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The University of Dayton is working to help students who have stopped college finish their degrees through a collaboration that forgives up to $5,000 student debt.

Theologian Vince Miller said Pope Francis is making it clear the world has not responded with the urgency that climate change demands by announcing a second part to his 2015 encyclical on the environment.

Local media featured the University's work to help the city of Dayton and thoughts on the city's future. Newsweek, Just Love Radio on SiriusXM's Catholic Channel and WFAA-TV in Dallas published stories or interviews featuring faculty expertise.

Like many other campus organizations, the University of Dayton Student Emergency Medical Service team is preparing for the coming academic year. As part of their annual, week-long training, they are conducting a full-scale preparedness exercise 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, in the parking lot of UD Arena.

The Conversation, Religion News Service, The National Desk, Newsweek, Our Sunday Visitor, U.S. Catholic, Bottom Line and St. Louis Public Radio are among the outlets tapping UD faculty expertise. Local media highlighted UD research projects.

Local media introduced new provost Darlene Weaver to the community. News Nation, Religion News Service, The Conversation, Inside Higher Ed, the Dangerous Dogma podcast and WalletHub featured the work or expertise of UD faculty and students.

The University of Dayton school psychology program was awarded a $920,000 grant to help recruit and train graduate students from southern Ohio to provide school-based mental health services in their communities’ underserved school districts.

The nation's preeminent scholar on Black Catholic nuns, Shannen Dee Williams talked to Our Sunday Visitor for its story, which has been picked up worldwide, on the recent discovery of a Black American nun’s apparently incorrupt remains.

UD faculty and staff appeared in stories from the U.K. to New Zealand and, in the U.S., sea to shining sea. Locally, media highlighted activities at The Hub Powered by PNC Bank at the Dayton Arcade plus the generosity of donors to the University.

Bloomberg Philanthropies today recognized University of Dayton as an American Talent Initiative (ATI) High-Flier, a group of 28 high-graduation-rate institutions that are national leaders in college access and success for lower-income students.