Student expresses gratitude for writing
English major Asha Sierra George wrote a recent post titled “How the quiet girl was heard” for Between the Pages, the English department’s blog, about her gratitude for being a writer. Read her reflection.
Annual counseling event brings students and alumni together
The Counseling Program hosted its annual Trailblazing Titan Counselor Panel Discussion, featuring Adam Harris, M.A., LPC, director of Upward Bound, Grand Valley State University, author and motivational speaker, Kori Lowe, M.A., LPC, owner and counselor, Center for Establishing Recovery, and Amanda Gohl, M.A., LPC, school counselor, Birmingham Groves High School, …
Thumbs up: Kelli Anderson
In September, Assistant Professor of Counseling Kelli Anderson, Ph.D., presented Participant Selection in Research with Children and Families at the annual meeting of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling in Nashville.
Thumbs up: Tahani Dari
Assistant Professor of Counseling Tahani Dari and graduate Counseling students, Christian Green and April Lark, co-presented Synergies of Community-Based Participatory Research Methods: Scoping Review at the annual meeting of the Association for Assessment and Research conference in Nashville, Tennessee in September. Earlier this year, Dari was recognized by the Association …
Thumbs up: Varinder Kaur
Assistant Professor of Addiction Studies, Varinder Kaur, and graduate Counseling student, Timothy Martin, co-presented The Role of Civil Disobedience in Competencies for Ethics, Multiculturalism and Social Justice at the annual conference of the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors in Denver, Colorado in October.
Successful Law Day Fair illuminates opportunities in the legal field
In October, Detroit Mercy’s Law Day Fair showed students the multifaceted dimensions of the legal field. Political Science students displayed their legal acumen through a moot court simulation. Students also gained invaluable insight into the dynamic landscape of law with more than 15 law school representatives available to give tips …
Michigan Poet Laureate visits McNichols Campus
The Department of English hosted Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer and Detroit poet Brittany Rogers for an evening of poetry and conversation in October. CLAE students also shared their poetry. Comer, a Detroit Native, is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Triquarterly), awarded …
Faculty reading featured original works of UDM professors
To kick off an exciting year of literary events on campus, Senior Adjunct Instructor Molly Barlow (fiction), Adjunct Instructor Isaac Pickell (poetry), and Senior Adjunct Instructor Ann Eskridge (musical theater) shared their original creative writing during a September evening event hosted by Poet-in-Residence Stacy Gnall and Senior Adjunct Instructor Michael …
Thumbs up: Steven Pasqualina
Assistant Professor of English Stephen Pasqualina’s essay “Before the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality” was published in the Summer 2023 issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. He also presented a paper on W.E.B. Du Bois and transnationalism at the Modernist …
Thumbs up: Patrick Kelly, S.J.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Patrick Kelly, S.J.‘s new book, Play, Sport and Spirit, is gaining national attention. Kelly’s book, which focuses on the human, cultural and spiritual significance of sport itself, is needed now more than ever, given conference realignments and other changes in the landscape of college sports. …