3/30/2020
Spreading joy to older adults in a time of social distance
Psychology Associate Professor Brenda Whitehead, a gerontologist whose research focuses on stress in later life, developed a survey for people ages 60+ to hear about their stressors and joys during this historic pandemic. ...
3/30/2020
Professor helps celebrity find their roots on PBS show
With 45 years of research work on the World War I African experience and more than 150 oral histories with African WWI veterans, Professor Joe Lunn was contacted by the "Finding Your Roots" team to help interpret WWI ancestor's documents for show. ...
2/27/2020
Difference Makers: Class of 2020
51ÊÓƵ-Dearborn names 50 students to its 11th class of Difference Makers....
2/18/2020
51ÊÓƵ-Dearborn is named a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars
The exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, awarded multiple grants to 51ÊÓƵ-Dearborn faculty in the 2019-2020 cycle. ...
1/9/2020
51ÊÓƵ-Dearborn research prompts Detroit to review link between housing instability and tax auctions
Assistant Professor Joshua Akers' working paper outlines the housing policies and other factors that have allowed speculative buyers to contribute to neighborhood instability and blight in Detroit....
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....
11/14/2019
Students and faculty remember German Lecturer Klaus Tappe
Tappe, longtime 51ÊÓƵ-Dearborn educator and holder of multiple U-M graduate degrees, died Nov. 4 at age 64....
11/7/2019
Voices of Arab Detroit
Adding to the burgeoning field of Arab American literature, Assistant Professor Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine is gathering creative nonfiction essays to share what it's like to live in the local Arab American community...
10/29/2019
Adventures in instructional redesign
Three 51ÊÓƵ-Dearborn professors talk about revamping their approaches to face-to-face and online courses....
10/22/2019
The power of activism
Senior Danielle Anderson shows how grassroots movements around public breastfeeding changed state policy....