6/10/2024

Spring ’24 grad parlays research and baseball experience into MLB job

After working in Associate Professor Amanda Esquivel’s bioengineering lab, UM-Dearborn slugger Matthew Williams landed a gig working with pitchers in the Kansas City Royals’ biomechanics facility....
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3/25/2024

Amanda Esquivel is pushing student research into its next phase at UM-Dearborn

Undergraduate research has some solid momentum at UM-Dearborn. With her 2023-24 Provost Fellowship, the associate professor of mechanical engineering is focusing on how to keep it going....
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12/11/2023

Class of Fall 2023: CECS graduate Olivia Pellegrini

During her time at UM-Dearborn, the cybersecurity major has scored big internships, published research and even found time to play on the volleyball team. Now she’s eyeing a career in the artificial intelligence field. ...
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9/13/2023

“I never thought I’d be doing research like this”

The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program, now in its fifth year, elevates research opportunities for Dearborn Wolverines....
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5/14/2018

Course demonstrates the importance of public cultural work

Through a new course, students learned how to interact with their community, gather personal stories and present those experiences to a broader audience....
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5/14/2018

Driverless shuttle project puts students on the front lines of the autonomous vehicle revolution

There’s a six-passenger vehicle in the Institute of Advanced Vehicle Systems’ hi-bay area to which students are applying systems —like optical cameras, perception systems and a super computer “brain”—to give it an autonomous makeover....
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9/5/2022

Office of Research update: September 2022

Check out whose work is getting funded, find new funding opportunities, and learn about ways UM-Dearborn can support your next project in the September update from the Office of Research....
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10/26/2020

How a research project on the Milky Way's center will help unlock the universe's secrets

As part of a leading research team, Associate Professor Will Clarkson spent much of the last decade working to assemble an extensive map of the inner regions of the Milky Way galaxy....
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7/12/2022

Archaeology that empowers

Recently finishing a research experience at Amache Japanese American incarceration camp in Colorado, Anthropology senior William Smith shares how his UM-Dearborn archaeological experiences prepared him for that field study and for his future. ...
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7/19/2021

Doing the Math: Research opportunity adds to campus

The eight-week mathematics research experience took place from May 24 to July 16. With pandemic restrictions easing, students, who initially met over Zoom, came to campus during the program’s final week....
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