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  • May 24, 2023

    “After earning my degrees, the doors blew right open for my career,” Wofford says.

  • Jul 27, 2022
    How a UD Education Helped Reverse Roe v. Wade

    The theme of President Jonathan J. Sanford’s inaugural year as the University of Dallas’ 10th president – Arete: Renewing Culture through Educational Excellence – befits a...

  • Jul 26, 2022

    Gwendolyn Loop, BA ’21, recently received the Polking Family Fellowship for the newest Notre Dame Law School class. With this fellowship, the de Nicola Center...

  • Apr 28, 2022

    After nine years in the oil and gas industry, one night Brad Winton, DBA ’21, and his wife decided a change was needed for their family. Winton had earned a...

  • Apr 21, 2022

    Six University of Dallas alumni were honored for their early-career championship and success in business, as “transformative trailblazers who exemplify Texas leadership and innovation,” during...

  • Apr 20, 2022

    People describe Misty Sabol as persistent. She began a demanding career working as a stock analyst for pharmaceutical companies and later oil and gas, but a desire to...

  • Feb 28, 2022
    Investment Firm Has Hired 12 Class of ’21 Graduates

    Fidelity Investments Inc. has hired 12 UD alumni from the Class of 2021 representing a range of majors, from biology and business to philosophy and theology. Their roles...

  • Oct 15, 2021
    An ongoing series featuring successful students and alumni of UD’s Master of Science in Cybersecurity program.

    Teresa Merklin, MBA ’05, has worked for Lockheed Martin for nearly two decades. After beginning at the company in software management, she is now a fellow...

  • Jul 27, 2021

    Standing over an open cadaver in Gross Anatomy Lab has echoes of the grueling 7.5 hours one must spend hunched over the MCAT in order to get to that lab. For...

  • Jul 8, 2021

    Taylor Posey, BA ’13 MA ’18, my classmate and friend, was a Fromer. Try not to hold that fact against him. In each of our closets, after all, lie skeletons. On the...

  • Jun 17, 2021

    For electrical engineer Jennifer (Coyle) Byrne, Ph.D., BS BA ’85, perhaps the greatest benefit of her UD education was that it taught her to seek truth and answers to big questions.

  • Jan 15, 2021
    Rebecca Bogie's, DBA ’19, career trajectory changed when she picked up a magazine as she waited for a job interview.

    In it, she saw a full-page ad for UD's Doctorate in Business Administration program. "The application deadline was about a week away, but I thought, I would love to be back in school, refresh my...

  • Dec 18, 2020
    “You couldn’t walk by David without a sports story of some sort,” said Patrick O’Hagan, BA ’63, of David Dozier Jr., BA ’60. O’Hagan and his wife, Patricia (Hasler), BA ’63, were freshmen at UD when Dozier and his wife, Dianne (Flusche), BA ’60, were seniors, and later fellow parishioners at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Dallas. Patrick O’Hagan was a physics major taking 20 hours and didn’t know Dozier well as a UD student, but Dozier’s penchant for stories struck him even then.

    David Dozier passed away on June 23 of Alzheimer’s complications in Dallas, where he had lived most of his life. Dianne, his wife of 60 years whom he had met when they were students together at...

  • Dec 10, 2020
    “The University of Dallas trains its students to be zealously devoted to the truth of things. By instilling this zeal in me, UD was instrumental in leading me to my vocation as a priest in the Dominican Order, where men are called to be preachers of Jesus Christ, the Truth who sets us free,” said Father Jonah (Micah) Teller, BA ’11, who was ordained to the priesthood on May 23 in the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The only family member who could be present was Brother Simon (Will) Teller, BA ’13, who is part of the same order and served as a deacon at his brother’s ordination.

    Seeds of Joyous, Powerful Priesthood As an undergraduate at UD, Father Jonah never seriously thought he would become a priest, though he would discuss it with friends. However, looking back he...

  • Oct 29, 2020
    Debra Ricard, MPM ’20, already had a master’s degree when she decided to enter the master’s program at UD. With a B.A. in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s in architecture from the Catholic University of America, Ricard still did not feel she had found her vocation.

    After years of working as a marriage counselor, Ricard felt called to the world of pastoral ministry. In the Archdiocese of Seattle, Ricard was a Christifideles candidate and, as such, had to...

  • Oct 22, 2020
    When tragedy hit the family of Brent Simon, MTS ’20, he knew he needed to leave the corporate world and reassess his vocation. In preparation for whatever this new vocation would be, Simon decided to build up his theological foundation by pursuing a higher degree in theology.

    Simon started searching for a program and was drawn to UD’s online and in-person format. After beginning classes at UD, he knew that he had made the right decision: The classes taught him both...

  • Oct 20, 2020
    “People ask me, ‘Do you wish you had gotten a degree in human resources instead of psychology?’, and my answer is ‘No,’” said Trustee Julie Weber, BA ’91, who took her psychology degree from UD to become the VP and Chief of People at Southwest Airlines.

    After graduating from UD, Weber went on to obtain an M.A. in counseling psychology from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Though she had hopes of becoming a counselor, Weber’s...

  • Oct 14, 2020
    Michelle Cortez-Gonzales, MFA ’20, was a Fort Worth ISD high school teacher with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Texas at Arlington when she decided to go back to school to get her master’s. At the recommendation of a friend, she visited UD, and knew immediately from the wooded area around the Art Village, the architecture of the buildings, and the faculty members she met that UD was the place for her.

    The faculty have remained an important part of Gonzales’ journey at UD. In fact, for Gonzales, the best part of UD’s Master of Fine Arts program is the faculty. “The faculty are deeply...

  • Oct 6, 2020
    Andrea (Jauregui) De La Torre, BA ’14, never expected to become a baby sleep consultant; in fact, until she became a mother to a baby who wouldn’t sleep, she didn’t even know such a career existed. An English and education major at UD, she had always wanted to be a teacher. After graduating, she taught kindergarten for one year and second grade for another. She met her then-future husband, Joe De La Torre, BA ’11, during her interview for these teaching positions at Uplift Education, where he taught third grade.

    When the couple’s first baby was born, De La Torre opted to become a stay-at-home mom. She felt called to this vocation, but she also missed the mental stimulation that teaching had provided....

  • Aug 12, 2020

    In a mountain range in Italy, Sophia Andaloro, BS '19, investigates dark matter. One of the 2019 Cardinal Spellman recipients at UD, Andaloro received both the 2020 NSF Graduate Fellowship and the Department of Energy National...

  • Aug 5, 2020
    Gupta Hall of Famer Earns Praise for Business Excellence

    Savoy, the leading African American business and lifestyle magazine, recently dubbed University of Dallas alumnus and Gupta College of Business Hall of Fame recipient Irvin Ashford Jr., MBA '00, among its 2020 list of elite Black executives.

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Apr 23, 2024

The Institute for Homiletics at the University of Dallas has reached its goal of establishing a $7.5 million permanent endowment, a key need in the effort to improve preaching in the Catholic Church.

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The students leading UD's annual day of community service invite locals to volunteer or request help for their homes.

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Having led the K-12 Curriculum Project of the Saint Ambrose Center since 2021, William Perales replaces Andrew Ellison as director this month.

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