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Keynote Address: Race, Belonging, And Academic Community At The University Of Dayton, Paul H. Benson

Critical Examination of Our Times: The State of Race on the University of Dayton Campus

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Student Panel: Solutions And Next Steps, Thomas Lewis Morgan, Mike Brill, Shanir Carter, Shaylynn Hespeth, Emily Kegel, Devin Mallett, Khristian Santiago

Critical Examination of Our Times: The State of Race on the University of Dayton Campus

The direction this panel was listening to students' insights regarding their experiences as students on campus.

Conclusion, Julius A. Amin

Critical Examination of Our Times: The State of Race on the University of Dayton Campus

No abstract provided.

Retiring Refworks, University Of Dayton. University Libraries

University Libraries Blog Archive

University of Dayton's subscription to RefWorks will expire on June 1, 2016, and will not be renewed. If you are a RefWorks user, please follow the important steps on this transition FAQ page.

Keen Mindset, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Kern Family Foundation honored Eddy Rojas, dean of the University of Dayton School of Engineering, with its 2015 Outstanding Dean Award for his exemplary work within the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN).

Entrepreneurship In China, University Of Dayton

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Two undergraduates from a university in China will travel to campus and compete for $65,000 in cash prizes in the final round of the University of Dayton’s 10th annual Business Plan Competition on March 5.

You Can Write!, University Of Dayton

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Capture the spirit of Erma Bombeck in your writing and win cash and a free registration to this spring's sold-out Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.

A Transformational Gift, University Of Dayton

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The University of Dayton Division of Athletics has received one of the largest gifts in the history of the program from Lori Hausfeld and her family, of Springboro, Ohio.

In The News: January 12, 2016, 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.

Briefly Speaking, University Of Dayton

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Upcoming events focus on diversity, access to college, celebrating faith and business leadership.

Weekly Features: January 11, 2016, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

What does Mary have to do with icebergs and knitting?

Our Lady Of Mount Carmel, Jason Paul Bourgeois

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Introduction:

The Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Roman Catholic religious order commonly called the Carmelites, began in the early 1200s as a collection of hermits gathered together in a semi-monastic lifestyle on Mount Carmel in present-day Israel. They requested a rule of life from Saint Albert, the Latin-rite patriarch of Jerusalem, not long before his death in 1214. This original Carmelite foundation was under the patronage of Mary from the beginning. However, after the purported apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Simon Stock in the 1250s, in which she told him that those who died …

Scapular, Jason Paul Bourgeois

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Introduction: A scapular is a sacramental garment of the Catholic church, usually consisting of two pieces of sewn cloth attached by strings and worn over the shoulders with one piece hanging over the chest and the other hanging over the back. The scapular was originally a component of some religious habits, the set of garments worn by members of a religious order, but later a smaller version (usually one inch by two inches) began to be worn under the clothes by laypersons who wished to associate with a particular religious order.

Carmelites And Miracles, Jason Paul Bourgeois

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Introduction: The Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel were a religious order of Roman Catholic hermits that gathered together in the early 1200s to live a semi-monastic lifestyle in the mountain range of Carmel, near Haifa in present-day Israel. The Carmelites, as they came to be called, followed a rule of life written by Saint Albert, the Latin-rite patriarch of Jerusalem, and approved by Pope Honorius III in 1226. Due to military conquests in the region by Muslims, the Carmelites soon migrated to various parts of Europe and were transformed into a mendicant order, although their rule specified a …

An Adaptive Security Protocol For A Wireless Sensor‐Based Monitoring Network In Smart Grid Transmission Lines, Xuping Zhang, Feng Ye, Sucheng Fan, Jinghong Guo, Guoliang Xu, Yi Qian

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper, we propose a new security protocol for a wireless sensor network, which is designed for monitoring long range power transmission lines in smart grid. Part of the monitoring network is composed of optical fiber composite over head ground wire (OPGW), thus it can be secured with conventional security protocol. However, the wireless sensor network between two neighboring OPGW gateways remains vulnerable. Our proposed security protocol focuses on the wireless sensor network part, it provides mutual authentication, data integrity, and data confidentiality for both uplink and downlink transmissions between the sensor nodes and the OPGW gateway. Besides, our …

In The News: January 8, 2016, 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.

A New Safety Leader, University Of Dayton

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The University of Dayton has named Rodney Chatman, a veteran campus law enforcement leader as executive director of public safety and chief of police.

2016年1月中国圣母专题 (Chinese Marian Features For January 2016), University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

Special Chinese language content for January 2016

Leading Lawyers, University Of Dayton

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The University of Dayton School of Law is launching a new Leadership Honors Program, which includes a full-tuition scholarship for students selected for the program.

Green=Gold, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The newly renovated University of Dayton Immaculate Conception Chapel is full of blue to represent the Catholic, Marianist order that founded the University. But there’s also plenty of green throughout the chapel, which isn’t quite as noticeable, that has earned the chapel a gold rating as an energy-efficient building.

Weekly Features: January 4, 2016, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

Marian features for the first full week of 2016!

