For more than 40 years and in many ways, Mike Whitty ’64 and his wife Gail ’85 have supported University of Detroit Mercy. “I don’t even know when we started,” Mike said. “We just always felt it was the right thing to do.” Their gifts over the years have helped …
An estate gift from an alumna who had a long career in education will help ensure future students can have the benefits of a life-changing Detroit Mercy education. A Catholic college education was always in the cards for Karen Knoth ’65, who attended Gesu School and Immaculata High School before …
In early 2023, Detroit Mercy was informed by the lawyer for the estate of Bernard Lucci ’64 that the University was the recipient of a bequest from their client’s will. “We knew that the gift was coming,” said Barbara Milbauer ’66, of the Office of Planned Giving. “What we didn’t …
In May 2023, shortly before she graduated from Detroit Mercy with a Nursing degree from, Allison Molloy ’23 received a scholarship to go on a spiritual journey. She had no idea how much of an impact it would have on her. The Our Lady of Lourdes Pilgrimage Charitable Fund is …
For years, the Annex — a large building in the shadow of the Engineering building — has served as a storage space for the College of Engineering & Science’s unused and outdated equipment. The College knew, though, it had to make better use of it. On Nov. 14, the University …
Steve McShane ’66 has had a lengthy career as an inventor and entrepreneur with business interests across the globe. His recent gift to the College of Engineering & Science will create a space he hopes will encourage students to learn and create with an eye toward entrepreneurship as well. Born …
Bob Bruttell ’01 has taught History of Social Ethics in University of Detroit Mercy’s Religious Studies department for 22 years as an adjunct faculty member. His classroom, he says, is a place for discussion of important issues on how people today can live together as human beings. It is a …
University of Detroit Mercy’s Department of Athletics will hold the annual Road to a Championship fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 6, at Z’s Villa in Detroit. This fundraiser helps support UDM’s Road to a Championship (RTC) goal of $5 million to upgrade the Detroit Mercy athletics program. The goal of this …
Kathy Dul Aznavorian never envisioned that she would enter the business world when she came to University of Detroit as a mathematics student. But a movie she saw the summer of her freshman year changed her course. Paul Newman played a tax attorney in The Young Philadelphians, and the role …
Between war and poverty, there was very little that Mark Haidar had power over while growing up in a refugee area in Lebanon. But the one thing he could control — an IBM computer, donated to his school by the United Nations — helped him feel empowered as a child …
