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A Dayton, Ohio, Community Casts Two Challenging Questions: Why Does Africa Matter? Why Care About Cameroon’S Anglophone Crisis?, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Certainly, this topic sounds important, even if it also sounds a bit overwhelming. That word global can seem intimidating, particularly when even the local challenges us. But this evening I hope to narrow the globe down and speak about Africa, and about the ongoing Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon. My hope is to show how and why the African Continent and Cameroon matter to us in this room and beyond.

Ud In The News April 18-24, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Chronicle of Higher Education featured UD Arena serving as a COVID-19 testing site in a series about what colleges are doing to combat the virus. Several local and regional media highlighted how UD is supporting students with virtual celebrations on what would've been graduation weekend, the student crisis fund and career advice. Others tapped faculty expertise on learning and effects on the economy during the pandemic

Why The Symposium On Global Voices Remains Relevant In Campus And Local Community Discourse, Joann Wright Mawasha, Furaha Henry-Jones, Ernesto Rosen Velásquez, Bernard Jones Jr.

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

In this session, panelists addressed the question of relevance and importance of global awareness on college campuses and beyond. They approached the topic through different disciplinary and professional lenses as they discussed a wide array of experiences. Their presentations more fully humanized the impact of global awareness and raised questions and challenges that were vital to the overall symposium conversation.

Student Voices On Global Consciousness, Maya Smith-Custer, Emily Shanahan, Miranda Melone, Elizabeth Henninger, Isabel Gerardino Ríos

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

University of Dayton students share their journeys engaging as citizens of the world and discuss why it is important to foster true community in a global society.

Secure Captchas Via Object Segment Collages, Tam V. Nguyen, Zhe Huang, Saiteja Bethini, Venkata Sai Prasanth Ippagunta, Phu H. Phung

Computer Science Faculty Publications

CAPTCHA, a short form of “Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”, is a computer program that can generate and grade tests that most humans can pass, but current computer programs cannot. This paper advances research on image-based CAPTCHA by incorporating the object segment collages. We first collect object segments from thousands of images by using our self-developed collection tool. Then, we create an image collage that compiles randomly selected object segments. To increase the difficulty for computer detection algorithms, we embed some features such as noisy background, object segment occlusion and object segment orientation update. …

Enhancing Global Awareness On Campus, Sangita Gosalia, Shuang-Ye Wu, Treavor Bogard, Anne R. Crecelius, Philip Appiah-Kubi

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

The Global Education Seminar (GES) program is in its ninth year of existence. The program serves as a key faculty development opportunity and supports respective academic units’ strategic priorities for internationalization. Faculty from across disciplines commit to participating in a one-year, seminar-structured program prior to a three-week immersive experience in a particular region. The intent is to provide faculty with a mechanism to expand their understanding of the world and, in doing so, shape new or existing curriculum, faculty or student collaborations, research opportunities, and/or other international opportunities. Regions of focus for the GES program have included China, Argentina, Peru, …

National Endowment For The Humanities Awards University Of Dayton Nearly $100k For Creation Of Paul Laurence Dunbar Courses And Archive, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the University of Dayton nearly $100,000 to develop interdisciplinary courses and create a digital archive to help preserve the legacy of Dayton native Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first influential black poets in American literature

What's The Good Word?, Jerry Zezima

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

As a man of many words, not all of them repeatable in a quarantine, I will say that "quarantine" would be a great word to use if you were playing Scrabble. That's because it would be worth 19 points, most of them coming from the letter Q, which by itself is worth 10. And if you got a triple word score, it would be worth 57 points.

Shrines And Pilgrimages: Documenting Mary's Role In The Pandemic, Kayla Harris

Marian Library Faculty Presentations

A 1997 special report in Scientific American claimed that the average lifespan of a website was only 44 days. A study in 2001 put that at 75 days, while a 2003 article indicated 100 days. Everything on the Internet doesn’t last forever. The Marian Library has collected material related to the Blessed Virgin Mary since its founding in 1943. Increasingly, some of the material that would have once been printed, and possibly made their way to the Marian Library archives, is now being shared only electronically. Things like shrine Mass schedules, news articles, or blog posts are available on websites, …

Have The Best Words, Curtis Honeycutt

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

This essay is an excerpt from Curtis Honeycutt's upcoming book, Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life.

Ud Students Present Masculinity In Film Research At Conference In Chicago, Ian Gouverneur

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Most students don’t come to college thinking they’ll present research at a national conference. However, in November five University of Dayton undergraduate students presented as a panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) conference in Chicago, discussing their research for English department Chair Andy Slade’s upcoming book about masculinity in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, Be a Man and Other Bad Advice.

The Communicative Pragmatics Of Data-Use For Equity: A Theoretical And Methodological Framework, Mary B. Ziskin

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Calls for higher education institutions to implement improvements guided by “data-driven” processes are prevalent and widespread. Despite the pervasiveness of this turn toward data, research on how data-use works on the ground in postsecondary institutions—that is, how individuals within institutions make sense of education data and use it to inform practice—is still developing.

