University of Detroit Mercy was ranked among the top national universities by U.S. News & World Report for a fifth year in a row, earning a No. 185 rank in the National Universities category of the publication’s “Best Colleges” 2024 edition. Thirteen other Michigan universities earned a place in this year’s National University category. Detroit Mercy ranks fourth in the state and is the …
Each year, University of Detroit Mercy honors an alumnus from each of its seven schools or colleges for the way they have excelled in their professions and demonstrated leadership and service to the larger community. Detroit Mercy is proud to announce its Class of 2023 recipients of the Spirit of …
On May 13, Keagan Tremel will walk across the commencement stage to pick up her diploma like hundreds of other graduates. For her, though, it’s an especially important accomplishment, because not very long ago, she was told she might never walk again.
Alumna pays it forward with nursing kits for students Growing up, Shawna Stewart ’15 was drawn to the medical field in order to care for people. Now working as a nurse in Detroit, she’s trying to help make things more affordable for nursing students. In 2020, the University of Detroit …
During a lunch break one day at the OB/GYN clinic where Leanna Alaiwat ’18, ’19 works as a physician assistant, she found an empty examination room, and recorded a video for Instagram in which she described the process of getting a PAP smear. That was the first of hundreds of …
Each year, University of Detroit Mercy chooses an alumnus from each of its Colleges or Schools to honor as someone who has excelled in his or her profession, demonstrated outstanding leadership in work and devoted himself or herself in service to the larger community. Award recipients reflect the University’s mission …
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, …
To mark the graduation of the Class of 2022, Marketing & Communications is profiling several students who were nominated by staff and faculty for their contributions to the University and their potential to make a difference after graduation. For more information about 2022 commencement exercises, please click here. When Lourdes Lewis walks across …
To mark the graduation of the Class of 2022, Detroit Mercy’s Marketing & Communications Department is profiling several students who were nominated by staff and faculty for their contributions to the University and their potential to make a difference after graduation. For more information about 2022 commencement exercises, please click …
University of Detroit Mercy graduate programs in Health Professions, Nursing, Engineering, Business, Clinical Psychology and Law have once again been ranked among the top national universities in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Best Colleges’ edition. This is the third year in a row Detroit Mercy graduate programs have …
