Recent Posts
Sustainability
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.
President
7.22.2025
Exceeding Our Wildest
Expectations
I will never forget the very first One Day, One Dayton. We set an ambitious goal: 1,850 gifts in just 24 hours. In all honesty, we had no idea what to expect, but hour after hour, Flyer Nation kept giving and giving and giving, exceeding our wildest expectations.
Sustainability
7.18.2025
Hanley Sustainability Institute awarded $70K to standardize campus
recycling
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency grant will help provide infrastructure and equipment to meet institutional goals to reduce campus waste by standardizing trash and recycling bins across UD.
Engineering
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.
Campus and Community
7.15.2025
The Battle Among Wildflowers, Landscapers, and
Allergies
The landscapers shudder when they see me. Each time they step into my yard, color drains from their faces.
Sustainability
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.
Research
7.14.2025
UD wildlife ecologist awarded ODNR grant to track black bears recolonizing
Ohio
The four-year grant will support the field activities of the faculty member, a doctoral student and undergraduate research technicians.
Sustainability
7.9.2025
Where Sprouts Take Root: A Summer of Ecological Education in
Dayton
A student reflects on her experience as the Education Coordinator for Dayton Sprouts, a collaborative effort between UD students and the City of Dayton.
Business
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.
Sustainability
7.3.2025
My Summer Fellowship: Energy Benchmarking for the City of
Dayton
An engineering major is gaining experience this summer as an Energy Analyst Community Fellow, which is reinforcing his desire to work in the energy field and improve sustainability and efficiency.