This year, the University of Dallas celebrates its 60th anniversary. In these 60 years, UD has put down roots and grown into this shifting Irving soil in more ways than current students or...

From Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas, Catholic faithful from the diocese and the surrounding area will come together at the 10th annual Dallas Ministry...

Thursday was officially the start of fall. When we’ll start experiencing cooler weather in North Texas, I don’t know — yesterday’s high was 95 F. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, this...

The donations have all been counted, and at the end of this year’s annual North Texas Giving Day (NTGD) — a one-day online giving event that encourages giving to nonprofits across North Texas...

Sarah Webster, BA ’18, wanted to go to a state school with a football team. However, a family friend who happened also to be a UD alumna suggested that she visit UD. In spite of Webster’s...

On Thursday, Sept. 22, people from across the U.S. (and, for that matter, the world) can come together to support North Texas nonprofits on the eighth annual North Texas Giving Day. Here are five...

Friday is finally upon us. If you think this week was tough wait until the week before Thanksgiving, when midterms have eaten away at your soul, and you’re forced to consume copious amounts of...

When classes began on Aug. 24, UD students were greeted by a different combination of white and black on the mall: the white and black of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, a religious...

Eight new faculty members have joined the University of Dallas for the 2016-17 academic year. They will further strengthen the university in a number of important areas, including theology,...

U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 rankings of the nation’s best colleges are out, and the University of Dallas moved up three spots from its 2016 rank to claim No. 12 on the list of best...

We’re officially into the fall semester, which means by now you should have the lay of the land, and your schedule should be filling up. But in case you’re still looking for some fun events to...

Last week, six days after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook a mountainous stretch of central Italy, killing nearly 250 people and leaving hundreds injured, fall 2016 Romers and faculty rallied...

Students arrived back on campus in the days leading up to Aug. 24, when the 2016-17 school year officially began. They returned from summers that were often educational experiences in themselves,...

Quick. Make a list. What am I missing? You only have Saturday and Sunday before classes start again on Monday, and you need to be ready so you can start this semester off right. The most important...

The old wood floor has been replaced with a new one. The ceiling is now vaulted higher to allow for better acoustics and lighting. At a passing glance, to most, nothing appears to have changed;...

The UD Rome Program’s Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art Elizabeth Robinson, Ph.D., is the first recipient of the Milligan Faculty Development Fellowship. Having completed her first year of...

Yesterday, during a dedication ceremony just outside the library’s entrance, UD officially renamed its library, now known as the Cowan-Blakley Memorial Library. The new name honors long-time...

The university's second-largest freshman class in history, with more than 380 students, moved in Friday, Aug. 19, greeted by orientation leaders and resident assistants with handmade signs and...

After serving Dallas Catholics for the past decade, Bishop Kevin J. Farrell (also chancellor of the University of Dallas) has been appointed by Pope Francis as the highest-ranking American...

At UD, students are no strangers to studying the classics of Western literature and the history and culture that formed them. Undergraduates who participate in the Rome semester also get to...

Long before he came to teach here, UD had been on Chad Engelland’s horizon. According to Engelland, assistant professor and director of the master’s program in philosophy, the level of...

Today, Texas’ campus carry law goes into effect. In March, the University of Dallas decided to continue its current policy prohibiting weapons on campus, and opted out of this statewide law...

Sherry L. Dellinger, who brings with her nearly three decades of higher education experience, has joined UD as the assistant vice president for student affairs. Having served as both an educator...

The daughter of the superintendent of schools in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Professor Emeritus of Education Cherie Clodfelter learned from an early age to value teachers. “Teachers are the most...

“It just seems incredible that anyone watching yesterday’s video of the Minnesota shooting, how it affected a little girl in the backseat of a car, could turn around and think an appropriate...

Best College Reviews has included the University of Dallas on its list of the “The 20 Best College Summer Programs for Gifted Students,” placing the university’s summer high school programs...

Shrines to Mithraism, one of the main pagan religions of the high and late Roman Empire, can be found throughout the Roman world: under the Church of St. Clemente in Rome, in the ancient port city...

The University of Dallas has announced that it will officially rename the 54-year-old Cowan - Blakley Memorial Library to honor long-time University Professor Louise S. Cowan and Professor and...

MONEY magazine has released its list of the “50 Best Private Colleges for Merit Aid,” and UD is number one. Merit aid is awarded to students based on academic achievements, test scores,...

Ever since her cousin Bridget left for UD three years ago, Rose Safranek of the incoming Class of 2020 has wanted to do the same. The aspiring biochemistry major and someday physician was...

The Irving Community Television Network recently featured UD and President Thomas W. Keefe. President Keefe talked about everything from the changes he’s facilitated since his arrival in 2010 to...

The mosaic seal in Haggar University Center. The stone sign on Northgate. The marble statue of Mary outside the Church of the Incarnation. These various pieces that enrich and beautify our campus,...

The University of Dallas has announced the appointment of two new members to its board of trustees. Terry O’Halloran, MBA ’83, and Julie Weber, BA ‘91, who recently attended their first full...

About 80 percent of today’s jobs are landed through networking. But how, exactly, do you go about finding opportunities to network? Robert Yale, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Satish & Yasmin...

Today, the university’s Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts announced a new partnership with Great Hearts Academies — a public charter system of academically rigorous, classical, liberal...

Today, the university officially announced that Brett J.L. Landry has been appointed dean of the Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business. He has served as the college’s interim dean for the...

Renowned Italian filmmaker and director Gianfranco Pannone made an appearance on UD’s Eugene Constantin Campus in Rome this April with the first screening to an American audience (and one of the...

Looking himself like a great judge resting behind his bench, Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) President Ed Whelan addressed the audience gathered to hear him speak about the late Associate...

Since she was four years old, Miranda Lozano, incoming member of the Class of 2020, has wanted to be a doctor. She went through her veterinarian, astronaut and actress/singer phases, but...

Its publication was a decade in the making, but in August 2016, the Spanish version of the Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry Catholic Biblical School (CBS) program’s Year One student...

Rising senior Rachel Parkey, BA ’17, never imagined how laborious and tedious a task it would be sifting through presidential archives for her internship with the George W. Bush Presidential...

Newly minted college graduates are beginning their job hunts; undergrads have already gone home for the summer and are now searching for the perfect summer internship or part-time work. This can...

Annie Irlbeck, incoming member of the Class of 2020, and her sister Mary were both born in Rome and lived on the Eugene Constantin Campus (affectionately known by many UDers as Due Santi) until...

Droves of students, parents and families arrived at UD over the weekend to celebrate and participate in this year’s 57th annual commencement ceremony. Commencement was a cool surprise to most,...

This semester was brutal. Final exams almost killed me, but the Cap Bar kept me alive (barely) and caffeinated. Now I’m ready to start my tan for the summer. Before you run out the door to buy a...

Today, the University of Dallas’ Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry announced that it will begin offering a certificate program in pastoral ministry in cooperation with the Catholic...

Incoming Class of 2020 member MacKenzie Fuller did not especially want to follow in her older brother’s footsteps and come to UD, but luckily she attended Odyssey Days anyway. She sat in on a...

To celebrate the last four years of hard work, commitment and tear-jerking all-night study sessions, the Class of 2016 gathered for the 2016 Convocation ceremony on Thursday, May 5. Students...

Traditionally, college graduation is a time to celebrate academic accomplishments and new beginnings. As UD honors its graduates, it will also recognize the life and legacy of Zachary Clark, a...

Some of you have Saturday finals, and we’re sorry about that. But for those who don’t, or who need a break once they’re over, there’s a plethora of events happening over the weekend....