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12.9.2025
The Biology of
Composting
A Zero Waste team member gets an in-depth lesson about the biology and chemistry of composting.
11.20.2025
What To Do When AI Use Becomes
Misuse
When you suspect AI misuse, it’s natural to feel a little unsure about the next steps. This framework offers a thoughtful path forward that supports your students, your course, and your sanity.
11.12.2025
Addie Hughes: The Baffling Biology of Blanchard's Cricket
Frog
The University of Dayton Honors Program pushes students to use their knowledge for challenging and dynamic coursework, but also to discover new truths about the world and how it operates through innovative research projects. One Honors Program member, Addie Hughes, is leaning into her passions and expertise with research on Blanchard's Cricket Frog.
11.3.2025
Cybersecurity and student research: preventing AI deepfake attacks on UD
campus
A UD computer science major worked with a faculty mentor to create a deepfake detection tool.
10.27.2025
Help Students Study Smarter: Google Gemini Notebooks in
Canvas
If you’ve ever wished your students would actually reread the materials before an exam—or at least do it in a way that helps them retain something beyond the next quiz? NotebookLM might be your new favorite tool.
10.15.2025
Fellowship program pairs students with science, engineering faculty for summer
research
The SECC fellowships provide students opportunities to work with two faculty, one from the sciences and one from engineering, for an extended summer research experience.
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."
8.27.2025
Hipparchus Had an Astrolabe - Your Students Have
ChatGPT
AI has put STEM faculty at a crossroads where they need to make decisions on what students need to learn versus what students need to learn to accomplish. This post offers a practical, flexible model for integrating AI into a lower or mid-level STEM course.
6.3.2025
UD Researchers to Develop First Pediatric-Specific AI Lung Nodule Detection
System
Dr. Russell Hardie has been awarded an NIH grant to harness AI to revolutionize the detection of metastatic lung disease in pediatric patients by identifying lung nodules in CT scans.
5.30.2025
Graduate Student Sheilah Njoka Awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship
Electro-optics and photonics graduate student Sheilah Njoka has been awarded a 2025 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by the Society for Optics & Photonics (SPIE), for potential contributions to optics, photonics or a related field.