Microbial Biofilm Community Variation In Flowing Habitats: Potential Utility As Bioindicators Of Postmortem Submersion Intervals, Jennifer M. Lang, Racheal Erb, Jennifer L. Pechal, John R. Wallace, Ryan W. Mcewan, Mark Eric Benbow

Biology Faculty Publications

Biofilms are a ubiquitous formation of microbial communities found on surfaces in aqueous environments. These structures have been investigated as biomonitoring indicators for stream heath, and here were used for the potential use in forensic sciences. Biofilm successional development has been proposed as a method to determine the postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) of remains because there are no standard methods for estimating the PMSI and biofilms are ubiquitous in aquatic habitats. We sought to compare the development of epinecrotic (biofilms on Sus scrofa domesticus carcasses) and epilithic (biofilms on unglazed ceramic tiles) communities in two small streams using bacterial automated …

Rivers Institute Strategic Plan, University Of Dayton. Fitz Center For Leadership In Community

Rivers Institute Publications

Due to continued campus and community support, exceptional student leadership and the power of building a community around rivers, the Rivers Institute embarked on a new strategic planning process during the 2014-15 academic year with more than 30 participants. The result was a new vision, mission and long-term plan to 2020, which identified three main goals and many initiatives to help achieve each.

Socialization To Academic Language In A Kindergarten Classroom, Colleen E. Gallagher

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

Recognizing the importance of academic language for students’ success in schools, this article reports on an investigation of how narrative-focused literacy events in the classroom provide opportunities for academic language socialization. Data were collected from one public elementary school in a major metropolitan area in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Participants include an intact kindergarten class of 16 students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their teacher. The results of the investigation revealed that sharing time provides opportunities for socialization to academic register through: (1) requiring that students successfully navigate the academic language demands of the interaction, …

Consistency And Change: Becoming A Literacy Leader In An Urban School, Jackie Marshall Arnold, Mary-Kate Sableski

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

An effective urban literacy teacher is one who can weather the storm of change. Remaining committed to one’s students despite the challenges that an urban environment brings is a key element in facilitating student literacy improvement. In this article we present a case study of one teacher who participated in our three year professional development initiative to improve literacy practices in urban schools. We discuss the qualities that she possessed that helped her to persist through the pains of change to impact student learning, and how these qualities should be fostered in urban school teachers to improve achievement.

Career Counseling For Gifted Students: Understanding Student Needs And Strategies For Success, Layla J. Kurt

Counselor Education and Human Services Faculty Publications

Meeting the needs of gifted students’ career selection process can pose some unique considerations such as gifted asynchronous development, multipotentiality, and demographic differences such as gender, culture, and socio-economic status (SES) within the gifted population. To address the career counseling needs of gifted students, counselors need to understand the characteristics and needs of gifted students and the relationship this has in the career planning process. This article provides guidance for school counselors to understand gifted students and how to apply career counseling theories, such as the strengths-based approach, Social Cognitive Career Theory, and constructivist theory to this student population.

Sphere Representations, Stacked Polytopes, And The Colin De Verdière Number Of A Graph, Lon Mitchell, Lynne Yengulalp

Mathematics Faculty Publications

We prove that a k-tree can be viewed as a subgraph of a special type of (k + 1)- tree that corresponds to a stacked polytope and that these “stacked” (k + 1)-trees admit representations by orthogonal spheres in R k+1. As a result, we derive lower bounds for Colin de Verdi`ere’s µ of complements of partial k-trees and prove that µ(G) + µ(G) > |G| − 2 for all chordal G.

Flipping The Script: Newspaper Reporting Of The Trayvon Martin Shooting, Chad Painter, Erin Willis

Communication Faculty Publications

The purpose of this chapter is to examine newspaper coverage of the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin shooting and the frames of race and crime used in the context of newsworthiness. The researchers analyzed 1,177 articles in one local, six statewide, and three national newspapers. The local paper focused on the shooting and the ensuing police investigation instead of social and political issues, and local-interest stories instead of national events. There was virtually no mention of race. Coverage in the six Florida papers was mixed between details of the case and social issues such as Florida's Stand Your Ground law. There were …

The Complexity Of Disability, Chad Painter

Communication Faculty Publications

"The Complexity of Disability" is Chapter 11 in Cross-Cultural Journalism: Communicating Strategically about Diversity. Built on the hands-on reporting style and curriculum pioneered by the University of Missouri, this introductory textbook teaches students how to write about and communicate with people of backgrounds that may be different from their own, offering real-world examples of how to practice excellent journalism and strategic communication that take culture into account.

Alternative Media And Normative Theory: A Case Of Ferguson, Missouri, Mark Anthony Poepsel, Chad Painter

Communication Faculty Publications

This paper, based on in-depth interviews with journalists at alternative and advocacy papers in St. Louis as well as interviews with live streaming protestors, a new breed of citizen journalist, applies six characteristics commonly associated with the alternative press to coverage of the protests and police crackdown in Ferguson, Missouri, between August 9, 2014, and March 2015.

Journalists from the alternative newspaper in St. Louis focused on progressive or radical values less than the literature predicted. The African-American newspaper in St. Louis found itself influencing the national and global agenda regarding Ferguson and the ongoing oppression of blacks in the …