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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.

The University of Dayton set another research record in fiscal year 2018 and claimed the top spot in the nation among universities for materials engineering research in the latest National Science Foundation rankings for fiscal year 2017. UD ranks in the top 25 of all U.S. colleges and universities in seven categories.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich reappointed John Leland, University of Dayton vice president for research, to the Ohio Aerospace and Aviation Technology Committee for a one-year term.

The Stanford University Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) named four University of Dayton students to a global program that empowers student leaders to increase campus engagement through innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity. 

Historian Julius Amin contributed another piece on Cameroon to The Conversation, a global network of newsrooms "committed to information transparency and credibility." Catholic Philly, MarketWatch, Fox News, CNSNews.com and Governing were among the national media quoting University of Dayton faculty experts. the National Jurist listed the School of Law among the nation's best schools for legal technology.

CTV in Canada, The Daily Beast, MedicalXpress and WalletHub are among the international and national media tapping University of Dayton faculty expertise to discuss the issues of the day. In Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch published assistant law professor Erica Goldberg's op-ed about restoring legitimacy to the U.S. Supreme Court and media outlets statewide continued to turn to Christopher Devine to talk about the midterm elections.

Associate professor of history Haimanti Roy explains the road to India’s partition in an article for The Conversation, a global network of newsrooms "committed to information transparency and credibility."

History professor Janet Bednarek explains how the ‘queen of the skies’ reigned over air travel in her latest article for The Conversation, a global network of newsrooms "committed to information transparency and credibility."

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. 

The Marianist Province of the United States is making a $1.5 million gift to elevate the present Father William J. Ferree Professor of Social Justice to an endowed chair and place an enduring stamp of Catholic Social Thought and Marianist character on the academic life of the University of Dayton.