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The Conversation, the USA TODAY Network and Spectrum News 1 Ohio are among the national and regional media highlighting UD faculty expertise and research. Melissa Oei wrote about her experiences as a student entrepreneur for Poets & Quants For Undergrads. Local media featured how UD Arena was more than just a basketball venue during the pandemic.

The University of Dayton has appointed Don Pair, a 30-year faculty member, as executive director of its Hanley Sustainability Institute. 

The Washington Post and NewsNation tapped UD faculty expertise. President Eric F. Spina was a guest of a Dayton Daily News podcast to discuss the pandemic and the future of Dayton.

The Washington Post, The Conversation and National Catholic Reporter featured faculty expertise this week. Ohio cable news outlet Spectrum News 1 and local media highlighted UD's 2020 and 2022 graduates.

CBS News interviewed Bob Brecha, director of the sustainability program, about using cleaner electric energy to combat climate change. Law professor Kevin Leske wrote about ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for The Conversation.

University of Dayton sophomore mechanical engineering major Lauren Bower has been named a Newman Civic Fellow for her commitment to creating positive change in the community.

The New York Times, NBCNews.com, Law360, Marketplace and the Catholic News Service tapped UD faculty expertise to discuss executive compensation, the rite of baptism, discrimination in the workplace, sustainable fuels; and Frances Millicent Douglass, the first African American woman to chair a department at a historically white institution of higher education.

Four faculty published Conversation pieces and U.S. News & World Report, Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times quoted three others in stories during the last two weeks of 2021 and the first week of 2022.

In the past two weeks, 13 faculty and staff representing eight units either contributed pieces to, were interviewed for, or mentioned in stories by The Conversation, Times Higher Education, The Academic Minute, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Telegraph in the United Kingdom, K-12 Dive and Optics.org. Several local and regional media also highlighted our announcement of UD's new arts center.

Human Rights Center Executive Director Shelley Inglis was a guest of the Morning Wave in South Korea to discuss the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The Los Angeles Times quoted political scientist Christopher Devine's research on vice presidents. Local news media highlighted Tiffany Taylor Smith's promotion to vice president for diversity and inclusion, student work to provide solar energy to local nonprofits and a Research Institute contract for research in autonomous systems.