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Upcoming events provide opportunities to support a local market and develop business leadership skills.

Finals week is a stressful time for college students, so the University of Dayton is offering a variety of stress-busting activities — and advice — to ease anxiety for students, ranging from pizza to therapy pets to massages.

Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community; Can We Talk About Race? and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race, will deliver the keynote address at the University of Dayton's annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the Kennedy Union ballroom.

DAYTON, Ohio — The University of Dayton will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the University's human rights studies program and 70th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a pair of free, public events Thursday, Dec. 6, featuring a current U.S. State Department official, a former U.N. official and the editor-in-chief of top academic human rights journal Human Rights Quarterly.

University of Dayton students will transform the campus into a holiday playland for local children during the 55th annual Christmas on Campus Friday, Dec. 7.

In a hilarious moment at a celebration dinner on campus more than two years ago, outgoing University of Dayton president Dan Curran poked fun at himself when he discovered a disturbing fact while perusing the wall of presidential portraits in St. Mary’s Hall.

The University of Dayton will continue working toward a more sustainable world with a week of public activities Oct. 21-24 to promote green living.

Construction is underway on a new building at 1401 S. Main St. for The Dayton Foundation, the Dayton Development Coalition and the University of Dayton's Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

The University of Dayton will host a live, one-man theater production on the life of Augustus Tolton in celebration of Black Catholic History Month at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, in Kennedy Union ballroom.

The expertise of faculty via The Conversation, a global network of newsrooms "committed to information transparency and credibility" went around the world the week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5. A piece by Janet Bednarek on the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747 attracted an estimated 60,000 readers around the world, and BBC radio interviewed Julius Amin following his piece on the crisis in Cameroon.