5/11/2020

Study finds that wearing really is about caring

Wanting to better understand people鈥檚 behavior when it comes to precautionary measures against COVID-19 like mask wearing, a business professor started a research project 鈥 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鈥檚 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....
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. ...
2/18/2020

UM-Dearborn is named a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars

The exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, awarded multiple grants to UM-Dearborn faculty in the 2019-2020 cycle. ...
1/16/2020

In the renewable energy era, the 鈥榮mart grid鈥 is going to have to be unbelievably smart

Associate Professor Wencong Su explains why retrofitting the electric grid to accommodate electric vehicles and wind and solar power is such a complex challenge....
1/9/2020

UM-Dearborn research prompts Detroit to review link between housing instability and tax auctions

Assistant Professor Joshua Akers' working paper outlines the housing policies and other factors that have allowed speculative buyers to contribute to neighborhood instability and blight in Detroit....
1/7/2020

Could having chronic health conditions put you at greater risk for Alzheimer鈥檚?

UM-Dearborn researcher Anda Botoseneanu is digging into whether combinations of common conditions like diabetes, heart disease and depression could leave people vulnerable to dementia later in life....
12/19/2019

Managing a community: Political Science faculty Rusi Sun鈥檚 research explores the city manager v. city council struggle.

Conflict is in every job and it鈥檚 not always a bad thing. But at the public level 鈥 for a community to thrive 鈥 it needs to be managed effectively....
12/10/2019

Trio of UM-Dearborn faculty lands $650K research grant

The big award from the Department of Energy goes to support 鈥渉igh risk, high reward鈥 research in the area of energy innovation. Here鈥檚 an overview of what the team from UM-Dearborn plans to tackle....