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College Faculty in the News: Oct. 8, 2021

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. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences. Find links to a number of recent stories below.

"Trump Looks To Midterm Primaries To Cement His Hold On GOP"
Zenger News, Oct. 1, 2021
Senior Lecturer Daniel Birdsong, Department of Political Science

"VOICES: Living up to the promise of representative democracy is a challenge"
Dayton Daily News, Oct. 1, 2021
Senior Lecturer Daniel Birdsong, Department of Political Science

"‘The Activist’ reality TV show sparked furor, but treating causes as commodities with help from celebrities happens all the time"
The Conversation, Sept. 28, 2021
Alexandra Budabin, Human Rights Center Senior Researcher 

"How decades of security blunders led to the formation of the TSA and forever changed the way we fly"
Boston Globe, Sept. 27, 2021
Professor Janet Bednarek, Department of History

"GovExec Daily Podcast: The Overwhelmed Refugee System"
Government Executive, Sept. 27, 2021
Professor Shelley Inglis, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center

"With priest numbers dwindling, Cincinnati archdiocese readies to reorganize parishes"
Dayton Daily News, Sept. 26, 2021
Associate Professor Sandra Yocum, Department of Religious Studies

"Perilous situation for Afghan allies left behind shows a refugee system that’s not up to the job"
The Conversation, Sept. 13, 2021
Professor Shelley Inglis, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center

"The September 11 attacks — rumors, conspiracy theories and the day that changed aviation forever"
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) National Radio, Sept. 13, 2021
Professor Janet Bednarek, Department of History

Top of page (l-r), top row: Janet Bednarek, Alexandra Budabin, Shelley Inglis. Bottom row: Sandra Yocum, Daniel Birdsong.

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Despite less than two weeks to prepare for a performance at Levitt Pavilion in the heart of downtown Dayton, the invitation was too good of an opportunity to pass up for University of Dayton Department of Music faculty and students. Nearly 200 students and 15 faculty performed for several hundred concert-goers, who listened and danced on the lawn during the two-hour musical showcase.

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National Institutes of Health awards $1.65 million to University of Dayton researchers to study genetic basis of childhood diseases and birth defects in human eye

The National Institutes of Health awarded University of Dayton geneticists Amit Singh and Madhuri Kango-Singh a five-year, $1.65 million grant to study how genes regulate three-dimensional patterning and growth during early eye development to understand the genetic basis of childhood retinal diseases and birth defects in the human eye.

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