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College Faculty In The News: November 9, 2018, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Professor Jana Bennett, Department of Religious Studies, discusses the place for religious tradition in the abstract world of online social media.

Batman In My Belfry, Kaye Curren

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I was composing a new blog post on my computer when I heard a clunk, chunk coming from my outdated air conditioner. Because the wall AC unit faced the outside, occasional bugs would appear in my living space. Sometimes a random bird would fly into the unit, but they were too big to break through. What came through the vent now was not a bug or a bird. A bat with a wingspan of about 12 inches had somehow squeezed through a small opening and was now speeding in circles around my living room.

2018-11-09 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.

Oraisons

Rare Books

Calligraphed in gothic on thin vellum and bound in vellum. Contains 15 communion prayers, 14 in French, 1 in Latin, and 1 hymn, “Ave verum corpus natum,” in both languages.

The first French prayer is the prayer of St. Ambrose. The page is illuminated with a miniature (35 x 37 mm.) representing St. Ambrose in his episcopal robes, in color and in gold, against a background of celestial blue with gold stars. The page is completely framed in a border of scrolled green, blue and red florets, highlighted on a background of gold, in a large border of filiform arabesques …

Arctic Ice Research, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton doctoral student Ming Gong '15 is more comfortable at the keyboard of a computer or piano than trekking across snow and ice in sub-freezing temperatures. But, during May and June, she spent 10 days at a field summer school in Utqiagvik, Alaska, where she learned how to collect physical data in the Arctic.

What Is Funny?, David Luftig

University Libraries Blog Archive

A book discussion on campus prompted engaging dialogue about humor, oppression, the role of stereotypes and notions of political correctness.

Starting Small And Going Big, Molly Campbell

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Erma Bombeck was funny, smart and she knew how to become famous. She must have had some sort of genius in that way, because she started out writing obits in Dayton, Ohio, and became a legend around the world. Starting small and going big.

Weekly Marian Features: Nov. 5, 2018, University Of Dayton

Marian Library Blog Archive

This week takes a look at the Child Mary, images of Mary without Jesus, shrines in Hungary and more.

Elevating Our Sights, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

The University of Dayton has been shaped by generations of visionaries — wise men and women with imagination and faith.

Cultivating Instruction Team Success With Low-Stakes Assessment Experiments, Heidi Gauder

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Assessment of student learning has been a component of this instruction team’s workload, but the approach was narrow, and responsibility was not equally shared. The instruction assessment efforts were based on quiz results from online tutorials administered by certain team members. When the tutorial quiz scores remained consistent over time, the responsible librarians decided that it was no longer useful to conduct an annual tutorial assessment. With the support of the library assessment committee chair, instruction team members were asked to try their hands at assessment using techniques of their own choosing with a class that they selected. Thus, the …

Behind The Scenes, Ready For Action: Cultivating And Conveying A Large-Scale Humanities Monograph Weeding Project With Campus Stakeholders, Heidi Gauder, Fred W. Jenkins

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Weeding books is a scary prospect for many librarians and faculty, particularly for humanities faculty, since monographs are critical scholarship in those disciplines. At this library, a renovation in one area created the need for a large-scale review of monograph collections in other areas. Library leadership began conversations with campus stakeholders early on, emphasizing renovation needs and outcomes, careful deselection methods, stakeholder opportunities for input, and sustainable collections. In the Fall 2017 semester, all subject librarians began identifying relevant titles for deselection and communicating with departments about the process. The Humanities librarians found themselves making additional collection considerations and working …

Digital Archives In The Discovery Layer: A Successful Collaboration Between Archivists And Technical Services Librarians, Christina A. Beis, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler

Roesch Library Faculty Presentations

Effective collaboration between archivists and technical services librarians can increase the discoverability of special collection materials. In this panel presentation, archivists and a technical services librarian from a medium-sized institution discussed archival tools available to preserve collections of digital content and how to make the collections available universitywide.

Working together, the panelists had created a plan to integrate these collections into the discovery layer so that metadata was indexed on a single user-friendly platform. After advertising the collections, they collected usage statistics to determine impact.

Attendees had the opportunity to discuss their own digital archive collections with others and to …

Gender And Schizophrenia, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

New research from University of Dayton psychologist Julie Walsh-Messinger and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai psychiatrist Dolores Malaspina uncovers key differences in the brains of men and women suffering from schizophrenia.

Ud In The News Oct. 26-Nov. 2, University Of Dayton

News Releases

CTV in Canada, The Daily Beast, MedicalXpress and WalletHub are among the international and national media tapping University of Dayton faculty expertise to discuss the issues of the day. In Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch published assistant law professor Erica Goldberg's op-ed about restoring legitimacy to the U.S. Supreme Court and media outlets statewide continued to turn to Christopher Devine to talk about the midterm elections.

