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10/25/2021

Fun things to do around campus this fall

Here are a few of our favorite things....
Fall colors on campus on the pathway to the Science Learning and Research Center. Photo by Sarah Tuxbury
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

Creating pathways to nature

The Office of Metropolitan Impact is instrumental in organizing SEMI Wild and its career and education pathway program that connects underrepresented youth to organizations like UM-Dearborn, the Detroit Zoological Society, Belle Isle Nature Center and oth...
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....
10/13/2021

How a new program plans to connect underserved populations to STEM futures

The National Science Foundation awards campus faculty with $1.44 million to create a STEM Scholars program that tailors impactful education practices — like research, cohorts, professional development and more — for lower-income, high talent students to b...
Graphic illustrating the STEM Scholars program
10/13/2021

A philosophy of learning where learners come first

UM-Dearborn professor and educational reformer Seong Hong has dedicated her career to constructivism, a dynamic theory of learning that’s long been the antidote to the “factory” model of PreK-12 education....
10/11/2021

How the pandemic experience is pushing teaching into the future

A UM-Dearborn statistics professor shares how the sudden shift to remote education pushed him to make his statistics classes more relevant to students....
A colorful graphic featuring a headshot of statistics professor Keshav Pokhrel surrounded by charts, arrows, stick figure drawings and other statistics icons.
10/11/2021

Welcoming Wolverines help connect international students to opportunities

Campus’ international student population is rebounding after a pandemic decline, thanks to students who share their positive experiences and to dedicated faculty and staff....
Richard Chachra is a young South-Asian woman with dark brown hair tied back in a bun and loose bangs and black rectangular glasses. She is wearing a black-and-white vertically striped blouse and black leggings. She is standing and holding up a peace sign next to a maize and blue vinyl poster that says “WELCOME BACK, WOLVERINES!”
10/6/2021

The future’s best robots may not have arms, faces or talk. But they’ll still change how we live.

UM-Dearborn’s robotics faculty talk about how public expectations for robots are often out of sync with realities of the technology. But that shouldn’t stunt our optimism about the field’s future....
10/6/2021

UM-Dearborn celebrates ribbon cutting at its new Engineering Lab Building

The new facility solidifies the campus as a regional leader in engineering, with 45 labs dedicated to core and emerging disciplines....
A shot of the screen inside of the Engineering Lab Building Atrium. In front of the screen is a podium with the UM-Dearborn logo. The screen reads, “Welcome to the ELB Ribbon Cutting Ceremony”