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Winter Wonderland, Dean Norman

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I woke up to see my backyard transformed overnight into a winter wonderland.

College Faculty In The News: Jan. 10, 2022, 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.

Ud Men For Gender Equity Newsletter, January 2022, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

UD Men for Gender Equity Newsletter

In this Issue

1. Welcome Message
2. Upcoming Engagement Opportunities: Advocacy 101 Info Session; Men's Coffee Hour; Women's Leadership Certificate Program
3. Fast Facts! Title IX
4. Share Your Experience

Incubator's Business Blitz To Help Underrepresented Entrepreneurs Establish, Grow Businesses, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Greater West Dayton Incubator is accepting applications for its first Business Blitz, a free boot camp that will help underrepresented entrepreneurs establish or grow their businesses.

5 Questions With Isabella Saylor '24, Thomas M. Columbus

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Sophomore Isabella Saylor, now a computer engineering major at UD, was the only girl in her information technology class at Hamilton (Ohio) Ross High school. “It was nerve-wracking,” she said. “But I figured out my strengths and weaknesses. And gained confidence.”

Academic Policies Committee Of The Academic Senate 2022-01-10, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Academic Policies Committee

All Committee Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Academic Policies Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

The Dance Of The Dunce, Jerry Zezima

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

If I were in a dancing competition, I would never experience the thrill of victory, but I sure would know the agony of the feet.

Ud In The News Dec. 18-Jan. 7, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Four faculty published Conversation pieces and U.S. News & World Report, Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times quoted three others in stories during the last two weeks of 2021 and the first week of 2022.

Just A Smattering Of Snow, Larry Burgess

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Winter weather is hard to predict.

2022-01-07 Meeting Of The Executive Committee Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Executive Committee

ECAS Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Discover The New 'Gems' Of The Hub At The Arcade, Kat Cordier, Mike Puckett

Learning Teaching Forum

Societal impacts have brought about great change in educational practices, especially in the need for fluid and flexible learning spaces. The Hub at the Dayton Arcade is an expansion of the campus ecosystem, designed to create access and opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to collaborate with business leaders and the Dayton community. This session will be a co-led presentation and open dialogue about the “gems” in the Hub, focusing on student and community engagement and the value of unique spaces that set the tone for dynamic learning.

Smoke And Fire: What About Online Learning Will Keep Burning?, Julianne Morgan, Paul Dagnall

Learning Teaching Forum

While most students and instructors are happy to be back in the classroom, we should retain and improve at least some of the online learning practices we've learned over the past two years. For example, should instructors take the time to develop more asynchronous learning activities so face-to-face time can be used for active learning opportunities and group work? Or is the work to build this content or flip your class not worth the effort?

What elements of online teaching and learning should be kept burning, and which should we extinguish?

Building Community And Integrating Global Learning As A Remote Faculty Member In Ud’S Edd In Leadership For Organizations Program, Aryn Baxter

Learning Teaching Forum

The transition to teaching remotely requires intentional reflection on what it takes to develop and sustain a sense of community and connection when joining an institution from a distance.

In this session, I reflect and share lessons learned from my transition from working face to face as a faculty member and international programs administrator to working remotely as a faculty member teaching in the University of Dayton’s EdD in Leadership for Organizations program. This transition has entailed not only a shift from face to face to remote work, but also a prolonged reflection on a commitment to transformative global learning. …

Caring For Colleagues Who Have Experienced Loss, Susan Brown, Brenna Seifried, Katie Mathews, Beth Schwartz, Maci Rutledge

Learning Teaching Forum

Loss and grief are challenging enough in “normal” times, but with the pandemic, it seems that everyone has undergone some sort of loss. For many who have experienced the loss of health, a loved one, a relationship, or other significant parts of their lives, the pandemic has exacerbated the challenges.

UD’s mission references “educating the whole person and linking learning and scholarship with leadership and service.” In what ways can we rediscover the link between the vast scholarship on grief and our service to others who are experiencing that grief? How can we demonstrate the family spirit and care for …

A Deep Neural Network For Early Detection And Prediction Of Chronic Kidney Disease, Vijendra Singh, Vijayan K. Asari, Rajkumar Rajasekaran

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Diabetes and high blood pressure are the primary causes of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) and kidney damage markers are used by researchers around the world to identify CKD as a condition that leads to reduced renal function over time. A person with CKD has a higher chance of dying young. Doctors face a difficult task in diagnosing the different diseases linked to CKD at an early stage in order to prevent the disease. This research presents a novel deep learning model for the early detection and prediction of CKD. This research objectives to create a deep …

Citizen Web Archivists: Applying Web Archiving As A Pedagogical Tool, Kayla Harris, Christina A. Beis, Stephanie Shreffler

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Librarians and archivists preserve information on the Internet through web archiving, but undergraduate students may not have considered that information on the Internet is not always permanent. The asynchronous program, Citizen Web Archiving: Preserving Websites for the Common Good, taught students what web archiving is, why it’s important, the ethics of collecting information on the Internet, and how they could contribute to the historical record by archiving websites they deemed important via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The results suggest further opportunities for involving undergraduate students with web archiving initiatives at institutions, and using web archiving as a pedagogical tool.

Maps, Memes, Memory And More, Katy Kelly

University Libraries Blog Archive

Take a look back at the University Libraries' events and programs in fall 2021.

Do You Want The Job?, Mary Ellen Collins

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

When I freelanced for an executive search firm, I learned why I never would have had the patience to be a full-time headhunter.

