Sustainability June 12, 2025

HSI at EarthFest: Where sustainability comes alive

EarthFest is more than just a festival. It’s a love letter to the Earth.

Engineering June 10, 2025

Engineering Faculty Partner with UDRI Staff for Summer Research Projects

University of Dayton faculty and University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) researchers collaborated on research projects this past summer. Two projects were completed by School of Engineering faculty members and were focused on self-healing polymers and lightweight composite aircraft.

Research June 09, 2025

Neuroscientist awarded $413K to study brain disorders, mentor student research

The NIH funding will support one doctoral student and seven undergraduate students.

Experiential Learning June 09, 2025

A New Audience for ‘Orpheus’

A literary magazine published at UD since 1969 is now available in digital form in UD’s institutional repository, eCommons.

June 06, 2025

Michelangelo Had a Chisel – Your Students Have ChatGPT

This post offers a practical, flexible model for integrating AI into a lower- or mid-level humanities course—using Art History as an example. The goal isn’t to overhaul your course overnight, but to help you make thoughtful adjustments that acknowledge the presence of generative AI while still supporting meaningful learning, academic integrity, and student growth. Each suggestion is designed to be immediately applicable, adaptable to your teaching style, and grounded in real classroom experience.

Libraries June 05, 2025

UD History: The Central Women’s Organization

Ava Merriman ’25 traces the trajectory of women enrolled on campus and how the coeducational environment took shape.

President June 05, 2025

A Changemaker

As a first-year student from Chicago, Meg Maloney vividly remembers gathering with faculty, staff, and students beneath a big, white tent on the Central Mall for an announcement that would change her life.

 

Faith/Mission June 04, 2025

One in Christ through the Sacraments of Initiation

This year we had the awe-filled opportunity to journey with eight students as they prepared to receive sacraments of initiation to become Catholic at the Easter Vigil. Four of them were catechumens– unbaptized individuals who received all three sacraments of initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and First Eucharist)-- and the other four were candidates who were already baptized Christians in other denominations and professed their faith and were received in full communion with the Catholic Church and then received Confirmation and First Eucharist. 

Faith/Mission June 04, 2025

“Learning in Ordinary Time”

When the academic year ends and schedules change, other daily rituals, such as prayer or spiritual time, may slip from mind and habit. We must remember that God is not confined to the walls of the church or a schedule, as the walls of creation are infinite. 

June 04, 2025

Who's Publishing What: Grief Like Yours

A new anthology, Grief Like Yours: A Story Collection of Life After Loss, contains 55 personal essays and poems, mostly from women, from around the country, Turkey, Italy, Canada and England.