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9.16.2025
Things AI Can't
Do
Goldman Sachs predicts that artificial intelligence may displace up to 300 million jobs by 2027. Of course, I acquired that information from AI, so I have no idea if it’s true or if AI is just trying to bully me into making friends with it so it won’t render me as obsolete at work as I am at home.
9.9.2025
UD Pilot Reuse Pop-Up a Huge
Success
More than 1,200 "pre-loved" college essentials found new homes, diverting those items from the landfill.
9.8.2025
A Legacy Inspires and
Empowers
When Kate Schreel ’25 learned that she had been selected as a recipient of the Linda and Theo Majka Social Justice Scholarship, she felt more than gratitude — she felt seen and empowered.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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."