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Understanding Chemolithotrophic Reduction Mechanisms From The Dark Marine Biosphere, Anna Gwendolyn Blair

Honors Theses

As greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming and an increase in CO2 concentration in the earth’s atmosphere, the scientific community is under pressure not just to examine new technologies to reduce emissions, but also to consider the effect that increased CO2 concentration has on our terrestrial and marine ecosystems. In marine ecosystems, atmospheric CO2 dissolves and reacts with water to form carbonic acid. This diprotic acid then dissociates, contributing to a lowered pH of ocean water and affecting all levels of marine life. Fortunately, nature already has carbonate reduction mechanisms in place that can reduce the harmful effects of …

Toward A Pa-Inhibitor Complex Crystal System: Influenza Polymerase Acidic Protein Fusion Constructs And Protein Expression, Rebecca Kramb

Honors Theses

Globally, three to five million people are afflicted on a yearly basis with serious illnesses due to influenza. In attempts to combat this epidemic, vaccines and antivirals are developed, yet they are not effective enough. The polymerase acidic protein (PA) is vital for viral replication, and inhibiting PA would potentially stop the virus from replicating. In order to inhibit PA effectively, the structure of the protein inhibition site is beneficial but has not yet been obtained because the site is blocked by another protein in crystal structures. Our solution is to fuse different proteins to PA to open up the …

Designing Fictional Spaces: Questionable Architecture That Supports Sustainable Design, Noël J. Michel

Honors Theses

This thesis presents the modeling of spaces described in short stories that are difficult to visualize. The three stories are Kafka's “The Burrow,” Borges’s “The Library of Babel” and Barthelme's “The Balloon.” Three-dimensional models were created based on the details provided by the authors in each story. Several 2-D images are then generated from these models to match specific scenes. This consideration of these works of fiction provokes the asking of several questions about the science, mathematics and engineering that underpins the stories. In all cases, questions about sustainability arise.

This manuscript is divided into three parts to correspond to …

Where You Are And What You Know: Impact Of Location And Education On Individual Engagement With The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Emily V. Sandstrom

Honors Theses

The United Nations created the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 to include 17 goals and 169 targets that foster ongoing environmental, social, and global economic development and aims to accomplish each goal by 2030. There has been considerable enthusiasm in various sectors since the SDGs have been in place; however, there is still a significant amount of work to be done to engage experts and young scholars (the future experts) in the SDGs. According to Salvia, et al., researchers at institutions of higher learning from around the globe found a relation between locality and research, though questions remain concerning …

“You Don’T Understand… It’S Not About Virginity”: Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, And Violent Masculinity On An Incel Forum Board, Joshua A. Segalewitz

Honors Theses

The “manosphere” is an online collection of antifeminists and men’s rights activists. Incels, short for involuntary celibates, interact in this space and have been labeled as extreme misogynists, white supremacists, and domestic terrorists. I engage with popular sociological theories of masculinity (including hegemonic, hybrid, and inclusive masculinities) to analyze dominant discourses on the website incels.is. The data for this project are comments from 100 threads randomly sampled from 4,532 total threads posted in 2018. Using a grounded theory approach, I first explore how incels think about sexuality as an economy, devising a scheme that places everyone in a sexual hierarchy …

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.

We're Bringing Ud To You, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

Students have teamed with admission and financial aid counselors, faculty and deans to bring the campus to prospective students and their families — virtually. From their own homes throughout the nation and world, they’re building relationships, one live chat at a time, one virtual coffee hour after another.

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

Doc 2007-05 Processes And Procedures Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate

Senate Governing Documents

DOC 2007-05 Processes and Procedures of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Student Crisis Fund Sees Increase In Requests, Donations, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton Student Crisis Fund has seen a dramatic increase in requests, as well as donations, amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Alumni Voices Of The African Immersion Experience, Mary Niebler, Jessica Saunders, Hayley Ryckman Ruland, Adanna M. Smith, Frances Albanese, Benedict J. Kolber

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

In this session, alumni shared their experiences of African immersion while they were students at UD and how that experience has carried with them in their careers and personal lives.

