Blogs
News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues.
For Tom Tappel ’18, ’21, the best way to learn, lead and serve within the Dayton community was to look to the future — of energy. Tappel graduated from the University of Dayton in 2018, then spent some time working as an engineer. But it wasn’t until a graduate assistantship with the ETHOS Center a few years later that Tappel dove into learning everything he could about the household energy burdens disproportionately impacting low-income families around America. He found many of those families live in buildings that were not at all energy-efficient.
There are lots of ways to measure success. For Steve Clark ’88, it’s about more than the job title or the amount of money you earn. When he defines success, he includes the ability to give back to the people and places you love.
- John McCambridge
Led by the desire to do good, Matt Day began searching for ways to provide physical therapy for people in need. Six years later, Day and his students are working weekly at a charitable clinic to aid in Daytonians’ recoveries.
For Kwyn Townsend Riley ’16, the push for social justice reform begins with her actions. It started when she was a student, organizing marches for Black Lives Matter and other social movements. And she continues to embody learn, lead and serve now in her work as the cultural and affinity spaces coordinator at James Madison University.
I have been able to see the face of Christ in my first, third, and fifth grade students everyday.
Whenever I walk across campus and pass a student they almost always run up and give me a big hug and ask when we will have class next. (And then they usually ask me if they’ve earned their five good behavior stickers to get a pencil next class—the kids go crazy for pencils).