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Flyer News, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Sept. 6, 2017), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Laugh-Inn, University Of Dayton

News Releases

What writer wouldn’t want to spend two all-expenses-paid, blissful weeks at a hotel in Dayton, Ohio? Yes, a hotel. Room service. An omelet bar. The sun rising over the Great Miami River. It’s the ultimate gift for any writer — the luxury of time to write…and on the “Dayton Riviera,” no less.

That’s the premise behind “A Hotel Room of One’s Own: The Erma Bombeck | Anna Lefler Humorist-in-Residence Program.”

Laugh-Inn: A Hotel Room Of One's Own, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Room service. An omelet bar. The sun rising over the Great Miami River or, as some affectionately call it, the Dayton Riviera. What writer wouldn't want to spend two all-expenses-paid, blissful weeks at a hotel in Dayton, Ohio? Yes, a hotel. It's the ultimate gift for any writer - the luxury of time to write.

Garden Of Plenty, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Inspired by environmental biology and sustainability, energy and the environment students, and led by the Hanley Sustainability Institute and facilities management, the University of Dayton Kennedy Union rooftop garden will provide a campus hub for sustainability education, improved aesthetics and a cooler roof that can lower the building's energy costs, and send cleaner water into storm sewers.

Imri Weekly Features: Sept. 5, 2017, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

This week's resources are in celebration of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Garden Of Plenty, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Inspired by environmental biology and sustainability, energy and the environment students, and led by the Hanley Sustainability Institute and facilities management, the University of Dayton Kennedy Union rooftop garden will provide a campus hub for sustainability education, improved aesthetics and a cooler roof that can lower the building's energy costs, and send cleaner water into storm sewers.

A Mouseketeer Shows Up For Dinner, Laurie Oien

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

If it hadn't been for a well-placed coffee table, my surprise dinner guest would have turned my kitchen into a Disney amusement park and tapped danced through every nook and cranny of my home.

Answer To My Dreams, Leslie Handler

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

And there it was. The answer to my dreams. It was right in my husband's head all along. Who knew? It all comes down to the amazing humor of said husband.

Burpees Aren't For Babies, Hillary Ibarra

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

My chest muscles hurt. It's not often you can say that as a woman unless you're an Olympic rower or an American Ninja Warrior. But I'm no glamorous Ninja. I'm just an ordinary Jane in a wellness program.

India: Collapsible Solar Dryer (Dehydrator), Eric Mcgill

ETHOS Technical Reports

The problem of food spoilage is not new; it is one of the oldest problems in mankind’s history. As old as the problem itself, are ways of addressing the problem. Removing moisture from food is a way to preserve the food for long periods of time, whether it be grapes with raisins, or meat with jerky. A study performed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicts that 30% of the food grown in India spoils before it is eaten. [3] The article goes on to advocate the use of solar food dryer as a way to prevent spoilage and to …

India: Hybrid Ultra-Capacitor Battery, Colton Foster

ETHOS Technical Reports

Over the 2017 summer, an immersion was held to Bangalore, India to work with the Selco Foundation with for an electrical engineering internship. The primary focus of this internship dealt with the analyzation and improvement of the hybrid ultra-capacitor (HUC) solar system. The systems were implemented with two different battery types, lead acid as well as lithium-ion battery integrations. Through data analysis of over 30 locations input, several modifications were made to the existing systems in order to better capture the HUC’s characteristics and to confirm its correct performance. In addition, an efficiency test was implemented to analyze the efficiency …

Creche Herald Vol. 21, No. 3, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Fall 2017 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

Arts Events: September 2017, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

This month's Bluegrass Festival Evening features the music of Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers as well as commentary and performance by University of Dayton faculty, the UD World Music Choir and Centerville High School alternative string students. Enjoy this evening of entertainment and other inspiring arts experiences during the upcoming weeks.

India: Large-Format 3d Printer, Calibration And Operation, Jason Demeter, Nick Lattanzio

ETHOS Technical Reports

Jason Demeter (Computer Engineer 2018) and Nick Lattanzio (Mechanical Engineering Technology 2018) worked with Min Vayu in Auroville, India on a large format 3D printer designed to print with plastic, clay, and cob. Before the team arrived, the prototype printer had been designed and built but needed work to become operational. The team worked on various tasks to move the printer to fully operational status.

The team was tasked with calibrating the printer, constructing a cover for printer operation in all weather conditions, testing plastic extrusion with different recycled plastics and printer configurations, documenting the printer design in CAD and …

Bolivia: Solar Cookers, Alana Parey

ETHOS Technical Reports

The purpose of the work done in Cochabamba, Bolivia was to improve upon the process for using dry urine-diverting toilets. CONSES, the partner organization, already had a basic method to eliminate pathogens in human feces using a solar oven followed by composting the pathogen-free product. However, the overall process took too much time and the compost piles attracted pests.