Drawing on Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action (TCA), critical-race theory, and methodological guidance on critical-qualitative research methods, this paper synthesizes methodological and substantive insights from P–12 data-use research, with an eye to applying these insights to critical questions on postsecondary educational equity. The result of the review …

University Of Dayton Magazine, Spring 2020, University Of Dayton

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. Articles include "Andes Dream", "The Unearthly Temple", and "At Table: Everyday Spaces of Expression and Connection".

Voices Raised, Issue 56, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Newsletter editor: Anna Rose Redgate '20

In this issue:

• "The Patriarchal Exploitation of Women and Nature," a piece by Shazia Rahman, associate professor of English
• COVID-19 update
• Director's message (Lisa Borello, Ph.D.)
• Women of Courage: The 2020 Women of UD exhibit
• Report card on the status of women at UD
• Research guide on women's suffrage
• Gender Equity Research Fellows report
• HERS Institute honoree: Re'Shanda Grace-Bridges, Director of Student Transitions and Family Programs

Orpheus, Spring 2020: Suspension, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

No abstract provided.

Mary In The News: March 31, 2020, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

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

Ud In The News March 7-27, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton faculty shared their expertise on how the pandemic is affecting American life in The Conversation, The New York Times, The Columbus Dispatch, The (Toledo) Blade and the Catholic Moral Theology blog, among others.

And The Winners Are ..., Katy Kelly

University Libraries Blog Archive

Congratulations to the 2020 Library Award winners.

University Of Dayton Core Program Honors Two Students With 2020 Herbenick Award, Marissa Mccray

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton Core program honored two students with the Raymond M. Herbenick Award on March 8 at the 33rd annual Core Integrated Studies graduation banquet — making Shannon Stanforth and Claire Sullivan the first co-winners in the award’s history.

God's Work, Eric F. Spina

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

University President Eric F. Spina honors Sister Angela Ann Zukowski, M.H.S.H., for her contributions in pioneering the Virtual Learning Community for Faith Formation.

Leadership Training In Burkina, Corinne Brion

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

I have been blessed to work in Burkina Faso for the past five years. Our task there has been to build the capacity of school leaders. School leaders in Low-Fee Private Schools (LFPSs) do not have any formal training and in most instances are not educators. Because a training is as good as its material and trainers, we developed contextualized research-based educational leadership materials in which adult learning theories are embedded. We train local school leaders, train local trainers through a Train the Trainers model (TOT), and conduct research.

Lost In Translation, Joanna Manning

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

When I first moved to Germany in the late 90s, I enrolled in a brief course on German language and culture to help ease my transition to my new home. I don't remember much about the class; in fact, the only thing I clearly remember is that the instructor made it a point to teach us the German word for diarrhea, which (I will never forget) is Durchfall.

2020 Program: Honors Student Symposium, University Of Dayton. University Honors Program

Honors Student Symposium

In addition to research abstracts, the program contains the awardees of the following awards:

• The Patrick F. Palermo Honors Program Founders Fund
• The Daniel Arnold Memorial Scholarship
• The Berry Summer Thesis Institute
• The Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Research Grant Program

Marian Anagrams, Henry Handley

Marian Library Blog Archive

An obscure writing genre illuminates Marian doctrine.

Mary In The News: March 2, 2020, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

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

2020 Global Voices Symposium Schedule, University Of Dayton. Alumni Chair In Humanities

Promotional materials

Flyer providing the schedule of sessions and speakers for the 2020 symposium

Erma Bombeck Student Scholarship Winner: Jordan Elliott, Jordan Elliott

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Flashback twelve years ago to my third-grade presentation on someone important to me, and you would find me dressed up as the one and only Erma Bombeck. I stood, decked out in pearls and my grandma's brooch, quoting Erma to everyone that walked by my tri-fold board.

Erma Bombeck Student Scholarship Winner: Cassady Calder, Cassady Calder

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

When I was accepted to the University of Dayton and mentioned Erma Bombeck as one of its famous students, my grandmother piped up that she loved Erma and used to read her columns in the paper weekly. I myself didn't get a proper introduction to Erma Bombeck until I was perusing a garage sale a year ago and picked up a dusty, vintage collection of four of her books. I read all four of them that summer and could see why my grandmother appreciated her wit and vivacity.

2020: Dr. Corinne Daprano, Anna Rose Redgate

Women of UD: 2018 to Present

During Women’s History Month, the University of Dayton 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. Theme for 2020: Women of Courage.

2020: Neomi De Anda, Ph.D., Julio A. Quintero

Women of UD: 2018 to Present

During Women’s History Month, the University of Dayton 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. Theme for 2020: Women of Courage.