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Basic Communication Course Annual

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Basic Communication Course Annual

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Basic Communication Course Annual

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Spring Speaker Series Lineup Addresses Race, Bias, Civil Discourse, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton Speaker Series roster for spring 2019 features Spelman College president emerita and race relations expert Beverly Daniel Tatum; award-winning economist and think tank president Arthur C. Brooks; and Shankar Vedantam, an NPR host who examines hidden biases and the inner workings of the human brain.

Wellness In The New Year, Bonnie Jean Feldkamp

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

It's that time of year again. The time when my enthusiastic New Year's resolutions dwindle down to standing in the kitchen debating between cheesecake and a grapefruit. It's cold outside and a polar bear layer of hibernation fat doesn't seem like such a bad idea anymore.

Events To Celebrate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: 'Shape The Future By Building Place For All', University Of Dayton

News Releases

Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community; Can We Talk About Race? and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race, will deliver the keynote address at the University of Dayton's annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the Kennedy Union ballroom.

Mary In The News: Jan. 4, 2019, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also, see International Marian Research Institute news and updates.

Stanger Than Fiction, Michelle Tedford

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

They say life is stranger than fiction; assistant professor Jesseca Ynez Simmons says it's also more sweet. The filmmaker gives us an inside look at documentary films.

Fresh Prints' At Roesch Library, Katy Kelly

University Libraries Blog Archive

Color printing! Scan to email! Print on demand! New printers increase options, enhance privacy, reduce waste, and save energy. "You know what I'm saying?"

University Awards Mcintosh Scholarship To Stivers Senior, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Stivers School for the Arts senior Jada Simone Gee, who aspires to be a drama therapist, has been awarded the prestigious W.S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award.

Research Institute Wins $44 Million Award To Support Research In Advanced Structures Technologies For U.S. Air Force, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The United States Air Force awarded the University of Dayton Research Institute a $44-million ceiling contract to support research in advanced structures technologies for aerospace vehicles ranging from planes to unmanned vehicles.

Campus Report, Vol. 46, No. 2, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

The publication for faculty and staff of the University of Dayton. Highlights of this issue include: A profile about Shelley Inglis, the director of the University's Human Rights Center; news about the first University of Dayton giving day (April 10, 2019); a schedule of events to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.; a report from the Diversity Task Force; information about the Global Voices Symposium (Jan., 29-31); upcoming speakers; a description of the University's new chart of accounts; and profiles about the 2019 Lackner Award honorees, Corinne Daprano and Bill Fischer.

The Many Faces Of The Madonna: 25 Years Of Exhibits In The Marian Library, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Art Exhibit Guides

Selected from the over 120 exhibits that have been displayed in the Marian Library Gallery, the Marian art in this retrospective points to Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, as a highly visible figure of Christianity worldwide.

Exhibit dates: Feb. 11–Nov. 1, 2019

Curator: Father Johann G. Roten, S.M.

Graphic designer: Ann Zlotnik

Doc 2019-04 Proposal For Group Facilitation And Leadership Certificate, Kelly Vibber

Senate Documents

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Doc 2019-07 Proposal For New Bachelor Of Science In Sport And Wellness Degree And Consolidation Of Selected Majors Within The Department Of Health And Sport Science, University Of Dayton. School Of Education And Health Sciences

Senate Documents

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Rationale for Program:

We propose to establish a Bachelor of Science in Sport and Wellness (BSSW) degree in the School of Education and Health Sciences (SEHS) and Department of Health and Sport Science (HSS). Within this new degree, we propose:

● The creation of a major in Sport and Wellness, with multiple concentrations (Health and Fitness, Community Health, and Sport Management) that correspond to our current offerings and opportunities for growth. 2 The focus of the major in Sport and Wellness , with its multiple concentrations: Health and Fitness, Community Health, and Sport Management will be to build …

Doc 2019-01 Proposal For Bachelor Of Science In Sustainability, University Of Dayton. College Of Arts And Sciences

Senate Documents

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Contains:

1. Rationale for the New Degree Program

2. Description of the Impact on Other Programs and Departments

3. Prospective Enrollment

4. Attraction and Retention of Underrepresented Student Groups

5. Evidence of Industry Need and Employability of Graduates

6. Identification of Similar University Programs and Peer Institutions

7. Description of Proposed Curriculum

8. Review of resource Availability and Adequacy

9. Projected Additional Investment and Evidence of Capacity

Doc 2019-02 Bachelor Of Arts In Sustainability, Full Proposal, University Of Dayton. College Of Arts And Sciences

Senate Documents

Legislative Authority.