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, …

My First Encounter With Blockchain Was Insane, Charles Hartley

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

When I first heard the term blockchain, I had no idea what it meant, what it was, or who might be involved. It sounded like a wild and pugnacious black cat was strolling into my home office to haunt me and make me feel bad about my intellectual capacity. Nevertheless, I had to deal with blockchain because when you're in the tech industry, you must understand all new tech things before you can do anything with them such as write blogs.

Breaking Bread — Virtually, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

When Karen and I are invited to share a home-cooked meal with students in their UD houses, we jump at the opportunity. These have been our favorite moments during our time at UD.

Udri Fastlane Manufacturing Extension Partnership Coordinates Ppe Production By Area Manufacturers, University Of Dayton

News Releases

A local effort coordinated by FastLane, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) for West Central Ohio housed within the University of Dayton Research Institute, is responding to the challenge of keeping Ohio's healthcare workers safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. FastLane is a member of the Ohio Manufacturing Alliance to Fight COVID19 (OMAFC), which will engage Ohio manufacturers to produce desperately needed personal protective equipment (PPE).

Ud Grad Answers Call For More Covid-19 Testing, Michelle Tedford

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Fred Tenover ’76 used his 20 years of expertise with infectious disease at the CDC to help bring to market a rapid, accurate COVID-19 test.

Mary In The News: April 6, 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.

When Ingenuity Meets The Human Spirit, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

This is a testament to the human spirit during a time when that spirit is being tested. It’s about how a young, gifted University of Dayton researcher handed off the baton to a fellow UD graduate and a global team of experts in a fast, furious sprint to find a reliable technology that can quickly diagnose COVID-19.

Udri Technology To Quickly Diagnose Covid-19 Licensed, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Software developed by a University of Dayton Research Institute scientist to quickly diagnose COVID-19 has been exclusively licensed by Greenville, South Carolina, software development company Blue Eye Soft. The technology, which detected the presence of the COVID-19 disease on a dataset of chest X-rays in seconds with 98 percent accuracy, was adapted from existing medical diagnostic software in a matter of hours, then licensed in less than three days

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".

Sustainability Spotlight, University Of Dayton. Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Newsletter

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Sustainability Spotlight, University Of Dayton. Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Newsletter

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Sustainability Spotlight, University Of Dayton. Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Newsletter

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Faculty Donate Personal Protective Gear, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton faculty donated more than 10,000 gloves, 500 face masks and 100 coverall garments to healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Orpheus, Spring 2020: Suspension, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

No abstract provided.

Detecting Objects From Space: An Evaluation Of Deep-Learning Modern Approaches, Khang Nguyen, Nhut T. Huynh, Phat C. Nguyen, Khanh-Duy Nguyen, Nguyen D. Vo, Tam V. Nguyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Unmanned aircraft systems or drones enable us to record or capture many scenes from the bird’s-eye view and they have been fast deployed to a wide range of practical domains, i.e., agriculture, aerial photography, fast delivery and surveillance. Object detection task is one of the core steps in understanding videos collected from the drones. However, this task is very challenging due to the unconstrained viewpoints and low resolution of captured videos. While deep-learning modern object detectors have recently achieved great success in general benchmarks, i.e., PASCAL-VOC and MS-COCO, the robustness of these detectors on aerial images captured by drones is …

Empty Your Pockets, Dominic Sanfilippo

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

A poem by Dominic Sanfilippo

Getting A Grip On Worry: 10 Things You Can Do, Allia Zobel Nolan

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I admit it. I'm a worrywart. And I've been one all my life. In fact, worrying is my life. From the time I put my foot out of the bed, to the moment I lay my head on the pillow, I'm a bundle of nerves. The good news, though, is I'm in recovery. I've done a lot of research on anxieties. I've even written a book on the subject. OK, so in the process, I've bitten my nails to the quick. Still, I've also gained a modicum of insight.

And The Winners Are ..., Katy Kelly

University Libraries Blog Archive

Congratulations to the 2020 Library Award winners.

From The Archives: A Celebration Of Women's History At Ud, Haylee Hunt

University Libraries Blog Archive

A new exhibit by University Archives and Special Collections highlights some of these extraordinary accomplishments of women in UD's history.