Recent Posts
Law
9.3.2025
Dayton Law Welcomes 7 New Full-Time Faculty for
Fall
The new faculty members bring a wealth of experience and talent to their roles at the School of Law.
Campus and Community
9.3.2025
Rocky Mountain
Sigh
My eldest and most expensive daughter truly left the nest this time. We recently schlepped her from glorious Texas to a mysterious and unaffordable land known as Colorado, where she’ll start a life of her own dodging blizzards, patrons stumbling out of brewhouses, and billowing clouds of smoke from the devil’s lettuce.
Campus and Community
9.3.2025
Smells Like Team
Spirit
Steve and I have always shared the same values.
But over the last year, there has been a shift.
Students
9.2.2025
Students, young alumni awarded national scholarships to study, teach
abroad
Students and recent graduates studied and taught in Bulgaria, Spain and the Netherlands
Campus and Community
9.1.2025
Humor Writer of the Month: Wendi
Aarons
Wendi Aarons is an award-winning humor writer who writes "books to make you laugh no matter your age." She's our Humor Writer of the Month for September.
Alumni
8.29.2025
Just the Write
Time
1524 Brown Street is a significant address for Marissa Malson ’11. As an alumna of Theta Phi sorority, it was the house she lived in as a Flyer. It’s also the address for Martin’s Grocery Store, a key location in her new book.
Campus and Community
8.29.2025
Homecoming
The Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop has come home. Now housed within the University of Dayton’s English department, the workshop couldn’t be in a more fitting place. It was here, as a student, that Erma Bombeck ‘49 first heard the three words that changed her life, “You can write!” spoken by her English professor, Brother Tom Price, S.M.
Libraries
8.29.2025
Take a Break With Matt
Shaw
It’s been a busy first year for Matt Shaw, dean of the University of Dayton Libraries. Shortly after he started in July 2024, Shaw helped lead a transition to a new library services platform and a reorganization of instructional models.
Campus and Community
8.28.2025
Dr. Laura Cotten Howell’s Joint Appointment in Career Services and University Honors
Program
Enhancing visibility of the exceptional services offered by Dr. Laura Cotten Howell is a bonus for all students.
Faculty and Staff
8.27.2025
In Memoriam: Dick Peterson, professor emeritus of
mathematics
Dick Peterson, director of the University's first Freshman Orientation Week in 1966, "lived his life and career in service to UD."