Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity
ReBUILDetroit welcomes Leah Aggison, Ph.D. to the University of Detroit Mercy team as the Student Success Coach last month. Aggison joins Kathleen Walker, Student Success Coordinator, as a mentor, advisor and supporter of ReBUILDetroit scholars at Detroit Mercy. She comes at a time when more than half of the 85 consortium ReBUILDetroit scholars are students Read More …
More than a third of the ReBUILDetroit scholars at University of Detroit Mercy were recognized in three Colleges at Detroit Mercy’s Honors Convocation for the academic achievements this past weekend. College of Health Professions / McAuley School of Nursing ReBUILDetroit scholar, Anthony Croft was awarded the Martina Kuechle Nursing Scholarship Award. This scholarship is awarded Read More …
Relicious Eboh, a ReBUILDetroit scholar, reflects on her recent experience presenting at the MedEq Research Conference in Detroit last month. Eboh is a sophomore at University of Detroit Mercy and presented her poster, “Refining an Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Pregnant Black Women.” For nearly a year, Eboh has been working with her research Read More …
ReBUILDetroit scholar, Leena Abbas, sophomore at Wayne State University was one of five winners at the MedEq Research Conference held at Wayne State University last month. Abbas poster, “The Effects of Paternal Asthma on Birth Weight” received one of the top awards in a field of nearly 30 posters some of which were presented by Read More …
As part of the Chemistry Research Coordination Network (RCN) course, Marygrove College Chemistry professor, Dr. Dajena Tomco invited guest speaker Malik Kenyatta Yakini to speak about urban farming and food justice in Detroit. Yakini is a founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) which operates a seven-acre urban Read More …
Recent debates concerning doctoral education focus largely on the question of whether universities are training too many Ph.D. students in the right disciplines and with the right skill set. Granular data about doctoral training and doctoral career outcomes are essential to inform the conversation on the future of the Ph.D. Five Wayne State University faculty Read More …
Freshman in the SEA-PHAGE class are celebrating their successful identification of bacteriophage (viruses that infect bacteria) they discovered this semester. The Biology class is part of SEA-PHAGES project which provides students a unique mentored research experience in their freshman year. “This is a great experience for freshman,” says Dr. Stephanie Conant. “Providing a research Read More …
Three scholars from the ReBUILDetroit program win awards for best posters in the Social and Behavioral, Public Health discipline category at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Tampa, Florida last month. The winning posters by Wayne State University sophomores Leena Abbas, Ki-Jana Malone and Mohammed B. Mohammed are respectively: “Effects of Read More …
University of Detroit Mercy Chemistry sophomore and ReBUILDetroit scholar, Kathrine Yacoo and her lab partner, Danielle Maxwell, won the “Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation Award” at the Association of Analytical Chemists (ANACHEMS) annual symposium earlier this month. “This was the first conference I presented a poster on our research that specifically highlights the analytical chemistry aspect,” said Read More …
“Faculty-student relationships are the number one indicator of student success,” says Dr. Katherine Rowell, professor of Sociology at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. More than 25 faculty and staff from Detroit Mercy, Marygrove College and Wayne State University participate in an interactive professional development workshop facilitated by Rowell at Detroit Mercy on October 7. Read More …