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National Institutes Of Health Awards University Of Dayton Researcher $1.5 Million To Develop Super-Resolution Imaging System For Nanoscale Structures, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The National Institutes of Health awarded University of Dayton physics researcher Chenglong Zhao a four-year, $1.5 million grant to develop a new super-resolution imaging system that can provide high-quality images of biological structures 10,000 times smaller than a human hair.

University Of Dayton Science Center Pendulum Swinging Again After Restoration And Repairs, Kassidy Lammers

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A University of Dayton campus landmark since 1959, the Foucault pendulum in Sherman Hall is swinging again after several rounds of repairs in recent years. After decades of wear and tear, and a more recent alignment issue in 2020, faculty and staff restored the pendulum to working order during the summer.

Program: Through The Looking Glass, And What You Found There, University Of Dayton, Teejai Dorsey

Dance and Theater Programs

Co-produced by the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Technology program and the Department of Music

What do you see when you look in the mirror? If you were on the other side looking back, in a land of opposites, how would your perception of reality be altered? Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There reflect the larger truths that underscore our social experience in this constantly changing nonsensical world. Journey with us through a wonderland of mystery and delight while exploring who we were, who we are, and who we are yet to become in this dramatic …

President's Commission On The Status Of Women: Fall 2021 Report, University Of Dayton

Women's Center Reports, Commentaries and Other Resources

Announced in fall 2019, the President’s Commission on the Status of Women was convened to illuminate and ultimately enhance the status of women at the University of Dayton by advising the president and other senior leaders on gender equity issues and specific concerns of women-identified faculty, staff, and students. The commission makes recommendations on issues that have particular relevance for women, including but not limited to equity, access, retention, promotion and advancement, and safety and security.

A Comprehensive Exploration Of Regression Techniques For Building Energy Prediction, Vibhu Sharma

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Publications

This paper presents a detailed investigation into various regression techniques applied to predict building energy consumption. The dataset utilized in this study encompasses diverse attributes related to buildings, including size, location, usage type, construction materials, and energy consumption patterns, alongside weather-related data such as temperature, humidity, and precipitation. After preprocessing, which includes loading, inspecting, and imputing missing data, the dataset undergoes evaluation using regression techniques including Ridge Regression, Bayesian Ridge, Linear Regression, Orthogonal Matching Pursuit, Elastic Net, Huber Regression, Lasso Regression, and Passive Aggressive Regression. Evaluation metrics such as Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared …

Resampling And Super-Resolution Of Hexagonally Sampled Images Using Deep Learning, Dylan Flaute, Russell C. Hardie, Hamed Elwarfalli

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Super-resolution (SR) aims to increase the resolution of imagery. Applications include security, medical imaging, and object recognition. We propose a deep learning-based SR system that takes a hexagonally sampled low-resolution image as an input and generates a rectangularly sampled SR image as an output. For training and testing, we use a realistic observation model that includes optical degradation from diffraction and sensor degradation from detector integration. Our SR approach first uses non-uniform interpolation to partially upsample the observed hexagonal imagery and convert it to a rectangular grid. We then leverage a state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture designed for SR …

You Might Not Realize It, But You're Probably Reading An Open Access Article ..., Simon Robins

University Libraries Blog Archive

To celebrate Open Access Week (Oct. 25-31), coordinator of electronic resources and discovery Simon Robins describes UD's usage of open access content in learning and research.

Record Enrollment A Success Thanks To Teamwork, University Of Dayton

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

This fall, the University of Dayton is abuzz with the most students ever — 12,000 — including the return of international students and a record number of students in the master's program in computer science.

Program: Laced, University Of Dayton, Teejai Dorsey

Dance and Theater Programs

by Sam Mueller

The Kilroys List 2020, selected play

October 20-23, 2021

Fitz Hall’s Black Box Theatre & Live-Streamed

The night after a queer bar outside of Tampa, Florida is vandalized, three twenty-something bartenders gather to grieve, rage, and above all, piece together the events of the night before. Fiery and poetic, Laced ferociously celebrates the spaces in which we find our truest selves. In a time of renewed culture wars against queer youth, this play centers the voices of those intersectional identities we should be listening to now.

Institute Leader Helps Found National Network Examining Planetary Limits, Publish Essay In Energy Research & Social Science, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton Hanley Sustainability Institute Executive Director Ben McCall is among five authors of an essay to be published Oct. 20 in the journal Energy Research & Social Science that cautions current levels of worldwide economic growth, energy use and resource consumption will overshoot Earth's finite limits.

From Sea To Shining Sea And Across The Pond, Online Law Student Example Of Program's Reach Anywhere, Anytime, University Of Dayton

News Releases

What most call flyover country, University of Dayton law student Andrew Ferguson calls a classroom. What many would confuse for the lyrics of Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere" are places Ferguson has attended class in the Law@Dayton program, one of the nation's first online hybrid J.D. programs.

