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3/3/2021
Beyond the wall
No matter which side you are on, walls are divisive. Looking throughout history, CASL faculty member Kristin Poling says it’s important to understand that walls don’t hold power; it’s the people who do....
2/22/2021
Building hack-resistant driverless cars
Technology-packed autonomous vehicles will create a new frontier for hackers. A UM-Dearborn cybersecurity expert explains how we might protect them....
2/15/2021
'In America, opportunity is measured by ZIP code'
Associate Professor Kevin Early, a criminologist and expert in the field, is featured on the BET+ series "American Gangster: Trap Queens," which gives a platform for people to share their stories....
2/15/2021
How we’ll ultimately learn to trust autonomous vehicles
People are still extremely skeptical of letting machines do the driving. Here’s how we might get past that....
2/10/2021
Designing autonomous vehicles to be pedestrian friendly
For autonomous vehicles to become mainstream, we’ll have to train them to play nice with everyone who uses the road. ...
2/8/2021
Where UM-Dearborn’s research enterprise is headed next
Our new vice provost for research talks about the push to make interdisciplinary work a mainstay of the university’s research culture....
2/3/2021
When it comes to the stock market, is there a difference between a Wall Street bet and an investment?
Finance Lecturer Nick Vlisides, who teaches UM-Dearborn’s Investment Fund Management course, weighs in on the r/WallStreetBets story and what it says about hedge funds, buyer behavior and the stock market....
2/1/2021
Why your first driverless car is decades, not years, away
The technology needed to realize the dream of fully autonomous personal vehicles is growing steadily. But so is the list of hard-to-solve problems....
1/20/2021
Crossing the great divide: How can a split Senate represent ‘We, the People’?
UM-Dearborn political science experts Nancy Kursman and Julio Borquez break down what partisan-split power in the Senate means for our country and how we can begin to repair political polarization. ...
1/13/2021
Vaccine hesitancy: A side effect of systemic racism
African and African American Studies Assistant Professor Terri Laws talks about the role of transparency, acknowledgement and actionable change in repairing the broken trust behind the COVID vaccine hesitation in communities of color....