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....
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. ...
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. ...
11/17/2020

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....
11/11/2020

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....