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12/2/2020
What would a “just” rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine look like?
The next phase of the pandemic could be a test of how much we’ve learned about inequity in America....
11/30/2020
Humans evolved from group hunters to civic rule creators: Do other primates have these capacities for cooperation?
CASL professor receives $1M grant for project looking to reverse engineer behavior to better understand humans, our primate cousins, and to prepare for future artificial intelligence development. ...
11/18/2020
They just shot a Steven Soderbergh movie at this UM-Dearborn professor’s house
Dale and Anne Thomson’s Detroit home recently played host to actors Ray Liotta and Benicio Del Toro....
11/9/2020
If you lose your home, how can you quarantine?
Associate Professor Joshua Akers talks about the Detroit housing crisis on the horizon, what people are doing to help, and why the Dec. 31 eviction moratorium date ignores the reality of increasing COVID case numbers locally and across the nation....
11/4/2020
A newsroom view on election night
Associate Professor Tim Kiska and 20 of his journalism students spent Tuesday night in the Detroit Free Press newsroom assisting with election news coverage and gathering voting results for the too-close-to-call presidential race....
11/2/2020
What have COVID-19-related changes shown us about community telemental health?
Looking at data to see how the pandemic changed the community mental health landscape, one CASL faculty member says people have adjusted to the new virtual environment and telemental health has promise to be an effective delivery service....
10/28/2020
Will polling be the one thing 2020 gets right?
In a year full of surprises, the 2020 presidential election results might be just as the polls report. Here’s why....
10/26/2020
How a research project on the Milky Way's center will help unlock the universe's secrets
As part of a leading research team, Associate Professor Will Clarkson spent much of the last decade working to assemble an extensive map of the inner regions of the Milky Way galaxy....
10/5/2020
Building Better Blocks
At only 18 years old, freshman Alexcia Starks is working to make her Detroit neighborhood a more attractive, sustainable, socially just place to live....
9/30/2020
Is Michigan’s election system ready for 2020?
A UM-Dearborn political science professor breaks down why this election won’t be like any other and our prospects for surviving it....
