6/22/2026

Campus celebrates an updated space named for a long-time leader

The Daniel Little Building, named for UM-Dearborn’s longest-serving chancellor, is the College of Education, Health and Human Services’ new home. The university’s administrative offices have also returned to the building....
4/27/2026

Happy 25th anniversary, EIC

The Environmental Interpretive Center’s 25-year milestone celebrates the rich history of nature education and stewardship that’s taken place on the land for many years. The staff is hosting an anniversary event on May 16. ...
2/11/2026

A decades-old portrait and a student film crew bring a Michigan history maker to campus

The documentary “Best in Class: Blenda J. Wilson, Jon Onye Lockard and the Portrait that Connected Them” premiered at UM-Dearborn on Feb. 11....
11/10/2025

How the past helps retired professor, 97, plan for tomorrow

Professor Emeritus of Business Administration Cedric Fricke, one of the university's first 20 professors, has spent nearly a century looking for ways to improve the future. ...
10/1/2025

Connecting yesterday, today and tomorrow with sweetgrass

UM-Dearborn’s 2025-26 Community Read, “Braiding Sweetgrass,” helps weave together Indigenous knowledge and university life....
8/4/2025

Preserving public art

The Stamelos Gallery Center is working to better showcase the university's sculptures so the community can learn more and enjoy....
3/31/2025

Preserving student life through film

Senior Sydney McKinney-Williams explores an important part of university history with her documentary, ‘Uncovering: History of the Black Student Union,’ which debuts at Friday’s Inclusive History Project Summit. ...
3/12/2025

Extra, extra! Read all about getting UM-Dearborn history online

Through an Inclusive History Project grant, the Mardigian Library is digitizing more than 1,000 student newspapers for a publicly available and searchable virtual database. The project will be complete by December. ...
11/18/2024

Lecturer Rashid Faisal wants you to remember — and see yourself in — Cornelius Henderson

With an Inclusive History Project grant, the education lecturer is challenging his students to reckon with the nearly forgotten life story of a 1911 African American U-M grad who became an accomplished Detroit civil engineer. ...
10/28/2024

The incomparable Bruce Maxim

One of the architects of UM-Dearborn’s modern computer science department reflects on his career as a squeaky wheel and why he thinks professors should talk less and listen more. ...