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Hopes And Dreams, University Of Dayton

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Members of the Class of 2021 write out their hopes and dreams.

University Of Dayton Names Four New Trustees, Chairperson Elect; Adds Two Young Professionals As Recent Alumni Trustees, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton has added four new members to its board of trustees, including two recent alumni invited to join through a new category designed to attract early career professionals to the board.

Interim School Of Engineering Dean Named, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Margie Pinnell, professor and associate dean for faculty and staff development and Bernhard Schmidt Chair in Engineering Leadership, has been appointed to serve as interim dean in the School of Engineering, starting in early August. Her appointment will extend through June 2022, when we expect to appoint the next dean following a competitive national search.

Faculty Policy And Governance Handbook, 2021, University Of Dayton

Faculty Handbooks

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Optical Switching Performance Of Thermally Oxidized Vanadium Dioxide With An Integrated Thin Film Heater, Andrew M. Sarangan, Gamini Ariyawansa, Ilya Vitebskiy, Igor Anisimov

Electro-Optics and Photonics Faculty Publications

Optical switching performance of vanadium dioxide produced by thermal oxidation of vanadium is presented in this paper. A 100nm thick vanadium was oxidized under controlled conditions in a quartz tube furnace to produce approximately 200nm thick VO2. The substrate was appropriately coated on the front and back side to reduce reflection in the cold state, and an integrated thin film heater was fabricated to allow in-situ thermal cycling. Electrical measurements show a greater than three orders of magnitude change in resistivity during the phase transition. Optical measurements exhibit 70% transparency at 1500nm and about 15dB extinction across a wide spectral …

Facile Fabrication And Characterization Of Kraft Lignin@Fe3o4 Nanocomposites Using Ph Driven Precipitation: Effects On Increasing Lignin Content, Frankie A. Petrie, Justin M. Gorham, Robert T. Busch, Serhiy O. Leontsev, Esteban E. Ureña-Benavides, Erick S. Vasquez

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

This work offers a facile fabrication method for lignin nanocomposites through the assembly of kraft lignin onto magnetic nanoparticles (Fe3O4) based on pH-driven precipitation, without needing organic solvents or lignin functionalization. Kraft lignin@Fe3O4 multicore nanocomposites fabrication proceeded using a simple, pH-driven precipitation technique. An alkaline solution for kraft lignin (pH 12) was rapidly injected into an aqueous-based Fe3O4 nanoparticle colloidal suspension (pH 7) under constant mixing conditions, allowing the fabrication of lignin magnetic nanocomposites. The effects of increasing lignin to initial Fe3O4 mass content (g/g), increasing in ratio from 1:1 to 20:1, are discussed with a complete chemical, structural, and …

College Faculty In The News: June 25, 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.

Dpp: Deep Predictor For Price Movement From Candlestick Charts, Chih-Chieh Hung, Ying-Ju (Tessa) Chen

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Forecasting the stock market prices is complicated and challenging since the price movement is affected by many factors such as releasing market news about earnings and profits, international and domestic economic situation, political events, monetary policy, major abrupt affairs, etc. In this work, a novel framework: deep predictor for price movement (DPP) using candlestick charts in the stock historical data is proposed. This framework comprises three steps: 1. decomposing a given candlestick chart into sub-charts; 2. using CNN-autoencoder to acquire the best representation of sub-charts; 3. applying RNN to predict the price movements from a collection of sub-chart representations. An …

Climate Change, Glacier Meltwater: Geologist Umesh Haritashya Among Group Publishing Findings In Science, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton geologist Umesh Haritashya was among the researchers whose examination of how climate change and glacier melting affect the water supply for more than a billion people was published in Science June 10.

In Summer Session, Larry Burgess

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Campus in the summer is kind of a sleeping giant.

Faculty Start-Up Negotiations: An Examination Of Gender Differences And Recommendations For Improvement Opportunities At The University Of Dayton, Kathrin Hanek

Reports from the Gender Equity Research Fellowship

Amidst well-documented gender differences in negotiation and gender wage gaps in academia, ensuring gender equity in faculty start-up negotiations is an important part of the University of Dayton’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The current investigation examined the faculty start-up negotiation process at the University of Dayton from the perspective of department chairs and new tenure-track faculty hires with an emphasis on gender differences in the initiation and outcomes of negotiations as well as potential underlying factors that may contribute to gender disparities.

Data collected from surveys and interviews indicated gender differences primarily in the initiation of negotiations, satisfaction …

Camp Curran Basic Training, Larry Burgess

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Spring means new life and some strict instruction from the adult geese that make home on campus.

University Of Dayton Magazine, Summer 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.

People-First Promotion: Rallying Library Workers During Covid-19 And Beyond, Katy Kelly, Christina A. Beis, Ann Zlotnik, Maureen E. Schlangen

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

COVID-19 forced workers around the world to face the realities of closed buildings, precarious employment situations, and challenges to their well-being. This article will showcase how library workers’ resilience during COVID-19 depended on people, not buildings, and a people-first public relations strategy was employed to reveal that distinction. The authors, a team of librarians and communicators, share three pandemic-era communication stories developed to put people at the forefront of initiatives and messaging: a revamped marketing strategy for a research appointment service puts faces to the work and student support; the cancellation announcement of a beloved annual event reveals how the …

Toward Cost-Effective Residential Energy Reduction And Community Impacts: A Data-Based Machine Learning Approach, Adel Naji, Badr Al Tarhuni, Jun-Ki Choi, Salahaldin Alshatshati, Seraj Ajena

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

Many U.S. utilities incentivize residential energy reduction through rebates, often in response to state mandates for energy reduction or from a desire to reduce demand to mitigate the need to grow generating assets. The assumption built into incentive programs is that the least efficient residences will be more likely take advantage of the rebates. This, however, is not always the case. The main goal of this study was to determine the potential for prioritized incentivization, i.e., prioritizing incentives that deliver the greatest energy savings per investment through an entire community. It uses a data mining approach that leverages known building …

A Nobel Soul, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the University of Dayton pays tribute to our students, graduates, faculty, staff — and our Nobel Laureate. Charles J. Pedersen, described as “a brilliant chemist with the soul of an artist,” shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for his discovery of crown ethers.

