Alumni of Jesuit colleges and universities and others who support the Jesuit mission came together for a luncheon and to hear the Jesuit response to refugee crises. Thomas Smolich, S.J., the international director for the Jesuit Refugee Service spoke at the Jesuit Alumni and Friends of Detroit (JAFD) at a …
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 …
The New York Times Business section has a feature called Vocations in which, according to the paper, “people from all walks of life talk about their jobs.” Last week, one of those people was Jay Browder ’05 who operates a machine at Alphapointe in Kansas City, Mo. Alphapointe is a …
Every year, Crain’s Detroit Business honors 40 metro Detroit leaders who are under 40 years old. Not to be outdone in honoring young and young-ish people making their mark, Detroit Business annually honors 30 metro Detroit movers and shakers who are in their 30s. University of Detroit Mercy has alumni …
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 …
The Jesuit Alumni and Friends of Detroit will host Tom Smolich, S.J., international director of the Jesuit Refugee Service, at a noon luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 4 at the Detroit Athletic Club. Former Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe, S.J., founded the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in 1980 as a response …
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 …
At Homecoming on Sept. 29, University of Detroit Mercy will symbolically break ground on a Veterans Lounge on the McNichols Campus. The lounge will be a place for students who are veterans of the U.S. armed services to relax, support and get to know each other. The lounge is being …
If you’re in the Class of 1968, it’s been 50 years since you graduated. We are hosting a reunion for that class during Homecoming weekend Sept. 28-29, but one group of alumni couldn’t wait. Members of our Chemical Engineering Class of 1968 jumped at the opportunity to celebrate their golden …
