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6/7/2021

Gabriella Scarlatta named interim provost

With 25 years of Dearborn Wolverine experience, Professor Scarlatta begins her one-year appointment as interim provost and executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs on July 1....
5/31/2021

Needed labor reform or driving a hard bargain?

Economics Professor Bruce Pietrykowski shares what the federal PRO Act aims to do, the historic role of labor unions in the workplace and what the research data show about organized bargaining....
5/17/2021

The Sights and Sounds of Spring

If you want to enjoy the sights and sounds of colorful songbirds, this is the week they stop at the Environmental Interpretive Center’s 300-acre Natural Areas to relax and fuel up before continuing on their migration journey north....
5/17/2021

CASL offers three new certificates for fall

The College of Arts, Sciences, & Letters introduces three new certificate programs that highlight diversity of thought in biochemistry, literature and language....
5/10/2021

Using Virtual Reality to Create a Language Learning Community

UM-Dearborn students taking Arabic language courses will practice speaking through digital interactions with college students in Algeria and Morocco in an environment stimulated to look like Middle Eastern marketplaces, kitchens and other gathering spaces...
5/3/2021

Congrats, UM-Dearborn Wolverines!

Thousands safely gathered on campus to celebrate the UM-Dearborn Class of 2020 and Spring Class of 2021 through 12 smaller ceremonies that took place April 29 through May 4....
4/26/2021

What’s going on with voting rights in Michigan?

Two UM-Dearborn political science professors break down the policy and politics of new proposals to change how voting works in Michigan....
4/21/2021

How is the pandemic impacting the mental health of older adults?

Three pre-med students started a research project exploring how the global pandemic affects the mental state of patients ages 65+. Their on-going research project is among the 22 virtual student presentations in CASL's 2021 Sargon Partners Undergraduate R...
4/12/2021

Here are your Chancellor’s Medallion awardees for Spring 2021

This commencement season, eight students are being recognized with the university’s top graduation honor....
4/12/2021

Glass ceilings and plastic barriers: Will COVID’s impacts pave a path to pay parity?

The pandemic highlighted a fundamental contradiction of our economic system today: The caring labor that’s assigned the lowest value, and is often performed by women, is also essential. Feminist economist Professor Suzanne Bergeron says people in power hav...