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If you were to look for a UD major that promises great future job opportunities, classics might not be the most intuitive choice. Fluency in ancient languages might be...
The University of Dallas Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business will celebrate and honor its 2022 Hall of Fame inductees during the annual award ceremony on Friday, Feb. 11. This year’s inductees include 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Ray Khirallah, BA ’72 MBA ’76, of counsel at Holland & Knight, and John South, MBA ’97, former chief security officer at Heartland Payment Systems and adjunct professor of cybersecurity.
From University of Dallas undergraduates to benefactors who have provided for the university in their wills, Mike Perkins, BA ’78, and Sharon (Kapavik) Perkins, BA ’79 MA ’89, have a...
Irving, TX (Feb. 2, 2022) – The University of Dallas Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Rhame, Ph.D., associate professor of accounting, as...
Irving, TX (Jan. 28, 2022) — Over 100 members of the University of Dallas’ faculty community gathered last week at the annual King / Haggar Awards Ceremony to honor those who have demonstrated...
For the past 16 years, Monsignor Thomas Fucinaro has served as chaplain on the University of Dallas’ Eugene Constantin Campus (affectionately known as Due Santi) just...
Nestled in the wooded foothills of Irving, Texas, an unassuming Marian shrine welcomes faithful passersby and prayerful visitors at all times of the day and...
It didn’t take long for Jodi Hunt, affiliate assistant professor of theology at the University of Dallas, to recognize Cathy Quattrochi, BA ’78 MCSL ’09, as a UD alumna.
Dec. 7, 2021 (Irving, TX) — On the feast of one of the great doctors of the Church, the University of Dallas announces the launch of the St. Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education and...
The last Crowley Chamber Trio concert of the season will be on Dec. 6 and Dec. 7 at the Museum of Biblical Art at 7:30 p.m.
The Crowley Chamber Trio is composed of University of Dallas faculty members Kristin Van Cleve, violin; Marie-Thaïs Oliver, cello; and Andrey Ponochevny, piano.
President Jonathan J. Sanford, inaugurated last month as the 10th president of the University of Dallas, announced a new series of engagements over the next year centered around the theme of cultural renewal through the pursuit of educational excellence.
When Jeff Hedglen, MTS ’01, started studying for his Master of Theological Studies in 1994 at the University of Dallas, the internet was just in its infancy, and dial-up was the only way to get connected to the scarce World Wide Web.
Two years in the making, Alumni and Family Weekend 2021, which took place Oct. 15-17, emanated a feeling of community and joy. From the Golden...
Approximately 270 students, faculty, staff, and alumni will gather on Saturday morning, Nov. 6, to launch the first-ever UD Big Event, a day of community service to neighbors in need in the City of Irving.
Gregory Roper, Ph.D., BA ’84, has been appointed the dean of students at the University of Dallas. “I am excited to begin this new role at my alma mater and my...
The Quest, a documentary-style limited series produced by the University of Dallas about living one’s journey with truth and wisdom in troubled times, will debut on EWTN, the largest Catholic television network in the world, on Nov. 15 at 4:30 p.m. Central, 5:30 p.m. Eastern.
Drama at UD, as Associate Professor of Drama Stefan Novinski, M.F.A., BA ’92, put it, is not extracurricular. "It's not a club. It’s part of the curriculum, of the culture; it takes over the conversation on campus for weeks, sometimes years. If you get to work on the University Theater, on a mainstage production, you get to bring something to life that becomes part of the culture of the university.”
Brett J. L. Landry, Ph.D., who has served as the dean of the Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business at the University of Dallas for seven years, will return to his full-time faculty position at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.
It was the late 1960s, and Jo Ann (Shoaf) Gasper, BA ’67 MBA ’69, had completed her degree in politics at UD. But when she looked around at the options for a woman...
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...
An interfaith dialogue on religious freedom moderated by University of Dallas President Jonathan J. Sanford, Ph.D., and featuring Archbishop Matti Warda of Erbil, Iraq, is now available.
Irving Police officers are building practical leadership and management skills through a new training course offered by the Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business....
After calculating the comprehensive total from Thursday’s North Texas Giving Day (NTGD), the University of Dallas will retain its unofficial title as the most generous university in North Texas....
