Get to know: John ‘Cal’ Freeman, celebrating Detroit Mercy through poetry

Detroit Mercy is in John Freeman’s bones. His father, John Freeman, was a beloved English professor whose lectures examining connections between the lyrics of Tupac Shakur and themes in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet were popular with students and taught young John to think in creative ways. The father and son also …

Get to Know: David Tumpkin ’92, spreading the word of God to children

David Tumpkin fondly remembers his childhood performances, when he would play music by banging on pots and pans and entertain relatives with puppet shows from behind the family couch. From those early at-home productions, to high school marching band and choir, music has been a constant in Tumpkin’s life. Over …

Get to know: Joyce Choi ’19, research may lead to treatment of Central American disease

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 …

Get to Know: Jeffry Bauer ’80, from volunteer to COO of the Michigan Red Cross

Jeffry Bauer ’80 originally took a class with the American Red Cross to get a tenant to stop pestering him. That led to volunteering with the Red Cross for 37 years and recently, the University of Detroit Law graduate was named the Chief Operating Officer for the Michigan Region. “Never,” …