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7.31.2025
Building Momentum: UD Civil Engineering Team Stands Out in 2025 Steel Bridge
Challenge
UD’s American Society of Civil Engineers Steel Bridge Team delivered an impressive performance at their 2025 competition. This marks a major turnaround from last year’s showing — and a proud moment for the team.
7.29.2025
UD hosts Mandarin Chinese summer camp with $136K NSA STARTALK
grant
Twenty U.S. high school and college students participated in the free residential summer camp, where they cultivated their Chinese language and cultural competencies.
7.23.2025
Communication: A Key Factor to Sustainability
Success
A sustainability and communications major reflects on the valuable experiences she's gaining — both academic and personal — as she works as a Sustainability Communication Coordinator for a local city during the summer.
7.17.2025
From Class to Competition, Mechanical Engineering Students Take On Autonomous
Robotics
For their course's final project, engineering students built robots to detect, attack and outmaneuver opponents in a high-energy competition.
7.15.2025
Going Green at Go
4th!
A student in the Hanley Sustainability Institute's undergraduate summer fellowship program reflects on her experience with introducing sustainability efforts at a local city's Fourth of July event.
7.8.2025
Strapped for
Success
Hank Veeneman ’25 and Brayden Shepard ’25 won $200,000 in grant funding from the Ohio Third Frontier Commission’s Technology Validation and Start-up Fund for their business, Saturn Sports, to develop a football helmet chin‑strap monitoring system.
6.27.2025
More Than Just a
Game
In blistering heat, pouring rain, freezing cold and blowing snow – and sometimes a combination of those extremes – Erin Mingus ’25 found her community.
Experiential Learning
6.26.2025
Engineered for Impact: The Power of Co-op
Experiences
At the University of Dayton, hands-on learning and strong industry connections help students turn classroom knowledge into real-world impact.
6.25.2025
It's How We Build
Community
In Dayton’s Twin Towers neighborhood, the seeds of community engagement are taking root — literally.
6.24.2025
7 Questions with Dr. Bear
Jiang
We sat down with Dr. Bear Jiang, post-doc to tenure track fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, to learn more about his career and research.