All News

3/7/2023

Think you can't fall in love with AI? Think again.

UM-Dearborn Professor of Marketing Aaron Ahuvia says that humans have been falling in love with objects for centuries — but this time, thanks to ChatGPT, there could be real cause for concern. ...
A movie still from the film Her (2013)
3/6/2023

Office of Research update: March 2023

Check out upcoming research activities, see who recently received funding, and learn more about research resources like the Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv), which is a researcher profile system....
2/22/2023

If robots could talk (or at least make intelligible sounds)

During a recent NSF-funded project, Assistant Professor Alireza Mohammadi stumbled on an interesting discovery that could make it easier to understand what robots might be trying to tell us....
A collage graphic featuring a humanoid robot surrounded by representations of sound waves
2/6/2023

Office of Research update: February 2023

There's a lot of new things happening in the UM-Dearborn research world. There's a new IRB liaison, an upcoming UM-Dearborn/UM-Flint collaborative research series, a new cycle of campus grants and more....
1/30/2023

UM-Dearborn faculty members are included on prestigious researcher list

The list, compiled by a Stanford professor, is one indicator of the impact our faculty have in their fields....
Wencong Su
1/9/2023

How can we make the electric grid more resilient to cyberattacks?

UM-Dearborn faculty are teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy and GE to protect power systems from a serious emerging threat....
A collage graphic featuring transmission lines and towers, surrounded by lock iconography representing cybersecurity.
1/9/2023

Office of Research Update for January 2023

Check out which of your colleagues' work is getting funded and find new funding opportunities and resources....
12/5/2022

Office of Research update: December 2022

Learn about external grants that your colleagues received and the services you can use for your own grant work — like the opportunity to work with professional grant writers, free proposal review and copy-editing services....
11/30/2022

UM-Dearborn officially cuts the ribbon on the Omron Robotics and Human Factors Lab

The teaching and research lab features a special class of robots called “cobots,” which will help students explore the frontiers of human-robot collaboration....
Omron Corporation’s Tim Hill (left) checks out one of the new robotic arms with Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jaerock Kwon and CECS Dean Ghassan Kridli (right).
11/2/2022

Practicing hope in the age of climate change

New HHS assistant professor Finn Bell talks about why the human aspects of climate resilience matter....
A collage graphic showing a headshot of Assistant Professor Finn Bell surrounded by illustrations of people farming, wind turbines, and other icons of sustainability.