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12/2/2020

Here are your Chancellor’s Medallion awardees for Fall 2020

This commencement season, six students are being recognized with the university’s top graduation honor....
12/2/2020

What would a “just” rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine look like?

The next phase of the pandemic could be a test of how much we’ve learned about inequity in America....
11/30/2020

Zoom field placements are expanding the playbook for teachers-in-training

Students and faculty talk about the challenges and surprising payoffs of their virtual tutoring experiences this semester....
11/30/2020

Humans evolved from group hunters to civic rule creators: Do other primates have these capacities for cooperation?

CASL professor receives $1M grant for project looking to reverse engineer behavior to better understand humans, our primate cousins, and to prepare for future artificial intelligence development. ...
11/23/2020

Remembering Professor Bill Grosky

Colleagues share their memories of a beloved computer science professor who died earlier this month....
11/18/2020

They just shot a Steven Soderbergh movie at this UM-Dearborn professor’s house

Dale and Anne Thomson’s Detroit home recently played host to actors Ray Liotta and Benicio Del Toro....
11/17/2020

How does pandemic + recession = seller’s market?

You’ve probably noticed the house down the street sold in days — over asking — during a recession and a pandemic. COB Associate Professor Lee Redding explains what’s going on....
11/16/2020

Takeaways from the November 11 virtual town hall

University leaders shared their thoughts on how things are going this semester, the state of the budget, and what we can expect in 2021....
11/11/2020

UM-Dearborn’s new artificial intelligence center is having a great first year

The pandemic hasn't blunted the momentum of faculty and students who are making AI a promising trendline for UM-Dearborn....
11/9/2020

If you lose your home, how can you quarantine?

Associate Professor Joshua Akers talks about the Detroit housing crisis on the horizon, what people are doing to help, and why the Dec. 31 eviction moratorium date ignores the reality of increasing COVID case numbers locally and across the nation....