For those interested in advancing expertise in addiction studies, bring your questions to one of Detroit Mercy’s upcoming virtual info sessions, Feb. 25 and March 25, to explore the Post Graduate Certificate in Addiction Studies program.
UDM will host an evening of poetry and conversation with Detroit poets, Brittany Rogers and Tommye Blount, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. Come early for a reception and book signing at 5:30 p.m.
Detroit Mercy’s English Department will host poet Ross Gay in the second of three Triptych virtual author series on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Detroit Mercy Theatre Company continues the inaugural season of the Detroit Mercy Black Box Theatre with a hilariously anachronistic look at St. Clare of Assisi. Six performances of ‘Poor Clare’ will run from Feb. 13-22.
The fall 2025 edition of the Florida Scholarly Review featured the article “A Reflection of Two Fulbright Directors,” co-authored by Lara Wasner, director of Language …
Amanda Hiber, senior lecturer in the Department of English, will lead the Creative Writing Collective conversation on using metaphors in personal essays on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 5:15-6:30 p.m. All Detroit Mercy students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends are invited.
The Detroit Mercy Theatre Company will hold auditions for its upcoming spring productions of ‘I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire’ and ‘THEATRELAB: Sam Shepard One Acts’ on Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 7-10 p.m. in the new Black Box Theatre.
Detroit Mercy’s SACD is celebrating Black History Month with a month-long exhibition designed by Elgin Cleckley, opening Feb. 6. The exhibition reimagines historic drawings and models used to document the conditions aboard the Brookes Slave Ship. Cleckley and art historian Samantha Noël will speak at the opening event. The exhibition is free and open to the public through Feb. 27.
CHASS will hold a faculty panel and workshop about the role reflection can play in our classrooms on Friday, Feb. 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided.
Detroit Mercy undergraduate students are eligible to submit one poem of 55 or fewer lines with all topics and poetic forms welcome. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Feb. 6, and the first prize is $150!
As part of Black History Month, Detroit Mercy welcomes student and Black Student Union historian Cayden Brown for Legal Rights in Police Encounters, an award‑winning presentation focused on empowering young people—especially youth of color—with practical knowledge of their rights during police interactions. The lecture takes place Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 6:30 p.m. in the Health Professions Facility, Room 124.
All current undergraduate students at Detroit Mercy are encouraged to submit original work for the WGS 2025–26 Undergraduate Writing Competition exploring issues of gender, sexuality and/or feminist thought, with the submission deadline March 23.
Detroit Mercy’s Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology M.A. Program will host an unscripted chat with alumna Lauren Engle ’22, on Thursday, Feb. 5. This is an opportunity for students to network and explore real-world career pathways in I/O Psychology.
The UDM Psychology Department will host a talk with Clinical Psychology alumna Ashwak Alshami on mental health in the Muslim American community. The event takes place Friday, Jan. 30, at 2:30 p.m. in the Lower Level of the Student Union, followed by a destresser.
Learn how you can turn your passion for understanding the human mind and making a meaningful impact by helping others into a rewarding career by attending the virtual open house for Detroit Mercy’s Clinical Psychology Master of Arts program on Jan. 26.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025–26 Feminist Scholarship Grants: Patrice Wade-Olson, Kirsten Silwanowicz, Alexa Rihana-Abdallah and Lee Eshelman. The Feminist Scholarship Grant program supports faculty research at all stages of completion and recognizes the time, labor and intellectual contributions required for feminist and intersectional scholarship.
The first installment of the Creative Writing Collective for the winter semester will take place on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 5:15 p.m. in Room 201 of the Briggs Building. All are are invited.
All are invited to attend an evening of insight, networking and exploration of the field of Industrial/Organizational Psychology in a conversation featuring alumnus Arman Bonislawski ’23, on Thursday, Jan. 22.
Current undergraduate, graduate and professional students, as well as university-recognized students organizations are welcome to apply for the 2025-26 Jane Schaberg Student Grant using an online application. Nominations will be accepted until Jan. 23, 2026.
Detroit Mercy’s English Department welcomes back its Triptych series by hosting poet Cate Marvin, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, on Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m.
Director’s cut screening of “Citizens Revival” is set for Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. in the Briggs Building inside Room 317. This thought-provoking film celebrates the power of ordinary people who contribute to our democracy and demonstrates how hope triumphs over fear, and participation wins.
For insight into Industrial/Organizational Psychology, don’t miss this unscripted I/O U chat, an evening of networking, learning, and real-world career exploration, on Tuesday, Dec. 2 from 7-8:30 p.m.
The Detroit Mercy Theatre Company will hold auditions for its upcoming winter production of ‘Poor Clare’ on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 7-10 p.m. in the new Black Box Theatre.
