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1/10/2022

The challenges of nurturing interdisciplinary research

Bringing together specialists from different disciplines is increasingly where the action is in academia. But that kind of collaboration doesn’t happen all by itself....
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12/6/2021

Helping teachers help indigenous students affected by intergenerational trauma

A UM-Dearborn student’s doctoral research is helping educators be more capable advocates for Native American students impacted by the legacy of Indian Boarding Schools....
 A historic photograph of Native American students standing outside Holy Childhood, an Indian Boarding School in Harbor Springs, Michigan that was one of the last to close in the United States.
11/22/2021

How UM-Dearborn’s new strategic plan is reshaping the university

Changing times in higher education call for new approaches. We break down how ideas from our strategic planning process are creating a new chapter at UM-Dearborn....
 One of the new lounge areas in the state-of-the-art Engineering Lab Building.
11/17/2021

Helping scientists become better coders

A new NSF-funded project from two UM-Dearborn computer scientists is taking aim at an often overlooked challenge in scientific research....
A collage graphic featuring an African American woman scientist in a lab coat, coding at a laptop.
11/15/2021

Help Wanted: Business professor advises how to navigate the latest economic challenges

Lecturer Patrick Keyes, who teaches UM-Dearborn’s Small Business Management course and is an entrepreneur, understands struggles associated with business ownership and has a few ideas on how to work through them....
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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....
A collage graphic featuring a photo of UM-Dearborn professor Dara Hill surrounded by imagery representing education, like groups of children, ABC blocks, and laptops.
11/3/2021

UM-Dearborn students built an art robot that uses your eyes to paint

The assistive technology demonstrates the potential of lower-cost eye tracking technology for helping artists with disabilities....
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10/27/2021

Spiders in the house? Put that blowtorch away

Spiders are all over your home and in your yard. Associate Professor Anne Danielson-Francois, a renowned spider expert, says that’s a good thing. Hear her out....
A small, black spider sitting in the middle of a spider web.
10/20/2021

‘There is so much beauty in nature that needs our protection’

Professor Ulrich Kamp is using 90 years of images to visually show how the glaciers in the Andes of Southern Peru are rapidly melting — and hopes seeing is believing. His research is one of nine faculty projects highlighted in CASL's Faculty Research Slam ...
Natural splendor of Cordillera Vilcanota, which is part of the Andes Mountains, includes lakes, glaciers and snow-capped peaks.
10/18/2021

This energy efficiency project will turn the new ELB into a building-sized laboratory

For this year’s DTE E-Challenge, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students will leverage everything from artificial intelligence to “shaming” to reduce our energy footprint....