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A Passion For Human Rights Research, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton alumna Kata Lucas '12 credits the University's human rights studies program for sparking her interest in the Bosnian war and also encouraging her to question some of her family's views on the 3-year conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was settled in November 1995 by the Dayton Peace Accords.

Mary In The News: Nov. 2, 2017, 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.

Just Say, “Huh?”, Tracy Buckner

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Auto correct has made us dumb.

Experience Accelerated Collaboration Nov. 8: Spotlight On Concourse D, Katy Kelly

University Libraries Blog Archive

On Wednesday, November 8, the campus and wider Dayton community are invited to Roesch Library to experience a prototype of an innovative collaboration space known as Concourse D.

2017 Conference Program, University Of Dayton Human Rights Center

Human Rights Program Documents

We come together at a challenging time. Sixty-five million forcibly displaced persons. More than forty million slaves. Democracy under attack. Nuclear weapons, ethnic cleansing, ecological disasters and racial injustice headlining the news. The resurgence of a hardline, nativist intolerance around the world. While there are many threats to the realization of universal human rights, there are many powerful tools we can use to confront these dangers. Chief among these is our growing ability to come together, to communicate, to collaborate.

The University of Dayton — a Catholic, Marianist research university — long has been a center of programming, dialogue and …

Indigenous Women: Npac 2017, Will Van Winkle

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton's Native Peoples of the Americas Colloquium is an annual two-day forum focused on Native American culture and history. For more than 15 years the University has hosted speakers, performances and workshops to highlight Native American traditions and customs and to give voice to indigenous issues, perspectives and experiences.

Haunted Manners, Jase Graves

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

In our family, we've always tried to focus on the fun, lighthearted aspects of Halloween. Imagine Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin (which always makes me cry a little), or Winnie the Pooh going trick-or-treating with Piglet. Our Halloweens have always been filled with candy treats, cute costumes, apple-bobbing, pumpkin carving, etc. (And occasionally, my wife convinces me to allow our three daughters to join in.) Besides, at my age, I considered myself beyond being scared by "things that go bump in the night" - unless it's our dog nocturnally dispensing Tootsie-Rolls on the living room carpet.

Creating Inclusive Community, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton will hold its annual 2017 Creating Inclusive Community Conference from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, in the Jesse Philips Humanities Center.

The Facing Project, Clare Gallagher

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Seventy University of Dayton students captured the experiences and challenges of living in Dayton by interviewing local residents as part of a national community storytelling project intended to bring awareness about local human rights issues to inspire social action.

The Consul: Recommended Reading And Viewing, Katy Kelly

University Libraries Blog Archive

On Oct. 22, University of Dayton students will attend the Dayton Opera?s performance of Gian Carlo Menotti?s The Consul as part of the First-Year Arts Immersion. Here's list of books to read and streaming films to watch that explore similar themes and circumstances.

Spirit Apparitions, Vampire Attacks And Other Otherworldly Happenings, Joan Milligan

University Libraries Blog Archive

Seasonal search reveals spooky scholarship among rare books: A Benedictine monk's 18th-century treatise on the supernatural.

Ecommons Crosses Half-Million Milestone, Maureen Schlangen

University Libraries Blog Archive

In early October, eCommons, UD?s open-access institutional repository, surpassed the 500,000-download mark.

Stand Me Up At The Gates Of Hell, Fredrick Marion

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

My dad used to have this brown leather case full of cassettes. He played the hell out of them. Pink Floyd. Led Zeppelin. Cream and the Allman Brothers. He'd get his guitar out and strum along, no shirt, no shoes, Kool hanging out of his mouth, coffee sitting on his amp. He's inextricable from that music. He's why I have guitars and a closet full of '70s shirts. I fell in love with those songs.

Bolivia: Bicycle-Powered Washing Machine, Thomas Devine

ETHOS Technical Reports

This summer, a University of Dayton Mechanical Engineering student traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia to work with CECAM developing sustainable technologies for the Cochabamba Pedal Project. This project aims to design and construct various pedal-powered machines to ease the living conditions of people with a wide range of needs or disabilities. From corn de-grainer bikes to blender bikes to ice cream machines, the CPP aims to create machines of all types that can enable someone in need to pull themselves up from poverty. In most Bolivian families, the burden of chores and other household responsibilities tends to fall on the backs …

Weeping And Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering Of Early Christian Hell As A Threat To Masculinity, Meghan Henning

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

This chapter draws upon the conceptions of gendered bodily suffering found in the ancient medical corpus (Hippocrates, Galen and inscriptions), martyrdom literature, and the Roman judicial rhetoric of punitive suffering to read apocalyptic depictions of bodily suffering as “effeminizing” punishments, which in turn utilized masculinity and bodily normativity to police behavior, and equated early Christian ethical norms with masculinity and bodily “health.” By highlighting the different types of bodies found in these texts, as well as the ways in which Christian norms interacted with Greek and Roman notions of the body, the chapter shows how masculinity and ancient notions of …

