Barbara Wolack and her late husband, John, have a nearly 60-year legacy of supporting University of Detroit Mercy. It’s a wide-ranging history of giving both time and treasure that, when taken together, illustrates what Detroit Mercy means when it says it develops the whole person. John was the son of …
Joseph Alvaro understands that it’s not life’s challenges that define someone, it’s how that person responds to them. In a span of 14 months in 2009 and 2010, Alvaro lost Frances, his wife of 25 years, his daughter, his father, a brother-in-law and an uncle by marriage with whom he …
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 …
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 …
“I would sit in the truck and watched as my dad would crawl into an abandoned mine and search for veins of coal or pillars of coal that might be mined. That was my childhood.” Lou Scatena ’67 writes lovingly of that childhood in Anthracite Boot Camp, a memoir of …
A talk by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author opens University of Detroit Mercy’s Black History Month 2021 celebration. W. Caleb McDaniel will discuss his book Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America in a virtual format Feb. 2 from 6:30-8 p.m. Sweet Taste of Liberty tells the story of …
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 …
Mert N. Aksu, dean and professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, has been named a recipient of the 2021 American Dental Education Association’s (ADEA) Gies Award for Vision – Dental Educator. The William J. Gies Awards are the most coveted honors in oral health and dental …
University of Detroit Mercy (Detroit Mercy) recently appointed six industry and religious leaders to the institution’s Board of Trustees. These individuals have made global contributions to their professions and represented the Jesuit and Mercy traditions in those fields and in their communities. Their terms of service are effective immediately. University …
For Timmy Nelson ’11, playing video games for 24 consecutive hours is all about positively impacting sick and injured children in southeast Michigan. Nelson is among the thousands of gamers worldwide who participate in Extra Life’s Game Day, an annual charity event where people marathon video games to raise money …