Prior to the creation of Faculty Excellence Funds, the Class of 1988 began the endowed Alumni Fund for Faculty Development, which supports faculty research and...
The University of Dallas ranked No. 6 in Regional Universities West for the second year in a row in the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s "Best Colleges,"
For the first time in its 65-year history, the University of Dallas' endowment has reached the $100 million mark, at the same time that undergraduate enrollment hit a record 1,500 undergraduate students.
The University of Dallas welcomes six new faculty members this 2021-22 academic year. Their knowledge and insights will further enrich student learning in many...
Karla J. Bellinger, M.A., DMIN, has been named founding Executive Director of the Institute for Homiletics at the University of Dallas with the goal of improving preaching in the Catholic Church....
In this time of growth and optimism for UD, as we prepare to inaugurate our 10th president next month, we are excited about the upcoming North Texas Giving Day...
Dominique West, MS ’19, was one of UD’s first cybersecurity scholarship recipients and will be starting in the Doctor of Business Administration program this...
We sat down with William Perales to discuss his new role as the director of PreK-12 Curriculum and Professional Development Services for the University of Dallas’ St. Ambrose...
The University of Dallas has announced three new staff appointments: Associate Professor of English Greg Roper, Ph.D., BA ’84, as interim dean of students; David Ma,...
We sat down with Affiliate Assistant Professor of Management Ben Dilla, Ph.D., to discuss his new co-authored book, Your Best Self at Work: Aligning Strengths, Emotional Intelligence &
After 26 years, University of Dallas Athletics Director Richard Strockbine retired on July 1. Subsequent to starting his position in 1995, Strockbine transformed the...
Computer science major Clarissa Skipworth, BA ’22, interned with Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Renita Murimi, Ph.D., CISSP, as they launched the blockchain...
Jeanine Dorrough, BA ’22, conceived the idea for First-Gen Ambassadors last fall, out of a desire to create leadership opportunities unique to first-gen...
As a new academic year begins, the University of Dallas is proud to announce a record-breaking entering freshman class of 491 students for the fall 2021 semester. The Class of 2025 comprises students representing ...
Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Renita Murimi, Ph.D., CISSP, has been on the frontlines of blockchain technology. Murimi began teaching in the Gupta College of...
Students seeking career advice and UD alumni looking to give back can now take advantage of a new Mentorship Program created by the offices of Personal Career...
Alexa Reubens’, MS ’22, journey from entry-level analyst at Citrix to its cybersecurity chief of staff was a challenging one for the self-described...
The University of Dallas is pleased to announce the opening exhibition of the Ron St. Angelo Collection of Iconic Photography for the Catholic Church, which will be on display in the foyer of the Braniff Graduate Building starting on Thursday, Sept. 9, through Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. An opening reception will take place the afternoon of Sept. 9 at 4 p.m.
Fifty discerners gathered together at the University of Dallas for the Vocation Awareness Program (VAP) hosted by DFW Serra Clubs June 11-13. These 29 men and 21 women...
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...
We sat down with Associate Professor of Philosophy Angela Knobel, Ph.D., to discuss her new book, Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues. What prompted your interest in Thomas...
Throughout his award-winning photography career spanning more than five decades, Ron St. Angelo has felt God’s hand leading him photo by photo. From photographing...
“The University of Dallas might not be for everyone, but it was for our family,” said Chris Archer, father of four UD alumni. “All four St. Louis Archers...
The University of Dallas' Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business is pleased to announce a partnership with Vera Aqua Vera Vita, a mission-based nonprofit dedicated to empowering communities in...
The University of Dallas is pleased to announce the appointment of Austin Westervelt-Lutz as assistant vice president for development. In this role, he will...
Former Trustee Joanne Herbert Stroud Bilby, MA ’72 PhD ’75 MA ’80, passed away on March 7....
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...
Desiring to support academic work that faithfully represents authentic Catholic teaching in the modern world, two married alumni have generously established a new faculty...
The parents of two University of Dallas alumni and one current student, Adelaida and Al Kagan sought a significant way to give back to UD in gratitude for the...
The University of Dallas has announced Jarred Samples, BA ’01, as the new athletics director, effective July 1, 2021, following the retirement of longtime director...
Credited with helping begin both the University of Dallas Rome Program and the university’s longstanding tradition of celebrating Groundhog Day, James Fougerousse, Ph.D., BA ’67, had a “larger than life” personality in the words of friends and former colleagues.