Sukh Sidhu Named Research Institute Executive Director, University Of Dayton

News Releases

John Leland, vice president for research, announced today that Sukh Sidhu has been named executive director of the University of Dayton Research Institute effective immediately. Sidhu, who currently serves as UDRI's director of research and development and is a distinguished researcher and faculty member, is especially known for leading multidisciplinary collaborations.

Ud In The News May 8-14, University Of Dayton

News Releases

C-SPAN and The Conversation highlighted faculty research, aviation publications in the U.S. and Australia sought the expertise of historian Janet Bednarek, the (Cincinnati) Catholic Telegraph chronicled the history of the Marianists in Dayton and media statewide featured UD's commencement.

Track 1: Dichotomies In A Stem Course: How They Might Be Working Against Your Inclusive Strategies, Kelly Bohrer, Erin Gibbemeyer, Beth Hart

Inclusive Pedagogy

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Track 2: From Obstacle To Asset: Tapping Our Diverse Students' Funds Of Knowledge, Zoe Plotnick

Inclusive Pedagogy

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Ingenuity Meets The Human Spirit, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

"A global pandemic may have changed the way you learned, conducted laboratory research, and completed clinical rotations, but it has not kept you from chasing your dream," I told the Class of 2021 at the graduate and doctoral degree commencement ceremony. "In your class, ingenuity met the human spirit."

University Of Dayton Flyer Pitch Awards $137,500 In Cash, Support To Promising Start-Up Companies, Inaugurates Social Venture Track, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton Flyer Pitch competition inaugurated a new era, announcing its 2021 winners April 26 in a ceremony hosted at The Hub Powered by PNC Bank at the Dayton Arcade, awarding $137,500 in cash prizes and support, and adding a special track for boosting social ventures.

Research Institute Awarded Air Force Contract For Engineering Services Up To $300 Million, University Of Dayton

News Releases

A new indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity Air Force contract with a ceiling of $300 million will allow the University of Dayton Research Institute to pursue work in aircraft landing gear sustainment engineering.

Sacred Stories, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

I deeply admire Pope Francis and his focus on loving and supporting the most marginalized members of society. When I was asked to record a Sacred Stories podcast, I selected three short passages from the pope’s book, The Name of God is Mercy, for sharing and offering my reflections.

Graduation For The Ages: Record-Breaking Number Of Graduates In Six Ceremonies Includes First Class Of Flyer Promise Scholars, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton is set to confer a record number of degrees for undergraduates and total graduates in six in- person ceremonies at UD Arena this weekend aligned with safety guidelines and allow students and their invited guests to celebrate academic achievements in the Flyer spirit and tradition.

Investigating The Effects Of A P53 Mutation And Various Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors On Glioma Progression And Therapy Resistance In Drosophila, Kaitlyn M. Alleman

Honors Theses

Gliomas, which are brain tumors that arise from glial cells, are some of the most aggressive and lethal types of tumors. These brain tumors are difficult to treat because not enough information regarding the mutations present in these tumors exists. This project studies effects of a p53 mutation on Drosophila glioma progression and then will test to see if this results in resistance to current chemotherapy. The main goal of this endeavor is to investigate the numerous defects occurring at the cellular and biochemical level in gliomas, which will give insight into why these types of tumors are so difficult …

171st Commencement, Spring

Commencement Programs

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The Author’S Words And The Editor’S Pen, A Self-Study In Editorial Decision Making, Margaret M. Cahill

Honors Theses

This study investigates the practices that professional editors use when evaluating manuscripts for publication. Specifically, I ask: 1) Which edits are the most essential to the overall development of a text? and 2) How does the editor serve as the bridge between writer and reader? In seeking answers to these questions, I apply the editorial practices for reading and manuscript development reported by professional editors to my work as an editor of one writer’s memoir manuscript currently in the process of revision. Drawing on interviews with the author and changes to the manuscript itself, I examine the role of the …

The Sanctuary In Polish Hill, Annabelle M. Harsch

Honors Theses

The Sanctuary in Polish Hill, a short story cycle set in the late 1900s to 2008, surrounds a women’s shelter in Polish Hill, Pittsburgh, PA. Ruta Laksa, a second-generation Polish immigrant, moves to the neighborhood named for the influx of Polish immigrants in the late 1800s. Through vignettes of her life, Ruta finds solace in food and community as she struggles with her mental illness. Scattered throughout her own story are vignettes of other women struggling with their own mental illness and those who seek solace and safety. These women build community with each other through food, conversation, and relationship, …

A Simple Solution To The Normative Practices Of Copyright Infringement In The Video Game Streaming Community, Tony Maiorano

University of Dayton Law Review

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