Contains:

1. Rationale for the New Degree Program

2. Description of the Impact on Other Programs and Departments

3. Prospective Enrollment

4. Attraction and Retention of Underrepresented Student Groups

5. Evidence of Industry Need and Employability of Graduates

6. Identification of Similar University Programs and Peer Institutions

7. Description of Proposed Curriculum

8. Review of resource Availability and Adequacy

9. Projected Additional Investment and Evidence of Capacity

Honorslink, Issue 2019.1, University Of Dayton

HonorsLINK Newsletter

The Honors Program newsletter, HonorsLINK contains in-depth stories about students and alumni, recent achievements and announcements from alumni, news about current students and a six-month calendar of events.

Active Recall Networks For Multiperspectivity Learning Through Shared Latent Space Optimization, Theus Aspiras, Ruixu Liu, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Given that there are numerous amounts of unlabeled data available for usage in training neural networks, it is desirable to implement a neural network architecture and training paradigm to maximize the ability of the latent space representation. Through multiple perspectives of the latent space using adversarial learning and autoencoding, data requirements can be reduced, which improves learning ability across domains. The entire goal of the proposed work is not to train exhaustively, but to train with multiperspectivity. We propose a new neural network architecture called Active Recall Network (ARN) for learning with less labels by optimizing the latent space. This …

Deep Temporal Convolutional Networks For Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting, Wentian Zhao, Yanyun Gao, Tingxiang Ji, Xili Wan, Feng Ye, Guangwei Bai

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

To reduce the increasingly congestion in cities, it is essential for intelligent transportation system (ITS) to accurately forecast the short-term traffic flow to identify the potential congestion sites. In recent years, the emerging deep learning method has been introduced to design traffic flow predictors, such as recurrent neural network (RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM), which has demonstrated its promising results. In this paper, different from existing work, we study the temporal convolutional network (TCN) and propose a deep learning framework based on TCN model for short-term city-wide traffic forecast to accurately capture the temporal and spatial evolution of traffic …

Predicting Public Opinion On Drug Legalization: Social Media Analysis And Consumption Trends, Farahnaz Golrooy Motlagh, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Michael L. Raymer

Computer Science Faculty Publications

In this paper, we focus on the collection and analysis of relevant Twitter data on a state-by-state basis for (i) measuring public opinion on marijuana legalization by mining sentiment in Twitter data and (ii) determining the usage trends for six distinct types of marijuana. We overcome the challenges posed by the informal and ungrammatical nature of tweets to analyze a corpus of 306,835 relevant tweets collected over the four-month period, preceding the November 2015 Ohio Marijuana Legalization ballot and the four months after the election for all states in the US. Our analysis revealed two key insights: (i) the people …

Iact Undergraduate Certificate In Applied Creativity (Year 2 - 2019), Brian Laduca

IACT Certificate Program

At the Institute of Applied Creativity for Transformation (IACT) at ArtStreet, we seek to empower a creatively confident 21st-century student with the ability to discover, invent and innovate ambiguous ideas through a disruptive design process that will impact today’s ever-changing global world regardless of degree focus.

IACT is home to the nation’s first undergraduate certificate in Applied Creativity for Transformation. Open to undergraduate students of any major, the certificate is a first step in achieving the University of Dayton’s vision of innovation, applied creativity, entrepreneurship and community engagement for the common good.

Hanley Sustainability Institute Community Engagement Summary: Key Opportunities For The Strategic Plan, Hanley Sustainability Institute, University Of Dayton

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

In the fall of 2019, the Hanley Sustainability Institute launched a partnership with Design Impact (DI), a social innovation nonprofit based in Cincinnati. DI and HSI worked together to create a strategic vision for HSI that outlined the role the institute would play on and off campus. This strategic vision was shaped through broad and deep community engagement with many of HSI’s stakeholders— students, faculty, staff and community partners. A core team of UD staff and faculty from various departments guided the process.

