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10/18/2021

Creating pathways to nature

The Office of Metropolitan Impact is instrumental in organizing SEMI Wild and its career and education pathway program that connects underrepresented youth to organizations like UM-Dearborn, the Detroit Zoological Society, Belle Isle Nature Center and oth...
10/18/2021

This energy efficiency project will turn the new ELB into a building-sized laboratory

For this year鈥檚 DTE E-Challenge, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students will leverage everything from artificial intelligence to 鈥渟haming鈥 to reduce our energy footprint....
10/13/2021

How a new program plans to connect underserved populations to STEM futures

The National Science Foundation awards campus faculty with $1.44 million to create a STEM Scholars program that tailors impactful education practices 鈥 like research, cohorts, professional development and more 鈥 for lower-income, high talent students to b...
10/13/2021

A philosophy of learning where learners come first

UM-Dearborn professor and educational reformer Seong Hong has dedicated her career to constructivism, a dynamic theory of learning that鈥檚 long been the antidote to the 鈥渇actory鈥 model of PreK-12 education....
10/11/2021

How the pandemic experience is pushing teaching into the future

A UM-Dearborn statistics professor shares how the sudden shift to remote education pushed him to make his statistics classes more relevant to students....
10/11/2021

Welcoming Wolverines help connect international students to opportunities

Campus鈥 international student population is rebounding after a pandemic decline, thanks to students who share their positive experiences and to dedicated faculty and staff....
10/6/2021

The future鈥檚 best robots may not have arms, faces or talk. But they鈥檒l still change how we live.

UM-Dearborn鈥檚 robotics faculty talk about how public expectations for robots are often out of sync with realities of the technology. But that shouldn鈥檛 stunt our optimism about the field鈥檚 future....
10/6/2021

UM-Dearborn celebrates ribbon cutting at its new Engineering Lab Building

The new facility solidifies the campus as a regional leader in engineering, with 45 labs dedicated to core and emerging disciplines....
10/4/2021

Giving kids safe routes to school

To encourage physical activities and healthy habits for elementary and middle school students, UM-Dearborn helped land a $100,000 grant to implement the Safe Routes to School Program....
10/4/2021

Campus Colleagues: Anthony DeLaRosa

CECS Engineering Experiential Learning Assistant Director Tony DeLaRosa shares personal and professional stories that show the importance of encouragement, the role of recognition (he鈥檚 co-chair for the Chancellor's Staff Recognition Awards) and how life ...