Jennifer Dukarski ’96, ’10 mechanical engineering and law, Butzel Long attorney and partner, has attained the distinction of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior member status, the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply. To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must be engineers, scientists, …
As a University of Detroit Mercy architecture student, Graig Donnelly thought his future held a lifetime of designing houses and buildings. Today, as TechTown Detroit’s chief strategy officer, Wayne State University’s assistant vice president for Economic Development and one of Crain’s Detroit Business’ 40 Under 40, Donnelly said he had …
More than 15 ReBUILDetroit scholars attended in the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), one of the largest communities of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in November. ReBUILDetroit is funded by a $21-million grant from the National Institutes of Health to increase diversity in …
The Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot Program Office announced that the Midwest CISSE Chapter (MCISSE) has just been designated as its newest CyberPatriot Center for Excellence. University of Detroit Mercy is the lead institution for the MCISSE coalition. “The designation as a Center of Excellence is quite an honor,” said Tamara …
The Detroit Mercy School of Architecture will host the prestigious student-oriented Design Futures Student Leadership Forum on the McNichols Campus May 21-25. This sixth annual event brings together student leaders from across the country to discuss and explore public interest design — known as PID — both as it is …
This month marks the 100th birthday of Detroit Mercy’s student-run newspaper The Varsity News. The first issue, with the headline “Varsity News Begins Career” was published Jan. 30, 1918, and called itself a “fortnightly chronicle” and was financed by donations from 24 young male University of Detroit students. Because these …
Norah Duncan IV ’74 majored in English when he attended University of Detroit with a goal of becoming a college professor and publishing some writing. Today, he is a college professor and has published many works, though the type of works isn’t what he thought — liturgical music that takes …
NOW WITH IMPROVED LINK! University of Detroit Mercy is featured prominently in Jan. 1 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about its growth, and its efforts to raise the University’s profile. “How to Market a College in a Troubled Locale” by reporter Lee Gardner discusses the University’s work to …
Dear School of Architecture Community: I am very pleased and honored to share with you some wonderful and important news in the life of the Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. As most of you know, after many years of running a wonderful study abroad program in Volterra, Italy, we were …
The Volterra Reality Capture Workshop run by University of Detroit Mercy professors won the 2017 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Innovation People’s Choice Award. The Reality Capture Workshop (located in the city of Volterra, Italy) is a long-term collaborative project to create a complete digital documentation of a historical city …