Power through your end-of-term assignments at community writing hours in the McNichols Campus Library, hosted by the Writing Center, on Fridays, Nov. 14, 21 and Dec. 5.
On Nov. 8, Department Co-chair and Professor of History Roy Finkenbine presented a paper titled “The Colored Vigilant Committee of Detroit: An Incubator of Revolutionary …
Detroit Mercy Theatre Company celebrates the opening of its new Black Box Theatre with Shakespeare’s beloved comedy ‘Twelfth Night,’ about the unpredictable power of love, which always finds its way home. Six performances will run from Nov. 7 through 16.
The team went undefeated during the event to earn first place in UDM’s annual Ethics Bowl.
Stacy Gnall, Detroit Mercy’s poet-in-residence and adjunct instructor of English, recently had four poems from her third book manuscript accepted for publication–two in TriQuarterly and …
Stop by the Writing Center for our Meet & Greet on Oct. 28 from 1-2 p.m. in the Briggs Building, Room 131. Enjoy free snacks and drinks while learn how we can support your success.
Attend this event entitled “Black Freedom, Religious Excitement and the Invention of a Public Health Crisis” on Oct. 29, in which Judith Weisenfeld, the Agate Brown and George L. Collard Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will explore how late 19th-century mental institutions used racialized views of “religious excitement” to justify institutionalizing formerly enslaved individuals and their descendants.
Writing Center Director and Adjunct Instructor Erin Bell presented a talk titled “Rethinking Writing Center Design in the Age of AI” at the Conference on …
Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Jocelyn Boryczka joined Tia Graham on WDET 101.9’s The Metro to discuss Detroit Mercy’s new …
Biology major and Literature minor Sam Abedi wrote about the recent Homecoming reading by Michigan Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd, the first poetry reading in …
The English Department welcomes poet and Detroit Mercy alumnus Cal Freeman for a poetry reading on Thursday, Oct. 23, in the McNichols Campus Library.
For the second year, UDM’s English Department sponsored a Magnetic Poetry Contest, where all were invited to try their hand at original compositions using the building blocks of poetry. You can read the winning poems on “Between the Pages,” the digital magazine of Detroit Mercy’s Department of English.
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program will host the annual Feminist Scholarship Colloquium on Tuesday, Oct. 21, where presenters will share the diverse ways that sex, gender, sexuality and related issues inform their research and teaching.
CHASS Dean Jocelyn Boryczka will hold a CHASS Student Town Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 12:45-2 p.m., in which she will discuss college updates, new initiatives and the issues that matter most to our CHASS community.
Detroit Mercy’s Titan Dreamers and the Women’s & Gender Studies Program invite you to an evening of solidarity and support for Honduran women facing domestic violence and femicide on Monday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m.
[sic] offers $100 prizes for the best visual, poetry and fiction/prose submissions and is open to all Detroit Mercy undergraduate and graduate students. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 10.
Writing Center Director and Adjunct Instructor Erin Bell presented a session titled “Posts, Profiles, and Partnerships: Growing the Writing Center’s Presence” at the Michigan Writing Center …
Students are invited to complete a survey to help us plan for the future of the Writing Center and be entered to win one of four $25 Amazon gift cards.
Writing Center Director and Adjunct Instructor Erin Bell recently published an article titled “Petit Récits of Belonging: Reading Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s The Undocumented Americans as …
Detroit Mercy brings live theatre back to campus on Sept. 29 with the opening of its state-of-the-art Black Box Theatre, designed to be a flexible, professional-quality space that allows students and faculty to explore innovative forms of storytelling.
All are welcome to attend a special virtual poetry reading on Wednesday, Oct. 1, by poet Joanna Fuhrman, hosted by UDM’s Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall.
Michigan’s new Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd will read her poetry in UDM’s brand new Black Box Theatre during UDM Homecoming festivities on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m.
The Writing Center is offering online professional development sessions on Sept. 25 and Oct. 1 to help students at all levels improve how they review, analyze and incorporate source material into college essays.
Detroit Mercy’s School of Architecture & Community Development and College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences will hold in-person and virtual info sessions on Sept. 24, 26 and Oct. 2 for their joint spring break trip to Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2026.
Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Jocelyn Boryczka was recently interviewed on MEA-TV & Radio, a media outlet that reaches all …
Professor of History and Department Co-Chair Roy Finkenbine presented a paper on “The Robert Cromwell Rescue” at the 8th annual Michigan Underground Railroad Heritage gathering …
The official welcoming event to the new school year for the University community, Celebrate Spirit!, is set for Thursday, Sept. 11 inside the Student Fitness Center. The Mass of the Holy Spirit begins at 11:30 a.m. with free lunch and reception to follow at 1 p.m.
