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Regional and local news featured UD's announcement that the Flyer Investments Fund is now the largest student-managed investment fund in the country and covered record enrollment and diversity as part of move-in day stories. Faculty and staff from the libraries and law school wrote for the national outlet The Conversation on the Internet and exploitation of Native Americans.

The University of Dayton’s student-run investment fund is now the largest in the country at nearly $60 million of assets under management.

The University of Dayton enters the 2021-22 academic year with record overall enrollment and its most diverse student body in history.

A Higher Education Dive story held up UD's four-year tuition plan as "a model worth replicating for transfer students around the country." Aviation historian Janet Bednarek shared her expertise with Vox. The Dayton Daily News talked to Executive Director of Career Services Jason Eckert for its series on the job market. Ideastream Public Radio in Ohio and WDTN-TV tapped law professor Thaddeus Hoffmeister to discuss the Ohio Supreme Court and vaccine mandates.

The Dayton Business Journal wrote about the Industrial Assessment Center's U.S. Department of Energy grant to perform energy assessments for manufacturers. Auto historian John Heitmann lent his expertise to The Wall Street Journal for a story also picked up by Fox Business.

The University of Dayton Industrial Assessment Center has been selected to receive nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue free energy assessments for small- to mid-sized manufacturers in the region and train the next generation of energy-engineering professionals.

Dayton TV station ABC22/Fox45 featured a student-run business. Rolling Stone magazine, Cincinnati TV station WLWT and The Columbus Dispatch sought UD faculty expertise.

Vince Miller, Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture, wrote a review of a climate crisis sci-fi novel for America. Law360 mentioned how the School of Law's online hybrid J.D. program attracts high-performing students. Faculty shared their expertise with MoneyGeek, Vox and The Washington Times.

A proposed medical office building on South Brown Street that will serve the University of Dayton and the surrounding area would be built to preserve and incorporate a nearly century-old former church into its design as part of plans presented to neighbors July 14.

The University achieved an estimated $9.64 million of earned media coverage in 2020-21, with an estimated reach of 7.68 billion people in fiscal year 2021. Media in markets outside Dayton mentioned the University at least 3,168 times, for stories on a wide range of topics including Election 2020, airport living and grasshoppers.