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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. ...

An overhead view of a UM-Dearborn graduate student wearing a white lab coat, working in a bioengineering lab.

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....

Professor Jo is a middle-aged Chinese man with black side-parted hair and thin rectangular wire glasses. He is wearing a light purple button down tucked into a pair of gray denim and a black blazer over top. He is facing the camera and standing next to a 3D printer.

3/15/2020

Building a highway between engineering and medicine

Associate Professor Nilay Chakraborty thinks that unleashing medicine’s biggest breakthroughs will take an engineer’s touch....

Nilay Chakraborty is a South Asian man with short brown hair and no facial hair. He smiling in the background wearing a white lab coat and blue gloves. He is blurred out of focus and is holding up a Petri dish with a clear square of bio 3D printed material.

12/19/2019

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

Conflict is in every job and it’s not always a bad thing. But at the public level — for a community to thrive — 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 “high risk, high reward” research in the area of energy innovation. Here’s an overview of what the team from UM-Dearborn plans to tackle....

10/23/2019

Could this new technology finally end the battle over the thermostat?

A UM-Dearborn professor is exploring whether machine learning can help create individually tuned, responsive climate control systems we never have to fight over....

10/15/2019

The promise of virtual reality for students with disabilities

A new MCubed project is recasting VR as assistive technology....

10/8/2019

UM-Dearborn professor honored for ‘home run’ industry partnership

Taehyun Shim’s work on a powerful driver assist technology is an aspirational model for university-industry collaborations....

Ed Krause and Taehyun Shim stand side by side, holding a control system part. Ed (left) is a middle-aged white man with slicked back gray hair and goatee. He is wearing a pair of rectangular frameless glasses, a white button up with a navy-and-white polka dot tie, and a gray suit jacket. Taehyun (right) is a middle-aged Korean man with gray hair and no facial hair. He is wearing a pair of black rectangular glasses, a blue button up with a brown-and-white striped tie, and a brown suit jacket.

9/30/2019

What the school choice era looks like for Detroit’s 'newcomer' families

Associate Professor Dara Hill's long-term research is painting a complex portrait of how Detroit's new residents are navigating a turbulent education system....

Professor Dara Hill is a middle-aged black woman with straight, brown shoulder-length hair. She is standing in a playground smiling. Dana is wearing a navy blue, short sleeve knit shirt and a navy and white floral patterned skirt just above her knees. Her son Hugh is a toddler with short, curly brown hair and is wearing plaid shorts and a gray and red shirt. He is sitting on a play tunnel entrance.

11/29/2018

These Michigan cities are driving entrepreneurial growth and innovation

The annual eCities study recognizes 181 Michigan communities — including four standouts — developing a positive entrepreneurial climate....