John Rectenwald ’68 knows process. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Architecture, he spent five years in the Navy, became a decorated Vietnam War vet and was a member of the White House military staff where he ran the operations at Camp David. He returned to Michigan and worked for …
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 …
University of Detroit Mercy graduate Christina Jones tells anyone who will listen about the school’s ReBUILDetroit program and with good reason. Jones credits ReBUILDetroit with putting her on a path to success and opening up opportunities she never thought possible. “I always say BUILD has done everything for me,” Jones …
Bill Wales and Sue Dion Wales know they are blessed. They have had successful careers — Bill as an attorney and researcher and Sue as a Catholic school teacher — they have a strong network of supportive friends, three daughters and six grandchildren. “It’s embarrassing, the number of blessings we …
With the big basketball news University of Detroit Mercy announced yesterday, it would have been easy to overlook this inspiring story about another Titan basketball player, Anne Yoches ’01, that ran in the Detroit Free Press. Yoches was a basketball star when she attended Detroit Mercy while she majored in …
The Campaign for University of Detroit Mercy is moving along toward its $100,000,000 goal to enhance student financial aid, upgrade facilities and programming, attract and retain nationally known experts to our faculty and build the University endowment. Donations come in all sizes and among the number of donations last week …
Earlier this month, University of Detroit Mercy appointed Katherine Snyder ’89, ’93, a two-time alumna of Detroit Mercy, dean of the College of Engineering & Science. Snyder has served as the College’s interim dean since May 31, 2017. Previously, she was the associate dean of Academic Affairs of the College …
Zachary Klima ’12 was standing in line to use the restroom at a Detroit Red Wings game when he heard the crowd erupt with cheers, indicating that the Wings had scored the game-winning goal. “If only,” he thought, “there were a way to know how long the lines were, I …
Larry Angelilli says 80 percent of what he does every day as CFO of MoneyGram International hadn’t been invented when he was a student at University of Detroit. Angelilli, who earned his MBA in 1981, challenged Detroit Mercy students and a group of high school students on campus to rethink …
