“You will have a better understanding of what architecture encompasses — not just the pure creativity, but also the technical demands.”
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Stephen J. LaGrassa
Professor of Architecture
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“Manual sketch is a good skill to have when you can’t rely on computers. And students share the opinion it’s an art worth preserving.”
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John Charles Mueller
Professor, Architecture
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“You will come away with knowledge of someone else's experience as your beginning point, so you will enter the profession with 30 years of experience.”
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Joe Odoerfer
Professor of Architecture
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“As a student, you're not just gaining information. You're part of a process of making better architecture, and better cities.”
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Daniel Pitera
Associate Professor, Architecture; Director, Detroit Collaborative Design Center
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“You'll think about things you may never have thought of before about sacred architecture and public space.”
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Gilbert Sunghera, S.J.
Assistant Professor, Architecture
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“I’ll challenge you to tell me what is not marketing and to show me headlines not generated by politics.”
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Mike Bernacchi
Professor, Business Administration
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“I want students to come to know themselves, their future, their lives.”
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Gerald Cavanagh, S.J.
Interim Dean, College of Business Administration; Charles T. Fisher III Chair, Business Ethics
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“You'll take away a better understanding of what numbers mean — for one thing, that they're not golden.”
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Jeanne M. David
Associate Professor, Accounting
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“We want you to not just have goals but to have dreams, and we want to be a part of you making them come true.”
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Mary Ann Hazen
Professor, Business Administration
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“Accountants aren't just 'bean counters,' but business partners. Accounting helps plan what beans get planted in the first place.”
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Robert Hutchinson
Assistant Professor of Accounting
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“As a leader of tomorrow, you need to understand the impact that technology is going to have on you individually, in your work life and, more importantly, on our society.”
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Greg Ulferts
Professor, Business Administration
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“When you leave here, you will be ready on the first day to practice as a general dentist in a competent and honorable manner.”
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James R. Geist, D.D.S., M.S.
Professor, Bio. & Diag. Sciences; Director of O/M Imaging Center
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“Through developing your skills and applying cutting-edge technology, you will have the clinical skills to make a living offering patients the best in endodontic treatment.”
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Michael Hoen, D.D.S.
Director, Graduate Endodontic Program
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“We’re known for being innovative. We’re the most challenging program in the state because of our interdisciplinary program.”
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Judith Luxmore
Clinical Associate Professor, Dental Hygiene
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“My number one goal is to help you leave my class better prepared as an engineer. I hold the bar high, but I put time into helping you reach that bar.”
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Rick Hill
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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“If you have a question, you can either spend three and a half hours trying to figure it out yourself using Wikipedia and the text book, or 30 seconds asking me.”
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Matthew J. Mio
Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
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“The main goal is to have you learn the material and be successful while you’re here.”
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Mark Paulik
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Chair, ECE Department
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“You may think, what can one person do? But I teach the importance of action. Locally, nationally, globally—it’s all connected.”
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Alexa N. Rihana-Abdallah
Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
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“You're going to take away, when you finish my class, the relevance that biochemistry has to your life.”
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Liz Roberts-Kirchhoff
Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry
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“It's a huge transition from high school to college math. I can ease the way for you.”
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Katy Snyder
Associate Professor, Math & Computer Science; Chair, Math & Computer Science Department
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“Whether it's pharmacology, professional aspects, pathophysiology, we'll bring that all together so that what you are talking about is real-world experiences.”
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Greg Bozimowski
Assistant Professor, Nurse Anesthesiology
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“When you graduate, you will have several offers for great paying jobs. People love to hire our graduates.”
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Amy Dereczyk
Instructor and Clinical Coordinator, Physician Assistant Program
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“You’re going to have a great job when you graduate from UDM’s Physician Assistant program.”
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Rachel DeWitt
Coordinator, Five-Year Accelerated Physician Assistant Track
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“Becoming a nurse means you are taking on a lot of obligations and responsibilities in our society. That can be challenging, but also profoundly rewarding.”
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John Knisely
Clinical Track Assistant Professor of Nursing
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“UDM is the #1 PA program in the state. So hospitals actually seek out our graduates for employment.”
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Sharon S. Moser
Associate Professor, Physician Assistant Program
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“When you’re done, I’ll ask you to look back to the first week of class and see how much you’ve grown.”
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Patricia A. Rouen
Assistant Professor, Nursing
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“In nursing, you need to be spot-on with medical knowledge. You can't wing it because it's life and death.”
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Mitzi M. Saunders
Associate Professor, Nursing
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“The reputation of University of Detroit Mercy, especially within nursing, holds its own within the hospital setting.”
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Nutrena Tate
Assistant Professor, Nursing
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“You will utilize your gifts, skills and talents to become not only a wonderful nurse, but also a wonderful human being.”
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Roberta (Robi) Thomas
Associate Professor, Nursing; Chair, Grand Rapids campus
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“You will feel prepared to deal with the 'pattern of chaos' we are experiencing in health care.”
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Patricia (Tricia) Thomas
Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Clinical Nurse Leader Program
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“I will treat you as a colleague — as a lawyer — and provide you an education that will get you where you want to go.”
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David Koelsch
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
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“You will begin to see yourself as a lawyer and grow on both an intellectual and personal level.”
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Gary Maveal
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Law
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“After taking a class with me, you will have a greater sensitivity and respect for children.”
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Libby Balter Blume
Professor and Director, Developmental Psychology and Program in Certified Family Life Education
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“You’ll become responsible, you’ll mature, you’ll perform, you’ll work in groups well, you’ll show leadership.”
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Antonio Drommi
Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Systems
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“You will take away a "questioning" mind and the ability to use appropriate research methods to get the answers you want.”
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Harold H. Greene
Associate Professor, Psychology
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“I will teach you to become a responsible, critical thinker with the ability to look at topics from multiple perspectives.”
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Heather Hill-Vásquez
Associate Professor, English; Director, Women's and Gender Studies
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“What philosophy does for you is bring you into contact with the most fundamental questions that human beings can ask.”
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David R. Koukal
Associate Professor, Philosophy; Director, Honors Program
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“Science education is such an exciting field and so much on the cutting edge that you can go out there and you can make a real difference.”
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Lorri MacDonald
Assistant Professor, Education
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“If math terrifies you, you’ll find you were overly anxious for no reason in my Statistics class.”
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Victoria Mantzopoulos
Associate Professor, Political Science; Director, Pre-Law Program
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“At different times in life, people are open to focus on philosophical questions. My courses will be such times for you.”
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Gail Presbey
Professor of Philosophy
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“We want you to think about the world in a skeptical way, and to think more deeply about your place in it.”
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Nicholas Rombes
Associate Professor, English; Chair, English Department
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“Journalism is an adventure, and it's intriguing, and it's compelling and it matters in this world.”
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Tom Stanton
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
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“I'll take you on field trips, where instead of seeing images on slides, you'll actually walk around historical sites.”
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Sarah Stever
Associate Professor, History
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“History isn’t names and dates, but flesh and blood people just like you, and you’re standing on their shoulders.”
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Gregory D. Sumner
Professor, History
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“You’ll get an appreciation for things richer and more complicated than they seem at first. You’ll have an eye for the obscure.”
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Rosemary Weatherston
Associate Professor, English
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