When discerning a fitting memorial for her father, James M. Fougerousse, Ph.D., BA ’67, Lisa (Fougerousse) Mobus, BA ’90, and her husband, Jeff Mobus, BA ’86, dreamed...
Jim Petzel, BA ’75, was unable to go to Rome as a student at UD. After graduation, he earned an M.A. in history and was pursuing his doctorate at TCU when he learned of a job opening for a...
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.
What started as a course to equip Atlanta, Georgia-area ministry leaders to teach youth about Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB), has grown to reach Spanish-speakers all over the world, as one of UD’s popular continuing education programs offered through the Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff Institute for Ministry and Evangelization.
A memorial Mass will be held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, June 15, 2021, at the Church of the Incarnation at the University of Dallas. Margie Cruse joined our Heavenly Father on June 1, 2021, with her...
Larry Nee, MA ’94 PhD ’98, believed friendship was essential for human happiness, and he spent much of his time putting this principle into practice. The Laurence D. Nee Memorial Scholarship...
Regina Uhl, J.D., BA ’00, joins the University of Dallas Board of Trustees as its newest member. A philosophy alumna of the university, Uhl is a nationally...
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Ph.D., MA ’06, discovered her vocation as soon as she stepped into the classroom as a high school teacher.
"Similar to that line from Chariots of Fire, I felt God’s pleasure standing in front of a group of students," Hooten Wilson said. "I realized I was designed to teach even though I didn't know enough about how to teach or even what I was teaching."
The University of Dallas honored 130 parish ministry leaders and deacons for completing certificate programs through the Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry at a special Commencement Liturgy and Graduation on Saturday, May 22. Held one week after the 62nd annual Commencement ceremony for the university’s academic degree graduates, the special Neuhoff event was held to accommodate both 2020 and 2021 graduates, since the pandemic prevented an in-person celebration last year.
For more than 15 years, Monsignor Thomas Fucinaro has served as chaplain on the University of Dallas’ Eugene Constantin Campus (affectionately known as Due Santi) just outside of Rome, Italy. However, in May, Pope Francis reassigned him to his home diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, beginning on Feb. 2, 2022, as pastor of the Cathedral of the Risen Christ.
The University of Dallas is pleased to welcome Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil, Iraq, as a special guest and keynote speaker at the 61st annual Spring Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 16, honoring the Class of 2021. This year, UD will award more than 500 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the Constantin College of Liberal Arts, Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry and Satish and Gupta College of Business.
“As a priest, it’s been a blessing that my first assignment was to serve a college campus,” said UD Chaplain Father Thomas More Barba, BA ’09 ’10. “Young people need to see that their priests are approachable and can connect with them. Being present on campus as a Dominican, walking around campus and being approachable to students, faculty, or anyone who is here, has been a happy, providential thing.”
By Kate Friend, BA ’07 The newly endowed Monsignor Donald Zimmerman First-Generation Scholarship honors the longtime pastor of Christ the King parish, his service to the Diocese of Dallas, and...
By Callie Ewing, BA ’03 MH ’22 Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, canonized in 2015, were a French Roman Catholic couple and parents to five daughters, most notably St. Thérèse of Lisieux,...
By Megan Wagner, MH ’16 One of the many ways UD embraces religious liberty is through a partnership with the Catholic University of Erbil in Iraq, in which CUE students have the opportunity to...
By Madeleine LiMandri, BA '21 This month’s segments of Sisters Serving UD will feature two alumnae who said “yes” to God’s call to religious life. The February segments featured UD’s two...
Notable scholars and thought leaders from around the country gathered on the University of Dallas’ Irving campus to engage in lively dialogue on the merits of liberalism and Catholicism in America, during the university’s first-ever JPII Conference April 15–16.
By Madeleine LiMandri, BA '21 This month’s segments of Sisters Serving UD will feature two alumnae who said “yes” to God’s call to religious life. The February segments featured UD’s two...
The University of Dallas has received a $100,000 grant from the Hillcrest Foundation to upgrade the Biology Department’s laboratory equipment and prepare the growing number of science majors for...
By Callie Ewing, BA '03 MH '22 On April 8, the University of Dallas’ Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business featured four female business leaders for the virtual spring 2021 Women in Business...