Clinical Performance Of The Xpert® Ct/Ng Test For Detection Of Chlamydia Trachomatis And Neisseria Gonorrhoeae: A Multicenter Evaluation In Chinese Urban Hospitals, Fred C. Tenover, Yan Han, Mei-Qin Shi, Qing-Ping Jiang, Wen-Jing Le, Xiao-Lin Qin, Han-Zhen Xiong, He-Ping Zheng, Yi-Wei Tang, Yue-Ping Yin

Biology Faculty Publications

Background: We aimed to evaluate the clinical performance of the GeneXpert® (Xpert) CT/NG assay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) using urine and cervical swabs collected from patients in China.

Methods: This study was conducted from September 2016 to September 2018 in three Chinese urban hospitals. The results from the Xpert CT/NG test were compared to those from the Roche cobas® 4800 CT/NG test. Discordant results were confirmed by DNA sequence analysis.

Results: In this study, 619 first void urine (FVU) specimens and 1,042 cervical swab specimens were included in the final dataset. There were …

Are Parents Criminally Responsible For The Actions Of Their Child?, Thaddeus Hoffmeister

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

It’s rare when parents are criminally responsible for the actions of their child. The behavior of Jennifer and James Crumbley was so egregious, the prosecutor explained, she had no other choice. Law professor Thaddeus Hoffmeister explains.

How Common Is The "Common Era?" How A.D. And C.E. Took Over Counting Years, Miriamne Ara Krummel

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

"Today most societies take the A.D. time system for granted. That wasn’t always the case," writes Miriamne Ara Krummel, professor of English.

Create Space For Stillness, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

From "create space for stillness" to "velcro your butt to the chair and do it," writers offer their best advice for the new year.

“In The Family Spirit”: The University Of Dayton Framework For Lgbtq+ Policies, Practices, And Communication, University Of Dayton. Office Of Diversity And Inclusion

Documents of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion

It is important for the University to formally articulate its philosophy of why and how we support our LGBTQ+ community. Our approach is grounded in our Catholic, Marianist mission – which includes honoring the intrinsic value of all people and fostering a community where all people feel respected as children of God. This rationale stems from our mission as a university where rigorous intellectual inquiry and vigorous dialogue occur.

Currently, at least 15% of the student population at the University of Dayton self-identifies as being members of the LGTBQ+ community, along with numerous faculty, staff, alumni and their family members; …

Using Circle Packings To Approximate Harmonic Measure Distribution Functions, Ella Wilson

Undergraduate Mathematics Day: Past Content

Harmonic measure distribution functions, h-functions, encode information about the geometry of domains in the plane. Specifically, given a domain and a basepoint in the domain, for a fixed radius, r, the value h(r) is the probability that a Brownian particle first exits the domain within distance r of the basepoint. There are many domains for which we can compute h-functions, such as the disk and the inside and outside of a wedge. However, exact computation is often difficult or impossible for more complicated domains, so we need methods to approximate these h-functions. In this paper, we develop two methods for …

Protofeminist Freedom To Choose Colonialism, Josie Forsthoff

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

Intersectionality has been a legal and socio-cultural term since 1998 thanks to Kimberlé Crenshaw who put a name to the particular phenomenon of oppression. Her naming of culminating and connected marginalizations also provides an approach to address them. Nevertheless, feminisms that neglect intersectionality persist. The individualist feminist who prioritizes personal choice as the ultimate act of autonomy rarely evaluates the intersections of identity, even their own. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre presents a protofeminist protagonist whose choices to advance her own freedom often contradict the freedom of those who live and labor outside of white and Western society. She is free …

Civic Engagement, Advocacy, And The Marianist Charism, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Campus Ministry Reports and Promotional Materials

No abstract provided.

Geospatial Data Trees 1981, Grace K. Attea, Ryan W. Mcewan, John L. Vankat

Data Files for Old-Growth Deciduous Forest Dynamics Archive: Hueston Woods

Location and demographic data collected for each individual tree in 1981 in Hueston Woods State Nature Preserve. These maps were digitized from the historical field maps to a GIS shapefile for each sampling year. Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983. Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Ohio_South_FIPS_3402 (meters).

Humor Writer Of The Month: Dion Flynn, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Improvisor Dion Flynn, called "one of our favorite creative thinkers" by Oprah Magazine, is our Humor Writer of the Month for January.

Burmese Buddhist Monks, The Seventh Precept, And Cognitive Dissonance, Heather Maclachlan

Department of Music Faculty Publications

Burmese Theravada Buddhist monks have varying degrees of involvement with music; this study of 22 monks from across Burma/Myanmar reveals that most of them often listen to recorded music. At the same time the monks acknowledge that Buddhism’s Seventh Precept is (or ought to be) a guide for their behavior, agreeing that to be “attached” to music is to violate their monastic rule. They therefore experience cognitive dissonance, and they respond to this dissonance in predictable ways - that is, in ways documented by researchers working with Western populations. They differ, however, in their phenomenological experiences of attachment.

A Progressive Learning Strategy For Large-Scale Glacier Mapping, Zhiyuan Xie, Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In recent years, the worldwide temperature increase has resulted in rapid deglaciation and a higher risk of glacier-related natural hazards such as flooding and debris flow. Due to the severity of these hazards, continuous observation and detailed analysis of glacier fluctuations are crucial. Many such analyses require an accurately delineated glacier boundary. However, the complexity and heterogeneity of glaciers, particularly debris-covered glaciers (DCGs), poses a challenge for glacier mapping when using conventional remote sensing or machine-learning techniques. Some examples exist about small-scale automated glacier mapping, but large or regional-scale mapping is challenging. Previously, a deep-learning-based approach named GlacierNet2 had been …