Blogs
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Experiential Learning
June 02, 2025
Moral Courage Project students document Atlanta ‘Stop Cop City’ protests
The Moral Courage Project takes UD students into the field to document communities during times of crisis.

President
May 30, 2025
'Dayton' — Shorthand for Peace
In a spacious hangar in the National Museum of the United States Air Force last Sunday night, the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra delivered a stirring performance before world leaders and guests. It was an extraordinary opportunity to be part of history as more than 1,000 visitors from 45 nations gathered in Dayton for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Humanities and Social Sciences
May 05, 2025
UD students address gendered injustices through GIVE internship program
Students in the GIVE internship program learn and teach about violent extremism in Ohio through a gendered lens.

Human Rights
April 30, 2025
A Moment at the UN
On April 15, 2025, the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, in collaboration with the University of The Bahamas and the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, officially launched the report “Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Commemorating the International Decade for People of African Descent and the Human Rights of Women and Girls.”

Faith/Mission
April 16, 2025
'We Are Souls to be Awakened'
"Institutions like yours, animated by the Marianist charism, are not luxuries. They are necessities," Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson said when he received an honorary degree from the University of Dayton. "Education — if it is to serve humanity — must form the whole person."

President
March 24, 2025
Life Lessons
If I could tell my 20-year-old college student self a thing or two, it would be this: break out of your comfort zone and embark on an untraditional spring break trip — not to the beach but to a new culture in another land.

Giving
March 17, 2025
Legally Learn, Lead and Serve
Third-year law students in the University of Dayton’s Leadership Honors Program are working collaboratively and gaining invaluable professional expertise while making a social impact on critical issues.

Human Rights
December 15, 2024
Eradicating Hate with PREVENTS-OH
Read about student, Eric Litterer's experience attending the Eradicate Global Hate Summit in Pittsburgh in October with the PREVENTS-OH project team.

Human Rights
December 12, 2024
Soft Launch of the Research Project: ‘Looking Back and Reaching Forward - Commemorating the International Decade for People of African Descent and the Human Rights of Women and Girls'
“Women of African descent have been the most oppressed and vulnerable group of women for 500 years; because of the exploitation, because of the building of an identity that was not ours, and a building of a narrative that has kept us discriminated against. And so, in the event that we have another decade [on people for African descent]. I have already placed in my report to the United Nations in November of this year the perspective that if we have another decade that it must also focus on issues related to women of African descent. We cannot for another 10 years be at the bottom of every relevant statistic globally.”

Human Rights
October 08, 2024
ETHOS Immersion in Peru
After working with coffee almost every day for 3 months, I will never experience a hot glass of that rich drink the same.