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We know the indefatigable scholar Fr. James Lehrberger, OCist, is already plotting his return.

The figure of the Dumb Ox, the Angelic Doctor, is familiar to every UD student.

Over the course of nearly four decades at UD, Frank’s teaching and scholarship never lost their vital connection with one another.

A certain solemnity traces the bright colors of Saigon and Angkor.

Tiffany Miller’s course investigates the effects of Marxism on both man and society through Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s famous “literary investigation.”

Saraih Mendoza ’25 prepared for her accounting career by studying abroad in Spain.

First, it seemed we were plagued by bad luck. Then, as if by magic, everything came together on the day we traveled.

In the program, high schoolers who would be the first in their families to earn a college degree use the Great Books to investigate community and responsibility.

A beloved teacher and nationally recognized scholar of psychology, Scott Churchill, Ph.D., has left a monumental mark on the University of Dallas.

Some students had already presented their research at national conferences or successfully submitted it for publication.

After a long semester of prepping, University of Dallas students had a chance to compete in the 2023 Gupta College of Business Pitch Competition on Wednesday, April 26. The college’s student...

It is that generosity that impresses, as much as his encyclopedic knowledge, as much as his polymathic abilities, as much as his buoyant, ever-youthful energy, even as much as his irrepressible curiosity.

Scientists from around the country gathered on campus last week for the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS), a conference led by UD’s own Inimary Toby, Ph.D., a professor in the Biology Department.

Last month, more than 100 students, faculty, staff and friends of the University of Dallas gathered for a special mid-day Mass, rosary and Eucharistic procession around the Irving campus, among...

GK Chesterton notes that the problem with heretics is not that they get everything wrong but that they take one small piece of the truth and blow it up to be the whole truth. Perhaps nowhere is...

In her opening lecture on the metaphysics of sex, theologian Angela Franks writes three questions, identifying them as the core questions of the Western world.

Since graduating from the University of Dallas in 1991, much has changed, but much has stayed the same. New buildings have risen; beloved profes-sors have retired. What endures is the lasting...

Organized by Associate Professor of Marketing Scott Wysong, Ph.D., the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business’ first student business pitch competition, sponsored by Oncor, saw undergraduates, master’s and doctoral students all vying for the prize: $3,000 for the winning team, $2,000 for second place and $1,000 for third place.

Professor Emeritus of Art Lyle Novinski and his wife, Sybil, moved to Texas from Chicago in 1960 when he was hired as an art professor at the four-year-old University of Dallas. They did not...

Dr. Joseph Meaney, President of The National Catholic Bioethics Center, gives the Sixty-Third Annual Commencement Address to the University of Dallas Class of 2022.

On the occasion of the Consecration of the University of Dallas to Our Lady of Guadalupe, May 6, 2022 Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount...

For one thing, when students try to study all of these subjects together, they don’t have much time to study them in depth. Students and professors find themselves racing through the Odyssey in...

On Friday, April 1, students attended the annual Spring Formal in Downtown Dallas at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. We were thrilled to see so many students dressed to the...

Freshmen are working on their Literary Tradition annotated essays about the Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost, and starting perhaps to dream about Rome. Sophomores are consolidating their Core...

We are pleased to share some recent graduate school and professional placements of our alumni. Congratulations to class of 2021 majors Emilio Montalvo and Jamie Allbritton on their acceptances to...

Dr. Maryam Ahmadi was hired last summer as an affiliate assistant professor of economics. She holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Texas at Dallas and B.S. and M.A. degrees in...

Over last spring and summer, I hosted a UD student panel at the SSSA Conference, published a book chapter, and was a guest on a faith and science podcast. I was very pleased to organize and...

I have a new article that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Psychology. Titled "Sacrifice: An experiment on the political economy of extreme intergroup punishment,"...

Junior politics (formerly economics!) major Aubrey Wieberg was at the head of a student-led effort to bring the Big Event — a day of service in the community around UD — to the UD campus. Big...

From Drama Major to Navy JAG We asked Kelly Anderson, BA ’14, to tell us about her path from drama major at UD to Navy JAG, and how her liberal arts degree and her theater training in particular...

Many are re-committing to doing well in their classes, trying to look for better time management. Others might be thinking of trying a new activity, a new club. Socially it’s also time to...

I want to tell two stories from my time teaching at other institutions, two tales that, in their negative valences, highlight what is for me one of the most powerful positive aspects of the Core...

Eminent philosopher Peter Kreeft spoke at the University of Dallas on Nov. 6 to an overflow crowd on the “philosophy of humor.” Kreeft told the audience of students, faculty and alumni that he...

Last time, I wrote about Dr. Alvis’ two questions of a liberal education. I have tried this idea on some of my colleagues, and some of them responded that they do something similar in their...

Your student has, undoubtedly, accomplished a great deal this semester. Many of them left their family and friends behind for the very first time, many moving to a brand-new state. For the very...

It’s crunch time. There’s no other way to say it. Students came back from turkey and stuffing to find something entirely different on their UD plates: the final push, the last texts to read,...

