Architecture's Detroit Collaborative Design Center was the first university-based design center in metropolitan Detroit to provide design services to non-profit community and civic organizations, such as Mercy Education Project and the Detroit neighborhoods of Woodbridge, Claytown, Sullivan and Corktown. It is currently working with the City of Detroit in creating a development plan for Harmonie Park. The Design Center recently completed a design-build construction project for St. Joseph’s Recovery Center in New Orleans.

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.

UDM's Master's in Community Development offers a comprehensive and holistic approach to the theory and practice of community development. This unique, interdisciplinary program provides a broad foundation for individuals who are new to community development as well as professionals in the field.

The School of Architecture and the Cranbrook Educational Community are collaborating on a multi-year effort to design, implement and develop a robust CAD-based system that would render Cranbrook, one of America's greatest architectural complexes, into a 3-D computer model to be used for educational, planning and management purposes.

Professor of Architecture Anthony Martinico received a Fulbright Award for the 2007-2008 academic year to create and teach architectural history and theory classes at the Politechnika Warszawska  in Warsaw, Poland, where he helped create its exchange program with UDM’s School of Architecture.

The School of Architecture now offers a graduate-level health care concentration for Architecture and Health Professions students.