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Stander Symposium

Stander Symposium 2025

The Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium is Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

Since 1990, the University of Dayton has sponsored the annual Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium to recognize, showcase, and celebrate mentored academic and artistic accomplishments in undergraduate and graduate education.

The Stander provides multiple opportunities to support undergraduate and graduate students (in 2024 nearly 1,000 presenters sharing 460 projects), explore other disciplines and topics, and engage with our mission as a Catholic and Marianist University in a unique and powerful way. Please encourage others to support students by attending. The Symposium represents the Marianist tradition of education through community and is the principal campus-wide event in which faculty and students actualize our mission to be a "community of learners."

Online registration for the 2025 Stander will be available on the Stander Porches page beginning Jan. 29, 2025. The deadline to register projects is 11:59 p.m. Monday, March 10, 2025.

2025 Events Schedule

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

University of Dayton's annual celebration of student research, creativity, and discovery. 

Undergraduate classes do not meet on the day of the symposium, allowing for participation from the entire campus community. Graduate/Doctoral classes 4:30 p.m. and after will meet as scheduled. Graduate classes (or seminars) that might meet before 4:30 are advised to use discretion in making decisions to ensure the needs of graduate students participating in the Stander Symposium are accommodated.

Following the registration deadline, we will schedule presentations and notify presenters of their assigned location and time. A full schedule will be published on the website in April 2025.

8 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Free Breakfast
Kennedy Union Torch Lounge

8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Session occurring concurrently in multiple buildings across campus

9 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Kennedy Union Ballroom Poster Sessions

  • Session 1: 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
  • Session 2: 10:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.
  • Session 3: 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • Session 4: 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.

11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Honors TED-style Talks
Kennedy Union Boll Theatre

1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Honors Student Symposium
Kennedy Union 2nd/3rd floor meeting rooms

3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Graduate Student Showcase
TBA

About the Stander

The purpose of the Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium is to provide an annual campus-wide forum to showcase academic excellence at the University of Dayton.  It is designed to recognize student learning through faculty mentored undergraduate and graduate research, scholarship and artistic accomplishments representing all academic units at the University of Dayton.  

GOAL 1: Recognize and encourage student academic engagement by providing a community-wide forum for their research, scholarship and artistic achievements.

GOAL 2: Recognize and encourage faculty mentorship of students and their work. 

GOAL 3: Represent the Marianist tradition of education through community in which faculty, staff and students actualize our mission to be a “community of learners.”


2025 Stander Program Committee

The Stander Program Committee's responsibilities include disseminating information to the greater campus community to educate all faculty and staff about Stander; serve as a liaison between their unit and the committee in order to provide feedback and foster participation; answer questions and help shape the activities during the Symposium.

Jill Crane
University Libraries

Chris Fishpaw
Student Development

Umesh Haritashya (co-chair)
Arts and Sciences, Geology and Environmental Geosciences

vacant
SGA Academic Affairs

Marsha Keune
School of Business Administration, Accounting

Donald Klosterman
School of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Geno Luketic
Arts and Sciences, Art and Design

Chad Painter 
Arts and Sciences, Communication

Leslie Picca
Arts and Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work

Tereza Szeghi (co-chair)
Arts and Sciences, English

Andrea Wade
Office of the Provost

Vanessa Winn
School of Education and Health Sciences, Teacher Education

Paul Wojdacz
Graduate, Professional and Continuing Education


CONTACT

Brother Joseph W. Stander Symposium


300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469 - 1634
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