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11/27/2013

Feeding the hungry leads to community restoration

Djenaba Niemi often takes her children—ages 7 and 11—to Detroit’s Zone 8, a west-side neighborhood known for its history of gangs, violence and drugs. There, as they watch their mother invest in the lives of others, they are learning a lesson in neighborho...
11/27/2013

Amin named associate provost

Camron Michael Amin will begin a one-year appointment January 1 as University of Michigan-Dearborn’s associate provost for graduate studies and online learning, pending approval by the U-M Regents. He currently serves as professor of history in the College...
11/21/2013

The future of leadership

The University of Michigan-Dearborn publicly launched Public Allies Metro Detroit today as it looks to develop the next generation of regional leaders and increase college accessibility. The ceremony took place at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African Am...
11/20/2013

Ardisana and Anger to speak at December commencement ceremonies

Nearly 400 University of Michigan-Dearborn students will participate in two fall semester commencement ceremonies Saturday, December 14. Lizabeth Ardisana, co-founder and CEO of ASG Renaissance, and Paul Anger, editor and publisher of the Detroit Free Pres...
11/20/2013

Engineering by design: Inside the GAME Lab

Justin Hawke repeatedly punched down on the keyboard in the Games and Multimedia Environments (GAME) Lab. On screen, he haphazardly chased a soccer player around an empty beach....
11/15/2013

CECS professor receives NSF grant to resolve bioinformatics sequencing issues

Qiang Zhu, University of Michigan-Dearborn professor of computer and information science, recently received a $222,277 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support research that will provide new data storage, indexing and retrieval techniques to solv...
11/14/2013

ÂÜÀòÉç-Dearborn’s iLabs’ eCities research recognizes 52 Michigan communities developing a positive entrepreneurial climate

Eight communities across the state of Michigan have been identified for the strategies they employ to foster entrepreneurial growth and economic development, according to the annual eCities study. ...
11/13/2013

Power play

They made their first conference playoff appearance in 2013. And now University of Michigan-Dearborn’s lacrosse program has even bigger plans for 2014....
11/13/2013

Letters from the past

Hani Bawardi heard the same question over and over again....
11/13/2013

An opportunity to excel

David Flak had crunched numbers at a bank for five years when it hit him....