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In a spacious hangar in the National Museum of the United States Air Force last Sunday night, the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra delivered a stirring performance before world leaders and guests. It was an extraordinary opportunity to be part of history as more than 1,000 visitors from 45 nations gathered in Dayton for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Students in the GIVE internship program learn and teach about violent extremism in Ohio through a gendered lens.

On April 15, 2025, the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, in collaboration with the University of The Bahamas and the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, officially launched the report “Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Commemorating the International Decade for People of African Descent and the Human Rights of Women and Girls.”

"Institutions like yours, animated by the Marianist charism, are not luxuries. They are necessities," Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson said when he received an honorary degree from the University of Dayton. "Education — if it is to serve humanity — must form the whole person."

If I could tell my 20-year-old college student self a thing or two, it would be this: break out of your comfort zone and embark on an untraditional spring break trip — not to the beach but to a new culture in another land.

Third-year law students in the University of Dayton’s Leadership Honors Program are working collaboratively and gaining invaluable professional expertise while making a social impact on critical issues.

Read about student, Eric Litterer's experience attending the Eradicate Global Hate Summit in Pittsburgh in October with the PREVENTS-OH project team.  

“Women of African descent have been the most oppressed and vulnerable group of women for 500 years; because of the exploitation, because of the building of an identity that was not ours, and a building of a narrative that has kept us discriminated against. And so, in the event that we have another decade [on people for African descent]. I have already placed in my report to the United Nations in November of this year the perspective that if we have another decade that it must also focus on issues related to women of African descent. We cannot for another 10 years be at the bottom of every relevant statistic globally.”

After working with coffee almost every day for 3 months, I will never experience a hot glass of that rich drink the same.

Kevin spent his summer in The Gambia working with The Center for Research and Policy Development—a non-profit, non-partisan entity dedicated to social research, advocacy, and capacity building for inclusive democratic governance.