Minding The Gap: Mentor And Pre-Service Teachers’ Ability Perceptions Of Content Area Literacy Instruction, Treavor Bogard, Mary-Kate Sableski, Jackie Marshall Arnold, Connie L. Bowman

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

This mixed method study compared how student teachers rated their ability in implementing components of content area literacy compared to their clinical educators’ perceptions of the student teachers’ actual performance. The researchers collaborated with K-12 clinical educators to develop a scaled survey to rate level of skill in four components of content literacy instruction. 112 clinical educators (CEs) and 183 student teachers (STs) representing five teacher licensure programs completed the survey. A two-way multivariate analysis of variance measured the effect of Role (CE and ST) and Teacher Licensure Program on ability perception. Results indicated that Role and Program each significantly …

2016 Scholar For Faith And The Environment Report, University Of Dayton, Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

No abstract provided.

University Of Dayton Magazine. Autumn 2017, University Of Dayton Magazine

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD. This issue includes basketball player Jeremiah Bonsu's reflections about teammate Steve McElvene, an article about Rivers Institute study abroad in China, and inventions that took root at the UD

2014-16 Hsi Progress Report, University Of Dayton, Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Research Needs: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration To Improve Information Literacy In Policy Papers, Michelle C. Pautz, Heidi Gauder

Political Science Faculty Publications

To improve the quality of semester-long policy projects of upper-division political science students, a faculty member and research librarian collaborated to reframe the assignment in hopes of improving students’ research skills and information literacy, revising the traditional one-way model of faculty sending students to the library to get information. The outcomes over the course of two semesters have been promising. Citations in two sets of student papers showed a remarkable increase in the number and quality of sources used. This suggests that when faculty work with librarians throughout the semester, such collaboration can improve students’ information literacy and thus their …

Social Revolutions Start With Words, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton will host a national academic conference next month that focuses on how language has been used throughout history to both regulate and liberate people - particularly women and people of color.

Spare Us The Asparagus, Jase Graves

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

This year, my wife and I made a surprise trip to New England so that I could accept an award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in Manchester, New Hampshire. When we arrived at Boston's Logan International Airport and collected our baggage, our first stop was the car rental center, where we picked up a cute, little Ford Fiesta. The charm quickly wore off, though, when we climbed in and were almost overcome with a pungent aroma. Being the litter box connoisseurs that we are, we immediately recognized the stench of cat urine. Oh, well, at least we felt …

Student To Attend Clinton Global Initiative University, Clare Gallagher

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton alumnus Drew Formentini is providing current senior Abby Kowalczyk with the opportunity to attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) conference to address issues on campuses, in local communities or around the world.

Bolivia: Composting Toilets, Caroline Stockglausner

ETHOS Technical Reports

This report will outline the project and work done with in Cochabamba, Bolivia during a 10-week Summer immersion working with the CONSES organization. The techniques used to improve Marketing and organization with the CONSES organization will be demonstrated.

Mary In The News: Sept. 22, 2017, 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.

First-Year Arts Immersion: 'The Consul', Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The Consul - Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera about a freedom fighter and his family attempting to flee oppression in the face of unrelenting bureaucracy - is perhaps as resonant today as when it premiered on Broadway in 1950, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle award for best musical.

Research Offers Tough Love To Improve Human Rights Practices, Joel Pruce

Political Science Faculty Publications

We know what it means to practice a skill such as juggling or dancing, but what does it mean to "practice" human rights?

Contributions to OpenGlobalRights (OGR), since its inception, have gravitated around critique of human rights practices by focusing on advocacy and activism, cultivating debates that address the contemporary dilemmas facing human rights movements worldwide. The launch of OGR four years ago is a symptom of what I’ve referred to elsewhere as a “practice turn” in the scholarly field of human rights—one that takes human rights practice as its subject, forges space for scholar-practitioner collaboration and communication, and focuses …

Flyer News, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Sept. 19, 2017), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Andrew Johnson: The Uniting Or Dividing Factor Of Reconstruction, Nicole Perkins

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

This historiography began with an abundance of research done on the topic of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction, annotating each source, noticing trends in interpretation, and organizing my thoughts. Through this historiography, the reader will be able to clearly see the drastically different interpretations of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction during different time periods of American history.

Historiography Of The Reconstruction Era Kkk: Reconstructing Understandings Of Racism, Mary Mcloughlin

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

The writing process for this historiography spanned a large portion of the semester. I started by writing a topic proposal where I identified my goal for the project as examining the way the classification of the Ku Klux Klan has evolved. Next, I gathered an array of sources which I later narrowed down to the eight used in my historiography. Using these eight sources, I submitted an annotated bibliography to my professor. I used the feedback given on my annotated bibliography to craft an initial draft of my historiography. After consulting the CORE write place consultants and utilizing the feedback …