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Harry Potter And Defense Against Disinformation, Zoe Hill

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Students were drawn to the course like a moth to a wizard's wand.

Coloring As Contemplative Prayer, Ann Zlotnik

Marian Library Blog Archive

The Marian Library has converted a religious sister's artwork into coloring pages as a way to reflect on each station in the Way of the Cross.

Ud In The News March 20-26, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Conversation, Yahoo! News and newspapers across Ohio are among the news media sharing UD faculty expertise.

College Faculty In The News: March 25, 2021, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences. Find links to a number of recent stories below.\

University Of Dayton Announces In-Person, On- Campus Graduation Ceremonies May 7-9, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Aligned with safety guidelines and allowing for students and their guests to celebrate academic achievements in the Flyer spirit and tradition, the University of Dayton will hold six in-person graduation ceremonies May 7-9 at University of Dayton Arena.

Human Rights Award To Honor Champion Of Environmental Rights; Students To Unveil Moral Courage Project About Fight For Clean Water, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Environmental and climate justice will be at the heart of a series of University of Dayton events to honor the legacy of Saint Oscar Romero. The series will culminate with the University bestowing its human rights award named in his honor to Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic, leader of the Council of Ki’che’ Peoples which helps preserve indigenous lands against corporate exploitation in Guatemala.

2021-03-22 Meeting Notes Of The Educational Leadership Council, University Of Dayton

Educational Leadership Council (ELC) Meeting Notes

Approved notes of a meeting of the Educational Leadership Council of the University of Dayton.

"Scissorhands" Commercial Scores Big For Grad During Super Bowl Lv, Zoe Hill

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Jason LaFlore ’07 scored his second consecutive Super Bowl commercial, this one featuring hands-free driving for a boy with scissors for hands.

Ud In The News March 13-19, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Biofuels Digest, Renewable Energy Magazine, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! News, The Conversation, CNN and The Hill are among the national outlets sharing University of Dayton faculty expertise.

Ud Earns Top Rankings In National Science Foundation's Most Recent Annual Rankings Report On Higher Education Research, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton ranks No. 1 in 10 categories among national, state and Catholic colleges and universities, and it increased its standing in five others according to the National Science Foundation’s most recent annual rankings report on higher education research.

University Of Dayton Human Rights Center Faculty And Students Create Online Exhibit Exploring Vietnam War’S Impact On Campus, Allison Brace

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A key component of the Vietnam Legacies Project explores the University of Dayton in a wartime setting, showcasing protests, personal stories and the greater effects of the war on campus. An initiative of the UD Human Rights Center, the project includes a virtual exhibit launched during the 2020 fall semester, as well as a two-day online symposium in October that addressed the impact of the war in the U.S. and attracted more than 40 panelists and attendees.

A Tribe Of Loud, Smart, Funny Women, Bonnie Jean Feldkamp

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

The writings of a tribe of loud, smart, funny women are included in a new book published during Women's History Month.

More Marker Boards In The Library: Sga And The Dean's Fund Deliver, Maureen Schlangen

University Libraries Blog Archive

A student approached an SGA senator about getting dry-erase boards installed in more library study rooms. Daniel Hennessey wrote up the proposal, and thanks to a grant from SGA and matching funds from the donor-supported Dean's Fund for Excellence, the new boards are now installed.

Ud Researchers On National Renewable Energy Laboratory Team Fast- Tracking Food Waste Into Sustainable Aviation Fuel, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton researchers have helped a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) team take another step toward turning wet food waste into a sustainable aviation fuel.

Alumni Voices, Lawrence Burnley, Daria-Yvonne Graham, Merida Allen, Angela Heath, Darius Beckham, Lisa Rich-Milan, Marcus Smith

Proceedings: 2021 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Session was facilitated by Dr. Lawrence Burnley and moderated by Dr. Daria Graham ’92 ’01 ’18, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at California State University, San Bernardino. Panelists included Angela Heath ’78 ’80; Darius Beckham ’19; Lisa Rich-Milan ’85; and Dr. Marcus Smith ’08 ’10.

These proceedings are available free for download but also available for purchase in print for $6 plus tax and shipping.

Ud In The News March 6-12, University Of Dayton

News Releases

President Eric F. Spina wrote an op-ed on the Dayton Arcade for the Dayton Daily News, Spectrum News in Ohio and Florida featured two student entrepreneurs who started a COVID-related business, and a pair of faculty contributed pieces to The Conversation.

Testimonies, Joel Pruce

Proceedings: 2021 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

The testimonies session was an interactive listening and dialogue event in which attendees listened together to stories submitted in advance that documented the Black student experience on campus. The goal of the session was to convene student staff and faculty to engage in a generative and critical conversation motivated by actual experiences. In attendance were students, staff, and faculty; together, we listened to four audio clips submitted by current and former students who narrated campus experiences. We listened together to cultivate a shared experience and baseline understanding to motivate the discussion. After each story, attendees met in smaller groups to …

