Scientists have long opposed the idea that dinosaurs lived in aquatic habitats. Now, an international team of researchers, led by National Geographic Explorer and University of Detroit Mercy professor Nizar Ibrahim, has discovered unambiguous evidence that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, the longest predatory dinosaur known, was aquatic, and used tail-propelled swimming locomotion …
Shelley Howard is busy. She has a child in fifth grade, one in seventh grade and one who is a freshman in college. She has a full-time position at a child care center and returned to college in September to pursue a master’s degree in Criminal Justice at Detroit Mercy. …
The latest reflection organized by Assistant to the President for Mission Integration Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos is one that encourages us to learn lessons from all faiths. She writes: One of the gifts of being at a Catholic institution in the Mercy and Jesuit traditions is being encouraged to lean into the …
Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos, special assistant to the president on Mission Integration at Detroit Mercy is doing her part to help the University community find comfort during the COVID-19 pandemic by organizing this series of video reflections. While this year’s entrance into Easter has not brought us out of the darkness cast …
This essay is part of an occasional series called Let’s Talk that provides a forum to share thoughts by Detroit Mercy faculty, staff, alumni or invited guests and is designed to start conversations. It was written by Dennis Ortman, who graduated from the clinical psychology program in 1995. If you …
Assistant to the President for Mission Integration Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos is organizing a series of reflections from students, faculty and staff during the coronavirus crisis. We thought alumni might like to read them, too and will share these as they are available. To keep up on the University’s response to the …
This Easter season begins in an extraordinary time, and Detroit Mercy’s Jesuit community has taken steps to ensure you are able to keep your focus on Christ’s passion and not on the pandemic that is keeping us all apart. Join the Detroit Jesuit community on Facebook and Instagram as they …
We may be in the middle of a pandemic, but life goes on. Detroit Mercy’s Marketing & Communications Team is collecting stories of the many inspiring and heartwarming ways our alumni, students and other members of the University community are responding. In the series we are calling “Snapshots of a …
University of Detrot Mercy’s Office of Mission Integration is offering words of hope and healing to staff, faculty and students during this challenging time. We think alumni might find comfort in them, too. As we continue to pray and keep in our hearts the health workers serving in our hospitals …
Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos, special assistant to the president on Mission Integration at Detroit Mercy is doing her part to help the University community find comfort during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has written about adapting to changes and recently posted this video reflection by Fr. Tim Hipskind, S.J., director of Service Learning and …
