There’s long been a debate among cinema enthusiasts as to whether digital technology is changing the art form. It’s a question University of Detroit Mercy Professor of English Nicholas Rombes — who also teaches film classes — has been researching for years, and last year published a revised edition of …
Among the little-known stories of World War II is the fact that rural areas across the continental United States were home to prisoner of war camps housing thousands of German and Italian soldiers. Professor of History Gregory Sumner came across this information while researching his last book, Detroit in World …
Each year, University of Detroit Mercy honors an alumnus from each College or School as people who exemplify the Jesuit and Mercy traditions of the University. The 2019 class of the Spirit of University of Detroit Mercy Alumni Achievement Awards has just been selected and they are a diverse group …
Stephany (Filimon) Wilkes ’00 knows the story people want to hear from her: She rage-quit her job at a Silicon Valley tech firm and decided to become a sheep shearer. It’s a good story, she admits. The trouble is, it’s not true. She did quit her job at a Silicon …
Detroit Mercy Psychology graduate student Christina Nguyen has received the Michigan Tutorial Association’s (MTA) Tutor-of-the-Year Award. She was honored at the MTA Connections Conference on Friday, Nov. 2, at Wayne State University. Susan Trudeau, director of Detroit Mercy’s Student Success Center, nominated Nguyen based on her dedicated service and commitment …
The annual lists put out by Crain’s Detroit Business that highlight great work being done by metro Detroit professionals is rarely without a representative from University of Detroit Mercy. Check it out here. And also here. The recent Notable Women in Marketing is another example, and the University is represented by …
More than 1,500 alumni, students, friends and community neighbors took advantage of the perfect weather Sept. 28-29 to celebrate Homecoming 2018 at University of Detroit Mercy. Included in the event were law school golf outing, 50th reunion dinner for the class of 1968, Decades Dash run, a classic car show, DIA …
Still deciding whether to come to Homecoming this weekend? We’re giving you the hard sell now — personal requests from some of your favorite professors. Over the last few weeks we’ve rolled these videos out and they were pretty popular. We collected them here so you can watch them all …
Earlier this year Lara Wasner ’96, ’05, who is director of Language & Cultural Training at University of Detroit Mercy, took a delegation of University faculty and Detroit K-12 teachers of arts and social sciences to to northeast Brazil for collaborative learning and project development. Participants developed a curriculum project designed to …
“You’re not up to the minute evidently, unless you’re talking either about the J-Prom (can’t help but know it’s Friday night at the Graystone ballroom and Henry Busse won’t spare the horses as far as the music goes), or the Merry-go-round of last weekend fame. Those two ultra social events …
