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10.6.2026
Alumni Chair in Humanities builds community through 2026-27 ‘salon’ event
series
The Alumni Chair in Humanities launched a year-long series of campus and community events inspired by the Parisian salon tradition.
10.4.2026
On the Ballot: Turkey, Eagle or Big
Bird?
As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, I find myself wondering something our Founding Fathers probably didn't expect us to revisit: if America were choosing a mascot today, would the bald eagle still win?
10.1.2026
Humor Writer of the Month: Johanna
Gohmann
Humorist and satirist Johanna Gohmann is our Humor Writer of the Month for October.
9.28.2026
UD English, education major studies relevance of classic literature in the
classroom
An English and education major researched the teaching of sensitive topics in Shakespeare's works at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
9.25.2026
Free Time: Priceless and
Pricey
Tick-tock, tick-tock? Kill time? Never, never, never. With my obsessive-compulsive tendencies, I’d probably get carried away and wind up killing the wrong entity.
9.24.2026
Long in the Tooth, Short on
Cash
I imagined my new calendar filled with all kinds of “Events” — weeks in a Tuscan villa, jazz concerts at Lincoln Center, hiking excursions in the Himalayas. Well, maybe scratch the Himalayas — not really my style.
9.23.2026
New Home, New
Chapter
After decades of being housed at the Washington-Centerville Public Library, the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition is beginning a new chapter at the University of Dayton.
9.22.2026
Student researches importance of language around mental health in college
athletics
A former UD baseball player spent his summer researching how rhetoric surrounding mental health impacts an athlete's willingness to seek help.
9.20.2026
Seriously Humorous: With Love and Laughter,
Erma
Carol White Llewellyn is raising funds to bring a documentary about Erma Bombeck's remarkable legacy — and the power of humor to connect, heal and be a beacon in dark times — to the screen.
9.14.2026
UD English major explores Black womanist theology in the age of Gen
Z
Trinity Minus' summer research project was inspired by a course that examines Black religious history from the 1500s to today.