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March 25, 2025
It's Just How He Rolls
The first time it happens, our youngest child has only been away at college for a month.

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.

Research
March 24, 2025
A Summer Garden in the Marian Library
Elizabeth Groppe was awarded the 2024 Resident Scholar Fellowship, allowing her to spend the summer deepening her appreciation for gardening — in the Marian Library.

Giving
March 24, 2025
Community Creates Opportunity
When Jalen Reed, a senior mechanical engineering major, speaks at high schools as a regional UD ambassador in his home city of Chicago, he’s honest that UD wasn’t his first choice. Now, thanks to the community he found, it’s his home away from home.

Libraries
March 24, 2025
Celebrating April Heritage Month Cultures
Spring brings celebrations of Arab American Heritage Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month at UD.

Business
March 24, 2025
Flyers in Hollywood ... and Beyond
For senior Hayden Parsons, her four years at the University of Dayton have been leading her to one thing. But if you think it’s graduation, you’d be wrong. For communication majors like Parsons, the Flyers in Hollywood trip is the culmination of their hard work, and the start of their future careers in media.

Business
March 24, 2025
5-Time Champ: Student Run Flyer Fund Ranks #1 Again
What started with $1 million in 1999 is now a $75.5 million powerhouse. Discover how UD students are leading the nation in investment education—for the fifth year in a row.

March 23, 2025
The Fab Floor
You can make book on the fact that I’m not a guy to sweep things under the rug. But you may be floored to know that I brought the hammer down on our latest home improvement project.
That’s why I had to clean my office of enough books to bury Moby-Dick so new flooring could be installed with the help of yours truly and my trusty hammer.

Campus and Community
March 20, 2025
Molly Bruggeman selected for the 2025 Doris Drees Speaker Series
The champion rower and Olympian will be the guest speaker for the health and sport science annual student awards.

President
March 19, 2025
Caring for the Whole Person
If I were to choose one word to describe the now-under-construction Health and Wellbeing Center, it would be holistic. At UD, we educate the whole person — mind, body, heart and spirit.