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6/15/2020
What can we do about the extinction crisis?
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters faculty and American Society of Primatologists colleagues form action network for primate conservation....
6/8/2020
With safety protocols in place, UM-Dearborn begins a phased reopening of research labs
Some researchers and their grad students are getting the green light to return to campus labs. ...
6/8/2020
What an obscure invention of Nikola Tesla’s could teach us about diabetes
Bioengineering professor Joe Lo’s latest project is using a hundred-year-old technology to unravel the mysteries of how Type II diabetes exacts its toll on the body....
5/18/2020
The enduring wisdom of fuzzy logic
In an era where we expect our machines to think and act more like us, a quirky branch of computer science is getting a fresh look....
5/12/2020
COVID-19 and older adults research findings
From late March though now, Psychology Associate Professor Brenda Whitehead has heard from more than 1,500 older adults nationwide about their pandemic stressors and joys. Here are some preliminary results of her research....
5/11/2020
Study finds that wearing really is about caring
Wanting to better understand people’s behavior when it comes to precautionary measures against COVID-19 like mask wearing, a business professor started a research project — and discovered that most people are choosing to be socially responsible....
4/8/2020
How COVID-19 could affect the U.S. Presidential Election
Political Science Professor Mitchel Sollenberger, who’s a political source for USA Today, C-SPAN, The Hill, Washington Post and others, talks about how the COVID-19 crisis may impact what happens on November 3....
4/1/2020
Student’s research digs into how cancer spreads in the body
Master’s student Malak Nasser says understanding how cancer metastasizes could reveal clues about how to slow it down....
3/30/2020
Spreading joy to older adults in a time of social distance
Psychology Associate Professor Brenda Whitehead, a gerontologist whose research focuses on stress in later life, developed a survey for people ages 60+ to hear about their stressors and joys during this historic pandemic. ...
3/30/2020
Professor helps celebrity find their roots on PBS show
With 45 years of research work on the World War I African experience and more than 150 oral histories with African WWI veterans, Professor Joe Lunn was contacted by the "Finding Your Roots" team to help interpret WWI ancestor's documents for show. ...