Blogs
Blogs Archive
Diversity and Inclusion
May 09, 2023
The Best Accident
When he was just 8 years old, Joseph Boateng left his home in Ghana to live with his parents in Ohio. It was a journey undertaken with the hope to reunite with his family and prepare for a bright future. It would also, with a little help from fate, lead him to the University of Dayton.
Campus and Community
May 04, 2023
Students share disability research in collaboration with Brighter Connections Theatre
University of Dayton students learned about the experiences of people with disabilities through a research project with Brighter Connections Theatre.
Read More
President
May 02, 2023
It's About People
When trustees, alumni and friends ask me to describe the vision behind our ambitious and historic We Soar campaign, it comes down to three words: It's about people.
President
April 27, 2023
A Seat at the Same Table
Ashley Andrews and Matt Khalil are not artists, and both readily told me that they knew little about Buddhism and Judaism before trying their hand at building a table representing both faith traditions.
Read More
Law
April 27, 2023
UD mock trial student attorney achieves only perfect score in the nation
University of Dayton senior Arabella Loera topped more than 7,300 mock trial students at the American Mock Trial Association’s regional and national tournaments.
Read More
Human Rights
April 25, 2023
Navigating today’s society as a Transgender Person
In this blog, Jet, a transmasculine nonbinary HRC student reflects on his experience coming out in high school, his life at University and the current legal targeting of LGBTQ+ young people in the U.S., specifically in Ohio.
Read More
President
April 24, 2023
We Soar!
Slowly playing a jazzy rendition of the UD fight song on a trumpet, Willie L. Morris IV '13 wound his way around the familiar intersection of Lowes and Lawnview, past campus lampposts, and through the audience to the center of a stage in the historic Dayton Arcade.
Read More
Libraries
April 21, 2023
Charles I, the Controller of Catholicism
One 17th-century Bible can illuminate how King Charles I of Great Britain used Catholicism as a means to achieve territorial unity and dominance during a time of religious turmoil and violence.
Engineering
April 19, 2023
Interested in creating a tech startup? UD has a technical entrepreneurship minor for you
University of Dayton students aspiring to create a tech startup can get a jump on their goal with a technical entrepreneurship minor. Based in the UD School of Engineering, and designed with the College of Arts and Sciences, the four-class sequence is open to all students and begins in fall 2023.
Read More
Faith/Mission
April 17, 2023
All in for UD
It’s being billed as "one day like no other," and Katie Bardine '23 is all in. The Stander Symposium is no small affair, and neither is One Day, One Dayton.
Read More