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University Releases Historic Letter That Demonstrates Systemic Racism, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton has published a recently uncovered 1930 letter from UD’s Office of the President to civil rights leader, scholar and author W.E.B. Du Bois that demonstrates systemic racism at the institution through past discriminatory admissions policies and practices.

Weekly Marian Features: Oct. 12, 2020, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

Continuing through October with features that focus on Our Lady of the Pillar, the Schoenstatt movement, art pieces in the Reims and Chartes cathedrals and Rosary mysteries and virtues.

I See Dead People, Hillary Ibarra

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I see dead people. Okay. Not dead. Yet. But run over. No one else can see them.

You Don't Have To Pardon My French, Jerry Zezima

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I have long considered myself a Francophile, which is defined as someone who loves ballpark franks, because my son-in-law Guillaume is from France.

Business Ethics As A Form Of Practical Reasoning: What Philosophers Can Learn From Patagonia, Mark Ryan

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

As with other fields of applied ethics, philosophers engaged in business ethics struggle to carry out substantive philosophical reflection in a way that mirrors the practical reasoning that goes on within business management itself. One manifestation of the philosopher’s struggle is the field’s division into approaches that emphasize moral philosophy and those grounded in the methods of social science. I claim here that the task, at least for those with philosophical training, is to avoid unintentionally widening the gap between philosophical theory and those engaged in business management by emphasizing the centrality of practical wisdom (phronesis) to the moral life. …

Text-To-Image Synthesis Via Aesthetic Layout, Samah Saeed Baraheem, Trung-Nghia Le, Tam V. Nguyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

In this work, we introduce a practical system which synthesizes an appealing image from natural language descriptions such that the generated image should maintain the aesthetic level of photographs. Our proposed method takes the text from the end-users via a user-friendly interface and produces a set of different label maps via the primary generator PG. Then, choosing a subset from the label maps set is performed through the primary aesthetic appreciation PAA. Next, our subset of label maps is fed into the accessory generator AG, which is the state-of-the-art image-to-image translation. Last but not least, our subset of generated images …

Max Benson: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster, Maxwell Benson

COVID-19 Graphic Design: Posters

• Mixed-media digital collage
• 18 inches wide, 24 inches high

Shahd Salem: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster, Shahd Salem

COVID-19 Graphic Design: Posters

• Digital collage
• 18 inches wide, 24 inches high

Elliott Gilardi: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster, Elliott Gilardi

COVID-19 Graphic Design: Posters

• Mixed-media digital collage
• 18 inches wide x 24 inches tall

Caroline Hokanson: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster, Caroline Hokanson

COVID-19 Graphic Design: Posters

• Mixed-media digital collage
• 18 inches wide, 24 inches high

Cara Simmons: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster, Cara Simmons

COVID-19 Graphic Design: Posters

• Mixed-media digital collage
• 18 inches wide, 24 inches high

Melina Durham: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster, Melina Durham

COVID-19 Graphic Design: Posters

• Digital collage
• 18 inches wide, 24 inches high

Faculty Affairs Committee Minutes Of The Academic Senate 2020-10-12, University Of Dayton. Faculty Affairs Committee

All Committee Minutes

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

At The Evangelical Creation Museum, Dinosaurs Lived Alongside Humans And The World Is 6,000 Years Old, William Trollinger

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

At the evangelical Creation Museum, dinosaurs lived alongside humans and the world is 6,000 years old

College Faculty In The News: October 9, 2020, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The upcoming national election and the presidential and vice-presidential debates dominate the media exposure of faculty from several College departments. Read these stories and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.

Ud In The News Oct. 2-9, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Vince Miller in religious studies is among the theologians who offered their thoughts on the papal encyclical 'Fratelli Tutti' to America magazine. Marketing expert Randy Sparks and political scientist Christopher Devine commented on presidential brands and the VP debate for USA Today and Reuters, respectively.

Student Academic Policies Committee Minutes Of The Academic Senate 2020-10-09, University Of Dayton. Student Academic Policies Committee

All Committee Minutes

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

2020-10-09 Minutes 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.

Anatomy Of The Edelman: Measuring The World’S Best Analytics Projects, Michael F. Gorman, Lakshminarayana Nittala, Jeffrey M. Aldenb

MIS/OM/DS Faculty Publications

Each year, the INFORMS Edelman Award celebrates the best and most impactful implementations of operations research, management science, and analytics. As the Edelman Award approaches its 50-year mark, we provide a history and characterization of the award’s finalists and winners. We provide some basic descriptive analytics about the participating organizations and authors, the impact of their work, and the methods they employed. We also conduct predictive analytics on finalist submissions, gauging contributors to success in establishing winning entries. We find that predicting Edelman winners a priori is extremely difficult; however, given a set of finalists, predictive models based on monetary …

Beyond The Opinion, Meagan Pant

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Students learn to challenge their own assumptions and be critical consumers of information.

Campus Adapts To The Pandemic, Michelle Tedford

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Classes start online, move to in-person.

Classes, Community And Covid-19, Michael Dunekacke

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

COVID-19 forced the University to answer a new set of questions regarding how to safely teach its students.

Extraordinary, Michelle Tedford

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Relationships are the best medicine.

The Fighting Chipmunk, Dean Norman

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Maureen and I have made several vacation trips west, and always stopped at Vedauwoo Rocks, a forest service camp and picnic ground a few miles east of Laramie, Wyoming.

Are You Chitin Me?, January Gordon Ornellas

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I have a lot of obsessions: running, wine, running with wine, succulents, The Bachelor (don’t judge me) and my most recent ... WWF. No, not the World Wrestling Federation, but thank you for thinking I could compete at that level. WWF is Words With Friends.

Weekly Marian Features: Oct. 5, 2020, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

Our Lady of Coromoto, Our Lady of the Rosary, plus additional rosary-related resources.

University Of Dayton Launches New Award For Undergraduate Student Research In Catholic Intellectual Traditions, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A new award honoring the memory of a University of Dayton alumnus and Marianist leader recognizes outstanding undergraduate student research related to Catholic intellectual traditions.

Demonstrating Respect During Challenging Times, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

With passions running high this election season, I ask University of Dayton students to commit to "engaging in discourse that’s civil and meaningful" and "building the future we want for our communities and the nation" in a letter.

History Major's Surprise Discovery: Anti-Suffrage, Marie Poinsatte

University Libraries Blog Archive

History major and Roesch Library regular Marie Poinsatte shares her thoughts on a surprise discovery she made in the spring term: There were women in Dayton who were against women's suffrage.

The Spouse In The House, Jerry Zezima

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

After I retired last year, which raised the question of how I could stop working when I never really started, I realized that I still had two jobs: babysitting my grandchildren and driving my wife crazy.