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Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

The University of Dayton’s popular Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop is sold out, but writers and Erma aficionados can participate in a number of free events leading up to the April 4-6 workshop.

'The Truth Only Dies When True Stories Are Untold': The Story Of Reconstruction In New Orleans, Alexandra Amrhein

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

For my ASI 120 historiography, I chose to research the city of New Orleans during Reconstruction, focusing on how interpretations of this topic have evolved over the past century. I began my project by conducting several weeks of research, gathering credible sources written by historians throughout the years, and writing a topic proposal. Afterwards, I started working on an annotated bibliography; I finalized my choice of sources, read them closely, took detailed notes, and summarized them. This also involved grouping each source into one of three interpretive categories, which were determined based on how each historian frames and interprets Reconstruction’s …

A Divided Front: Abolitionist Women's Suffrage Movement Through The Lens Of Intersectionality, Alexandria M. Ford

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

While studying the Reconstruction era of the United States, I was tasked with writing a historiography paper. I researched the abolitionist women's suffrage movement through the lens of intersectionality. I gathered resources, journal articles, and books to critically explore the ways historians have employed the concept of intersectionality when discussing the abolitionist women's suffrage movement. With this research, I constructed an annotated bibliography of eight sources. I grouped the following sources into three interpretative categories by how each historian chose to utilize intersectionality as a lens to analyze the movement. The annotated bibliography developed into my full historiography paper by …

Historical Interpretations Of The Formation Of Public Education For Freedpeople In Reconstruction South, Daniel C. Napoli

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

I started my historiography paper by gathering and analyzing varied historical interpretations of the formation of public education in the South. These sources ranged over one hundred years from the beginning of the twentieth century to the two-thousands. These sources contradicted each other in many ways due to inaccurate and biased depictions of it from early Reconstruction historians. After analyzing the trends and shifts in historical interpretation on this topic I crafted an argument for which category of interpretation is best. This was based on many factors including historical accuracy, clarity, and level of bias.

The Amendments That Mended America, Julia Redder

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

After reading Eric Foner's A Short History of Reconstruction, I began gathering sources about the Reconstruction amendments: the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth. I collected sources that covered a large span of history and was able to construct my analysis of the Reconstruction amendments and how different interpretations changed throughout time.

The Midnight Incendiary: America's Myth Of Black Violence, Eleanor Yates-Mcewan

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

I went through an extensive researching, writing, and revising process for this essay. I spent most of the Spring 2022 semester researching. I initially investigated the ties between slave patrols and our contemporary police institution, and, after following a winding road of sources and ideas, that topic morphed into a historiography of Southern militia conflict. I read and summarized many sources to find patterns in historical characterizations which I then organized into the interpretive categories I identify in this essay. Once I had the shape of the essay and worked out my argument, I went through many rounds of edits: …

Editor's Note, Margaret M. Strain

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

No abstract provided.

Doc 2023-02 (Amended) Students' Academic Rights And Responsibilities, University Of Dayton. Student Academic Policies Committee

Senate Documents

Action: Legislative Authority

Revised 19 January 2024; Approved 24 February 2023

When the Senate amended the “Students’ Academic Rights and Responsibilities” section of the Faculty Handbook in early 2023 with legislation 2023-02, the Senate left unchanged 6.A.4 of that document on “Disclosure of Information.” It is only that section that stands in tension with university-wide FERPA policy.

The university-wide FERPA policy has developed since 6.A.4 was written in the Faculty Handbook. Unintentionally, SAPC reinforced an outdated policy upon putting forth DOC 2023-02. This proposal, then, brings that policy in line with current university FERPA policy.

2024 Marian Forum, Neomi De Anda, Kayla Harris

Marian Library Blog Archive

Events scheduled throughout the day on Tuesday, Feb. 13, will reflect the theme of Marian shrines.

Ud Entrepreneurship Students “Bring Fresh, Unique Ideas” To International Firm, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton entrepreneurship students conducted industry research and presented business recommendations to Total Quality Logistics, an Ohio-based third-party logistics company, gaining real-world experience in the classroom.

Civil Engineering Student Recognized With Asee Ciec 2023 Intern Of The Year Award, University Of Dayton

Blog: The Dayton Engineer

Senior civil engineering major Bradley Hashbarger has recently been recognized as the American Society of Engineering Education Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration 2023 Intern of the Year award winner.

Libraries Win Award For Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Work, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton Libraries won a national award for commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion from Insight Into Diversity magazine.

