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Collaborative Research Projects, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton biology major Andrea Vietti is learning engineering and computer coding skills this summer to help prepare her to work as part of a transdisciplinary research team.

Collaboration Accelerator, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Nine University of Dayton students are working this summer to find creative solutions to real-world challenges focused on education innovation.

Mass Appeal Of Human Rights, Shawn Robinson

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A new book out this month by Joel R. Pruce, University of Dayton assistant professor of human rights, details the evolution of human rights into a mainstream moral cause.

Use The Library, Save Money, Katy Kelly, Ryan Reed, Adam Schwartz

University Libraries Blog Archive

How much would a student spend on a typical research essay if the library and OhioLINK did not provide access to books and journals? Two students recently found out.

Adapting To Serve, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Two new divisions — one dedicated to more efficient and renewable energy technologies; the other to more affordable and rapid aerospace system sustainment — are among several significant changes made during the University of Dayton Research Institute's organizational restructure, which took effect July 1.

A Gift Of Faith, University Of Dayton

News Releases

As the University of Dayton approaches the three-year anniversary of the dedication of the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, students and staff share their thoughts on the renovated chapel — their reaction to the space, their favorite aspects and the role the Chapel plays in our faith community.

International Entrepreneurs, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Two teams of University of Dayton entrepreneurs won spots in the final round of the China-US Young Maker Competition, along with free travel to Beijing to compete Aug. 13-17.

Reliving The Magic, Teri Rizvi

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

You can relive (or experience) moments from the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop by visiting the Erma YouTube channel, where we're sharing excerpts of keynote talks by Liza Donnelly, Karen Walrond, John Grogan and Monica Piper as well as humorous bits by comedian Wendy Liebman and a sampling of stand-ups by brave writers. Tori Chickering O'Connell, with back-up performer Elly Lonon, closed Attendee Stand-Up Comedy Night with "Still Smokes," a sing-along. It's one of those catchy tunes that is guaranteed to stick in your head.

Teaching Note—Reification And Recognition In The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, Molly Malany Sayre

Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Faculty Publications

At an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program course in a correctional facility, roughly half the students are from the university (outside students) and half are residents of the facility (inside students). I participated as a teaching assistant in an Inside-Out social work course on drugs and crime that was offered in a prison for men and interpreted the observed and reported experience of students using Lukács’ concepts of recognition and reification as discussed by Axel Honneth. This teaching note explores the implications of the Inside-Out course for outside students’ reification and recognition of people who are incarcerated, and by extension, members …

Bargain Brand Justice: Ohio's Indigent Defense Funding Model Makes Justice Inaccessible And Undermines The Sixth Amendment, Ebony Davenport

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Wolf In Charity's Clothing: Behavioral Economics And The Case For Donor-Advised Fund Reform, Ann Charles Watts

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Split Tickets? On The Strategic Allocation Of Presidential Versus Vice Presidential Visits In 2016, Christopher J. Devine, Kyle C. Kopko

Political Science Faculty Publications

This article analyzes the strategic allocation of presidential campaign visits in 2016. In particular, we test whether each campaign disproportionately targeted its presidential versus vice presidential candidates’ visits toward voters with whom they shared a salient demographic or political characteristic. Our purpose in doing so is to discern whether—and, if so, among which groups—the campaigns perceived the candidates as having a strategic advantage in appealing to affiliated voters. To this end, we analyze an original database of 2016 campaign visits that includes local population characteristics for each host site. Our results indicate that each ticket’s visits were highly coordinated across …

When Trade Secrecy Goes Too Far: Public Health And Safety Should Trump Corporate Profits, Julie Zink

School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article addresses the historical and ongoing use of trade secrets to withhold critical information from the public. Through its text and footnotes, the Article discusses the positives and negatives of trade secret protection; addresses historical and current examples of trade secret abuse; analyzes the inadequate solutions that have been tried and proposed; and, ultimately, recommends changing trade secret law by incorporating the precautionary principle into the definition of a trade secret to ensure that protection will no longer be available for information that endangers public health. This Article is both timely and necessary, as the public is continually bombarded …

Seven Certainties Of Summer Vacation, Bonnie Jean Feldkamp

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

School's out and we all want to get away for some summer fun. Are you ready?

