and other factors that have allowed speculative buyers to contribute to neighborhood instability and blight in Detroit....
1/7/2020
Could having chronic health conditions put you at greater risk for Alzheimer’s?
UM-Dearborn researcher Anda Botoseneanu is digging into whether combinations of common conditions like diabetes, heart disease and depression could leave people vulnerable to dementia later in life....
12/19/2019
Managing a community: Political Science faculty Rusi Sun’s research explores the city manager v. city council struggle.
Conflict is in every job and it’s not always a bad thing. But at the public level — for a community to thrive — it needs to be managed effectively....