Jenifer Young ’18, ’20 remembers what she felt on her first day of classes on Detroit Mercy’s McNichols Campus. “I was standing in front of the Commerce and Finance building and holding my books and being so excited about the idea that one day I would be graduating,” she said. …
Michael Dundorf’s life has long been about giving. At 80, he still tutors high school and middle school students in math for the Boys & Girls Club near his home north of Boston. He has donated time and treasure for a local community college and hospital. Through his estate plan, …
Last week, alumnus Glynn Lunney ’58 died at the age of 84. He was honored with a brief profile on NBC News’ Sunday Today with Willie Geist. Lunney graduated from University of Detroit with a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering and was instrumental in helping the United States land on …
“I would sit in the truck and watched as my dad would crawl into an abandoned mine and search for veins of coal or pillars of coal that might be mined. That was my childhood.” Lou Scatena ’67 writes lovingly of that childhood in Anthracite Boot Camp, a memoir of …
It took three years of work, but what has happened since Joyce Choi published a research paper on a disease she originally knew little about, could be life changing — for her and people half a world away. Choi’s paper on Chagas disease, a scourge of many rural areas in …
When choosing which college she wanted attend, Brynne Gustafson’s wish-list was concise: study engineering at a small university and be involved in something outside of the classroom. University of Detroit Mercy checked all Gustafson’s boxes back in 2016, and four years later, she leaves the McNichols Campus well equipped for …
Mitchell Mims graduates this month with credentials most students graduating with a bachelor’s degree in biology don’t have: A published research paper in a national, peer-reviewed journal. Mims is one of several people listed as authors of an article in Digital Medicine, a medical journal affiliated with the well-respected scientific …
Every college graduate has obstacles they have to overcome along the way; Nick Summerlee’s list just happens to be longer than most. Summerlee was a high school dropout. He fought in the Iraq War and, as a result, battled mental illness. But through it all, Summerlee kept on fighting, believing …
Scientists have long opposed the idea that dinosaurs lived in aquatic habitats. Now, an international team of researchers, led by National Geographic Explorer and University of Detroit Mercy professor Nizar Ibrahim, has discovered unambiguous evidence that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, the longest predatory dinosaur known, was aquatic, and used tail-propelled swimming locomotion …
We may be in the middle of a pandemic, but life goes on. Detroit Mercy’s Marketing & Communications Team is collecting stories of the many inspiring and heartwarming ways our alumni, students and other members of the University community are responding. In the series we are calling “Snapshots of a …
