7/12/2021

Bike safety research is going ‘high-res’ with this new technology

A UM-Dearborn professor has developed a bike-mounted lidar system that could help researchers and engineers design new strategies for safer streets....
7/19/2021

How a Detroit neighborhood is creating change one alley at a time

UM-Dearborn professors land a U-M Graham Sustainability Institute catalyst grant to work with Detroit residents on how overlooked alleys can be re-imagined to reflect local history and needs, while also addressing multiple sustainability goals....
9/8/2021

Using gardens to teach young people about social issues and social change

Recent work by UM-Dearborn education faculty takes a look at the power of a unique learning garden project that’s Detroit-grown....
10/27/2021

Spiders in the house? Put that blowtorch away

Spiders are all over your home and in your yard. Associate Professor Anne Danielson-Francois, a renowned spider expert, says that’s a good thing. Hear her out....
10/20/2021

‘There is so much beauty in nature that needs our protection’

Professor Ulrich Kamp is using 90 years of images to visually show how the glaciers in the Andes of Southern Peru are rapidly melting — and hopes seeing is believing. His research is one of nine faculty projects highlighted in CASL's Faculty Research Slam ...
6/13/2022

It’s Englishes, plural.

Linguistics Professor Daniel Davis’ latest Fulbright project is looking to tell untold chapters of English’s fascinating story in the Philippines....
6/6/2022

An Update from the Office of Research: June 2022

See the Winter 2022 Campus Grant Award Recipients, learn about available research resources and sign up for upcoming events in the Office of Research June update....
6/6/2022

Connecting activism and justice efforts happening 5,000 miles apart

Sociology Professor Paul Draus — who often leads social and environmental justice projects in Detroit — is working in Lithuania for his Fulbright U.S. Scholars-supported research project....
6/6/2022

Why proteins could make for amazing nanobots

A fascinating new NSF-funded project from UM-Dearborn Assistant Professor Alireza Mohammadi is exploring what proteins and robots may have in common. ...
5/23/2022

The diversity of human experience explored through digital storytelling

U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award recipient Kristian Stewart, a Composition and Rhetoric collegiate lecturer, is about to embark on a new adventure to Greece in the name of digital literacy education and connecting people through personal narratives....