Detroit Mercy has made a significant jump in The Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) college rankings that were released Sept. 4. The University is ranked among the top 20% of all U.S. universities. The WSJ/THE ranked Detroit Mercy 172 out of almost 1,000 schools in the …
University of Detroit Mercy freshmen kicked off their college careers by performing a day of service work throughout Detroit on Aug. 21-22. Students split in two groups and worked in the Fitzgerald neighborhood, just west of the University’s McNichols Campus, and assisted several Detroit-area neighborhood gardens and farms. The annual …
University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University’s ReBUILDetroit program recently received a renewal grant of more than $19 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The ReBUILDetroit program works to encourage undergraduate students from underrepresented or economically disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in biomedical research. …
On Thursday, July 25, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, in partnership with the Michigan Supreme Court and the Michigan State Bar Foundation, launched Project Access, a traveling expungement clinic that will visit several rural counties helping people to expunge their criminal records. The kickoff press conference was held …
The Sahara Desert is one of the most remote places on Earth for a reason: it’s unbearably hot, there’s virtually no rainfall and the high position of the sun makes for extremely long days. Three University of Detroit Mercy students and a 2019 Detroit Mercy graduate are willing to endure …
For the third year in a row, a group of University of Detroit Mercy students studied the American civil rights movement and joined history professor Roy Finkenbine on a weeklong trip through Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. The journey was part of a “Topics in African American History” class that offers …
It was a memorable night for the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture at the recent AIA Michigan Honor Awards. Former School of Architecture Dean Will Wittig earned the AIA Michigan President’s Award. Wittig recently stepped down as after serving as dean for eight years. “It is truly a …
University of Detroit Mercy alumna Tavala Luciow ’19 originally planned to attend medical school after graduation, but now she hopes to pursue a career in academia. Luciow was inspired to alter her career path by the relationships she built with Detroit Mercy administrators. “I would like to be a dean …
University of Detroit Mercy’s Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) will celebrate its 25th birthday with new leadership. Christina Heximer and Ceara O’Leary, AIA, are now the new co-executive directors of the DCDC. “Christina and I are honored to step into these roles and continue to work with our team to collaborate …
Today’s scheduled congressional hearing on reparations is guaranteed to get people talking. Recently, the online political magazine Slate gathered four leading scholars — including Detroit Mercy’s Professor of History Roy E. Finkenbine — to discuss the topic. We thought it would be an interesting addition to Let’s Talk, our new …