To fix these problems, various types of solar ovens and modifications were researched in addition to various methods of composting. In order to make an oven that was the most inexpensive, durable, and capable of high temperatures, a solar box cooker …

Review: 'God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, And The Religious Right', William Vance Trollinger

History Faculty Publications

America is Doomed. God Hates Obama. Fags Doom Nations. Thank God for Dead Soldiers. All these are signs held up at military funerals by members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. In God Hates sociologist Rebecca Barrett-Fox gives us the first full-scale examination of Westboro, and it makes for fascinating and horrifying reading. She begins her study with an ethnography of the church, including a biography of founding pastor Fred Phelps, that makes use of interviews with church members to delineate Westboro’s hyper-Calvinist theology and its understanding of the connection between individual sin (particularly, homosexuality) and national …

Rethinking Special Collections Moves As Opportunities, Not Obstacles, Colleen Hoelscher, Sarah Burke Cahalan

Marian Library Faculty Publications

In the summer of 2017, the Marian Library—a special library devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary within the larger University of Dayton Libraries system—completed a move of its rare book and archival collections into a new space within the main library building. The space, previously leased to the Society of Mary provincial archives, was already outfitted with a Liebert system for temperature and humidity controls, as well as shelving and some furniture.

Prior to the move, the rare book collection and archival holdings were stored in less than ideal conditions. In 2014, a consultant from Lyrasis conducted a preservation assessment …

Ud In The News Aug. 26-31, University Of Dayton

News Releases

National and local media highlighted the School of Engineering's successes in increasing women in engineering and working toward eliminating book deserts, while the Human Rights Center's efforts to education Ohio's youth about human trafficking drew regional media attention.

The American Society of Engineering Education featured news of both School of Engineering initiatives in its daily First Bell e-newsletter.

In addition to The Columbus Dispatch featuring the Human Rights Center's anti-human trafficking efforts, the paper also included comments from law professor Jeannette Cox in its story about political speech at work.

Other media attention focused on the University hiring a new …

Urban Planning And American Religion: A Student Perspective On Library Book Collection, Adam Schwartz

University Libraries Blog Archive

Library work is not to be taken lightly. Librarians work long and hard to make sure students at UD have the materials they need to have fulfilling and rich courses in their respective fields.

Premedical Programs Newsletter, September 2017, University Of Dayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

Newsletter for students, staff, and faculty in the premedical and predental programs.

Program Calendar: 2017-18, University Of Dayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

Calendar of important academic dates and special events of interest to students, faculty, and staff in the premedical and predentistry programs.

Tropical Cyclones Disrupt The Relationship Between Tree Height And Species Diversity: Comment, Teng-Chiu Lin, Lixin Wang, Chengyang Zheng, Ryan W. Mcewan, Chung-Te Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, Chung-Hao Chi

Biology Faculty Publications

In a recent report on the patterns of tree species richness in eastern and western North America, Marks et al. (2016) claimed to have identified an operational indicator of environmental harshness (maximum tree height) and concluded that environmental stressors that limit tree height also act as ecological filters on species richness. Marks et al. (2017) attributed the positive association between species richness and maximum tree height to both the direct effects of environmental harshness on species richness and the indirect effects of environmental harshness on species richness as mediated by maximum tree height.

This finding overlooked the fact that many …

Mary In The News: August 31, 2017, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also, see International Marian Research Institute news and updates.

China Institute Growth, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Since its inception, the University of Dayton China Institute has experienced steady growth and now, at its fifth anniversary, is launching new programs and partnerships.

Students can earn a new minor — Studies in Design and Entrepreneurship in China — in one fall semester at the Institute, which is located in the ultramodern Suzhou Industrial Park, home to a third of the world's Fortune 500 companies.

Borrow A Button Maker, University Of Dayton. University Libraries

University Libraries Blog Archive

Want some flair for your backpack or filing cabinet? Students, faculty and staff may now borrow our popular and fun button makers to design and create a pin or magnet.

Good Things Come In Threes, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The odds of having triplets are about 1 in 1,000. The chances a set of triplets would attend the University of Dayton, share the same major and work in the same research laboratories are no doubt smaller still.

Words On Wheels, University Of Dayton

News Releases

A bicycle could help end book deserts in the Miami Valley.

The Words on Wheels program will use a bicycle customized by University of Dayton engineering students to distribute reading materials to local children in areas where access to a library is limited.

“We want to create and sustain a literary oasis,” said Karlos Marshall, a University of Dayton alumnus who founded the nonprofit The Conscious Connect in 2015 to end book deserts in Ohio’s urban cities by 2021.

Imri Weekly Features: Aug. 28, 2017, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

Find out what images of Mary might be the most popular ? depending on who you ask. Learn about the significance of the inkwell in some Marian art. Salus populi romani (Protectress of the Roman People) is also a selected topic this week.

Meet The Woman Who Made The World Laugh, Teri Rizvi

University Libraries Blog Archive

The University of Dayton has expanded its Erma Bombeck Collection.

Imaginative Minds, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

The Shroyer Park Center, tucked away unobtrusively in a residential neighborhood, is a world-class research center. That could surprise some of its neighbors, who may not realize its reach extends to the frontiers of space.