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Ud In The News Oct. 1-6, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton faculty shared their expertise on human rights, politics, marriage and transportation with national media outlets during the first week of October.

Local news also highlighted the latest developments in the University's partnership with Premier Health to transform the former fairgrounds site in Dayton.

My Gluteus Maximus Research, Karen Debonis

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

After close to a year of weekly blogging, I can say that I've learned some interesting things. Like when I researched different names for the gluteus maximus, sometimes called the gluteal muscles, or glutes, for short. According to Wikipedia, the fleshy mass of these muscles "in a quadrilateral shape, forms the prominence of the buttocks." In case you're still on your first cup of coffee, I'm talking about the butt.

Love And Grace, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

Newly created for the Marian Library's collections, this elegant sculpture bridges the gap between the recent Marian art of Asia exhibit and the current exhibit, Symbols of Grace.

Students Win Honorable Mention Emmy, Aaron Alford

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

For the second consecutive year, a team of University of Dayton students advised by Greg Kennedy won an Honorable Mention Emmy Award in the long form non-fiction category. This year's film, The Modern Entrepreneur: The Divided Path to Higher Education, was honored with a student production Emmy by the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

"Wynton Works", Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton Jazz Ensemble will perform the music of jazz great Wynton Marsalis in collaboration with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company at this weekend's performances of Wynton Works at the Victoria Theatre.

Guatemala: Fire Suppression System, Paul Gutbrod, Dakota Waller

ETHOS Technical Reports

The previous summer, the team worked with and lived on the Zona Juvenil Youth Ranch in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The ranch provides a home to a close-knit family of teenage boys, all of whom have suffered severe abuse or neglect in one form or another. Coming from unimaginable circumstances, the ranch offers these boys a chance at family, community, and a future as they have never known. The team lived with the boys, getting up each morning to continue work on the ranch. Due to the nature of the ranch, work was rather unstructured. Over the course of the ten weeks …

India: Printing Houses, Andrea Mott, Grant Ross

ETHOS Technical Reports

This past summer, two mechanical engineering students from the University of Dayton’s ETHOS program traveled to Auroville, India to work with Minvayu on their delta 3D printer project. Auroville, India is an idealistic, utopian-driven experimental town in southeastern, India. Minvayu is a small organization located on the edge of a farm that focuses on developing and teaching sustainable energy projects in rural India. One of their primary technologies is implementing wind turbines to supply energy and pump water to help rural families and farmers have a steady energy and water supply. Minvayu’s newest project is to create a 3d printer …

A Rare Opportunity, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton and Premier Health have selected an Ohio-based master planning firm, planning NEXT, to develop a community-minded vision for 38 acres on South Main Street, the former home of the Montgomery County fairgrounds.

Business As A Calling, University Of Dayton

News Releases

A University of Dayton alumnus, William Copeland Jr., with 30 years of experience at Deloitte, a prominent accounting firm, will return to campus to share his insights on kickstarting a successful career path at the 2017 Business as a Calling Symposium.

Can The Lowly Turnip Dethrone The Pumpkin?, Molly Stevens

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

In case you are in denial about the advent of autumn or in a coma, it's time to wake up and smell the pumpkins. These orange egomaniacs are encroaching on summer like Christmas usurps Halloween, making their flaming debut earlier every year.

The Duke Of Bachata, Eileen Carr

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Joan Soriano's first guitar was made by hand from a tin can and fishing line. Today, this charismatic musician from the Dominican Republic plays a steel string guitar and heads a musical group that tours internationally.

"Snl" Veterans Judge Bombeck Finalists, Teri Rizvi

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Live from New York, it's Erma Bombeck humorist-in-residence judges!

Bolivia: Bicycle-Powered Washing Machine, Thomas Devine

ETHOS Technical Reports

This summer, a University of Dayton Mechanical Engineering student traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia to work with CECAM developing sustainable technologies for the Cochabamba Pedal Project. This project aims to design and construct various pedal-powered machines to ease the living conditions of people with a wide range of needs or disabilities. From corn de-grainer bikes to blender bikes to ice cream machines, the CPP aims to create machines of all types that can enable someone in need to pull themselves up from poverty. In most Bolivian families, the burden of chores and other household responsibilities tends to fall on the backs …

Cameroon: Dam Reconstruction And Water Filtration, Paige E. Lazar, Daneila Lopez, David Ramsey

ETHOS Technical Reports

In the summer of 2017, Paige Lazar, Daniela Lopez, and David Ramsey traveled to the village of Barombi Mbo, Kumba, Cameroon to work on and improve the existing water system and investigate expanding the system to include a community scale biosand water filter. Under that broad goal was to clean the catchment and correct the weir elevation that was raised to an undesirable height. Both of these tasks were completed with the help of the community. The team then explored the idea of constructing a community scale water filter. Due to the time and money constraints, the group decided not …

Ghana: Pips System, Mark Rasmussen, Tom Tappel

ETHOS Technical Reports

The ETHOS trip to Ghana involved two Ghana Guys, Tom Tappel and Mark Rasmussen, and their work mostly at Ashesi University which hosted them for the summer. Ashesi University was founded in 2002 by Patrick Awuah, a Ghanaian Engineer who worked for Microsoft, with the intention of educating the next generation of African leaders. Ashesi is located right outside Berekuso, which is just north of Accra, the capital of Ghana and is home to university students from all over Africa. After thirteen years, in 2015, Ashesi expanded their school to include an engineering program led by Dr. Fred McBagonluri, who …