President Paul Biya And Cameroon’S Anglophone Crisis: Now Is The Time For Bold Action, Julius A. Amin

History Faculty Publications

President Paul Biya of Cameroon has been silent for long in relation to the ongoing unrest in the country's English-speaking region. His silence has made matters worse, and it is time he took decisive measures to resolve that crisis if he wants history to remember him after his nearly 40 years in power.

Student Emmy Award Winner, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A University of Dayton student-produced documentary about Dayton’s deadly opioid epidemic won a student Emmy Award from the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Black Madonnas: Intriguing And Ancient, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Exhibit Summaries

Archived website and summary of exhibit in the Marian Library

Exhibit dates: June 25–July 27, 2018

Climate Change: Implications For Professional Best Practices In Special Collections, Sarah Burke Cahalan

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation responds to research presented by Eira Tansey, Ben Goldman, and Whitney Ray. Both presentations were part of the seminar “Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Gathering Data and Exploring Professional Implications for a Very Different Future,” presented on June 22 at RBMS 2018.

Coding For All, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Roller coaster loop-the-loops met functional loop statements at a University of Dayton summer coding camp that made learning the basics of computer programming fun and engaging for local middle school students.

Fire, Michelle Tedford

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Reflections on the exclamation mark.

Mr. Sunshine, Jerry Zezima

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Of our planet's many great meteorological mysteries - including why, since I am full of hot air, no hurricane in the past 30 years has been named after me - this one is the most baffling of all: What the hell is the difference between partly sunny and partly cloudy?

2018-06-18 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.

Intriguing And Ancient: A Photographic Exhibit Of Black Madonnas, Maureen Schlangen

Marian Library Blog Archive

In an exhibit opening June 25 in the Marian Library, religious architecture photographers Dennis Aubrey and PJ McKey of Sugar Grove, Ohio, explore the mysterious origin and intriguing significance of Black Madonnas in French shrines.

In Solidarity With Laudato Si', University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton is among the nearly 600 U.S. Catholic institutions that signed the Catholic Climate Declaration that affirms the Paris Agreement and supports actions to meet its goals.

Udri Awarded Afrl Contract, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton Research Institute has been awarded a six-year, $72 million-ceiling Air Force Research Laboratory contract for research and development in AFRL's Quick-Reaction Evaluation of Materials and Processes program.

Dissertation Fellowship Award, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton doctoral student Dara Delgado was awarded a $20,000 fellowship from the American Association of University Women to complete her dissertation, which focuses on an African-American woman who founded a black Pentecostal denomination in 1924 with the goal of empowering women.

A New Phase, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The planning process for the redevelopment of the former Montgomery County fairgrounds has entered a new phase. The property’s owners, Premier Health and the University of Dayton, are taking the steps necessary to make the 38 acres ready for development and to complete a long-term vision for the property’s transformation.

The Juggler Of Notre Dame And The Medievalizing Of Modernity, Volume 1: The Middle Ages, Jan M. Ziolkowski

Juggling for Mary

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.

Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before …

Here For Our Students, University Of Dayton

News Releases

National and international organizations recently recognized the University of Dayton’s Division of Student Development for its community policing, alcohol prevention, residential learning and student training programs, and annual report.

Formal And Informal Undergraduate Ethics Education In Engineering, Grace Ports

Undergraduate Voices

This literature review attempts to answer the question of whether formal education or informal education of ethics within civil engineering is more beneficial. If there is a lack of structured education of ethics in civil engineering, then another area of interest is to discover where engineers are being informally educated. Another area of inquiry is whether it is more beneficial to teach engineers ethics prior to the time when they are required to study the code of ethics for their certification exam, or should engineers wait until moments before the exam to study the code. This article examines the potential …