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7/6/2020

Get a specialized education in a short amount of time

The College of Arts, Sciences, & Letters introduces five new certificate programs for the fall that focus on food, language, media production and more. ...
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....
12/19/2019

To serve and protect

With hashtags and history at times grouping authority and the public on opposing sides, what can be done to bring everyone back together? Police officers are working with educators to understand the public point of view during the campus-created Alternativ...
11/12/2019

How Native Americans shape the American experience

November鈥檚 designated as Native American Heritage Month. But Anthropology Associate Professor Brian McKenna reminds his students in campus鈥 Indians of North America course that we benefit from the knowledge of this country鈥檚 indigenous people all year long...
9/11/2019

Digging in

Anthropology Professor John Chenoweth spent his summer on the Cape Cod National Seashore looking for 鈥350-year-old trash.鈥 Along with 13 students, Chenoweth brought artifacts to the Anthropology Lab to learn more about one of America鈥檚 first colonial settl...
7/22/2019

Colleagues remember James E. Gruber as a 鈥済entle, but fierce鈥 voice for people silenced by discrimination and prejudice

Decades before the #MeToo Movement, Gruber 鈥 who passed away June 26 鈥 put the spotlight on equity and gender-based discrimination and worked tirelessly to do something about it....
3/18/2019

This UM-Dearborn course is facilitating discussion on what it means to be a man in today鈥檚 society

The College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters class also looks at the importance of having the opportunity to rethink and reshape social constructs....
3/11/2019

Graduate student Christin Dewit examines stress levels of the caregivers of children diagnosed with autism

Dewit鈥檚 research took first place during UM-Dearborn鈥檚 Three-Minute Thesis Competition; she will represent the university at a regional competition later this month....
2/1/2019

Post-Industrial Spaces project connects five international cities with similar histories

The UM-Dearborn-led global initiative sparks cross-cultural dialogue about the role of identity and legacy in community healing and renewal....
11/12/2018

Building a stronger relationship between health and care

A personal experience led senior Lena Rammouni to seek out research opportunities that help doctors and clients build better relationships. And a campus lab helped her create something that doctors are now using to do just that....