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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.

College Faculty In The News: March 10, 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.

Faculty And Staff Perspectives, Thomas Morgan, V. Denise James, Jalen Turner, Andrew Evwaraye, Donna M. Cox, Herbert Woodward Martin, Kathleen Henderson

Proceedings: 2021 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

University of Dayton is an employer across all sorts of levels. We are citizens of the University in lots of ways, and what we contribute as faculty and staff creates the place. We have longevity that students do not have. We hope that this will develop into a deeper dive into the University of Dayton's past and thinking about the lives of Black faculty and staff. This isn’t the culmination of a project but rather a beginning of thinking about learning from and remembering that past because if we don’t cultivate these things, we lose them. This is what we’re …

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 …

Mary In The News: March 8, 2021, 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 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.

Photographing Women Of Ud, Kathyrn Niekamp

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Student photographer Kat Niekamp talks about her opportunity to take documentary photographs of the honorees of the Women of UD project, coordinated by UD's Women's Center during Women's History Month.

Is This Heaven?, Curt Macdougall

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

So here I am watching another Kevin Costner "baseball" movie. Hard to tell which one...maybe Field of Dreams or Bull Durham, or that one where he's an aging pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Actually, I think there were two movies where he played that part. Whatever.

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.

Under The Influence, Jerry Zezima

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I have very little influence, even in my own home, which is the only place where I am a household name, but that won't stop me from achieving my new and extremely dubious goal of being one of the most influential people in the world.

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 …

Archiving Catholic Faith On The Web During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler

Marian Library Faculty Publications

In the middle of March 2020, an undergraduate English class from the University of Dayton visited the Marian Library for hands-on learning with primary source materials related to miraculous cures at the Lourdes shrine in France. Students in the upper-level seminar course that focused on narrative, rhetoric, and medicine prepared for the visit by reading an article about the baths at Lourdes, where thousands of pilgrims have traveled annually since the 1870s for a chance to be cured by the holy water from a spring.1 As students examined photographs, copies of case files, and historical narrative accounts, several of them …

2021: Sangita Gosalia, Sangita Gosalia

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.

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.

Virtual Games Meet Physical Playground: Exploring And Measuring Motivations For Live Esports Event Attendance, Haozhou Pu

Health and Sport Science Faculty Publications

The spectacular rise of esports and its live events have drawn increasing interests from sport and leisure studies. Little information, however, is known on motives behind spectators’ attendance of esports events. Based on a mixed-method design consisting of data collected in cross-cultural settings, we developed and validated an eight-factor measurement scale related to the motives of attending live esports events. In this study, we contend that esports event creates a space where virtual and physical experience are mutually constituted. While motives found in traditional sports and event research are present in the current study, motives unique to esports events are …

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 …

Ud In The News Feb. 19-26, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Provost Paul Benson contributed an op-ed to Inside Higher Ed highlighting the UD Sinclair Academy. Local media reported on the upcoming grand opening for The Hub Powered by PNC Bank at the Dayton Arcade, and UD research that is helping power the Mars rover Perseverance.

University Of Dayton Professor Wins First Prize At Catholic Book Awards For Book About Recognizing Seven Deadly Sins, Hayden Doyle

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton professor Jana Bennett’s newest book won first prize at the Catholic Media Association’s 2020 Catholic Book Awards.

Mary In The News: Feb. 22, 2021, 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.

Natural Selection: The Eschatological Role Of Nature In 1 Enoch And Snowpiercer, Emily Georgopoulos

Father Jack McGrath, S.M., Research Award Presentations

Emily Georgopoulos is a recipient of the Father Jack McGrath, S.M., Award for Research in Catholic Intellectual Traditions.

If You Have Devices Connected To The Internet, This Book About Legal Pitfalls Of The Internet Of Things Is For You, University Of Dayton

News Releases

With Wi-Fi seemingly around most every corner; devices in our hands, bodies, cars and homes connected to the Internet; and questions about the reliability and security of this connectivity, it's inevitable the "Internet of Things" will be the subject of legal battles. A new book by University of Dayton law professor Thaddeus Hoffmeister will help anyone with legal questions and issues about connected devices.

Mary In The News: Feb. 16, 2021, 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.

A Community Of Care And Support, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

In the midst of the pandemic, Holly Harmon arrived on campus as the new director of the Counseling Center and quickly realized the times we live in called for a new, more nimble approach to serving students.

College Faculty In The News: February 10, 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.

Mary In The News: Feb. 9, 2021, 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.

The Hub Rises: Abundance And New Beginnings In The Old Arcade, Jeaneen Parsons

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

The first University of Dayton tenants have moved into the Arcade — and it's a sight to behold. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the new spaces of The Hub, soon to be a center of student learning, growing and connecting in downtown Dayton.

University Of Dayton Magazine, Spring 2021, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of University Marketing and Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD.

Mary In The News: Feb. 1, 2021, 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.