Integrating Renewable Energy With Building Management Systems: Pathways To Sustainable Infrastructure, Vibhu Sharma

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Publications

The adoption and integration of renewable energy sources with building management systems (BMS) present a pivotal strategy in addressing the growing concerns related to energy use in the built environment. As urbanization intensifies and the demand for energy increases, buildings emerge as critical nodes of consumption, accounting for approximately 40% of global energy usage. The imperative for sustainability calls for a shift from conventional energy practices toward systems that prioritize renewable sources, such as solar, wind, and geothermal power. These technologies, when synergized with BMS, hold the potential to revolutionize buildings from passive energy consumers to active, efficient agents of …

In Memoriam: Ellie Stockum, Professor Emerita Of English, Shannon Miller

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Eleanore “Ellie” Krage Stockum, professor emerita of English and author of a definitive text on writing basics, died late last year.

Exhibit Celebrates Erma Bombeck’S Legacy, University Of Dayton

News Releases

A new exhibit in Roesch Library will celebrate the life and legacy of Erma Bombeck (1927–1996), trailblazing humor writer, bestselling author and syndicated columnist who found and developed her writing voice as a UD student.

Beyond The Byline, Teri Rizvi

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Beth Nevarez loves discovering the story behind the story. A public historian who spent days combing through the Erma Bombeck Collection at the University of Dayton, Nevarez quickly realized the dual nature of the trailblazing humorist.

Virtual Academic Coaching (Vac): A Practical Technology For Student Engagement, Jessica Gregor, Paul Gregor

Learning Teaching Forum

Virtual academic coaching (vAC), distinct from the roles and responsibilities of post-secondary educators or counselors, is a novel method of higher education student development and retention, and is quickly becoming established at both public and private universities throughout the United States and abroad. Although relatively new to the canon of student success in higher education, virtual coaching is foundationally based in longstanding tenets of adult education and relies on principles which educators and counselors have recognized since the formalization of the post secondary classroom. Positive research into efficacy of the virtual academic coaching profession lends credibility to its potential for …

Erma's Got Talent, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Erma’s Got Talent, loosely formatted along the lines of America’s Got Talent, will offer 12 randomly selected contestants the opportunity to perform two minutes of their original stand-up material in front of comedy veterans. The winners will perform on stage at the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop in April.

Setting Those Goals, C. Hope Clark

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

For the most part, people hate goals. They hate making the goals, or they love making them but hate following through on them. It's why New Year's resolutions catch so much crap. We talk big, then let them fizzle after, what, one week?

Communicative Capacities Of German Marriage Portraits: Portrait Of A Daughter Of Dietrich Bromsen, Victoria Brey

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

BreyAhh, portraiture: the Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder profiles of 1635. Portraiture has historically been one of the most powerful means for constructing and performing identity, whether viewers of portraits realize this or not. Rarely are portraits objective representations of their sitters. Instead, they are constructs, carefully crafted narratives about people’s identities that the people in the portraits want us, the viewers, to believe. Do they want to show us their authentic selves, though? Returning to the social media example—has anyone ever swiped right on a hot guy and discovered too late that he looks like a tortoise in real life? …

2024 Resident Scholar Reflection: Elizabeth Groppe, Elizabeth Groppe

Marian Fellowships and Other Sponsored Research in the Marian Library

One of my favorite places to spend a summer Ohio morning is in our family garden of lavender bee balm and ripening cherry tomatoes. But in the summer of 2024, I deepened my appreciation for gardening in the Marian Library as a Marian Resident Scholar. Each day spent in the reading room, I admired a display of some gorgeous Marian artwork including images of Marian flowers drawn by Brother A. Joseph Barrish, S.M.; a botanical rosary by Katrina Rose Harrington; and a painting of Mary encircled by echinacea and monarch butterflies (inset image) by Ann Marie Coolick and Megan Coonelly. …

Intelligent Millimeter-Wave System For Human Activity Monitoring For Telemedicine, Abdullah K. Alhazmi, Mubarak A. Alanazi, Awwad H. Alshehry, Saleh M. Alshahry, Jennifer Jaszek, Cameron Djukic, Anna Brown, Kurt Jackson, Vamsy P. Chodavarapu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Telemedicine has the potential to improve access and delivery of healthcare to diverse and aging populations. Recent advances in technology allow for remote monitoring of physiological measures such as heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood glucose, and blood pressure. However, the ability to accurately detect falls and monitor physical activity remotely without invading privacy or remembering to wear a costly device remains an ongoing concern. Our proposed system utilizes a millimeter-wave (mmwave) radar sensor (IWR6843ISK-ODS) connected to an NVIDIA Jetson Nano board for continuous monitoring of human activity. We developed a PointNet neural network for real-time human activity monitoring that can …

