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4/14/2021

'UM-Dearborn helped me find my purpose'

CASL student Daisy Recinos is graduating with honors later this month. She makes balancing school, work, volunteering, a pandemic and family look effortless. But behind her smile and energy are struggles that pushed her toward a college graduation nearly ...
4/14/2021

A new car safety feature: better text for infotainment systems

A UM-Dearborn master’s student is investigating how things like typefaces, text size and line spacing impact drivers’ abilities to use increasingly complex dashboard touchscreens....
4/12/2021

Here are your Chancellor’s Medallion awardees for Spring 2021

This commencement season, eight students are being recognized with the university’s top graduation honor....
4/12/2021

HVAC tweaks are adding an extra layer of COVID safety

UM-Dearborn’s facilities teams are going beyond recommended standards in some cases to ease folks' nerves about returning to the office....
4/12/2021

Glass ceilings and plastic barriers: Will COVID’s impacts pave a path to pay parity?

The pandemic highlighted a fundamental contradiction of our economic system today: The caring labor that’s assigned the lowest value, and is often performed by women, is also essential. Feminist economist Professor Suzanne Bergeron says people in power hav...
4/7/2021

How serious is the COVID “learning gap”?

A UM-Dearborn education professor talks about the impact of pandemic learning, how we can catch students up, and why the K-12 classroom may never be the same....
4/7/2021

Spring commencement speakers announced

The upcoming ceremonies will feature addresses by poet Nikki Giovanni and UM-Dearborn senior Lena Hakim....
4/5/2021

CECS is debuting six new certificate programs this fall

The new certificates are perfect for working professionals who want a new technical expertise or someone looking to test drive a master’s program....
4/4/2021

$4+ trillion in COVID packages: Can we really afford it?

Looking at the federal government’s recent stimulus and relief packages, COB Faculty member Mercedes Miranda relies on economics research, history and her financial expertise to put the debt into perspective and share what the long-term economic effects m...
3/31/2021

Why was there smoke coming from the Environmental Study Area?

In late March, the Environmental Interpretive Center's staff organized a prescribed burn to keep the one-acre prairie in UM-Dearborn’s Environmental Study Area maintained and healthy....