Thursday, November 14, 2024
In what is being heralded as a momentous event in Detroit Mercy history, Ta-Nehisi Coates – one of the country’s most prominent voices on the issue of race – will speak Tuesday, April 4, at Calihan Hall. Thousands of students, staff, faculty and metro-Detroiters are expected for the 6 p.m. […]
Most of you have probably noticed the new website the university created under the direction of Marketing and Public Affairs Department, but might not be sure of what it actually took to pull it off. The last time the website went through any major redesign was in 2006. At that […]
ldquo;Bus Stop,” the Theatre Company’s current production, has entered its final week of performances. The remaining dates are Feb. 23-25 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. at the Boll Family YMCA, 1401 Broadway, Detroit. Created by William Inge, the play takes place in 1955 about 25 miles […]
Coming up on the extended weekend of March 2-5 is the fourth annual Hamtramck Music Festival. The festival will feature 179 local bands at 22 bars in the city. Shuttle buses will take festival-goers to and from the bars of their choosing. “This year will be my second time attending […]
Junior Michael James came for the pizza. It drew him to TRiO, a federal program that assists first-generation college students, as well as those who come from low-income families or have documented disabilities. The program is located on the third floor of the McNichols Campus library. “I’m being honest,” James […]
About 60 Detroit Mercy students will head to one of four locations for Alternative Spring Break, March 4-11, to experience different lifestyles, create relationships and make an impact for the better. Each group will be living in a different environment for five to seven days. These are the sites being […]
Former Detroit Mercy soccer player Abigail (McCollum) Campbell was honored Friday at the men’s basketball game against University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) for an act of heroism. Campbell, who is now a police officer, talked a man out of jumping off of the Livernois overpass into traffic on the Lodge […]
In the neighborhoods beyond the gated grounds of Detroit Mercy, people – including some who work and attend Detroit Mercy – live and go about their day-to-day routines. And despite what some may say and think about the blocks south of campus along Puritan and west of Livernois, the neighborhoods […]
Patrick Pawlowski has been working to make guns safer since graduating in 2013. This spring, following much national fanfare, the product he played a key role in developing – Identilock – will hit the market. A biometric trigger lock, Identilock aims to prevent accidental shootings and to keep unwanted persons […]
Driving down Fairfield, Leya Bobbitt passes Detroit Mercy every morning on her way to work. Growing up right off Puritan, Bobbitt remembers walking to Detroit Mercy every year for Safety Street when she was a kid. Even as a youngster, Bobbitt knew Detroit Mercy was in her future. But almost […]
