Recent Posts
Human Rights
7.6.2026
Launching the National Table for Human Rights
Strategy
"We are the resources."
Those four words captured the spirit of a powerful workshop at SPHR 2026 that has since evolved into the National Table for Human Rights Strategy. In this blog, Joel R. Pruce reflects on the conversations that inspired the initiative and invites readers to join the July 20 launch as advocates across the country work together to build a renewed human rights movement.
Giving
7.1.2026
Special Service Award: Carna R. Cureton
’94
Carna Cureton ’94 has spent 30 years proving that giving back to UD isn't something you do once, it's something you live.
Libraries
7.1.2026
Queer and Disabled: Pride and
Visibility
Celebrate Disability Pride Month by learning more about the queer and disabled experience.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
7.1.2026
Humor Writer of the Month: Holly Rizzuto
Palker
Holly Rizzuto Palker, a longtime writer and journalist who founded the stand-up comedy troupe The Mom Coms, is our Humor Writer of the Month for July.
Giving
7.1.2026
Joe Belle Memorial Young Alumni Award: Dr. Christian Jensen
’17
Christian Jensen ’17 credits his time at UD for leading him back to the community that shaped him — and inspiring him to give back to it, one patient at a time.
Giving
7.1.2026
Special Achievement Award: Jan E. Stets
’80
What started as a sociology degree at UD has taken Jan E. Stets ’80 to the forefront of her field, earning her some of the highest honors in American sociology along the way.
Giving
7.1.2026
Distinguished Alumni Award: John D. Porcari
’81
From UD’s political science department to the White House briefing room, John Porcari ’81 has spent four decades moving people, goods and communities forward.
Giving
7.1.2026
Christian Service Award: Shawn Duffy
’91
What started as three rows of vegetables has grown into 36,000 pounds of produce, 300 volunteers and a mission rooted in the spirit of service he found at UD.
Giving
7.1.2026
Joe Belle Memorial Young Alumni Award: Meg Maloney ’18,
’21
Meg Maloney ’18, ’21 found her vocation early, and she hasn't stopped since, building a more sustainable Dayton one grant, one solar array and one household at a time.
Erma Bombeck Writer Workshop
6.30.2026
Things South Korea Does
Better
Recently, my wife and I traveled to South Korea with my youngest and quietest daughter for her senior trip, a fictitious rite of passage high school graduates use as an excuse to take Instagram pics in exorbitantly expensive locations.