2/10/2021

Mapping for the future

The city of Dearborn and Professor Jacob Napieralski's advanced GIS students are working together — through the aid of a $25,000 Ford College Community Challenge grant — to map and increase Dearborn's tree canopy, understand flood hazards, and streamline...
2/1/2021

Helping students SOAR

SOAR Program Director Ellen Judge-Gonzalez is honored with the University of Michigan Sarah Goddard Power Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the betterment of women through leadership....
1/25/2021

More than a history lesson

UM-Dearborn's Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive was awarded a $20,000 Ravitz Grant to expand a history course on the Holocaust....
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....
12/16/2020

Learn from the past and build a successful future

College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters student Fatooma Saad adds another story of perseverance to her family history — she graduates with honors on Saturday....
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

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. ...
11/18/2020

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....