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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...
