Saturday, April 27, 2024
The harsh Detroit winter felt as if it was in the rear-view mirror the morning of April 10. The air in Calihan Hall was different, as it was filled with excitement. Detroit Mercy was ready to introduce its next men’s basketball coach. After an extensive search of over 60 […]
The Detroit Mercy community will soon be without one of its longest tenured employees. Diane Praet has worked at the university since 1978, holding roles that included university registrar and associate vice president. She will gradually be stepping away from her roles at the university and towards retirement. While […]
For the first time since the Spring 2018, the Detroit Mercy athletic department is looking for a new head men’s basketball coach. This comes after the university announced on March 7 that the school and Coach Mike Davis had agreed to mutually part ways. While on paper Davis’s 60-119 record […]
Student Advisory Board president Mark Formosa is stepping down. When Formosa came to campus in Fall 2021, he and other freshmen in his class inherited a post pandemic slump experience, as there wasn’t much to do on campus. This did not phase Formosa though and he looked to make […]
On campus in the 1970s, there would have been twice as many students, and you’d see a lot of things that didn’t linger in the university’s presence for much longer than the turn of the decade. This could have been anything from Detroit legend’s Terry Duerod and Dick Vitale elevating […]
To travel from Senigallia, Italy, to Calihan Hall in Detroit one would have to travel 4,556 miles (about 7332.17 km). Considering that one would have to catch a connection flight, the trip is over 13 hours long, something that graduate senior and Senigallia native, Edoardo Del Cadia is more than […]
When Madeline Dugan was named head coach of Detroit Mercy Women’s Lacrosse on June 26, 2023, the feeling was fresh, but she was no foreigner to Calihan Hall. The Rochester, Michigan, native served as an assistant in 2022, a team that featured over 60 percent of the Titans’ current roster. […]
The College of Liberal Arts and Education (CLAE) at the University of Detroit Mercy started the new year running with its student ambassador program coming into form. The program, which will be fully operational in February, has selected nine ambassadors to dawn the task of increasing good connections with prospective […]
Fifty years ago, on March 31, 1973, the University of Detroit hired Rutgers assistant coach Dick Vitale to be its new head basketball coach. Yet to be known at the time, Vitale would become the voice of college basketball and help make the sport into what it is today, but […]
The University of Detroit Mercy has a long and rich history that its foundation is built upon. One thing that keeps this history preserved is continuity and that word is directly associated at this university with Dr. James Lynch. Dr. Lynch is an alumnus of the university and an engineering […]