Quasilinearization And Boundary Value Problems At Resonance For Caputo Fractional Differential Equations, Saleh S. Almuthaybiri, Paul W. Eloe, Jeffrey T. Neugebauer

Mathematics Faculty Publications

The quasilinearization method is applied to a boundary value problem at resonance for a Caputo fractional differential equation. The method of upper and lower solutions is first employed to obtain the uniqueness of solutions of the boundary value problem at resonance. The shift argument is applied to show the existence of solutions. The quasilinearization algorithm is then developed and sequences of approximate solutions are constructed that converge monotonically and quadratically to the unique solution of the boundary value problem at resonance. Two applications are provided to illustrate the main results.

Community As An Institutional Learning Goal At The Unversity Of Dayton, Steve Herndon, Kelly S. Johnson, Kimberly Edginton Bigelow, Una M. Cadegan, Diana Cuy-Castellanos, Alan Demmitt, Chris Fishpaw, Hunter Phillips Goodman, Daria-Yvonne J. Graham, Joseph Krella, Chad Painter, Kathy Sales, Kellie Schneider, Castel Sweet, William Vance Trollinger, Erick Salvador Vasquez, Chanel Wright, Mary B. Ziskin

Documents of the Provost's Office

This working paper summarizes the work of the Habits of Inquiry and Reflection Community Fellows. It considers the meaning of community both in UD’s historic mission and in the ways it is practiced at UD now; identifies obstacles and failures; and offers recommendations for advancing community as a learning goal at UD.

Review: 'Human Operators: A Critical Oral History On Technology In Libraries And Archives', Kayla Harris

Marian Library Faculty Publications

What is technology? Although the definition changes depending on context, editor Melissa Morrone starts off her collection of oral history interviews, Human Operators: A Critical Oral History on Technology in Libraries and Archives, by posing that question. In a unique style, Morrone compiles, edits, and connects interviews from 42 different librarians and archivists into one book that reads like a conversational narrative. Many interesting topics are covered throughout, but the book mainly provides responses from librarians and archivists about how we, as humans, use and ultimately feel about technology in different environments.

Leading Change For School Improvement, Corinne Brion

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

This teaching case study is meant to help current and future school leaders become change agents who lead effectively and improve their schools. I discuss one case in a fictitious city and school that is representative of many other American schools. In particular, I examine adaptive challenges that educational leaders commonly face. This case encourages administrators to participate in meaningful conversations with stakeholders to solve complex issues around leading change. The hope is to better understand how school leaders can transform schools, embrace adaptive challenges, and use change as opportunities for growth. I also pose questions designed to make future …

Voices Of Ghanaian Head-Teachers Working In Low-Fee Private Schools, Corinne Brion, Paula A. Cordeiro

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

The year 2000 was pivotal for the developing nations of the world. During the Millennium Summit, 189 member nations of the United Nations and 23 international organizations came together to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration and to commit to help achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Those goals were to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development. These ambitious goals had specific targets to be achieved by 2015 (United …

Bearing Witness To Sexual Violence As A Violation Of Women's Rights, Josh Segalewitz

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

On January 21, 2017, masses of people around the globe gathered for one of the largest collections of public protest in history. It is estimated that over seven million people gathered to raise awareness of human rights violations towards several different groups. However, perhaps the largest common trope was echoed time and time again in the phrase, "women's rights are human rights." Conversations surrounding women's rights have been pushed to the forefront of human rights discourse in the recent past, and although there has certainly been a lot of progress towards the universal enforcement of women's rights, the role of …

Myanmar’S Pop Music Industry In Transition, Heather Maclachlan

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

In the wake of the November 2010 elections, one important signal of the Myanmar government’s commitment to change was the cessation of the censorship of music recordings in October 2012.

1 Prior to that date, the country’s Press Scrutiny Board conducted rather rigorous censoring of so-called stereo series (albums), in cassette and later in compact disc formats. Producers wishing to sell their series in retail shops were required to submit a copy of the recording and ten copies of the song lyrics to the censors at the Press Security Board (MacLachlan 2011:148). Although the censoring was supposed to be provided …