Mirrornet: Bio-Inspired Camouflaged Object Segmentation, Jinnan Yan, Trung-Nghia Le, Khanh-Duy Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran, Thanh-Toan Do, Tam V. Nguyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Camouflaged objects are generally difficult to be detected in their natural environment even for human beings. In this paper, we propose a novel bio-inspired network, named the MirrorNet, that leverages both instance segmentation and bio-inspired attack stream for the camouflaged object segmentation. Differently from existing networks for segmentation, our proposed network possesses two segmentation streams: the main stream and the bio-inspired attack stream corresponding with the original image and its flipped image, respectively. The output from the bio-inspired attack stream is then fused into the main stream’s result for the final camouflage map to boost up the segmentation accuracy. Extensive …

Doc 2021-04 Converting Criminal Justice Studies Program To Department Of Criminal Justice And Security Studies, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate

Senate Documents

Legislative Authority

Ud In The News Feb. 27- March 5, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Ohio cable news outlet Spectrum News and several local media covered the grand opening of the The Hub Powered by PNC at the Dayton Arcade. Professor Janet Bednarek's research on people living in airports was picked up by Yahoo! News and drew more than a million overall readers.

Ohio Arts Council Honors Two University Of Dayton Faculty With Individual Excellence Awards And $4k Grants, Ashley Junkunc

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The Ohio Arts Council honored two University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences faculty Individual Excellence Awards for their respective creative work in filmmaking and graphic design. Jesseca Ynez Simmons, assistant professor of communication, and Misty Thomas-Trout ’11, assistant professor of art and design, received the awards and $4,000 grants to develop their skills and advance their careers.

2021: Dr. Anne R. Crecelius, Anne R. Crecelius

Women of UD: 2018 to Present

During Women’s History Month, the Women’s Center coordinates, as an experiential learning opportunity for students, an annual exhibit highlighting the contributions women have made at the University of Dayton.

The 2021 theme, "Leading with Character and Resilience," captures what it means to work in the midst of a pandemic, social and political unrest and economic uncertainty. Each honoree displayed resilience, drive, character and tenacity and created inspiring ways to move forward.

2021: Elizabeth Schwartz, Elizabeth Schwartz

Women of UD: 2018 to Present

During Women’s History Month, the Women’s Center coordinates, as an experiential learning opportunity for students, an annual exhibit highlighting the contributions women have made at the University of Dayton.

The 2021 theme, "Leading with Character and Resilience," captures what it means to work in the midst of a pandemic, social and political unrest and economic uncertainty. Each honoree displayed resilience, drive, character and tenacity and created inspiring ways to move forward.

2021: Dr. Sharon Davis Gratto, Sharon Davis Gratto

Women of UD: 2018 to Present

During Women’s History Month, the Women’s Center coordinates, as an experiential learning opportunity for students, an annual exhibit highlighting the contributions women have made at the University of Dayton.

The 2021 theme, "Leading with Character and Resilience," captures what it means to work in the midst of a pandemic, social and political unrest and economic uncertainty. Each honoree displayed resilience, drive, character and tenacity and created inspiring ways to move forward.

Color-Compressive Bilateral Filter And Nonlocal Means For High-Dimensional Images, Christina Karam, Kenjiro Sugimoto, Keigo Hirakawa

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

We propose accelerated implementations of bilateral filter (BF) and nonlocal means (NLM) called color-compressive bilateral filter (CCBF) and color-compressive nonlocal means (CCNLM). CCBF and CCNLM are random filters, whose Monte-Carlo averaged output images are identical to the output images of conventional BF and NLM, respectively. However, CCBF and CCNLM are considerably faster because the spatial processing of multiple color channels are combined into a single random filtering process. This implies that the complexity of CCBF and CCNLM is less sensitive to color dimension (e.g., hyperspectral images) relatively to other BF and NLM methods. We experimentally verified that the execution time …

Deep Learning For Anisoplanatic Optical Turbulence Mitigation In Long-Range Imaging, Matthew A. Hoffmire, Russell C. Hardie, Michael A. Rucci, Richard Van Hook, Barry K. Karch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

We present a deep learning approach for restoring images degraded by atmospheric optical turbulence. We consider the case of terrestrial imaging over long ranges with a wide field-of-view. This produces an anisoplanatic imaging scenario where turbulence warping and blurring vary spatially across the image. The proposed turbulence mitigation (TM) method assumes that a sequence of short-exposure images is acquired. A block matching (BM) registration algorithm is applied to the observed frames for dewarping, and the resulting images are averaged. A convolutional neural network (CNN) is then employed to perform spatially adaptive restoration. We refer to the proposed TM algorithm as …

2021: Julianne Morgan, Julianne Morgan

Women of UD: 2018 to Present

During Women’s History Month, the Women’s Center coordinates, as an experiential learning opportunity for students, an annual exhibit highlighting the contributions women have made at the University of Dayton.

The 2021 theme, "Leading with Character and Resilience," captures what it means to work in the midst of a pandemic, social and political unrest and economic uncertainty. Each honoree displayed resilience, drive, character and tenacity and created inspiring ways to move forward.

The Demise Of The Blaine Amendment And A Triumph For Religious Freedom And School Choice: Espinoza V. Montana Department Of Revenue, Charles J. Russo, William E. Thro

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Solution Or Setback: Legal And Practical Implications Of School Threat Assessments For Ohio Students With Disabilities, Margaret Miles

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

It Is Time To End Ability Grouping And "The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations" It Imposes On Minority Students, Holly Fudge

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.