Great Things at UDM

The School of Architecture’s Detroit Collaborative Design Center is recognized worldwide for its exemplary work in community-based design.  Their current work as leaders of the community engagement process for the Detroit Works project for the city of Detroit is receiving excellent feedback and promises to be groundbreaking in the field of urban design for post-industrial cities.

The College of Business Administration inducted four new members to its Hall of Honor in fall 2012, including two business leaders, a finance administrator and a hospital board executive. The honorees, all CBA alumni, have exemplified the Mission of the College, demonstrated the Jesuit and Mercy traditions of service to others, and have distinguished themselves in their careers and personal lives.  See photos and read more about them at http://business.udmercy.edu/alum-bio/honor/2012/index.htm.

The School of Dentistry increased its first-year class size from 96 to 144 students  (two cohorts of 72 students) for fall term 2012. To support the increase in students, the School enhanced its facilities with the addition a new simulation laboratory and 21 operatories.

In June 2012, the UDM robotics team won the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) competition at the IGVC, beating many “big name” engineering schools like Georgia Tech, the US Naval Academy, the Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin, and top ranked schools from India, Mexico and Canada.

Nour Saad, a PA student, placed first in the Physician Assistant Education Association /Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants Student Writing Competition. She was invited to present her paper entitled “Voluntary Active Euthanasia of the Terminally Ill” at the AAPA 39th Annual PA Conference.

Undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level students in Psychology have received authorships in a variety of academic journals.

The School of Law offers specialty courses in the School’s Law Firm Program including:

• Advising Entrepreneurs in New Business Start-ups
• Anatomy of a Business Transaction
• Children and the Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• Franchising
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation
• Pre-trial Criminal Advocacy
• Small Firm Practice

241 student-athletes earned Athletic Director’s Honor Roll accolades, recognizing those who had attained a 3.0 GPA during one of the semesters during 2011 academic year.

• Total Number of Student-Athletes with a 3.0 or above: 183 (65%)
• Total Number of Student-Athletes with a 3.5 or above: 104 (37%)