You’ll see lots of photos on social media and on phones from coworkers who straggle in late today because it’s a national holiday of sorts — the first day of school! Classes at Detroit Mercy started last week, but we still want to share our photos of the day, as …
A group of 20 dental students from Detroit Mercy’s chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) will travel to Guatemala at the end of July to help patients with important dental care needs. But to get there, they need some assistance. The Detroit Mercy group consists of dental students, dentists …
Professor of Philosophy Gail M. Presbey ’81 joined a group of Sisters of Mercy as part of a human rights delegation to Honduras in support of the work of Ismael Moreno Coto, S.J., a Honduran priest known as Padre Melo. He is working to bring attention to human rights abuses …
Detroit Mercy Engineering and Nursing students joined forces with students from Lawrence Technological University and veterans over the past year to work on projects designed to ease challenges vets experience with everyday tasks due to physical disabilities. This capstone project began more than nine years ago at Detroit Mercy with …
A $16,000 grant from the Michigan State Bar Foundation will help fund a partnership between University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan designed to aid hundreds of low-income, non-prisoner litigants who represent themselves in federal lawsuits each year. …
How they met Richard and Penny Persiani met the way a couple might meet in a romantic comedy. The two did not know each other, but each were teaching part-time at Detroit Mercy Dental when they got into an elevator together. The elevator stopped between floors and maintenance had to …
University of Detroit Mercy keeps the acts of service coming even in the middle of summer. And others are noticing. Two recent events were subjects of news stories by Detroit media and we wanted to be sure you saw the difference Detroit Mercy makes in the lives of the community all year …
A unique educational program bringing Mechanical Engineering and Nursing students together for a project to aid disabled veterans has been quietly meeting its goal of making lives better. This year, it got the media attention it deserves. Students earning a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering spend their entire senior year working on a …
As a singer and writer of children’s music, Lois (Jordan) LaFond ’67 has traveled around the country performing her work and working in music education. One of her most unique accomplishments, however, didn’t come in front of an audience. It came on the outskirts of a tiny town in Colorado …
“It’s not always about the physical. It’s entirely possible to be present and still feel, in a place that you could once claim as your own, completely disregarded and unwelcomed.” That quote is from an opinion piece on Model D by Lauren Hood ’03, ’12, acting director of the Detroit …
