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11.22.2024
UD in the News Nov.
16-22
The Conversation, Scripps News and U.S. Catholic sought UD faculty expertise. Local media highlighted a grant for the Greater West Dayton Incubator to help up-and-coming businesses and an award for the Roger Glass Center for the Arts for being green.
11.18.2024
University of Dayton Roger Glass Center for the Arts earns U.S. Green Building Council
Award
The University of Dayton's Roger Glass Center for the Arts earned a 2024 Local Market Leadership Award by the U.S. Green Building Council Ohio for its commitment to green building and sustainable practices.
9.26.2024
!@#$%&: That hot sand making you hop across the beach may someday power your
home
Anyone stepping barefoot across a hot beach knows sand stores heat. A University of Dayton researcher is working on extracting and storing heat from that sand and other sand-like materials, which someday may be used to power U.S. homes.
9.20.2024
UD in the News Sept.
14-20
Climate scientist Shuang-ye Wu and education law expert Charles Russo wrote for The Conversation and Catholic World Report, respectively. Political scientist Christopher Devine offered his expertise to Washington Monthly and USA TODAY.
4.22.2024
First-of-its-kind partnership delivers a waste-heat-to-power project that will reduce UD’s carbon footprint by more than
70%
Tallgrass, the University of Dayton and AES Ohio entered into an innovative long-term agreement that fosters the University of Dayton’s efforts to achieve its renewable energy goals. The new waste heat to power facility will capture the heat produced by an existing process and generate decarbonized power, which will be sold to AES Ohio for the benefit of the University of Dayton.
5.31.2023
UD historian comments on story captivating the Catholic
world
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.
10.2.2019
University of Dayton joins Second Nature commitment affirming higher ed's role in shaping climate-resilient
communities
University of Dayton President Eric F. Spina signed Second Nature's Resilience Commitment focused on climate adaptation and community-building to address a changing climate and resulting extremes.