3/2/2022

My first (pandemic) job: Software engineer Farzana Fariha

We kick off a series on the work lives of recent grads, whose post-graduation careers have happened entirely during the pandemic....
11/15/2021

Pushing your best work beyond academia

Associate Professor Dara Hill recently made a short documentary based on her research to reach audiences other than her fellow academics. It’s also helped renew her enthusiasm for the work....
11/1/2021

Should we view cyberattacks as acts of war?

A UM-Dearborn cybersecurity expert and international affairs expert talk about how nation state cyberattacks are confounding calculations in international affairs....
10/11/2021

How the pandemic experience is pushing teaching into the future

A UM-Dearborn statistics professor shares how the sudden shift to remote education pushed him to make his statistics classes more relevant to students....
10/6/2021

The future’s best robots may not have arms, faces or talk. But they’ll still change how we live.

UM-Dearborn’s robotics faculty talk about how public expectations for robots are often out of sync with realities of the technology. But that shouldn’t stunt our optimism about the field’s future....
9/27/2021

Adventures in labor-based grading

Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric Mike MacDonald gives us a tour of his recent experiments with reimagining letter grades....
7/12/2021

How students felt about their year-plus of pandemic learning

Recent student focus groups hosted by the Hub offer a candid look at what went well, what didn’t, and what ideas might have staying power post-pandemic....
6/28/2021

New dean Ghassan Kridli talks about the future of CECS

Kridli is taking the helm at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at a time when the world of engineering is changing in fundamental ways....
6/14/2021

Can we make artificial intelligence more ethical?

Two UM-Dearborn experts explain why machine learning is vulnerable to bias and why fixing the problem is such a big challenge....
4/26/2021

What’s going on with voting rights in Michigan?

Two UM-Dearborn political science professors break down the policy and politics of new proposals to change how voting works in Michigan....