Jesuit justice and ecology efforts are subject of talks Aug. 8 and 9

Jesuit Fathers Xavier Jeyaraj and Ted Penton will offer two brief panel presentations on Jesuit efforts in social justice and ecology from a global and national perspective followed by a discussion on the Detroit context. The first discussion is from 10-11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 8, both virtually as well as in-person in Room 139 of …

Detroit Mercy service-learning project provides care packs for people in need

For more than six years, Nour Lyon and her husband have been distributing care packs with useful items to members of the unhoused community.  “I always felt helpless walking by homeless people in Detroit or driving around and I thought, ‘what can I have ready to go to give them?’” Lyon ’12, …

Class project connects PA students, alumni to talk shop

Service learning is an important part of the University’s Physician Assistant program. Assistant Professor Kelli Frost generally assigns students in her first-year Introduction to the PA Profession class service work in healthcare settings. She says the students gain important skills, as well as a deeper understanding of the field. But …

Center for Social Entrepreneurship launches Social Innovation Fund

Since its founding in 2015, University of Detroit Mercy’s Center for Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) has had a positive impact on more than 22,000 lives. Among those most directly affected are the owners and employees of more than 50 start-up enterprises that have participated in the CSE Boost workshops. These workshops provide …

MBA student project teams with nonprofit to create opportunities for women

Due to the efforts of an MBA class project, a new e-commerce website will soon sell hand-made clothes, bags, blankets and other home goods to raise funds for the Inkster-based charity Zaman International and its clients. The website is the culmination of weeks of work by seven University of Detroit …

Student Pantry to open, seeks donations for students in need

On a national scale, more than 36 percent of all college students experience food insecurity. According to a study conducted at University of Detroit Mercy in fall 2017 by the Campus Kitchen and Student Social Workers Association, 46.5 percent of respondents reported food insecurity during their experience at the University. …

Some fun for Halloween

Safety Street 2018 was skele-tons of fun The annual event welcomes young children from the neighborhoods to campus to trick-or-treat in a safe environment. More than 1,765 pounds of candy was donated by Detroit Mercy student organizations, faculty, staff and administrators and was distributed by fraternities, sororities and student organizations …