Exponential Fusion Of Interpolated Frames Network (Efif-Net): Advancing Multi-Frame Image Super-Resolution With Convolutional Neural Networks, Hamed Elwarfalli, Dylan Flaute, Russell C. Hardie

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become instrumental in advancing multi-frame image super-resolution (SR), a technique that merges multiple low-resolution images of the same scene into a high-resolution image. In this paper, a novel deep learning multi-frame SR algorithm is introduced. The proposed CNN model, named Exponential Fusion of Interpolated Frames Network (EFIF-Net), seamlessly integrates fusion and restoration within an end-to-end network. Key features of the new EFIF-Net include a custom exponentially weighted fusion (EWF) layer for image fusion and a modification of the Residual Channel Attention Network for restoration to deblur the fused image. Input frames are registered with subpixel …

Echo Brochure, 2024, University Of Dayton. Center For Catholic Education

Center for Catholic Education Reports and Promotional Materials

Promotional brochure for ECHO (Empowering Children with Hope and Opportunity), a program that places mental health therapists and family advocates in local Catholic schools to help children overcome obstacles to learning such as poverty and exposure to addiction, violence, discrimination, separation, abuse, and other trauma.

Predicting An Optimal Medication/Prescription Regimen For Patient Discordant Chronic Comorbidities Using Multi-Output Models, Ichchha Pradeep Sharma, Tam Nguyen, Shruti Ajay Singh, Tom Ongwere

Computer Science Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on addressing the complex healthcare needs of patients struggling with discordant chronic comorbidities (DCCs). Managing these patients within the current healthcare system often proves to be a challenging process, characterized by evolving treatment needs necessitating multiple medical appointments and coordination among different clinical specialists. This makes it difficult for both patients and healthcare providers to set and prioritize medications and understand potential drug interactions. The primary motivation of this research is the need to reduce medication conflict and optimize medication regimens for individuals with DCCs. To achieve this, we allowed patients to specify their health conditions and …

Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work, Hiv/Aids, And Anti-Trafficking In India, Simanti Dasgupta

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Based on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, Prophylactic Rights examines the emergence of labour rights at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking. The primary disciplinary contribution of this book lies in bridging medical and legal anthropology through a corporeal understanding of sex work rights. It addresses the following questions: How does the labour rights narrative emerge through everyday negotiations with an epidemic and the law and what congeries of history, public health policies, legal regimes, and techniques of subjection and subversion impede and impel the labour movement? The book will …

Digital Devotion: Marian Shrines Online, Kayla Harris

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Using the online components of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, including the website and social media channels, this chapter explores how Marian shrines are occupying digital and e-spaces. This chapter describes these spaces, analyzes the relationship between digital and in-person shrines, and considers how virtual shrines have blurred the line between devotional practice and entertainment. E-shrines raise important questions about the overlap between digital and physical spaces within Catholic practice. Attuned to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this chapter argues that digital devotion has become an increasingly important practice that has pushed Marian shrines …

A Bi-Invariant Approach To Approximate Motion Synthesis Of Planar Four-Bar Linkage, Tianze Xu, David H. Myszka, Andrew P. Murray

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper presents a planar four-bar approximate motion synthesis technique that uses only pole locations. Synthesis for rigid-body guidance determines the linkage dimensions that guide a body in a desired manner. The desired motion is specified with task positions including a location and orientation angle. Approximation motion synthesis is necessary when an exact match to the task positions cannot be obtained. A linkage that achieves the task positions as closely as possible becomes desired. Structural error refers to the deviations between the task positions and the linkage's generated positions. A challenge in approximate motion synthesis is that structural error involves …

Viewbook: Division Of Student Development, University Of Dayton. Student Development

Student Development Documents

This publication provides an overview of the mission, vision, values, and goals of the University of Dayton Division of Student Development; it also provides descriptions of the work of all the departments in the division.

Transgender Persons: A Pastoral Approach In Catholic Institutions, James Heft S.M.

Intersections of Science and Faith

Father James Heft, S.M., begins with some personal examples of how, over the past few years, he's become involved in the Catholic conversation about transgender people. He then reviews current public debates about transgender care and compares and contrasts two different documents issued by Catholic dioceses on how to approach this issue.