Weeping And Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering Of Early Christian Hell As A Threat To Masculinity, Meghan Henning

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

This chapter draws upon the conceptions of gendered bodily suffering found in the ancient medical corpus (Hippocrates, Galen and inscriptions), martyrdom literature, and the Roman judicial rhetoric of punitive suffering to read apocalyptic depictions of bodily suffering as “effeminizing” punishments, which in turn utilized masculinity and bodily normativity to police behavior, and equated early Christian ethical norms with masculinity and bodily “health.” By highlighting the different types of bodies found in these texts, as well as the ways in which Christian norms interacted with Greek and Roman notions of the body, the chapter shows how masculinity and ancient notions of …

Dominica: Local Food Manufacturing, Megan Gerstner, Claire Shannon

ETHOS Technical Reports

This past summer, the team travelled to the island of Dominica to work with the Dominica Manufacturer’s Association (DMA). The team rotated working between two manufacturers – Graceson John of Big G’s Pepper Sauce in Delicés, Dominica and Linvor Ambo of Choco Dominique in Dublanc, Dominica. Delicés is a farming village located in the mountains on the southeast corner of the island and Dublanc is a fishing village located on the northwest coast of the island. While in Delicés, the team worked with Graceson to increase efficiency in production by making equipment investment recommendations that would complete his newly constructed …

This Little Light Of Mine, I'M Gonna … Well, I'M Not Sure What The Hell I'M Gonna Do!, Laura Becker

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Let It Shine! Let It Shine! Let It … glow lightly, but only for ambiance and virtue signaling.

Imri Weekly Features: Oct. 2, 2017, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

This week's content focuses mainly on the Rosary. The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is on October 7.

The Day The Wheel Fell Off, Maya Sinha

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

On a recent visit with my mom, the subject turned to childhood stories. Fresh from a trip to the principal's office, my eight-year-old daughter was keen to hear of Nana's long-ago misdeeds.

Mba@Dayton, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton’s new online master of business administration program launches this week, with more than 100 students set to begin classes taught by University faculty and executives-in-residence through an interactive online platform.

Minding The Gap: Mentor And Pre-Service Teachers’ Ability Perceptions Of Content Area Literacy Instruction, Treavor Bogard, Mary-Kate Sableski, Jackie Marshall Arnold, Connie L. Bowman

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

This mixed method study compared how student teachers rated their ability in implementing components of content area literacy compared to their clinical educators’ perceptions of the student teachers’ actual performance. The researchers collaborated with K-12 clinical educators to develop a scaled survey to rate level of skill in four components of content literacy instruction. 112 clinical educators (CEs) and 183 student teachers (STs) representing five teacher licensure programs completed the survey. A two-way multivariate analysis of variance measured the effect of Role (CE and ST) and Teacher Licensure Program on ability perception. Results indicated that Role and Program each significantly …

Perceived Stress Levels May Impact Upper Extremity Function Among Women Treated For Breast Cancer, Mary Insana Fisher, Anne Fleischer, Lynn Hendricks, Megan Mcclure, Kim Parent, Renee Roberts

Physical Therapy Faculty Publications

Purpose/Hypothesis: Women treated for breast cancer report ongoing upper extremity disability with functional limitations; however, objective measures do not appear to explain the extent of perceived dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived stress level, fear of physical activity, self-reported upper extremity function, and objective measures of upper extremity function including range of motion (ROM), strength, and muscular endurance, among women treated for breast cancer.

Number of Subjects: 25

Materials/Methods: Women diagnosed with stage I-III breast cancer in the past 12-60 months were evaluated using the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH), …

Materiality Defined: Differing Concepts Of Materiality Can Cause Confusion Among Stakeholders, Michael P. Fabrizius, Sridhar Ramamoorti

Accounting Faculty Publications

Because the term materiality arose within the context of financial reporting and statement assurance, internal auditors have been challenged in adapting or creating a definition that is relevant for themselves and their stakeholders. In the context of financial reporting, materiality is relevant to three stakeholder groups: 1) preparers of financial statements, 2) auditors, and 3) users of financial statements. Although materiality decisions are made by only two of these three groups--preparers and auditors--most internal auditors' conception of materiality likely has a user orientation. The auditor might ask, "How would a reasonably prudent investor react to the magnitude of misstatement (under- …

2016 Scholar For Faith And The Environment Report, University Of Dayton, Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

No abstract provided.

2016 Director Research Report, University Of Dayton, Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

No abstract provided.

2017 Director Research Report, University Of Dayton, Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

No abstract provided.

University Of Dayton Magazine. Autumn 2017, University Of Dayton Magazine

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. This issue includes basketball player Jeremiah Bonsu's reflections about teammate Steve McElvene, an article about Rivers Institute study abroad in China, and inventions that took root at the UD

'This Is Not An Emergency', Maureen E. Schlangen

Roesch Library Staff Publications

A little story about a little fire.

2014-16 Hsi Progress Report, University Of Dayton, Hanley Sustainability Institute

Hanley Sustainability Institute Documents, Reports and Promotional Materials

No abstract provided.