Great Things at UDM

Alternative Spring Break allows students the opportunity to participate in community service during spring break. In spring 2007, students and colleagues spread out across the country to help those in need: hurricane rebuilding efforts Biloxi/Waverland, Mississippi; home repair for the elderly or handicapped in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, and tutoring immigrants in Burnsville, North Carolina. For more information, visit the University Ministry website.

Gilbert Sunghera, S.J., from the School of Architecture's Detroit Collaborative Design Center, has launched an architectural practice in liturgical consulting. He has had clients in New York and California, as well as a church in New Orleans for the creation of a homeless center.

Black Issues in Education has consistently ranked UDM's MBA program among the top 40 programs in the nation for the number of African Americans awarded the MBA.

For the second year in a row, UDM's team of mechanical and electrical engineering students placed third overall (among 38 teams from across the nation and around the world) at the 2007 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. UDM's mobile robot vehicle competed against such engineering schools as Georgia Tech and University of Wisconsin.

UDM student team placed third among 18 entries in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers‘ Student Design Competition. Each team designed and built a Human-Powered Water Still to address the growing world shortage of water. 

A team of three UDM chemistry sophomores won the undergraduate research poster at the Association of Analytical Chemistry meeting. Their research was in the area of environmental chemistry.

The Colleges of Health Professions and Engineering & Science now offer a five-year Physician Assistant Program option for traditional undergraduate students; the program enables students to complete both a bachelor's and a master's degree in the five-year period.

The Criminal Justice Department is designated as a Special Center for Criminal Analysis and Geographical Profiling by the Department of Justice.