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11/4/2024

Campus Colleagues: Erin Vestrand

Leadership Annual Giving Officer Erin Vestrand talks about switching career paths to help give opportunities to students, meeting her puppy Sherlock Bones and growing up with a love for maize and blue....
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. ...
10/16/2024

Sharing nature’s beauty through touch, smell and sound

National and statewide awards honor EIC staff member and ’15 alum Donna Posont for her work as an inclusive naturalist educator and advocate....
9/23/2024

Regents roundup for September 2024

Get the details from the September U-M Board of Regents meeting, including news about faculty promotions and new lecturers....
7/19/2024

‘Education is the equalizer’

Criminology and Criminal Justice Lecturer Aaron Kinzel shares how higher education helped break a cycle of incarceration that spanned nearly a century in his family....
7/3/2024

UM-Dearborn is infusing sustainability into its engineering programs

Part of being a great engineer these days is understanding the environmental and societal impacts of your work. But how do we train students to be holistic engineers?...
5/12/2024

Remembering art educator Kevin Castile

The applied art lecturer, who encouraged students to find and appreciate beauty in the world, passed away Jan. 19....
4/15/2024

Could we make food processing ‘smarter’?

UM-Dearborn professors are teaming up with Michigan State University to take the human guesswork out of modern food processing....
4/9/2024

America needs more farmers. Could robots help?

CECS Assistant Professor Jaerock Kwon is working on autonomous vehicles that could assist farmworkers. But building farm AVs presents a much different challenge than ones designed for the road....
4/1/2024

Could you be friends with a robot?

CECS Associate Professor Samir Rawashdeh creates interactive robots for his kids to play with. It’s taught him something about what it might take to make human-robot interactions meaningful. ...