Cultivating Student Success: Library Programming In An Academic Library, Amanda Black

Roesch Library Staff Presentations

The University of Dayton Libraries designed two interactive sessions for incoming students. One focused on discovering library spaces; the second focused on library resources. Assessment methods were built into each one.

2018-11-02 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.

Persistent Social-Emotional Symptoms Following A Concussion: Recommendations For School Psychology Practice, Susan C. Davies, Elana R. Bernstein

Counselor Education and Human Services Faculty Publications

Concussions can result in a constellation of physical, cognitive, and social– emotional symptoms, most of which resolve within 1 to 2 weeks following the injury. In some instances, social–emotional difficulties following concussion persist, causing ongoing distress and psychosocial impairments. It is important that school psychologists understand the nature of these symptoms, as well as ways in which they can support students who are recovering from concussions. As part of a collaborative concussion team, school psychologists can provide valuable insight into the complex interaction of symptoms that may present following a concussion. This article summarizes the existing literature on persistent social–emotional …

Setting The Stage For Experiential Learning, Griffin Quinn

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Matthew Evans has seen how the performing arts translate around the globe through his international work with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, a culturally diverse troupe rooted in the African-American experience.

A Tribute To Teachers, Jase Graves

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

With school back in full swing, I'd like to say a few words about teachers, without whom none of us would know what in the heck to do with the word "whom." I come from a long-ish line of teachers myself. My mother taught elementary and middle school for over thirty years, and my grandmother also had a brief stint practicing the pedagogical arts. I guess you could say teaching is in my blood-like a serious infection. In fact, "pedagogy" kind of sounds like the name of a disease.

November 2018, Pope Francis

Marian Thoughts of Pope Francis

No abstract provided.

Academic Guide, 2018, International Marian Research Institute

IMRI Course Listings, Program Guides, and Assorted Academic Materials

No abstract provided.

The Archives As Classroom: A Primary Source Mini-Course, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler, Heidi Gauder

Marian Library Faculty Publications

Archival and Primary Source Research (UDI 204) is a one-credit course at the University of Dayton designed to introduce students to the themes of historical empathy, visual literacy, privacy, and silences in the archives. This case study explores the pilot iteration of this mini-course, taught collaboratively with a team of six librarians and archivists. With the intention of furthering the goals of the University Libraries’ strategic plan, the course was developed to move beyond what can be accomplished during a one-shot instructional session in regard to primary source literacy. In addition to discussing the inherent challenges of developing and teaching …

In Thanksgiving For Our Volunteers, Past And Present, Olivia Gillingham

Marian Library Blog Archive

For several decades, the Marian Library has received the gifts of time and love shared by our devoted volunteers.

Modeling Socio-Economic Determinants Of Traffic Fatalities, Amin Azimian, Deogratias Eustace

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Faculty Publications

Over several decades, traffic growth has caused an increased number of traffic crashes, which are associated with economic losses and human sufferings. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [1] in 2016 there were a total of 34,247 fatal traffic crashes in the United States that resulted into 37,133 fatalities. Risk factors relating to the occurrence of fatal and injury severity of motor vehicle crashes have been extensively studied. Most studies [2-7] that have attempted to model the occurrences of traffic crashes and fatalities have been mainly confined to factors related to driver characteristics, roadway geometry characteristics, traffic characteristics, …

Premedical Programs Newsletter, November-December 2018, University Of Dayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

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

Academic Policies Committee Minutes Of The Academic Senate 2018-11-01, University Of Dayton. 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 Juggler Of Notre Dame And The Medievalizing Of Modernity, Volume 5: Tumbling Into The Twentieth Century, Jan M. Ziolkowski

Juggling for Mary

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.

Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before …

Profile: Lee Gaitan, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Lee Gaitan is a recognized "bounce back" expert (unless she's not wearing eye liner, in which case she often goes unrecognized), known for looking on the bright side and finding the silver lining in dark clouds. But sometimes the best way to part the dark clouds and discover the sunshine is by way of a mild rant or musing on the myriad irritations of modern life.

A Little Deadline Pressure: 25k In 25 Days, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

The Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop at the University of Dayton will launch a "25K in 25 Days" campaign in November, thanks to the generosity of a New York City couple who have made a $50,000 challenge gift in honor of the late Erma and Bill Bombeck.

Our Voices — And Our Votes — Matter, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

Allison Saracina, a senior international studies major, has learned a powerful lesson from serving as a Dayton Civic Scholar and volunteering as a student ambassador for the nonpartisan organization Vote Everywhere.