I am the managing director and GM at Deloitte Digital, heading the firm's advertising agency offering in the U.S. and building a new agency model that lives at the intersection of creativity and...

On Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, a reporter from the local Irving news asked me a question that, at first, caught me off-guard: “Why do you love UD?” I had spent the last seven months preparing the...

Today we celebrate Veterans Day and honor our faculty, staff and students who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Originally begun in 1926 as a national holiday, Armistice Day celebrated the end...

We were once discussing the Core Curriculum in a faculty meeting when Dr. John Alvis, always a clear-headed thinker who pierced to the heart of every question, stood up and said, “There are only...

I can remember it like it was yesterday. I was home from my first year of graduate school, and my younger brother David, four years behind me, was home from his first year of college. Thanksgiving...

Want to watch some great UD TV with your family over the Thanksgiving Break? Drs. Shannon Valenzuela, BA ’00, and Michael West, BA ’06, along with UD’s Senior Digital Media...

Freshmen in Literary Tradition I are leaving behind the shifty, crafty Odysseus for the more solid, pious, dutiful Aeneas as he leaves burning Troy and heads off to found Rome. It’s a...

Since the Core Curriculum is such a crucial part of a UD education, in this section of each newsletter we will present a thought about what the Core Curriculum is about, or perhaps briefly...

The advisors from the Office of Personal Career Development are available to UD students of all levels to help them explore potential careers as well as navigate finding and applying for...

Father Joseph Paul Albin, O.P., is back for his second year in Campus Ministry, and has taken over the role as Chaplain after the campus bid a sad goodbye to Father Thomas More Barba, O.P., who...

One of the University of Dallas' many traditions is Charity Week. Led by the Junior class, Charity Week occurs during the fall semester and involves several student-run events, booths and activities that gather the entire campus together to raise money for charity.

Getting involved is a great way to engage with the university and support your student’s journey at UD. Welcome others to the UD community with the Office of Admissions by clicking here to learn...

I’m a father of two boys. Maybe it’s not this way with young women, but it can be tough to get them to open up and share their new lives now that they are away from home. They can seem stuck...

With all of this work, you’re going to hear about it! And it can be tempting to want to step in and help, to clear the way for your student. But I want to encourage you to resist. In a wonderful...

Freshmen have moved on from the anger, brutality, and grief of Achilles during the final year of the Trojan War in the Iliad to the epic of wily, crafty Odysseus trying to get back home to his...

On Thursday, Oct. 7, students and professors at the University of Dallas participated in the second annual Multilingual Poetry Night. The evening began with a talk on translation by Postdoctoral...

Last weekend, two of my worlds collided. On Friday, Sept. 24, the University of Dallas cross-country team traveled up to St. Paul, Minnesota, my hometown, to compete in the Roy Griak Cross-Country...

Happy North Texas Giving Day! North Texas Giving Day is an annual communitywide fundraising effort supporting many worthy causes throughout the metroplex. It’s also a time for us, as a UD...

The Capstone Consulting Experience gives students the opportunity to solve a strategic problem facing an organization. Since its launch in 1973 as one of the first student consulting and research...

This essay is adapted from Ryan T. Anderson’s introductory remarks at the University of Dallas’ inaugural John Paul II conference “America, Liberalism and Catholicism” held April 15-16, 2021.

Good morning. Before I begin, I would like to give a word of thanks, and to make a request. First, I give my sincere thanks to his Excellency Bishop Burns, President Sanford, and to everyone at...

Hello again! Despite all the COVID limitations, there is much afoot! The journal I mentioned in the last edition of the newsletter is now up and running. Oikonomos, generously made possible by the...

On Nov. 13, UD Economics senior Jamie Allbriton won second place and a $500 scholarship in the 2020 Dallas-Area Business Economists (DABE) Arthur A. Smith Memorial contest for his research project...

Encouraging consistent long-term use of food pantries would help decrease record levels of food insecurity currently being experienced in the United States while greatly improving health, shows research conducted jointly by faculty at the University of Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dear Students, Alumni and Friends of the University of Dallas Neuhoff School of Ministry, The University of Dallas has recently reorganized several areas, and has done so in a manner that seeks to...

On Feb. 1, the offices of the President and the Provost co-sponsored a special event featuring UD Trustee Louis Brown on “Christian Identity & Witness in Time of Racial and Social Conflict.”...

Corporate executives, industry educators and even elite global enterprises alike often overlook a crucial decision-making process when faced against opposing pressures in ethical dilemmas. An...

Calls for greater racial and economic equality that have been amplified by the events of the spring and summer of 2020 ring close to the hearts of much of the work being done by Department of...

I have a number of exciting updates since I’ve last seen most of you. My book, Shifting Capital: Mercantilism and the Economics of the Act of Union of 1707, was published by Palgrave in their...

Ten or so years ago it occurred to me that I spend much of my life staring at screens. I spend hours looking at television, the computer monitor (both desktop and laptop), Kindle and printed...

When we sat down to eat, President Cowan suggested a possibility: Perhaps a course could be conducted via amplified telephone. I was intrigued by this idea and thought to myself that this was certainly cutting-edge planning ...