Masked Face Analysis Via Multi-Task Deep Learning, Vatsa S. Patel, Zhongliang Nie, Trung-Nghia Le, Tam Van Nguyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Face recognition with wearable items has been a challenging task in computer vision and involves the problem of identifying humans wearing a face mask. Masked face analysis via multi-task learning could effectively improve performance in many fields of face analysis. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for predicting the age, gender, and emotions of people wearing face masks. We first construct FGNET-MASK, a masked face dataset for the problem. Then, we propose a multi-task deep learning model to tackle the problem. In particular, the multi-task deep learning model takes the data as inputs and shares their weight to …

Crazy Cat Lady? That's Me!, Ann Green

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

If I passed you in a coffee shop wearing a cat T-shirt and cat earrings, carrying a pocketbook covered with cat images — with matching wallet, (along with cat socks, but you couldn’t see that), wearing a baseball cap that says, "Cat Mom," holding onto a cat umbrella and wearing a cat mask, would you: A) Compliment my attire B) Compliment my attire and tell me about your cat C) Think, "What a weirdo!" D) Not notice.

Poster: The Roots Of Racism, University Of Dayton

The Roots of Racism: Exploring the Legacy of Dayton's Racial Divide

Poster provides details about this three-part series on racism in Dayton.

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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2018-20 Hsi Impact Report, University Of Dayton, Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

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Equality, Non-Interference, And Sovereignty: President Ahmadou Ahidjo And The Making Of Cameroon-U.S. Relations, Julius A. Amin

History Faculty Publications

Scholars often dismiss the importance of local archives in the reconstruction of postcolonial African history, stating that they are superficial, unorganized, and unreliable. Amin challenges that notion and argues that those archives are central to the study of African diplomatic history. Based on extensive and previously unused documents, he argues that Cameroon’s Ahmadou Ahidjo leveraged his U.S. policy to develop his country and protect its sovereignty while maintaining a firm grip on power. This reappraisal of Ahidjo’s actions engages debates about the contours of U.S.-African foreign policy and the challenges new nations face as they navigate external relations.

A Unified Framework Of Deep Learning-Based Facial Expression Recognition System For Diversified Applications, Sanoar Hossain, Saiyed Umer, Vijayan K. Asari, Ranjeet Kumar Rout

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This work proposes a facial expression recognition system for a diversified field of appli- cations. The purpose of the proposed system is to predict the type of expressions in a human face region. The implementation of the proposed method is fragmented into three components. In the first component, from the given input image, a tree-structured part model has been applied that predicts some landmark points on the input image to detect facial regions. The detected face region was normalized to its fixed size and then down-sampled to its varying sizes such that the advantages, due to the effect of multi-resolution …

Sounds Of Ud: University Of Dayton Department Of Music Performs For Dayton Community, Carolyn Kroupa

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Despite less than two weeks to prepare for a performance at Levitt Pavilion in the heart of downtown Dayton, the invitation was too good of an opportunity to pass up for University of Dayton Department of Music faculty and students. Nearly 200 students and 15 faculty performed for several hundred concert-goers, who listened and danced on the lawn during the two-hour musical showcase.

Lucky Number 13, Shea Donovan

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

A family of Flyers has attended more than a decade of Family Weekends.

University Awards Micro- Credentials Demonstrating Skills Employers Want, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton now awards micro-credentials demonstrating students have the top skills employers say they want: critical thinking, communication, creative problem solving, resilience and more.

A Love Of Science And The Excitement Of Discovery, Ryan W. Mcewan

University Libraries Blog Archive

Professor Albert Burky retires from UD in May 2022 with 49 years of teaching, fieldwork, publishing and professional service. His impact is beyond measure, writes colleague Ryan McEwan.

University Of Dayton Faculty And Students Present Second Annual Dayton Independent Film Festival, Sept. 24-27, Showcasing Midwestern Filmmakers, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Two dozen University of Dayton students spent the past spring semester planning, curating and creating assets for a four-day 2021 Dayton Independent Film Festival.

Minutes, September 2021, University Of Dayton. College Of Arts And Sciences

Documents of the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Minutes from College of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Two University Of Dayton Alumni Awarded Fulbright Scholarships, Allison Brace

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

With recent nominees Olivia LeBlanc and Elizabeth Michalenko, the University of Dayton has now produced 37 Fulbright Scholars since 2002.

High Competence, High Character, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

"You are people of both high competence and high character. You’re the kind of leaders who imagine a better world, then go about the business of creating it — without fanfare and bluster but with great purpose," University of Dayton President Eric F. Spina told the 2021 Alumni Award recipients.

Ud, Hall Hunger Initiative Partnership Strengthens Work To End Hunger, University Of Dayton

News Releases

A new partnership between the University of Dayton and the Hall Hunger Initiative will leverage the resources of both organizations to address growing hunger problems in the community and create additional opportunities for students, faculty and staff to get involved.

Ud In The News Aug. 27-Sept. 3, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Aviation historian Janet Bednarek and Vision Lab Director Vijayan Asari contributed pieces to The Conversation. Local NPR affiliate WYSO featured the Marian Library's free exhibit on religious tourism featuring pieces from Catholic shrines and festivals — from handcrafted devotional objects to quirky souvenirs.