University of Dallas President and Provost Jonathan J. Sanford, Ph.D., announced the appointment of Philip Harold, Ph.D., as the new dean of Constantin College of Liberal Arts effective July 1....
By Megan Wagner, MH ’16 University of Dallas junior Samiyah Davis started the nonprofit Confidence Rules out of personal experience, having walked with a dear friend through a difficult time...
The University of Dallas is proud to host the first-ever JPII Conference organized by St. John Paull II Teaching Fellow Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., in collaboration with the American Public...
This month’s segments of Sisters Serving UD will feature two Dominican alumnae who said “yes” to God’s call to religious life. Last month featured UD’s two current Nashville Dominican...
With 957 donors (a 30% increase over 2020), it raised a total of $286,258 (a 43% increase over 2020), including a $50,000 match from University Trustee Nick Serafy. The National Alumni Board (NAB)...
This month’s segments of Sisters Serving UD will feature two Dominican alumnae who said “yes” to God’s call to religious life. Last month featured UD’s two current Nashville Dominican professors, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Theology Sister Mary Angelica Neenan, O.P., and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Philosophy Sister Elinor Gardner, O.P., neither of whom are UD alumnae.
The University of Dallas Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business is proud to announce a newly signed corporate partnership agreement with Gupta Capital Group. Through the partnership, all Gupta...
This past year, the NAB added a Class Agent and Regional Representative committee, which was tasked with launching a reinvigorated alumni engagement program with the support of the Office of...
Current President Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA ’82 MA ’83, has chosen to return to a full-time faculty position at Baylor University on July 1, where he served prior to UD. He will continue to...
Svetozar “Steve” Pejovich, 89, passed away peacefully on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, with his family by his side. He is survived by his loving wife, Susan; his four children, Alexandra, Brenda,...
For Vince Pawlowski, BA ’85, the decision to generously support the new Class of 1985 Scholarship Fund with a $100,000 lead gift was born out of a simple desire to give back to the institution that had given him so much. I recently sat down with Pawlowski, a successful defense attorney who sold his practice in Florida and now manages real estate properties around the country, to talk about his ongoing philanthropy, most recent gift and his personal pledge to give back.
“I have had the strange experience of twice being a UD student, and so this university has shaped my character and my life,” said UD alumnus and Associate Professor of English Andrew Moran, BA ’
Economics Chair, Accomplished Scholar, Community Leader, Devoted Teacher Takes Leading Role at UD "Dr. Leonard is a leader of remarkable vision, energy and dedication to the good of all those she...
On Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, at 8:15 am local time, Dr. James Millard Fougerousse passed away at the Cardinal Schwarzenberg Hospital in Schwarzach am Pongau, Austria. He was 76 years old.
After nearly a year of planning, the University of Dallas announced a comprehensive plan that includes reducing business operations costs and restructuring some of the university’s academic programs over the next three years.
This beginning set a precedent: that UD is home to women with a religious vocation. Our religious alumnae and Dominican professors have shared their discernment stories and the role UD played in...
This beginning set a precedent: that UD is home to women with a religious vocation. Our religious alumnae and Dominican professors have shared their discernment stories and the role UD played in...
Further, the Pecha parents are alumni of the St. Ignatius Institute (SII) at the University of San Francisco, which was, when they attended, very similar to UD, with a liberal arts curriculum...
The University of Dallas announced the appointment of Kris Muñoz Vetter as chief advancement officer and Clare Venegas as chief marketing and communications officer.
The University of Dallas Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business is proud to announce that alumnus Satish Gupta, MBA '81, was named a “2021 Influential Leader” by the Association to Advance...
Mike Wehrle, D.D.S., BA’ 85, along with classmates Bill Schofield and Jennifer (Coyle) Byrne (both also BA ’85), recently stepped forward to launch the Class of 1985 Endowed Scholarship in hopes of inspiring both their classmates and current and future alumni to invest in the outstanding value of a UD education.
El CPM está diseñado con la finalidad de formar, educar y preparar a los adultos que sirven en sus parroquias, escuelas y otras organizaciones católicas como discípulos de Cristo. Los estudiantes eligen cursos en las áreas de teología, moral, ministerio pastoral, evangelización, matrimonio y vida familiar, entre otros.
As VP of Verizon’s West Network Assurance, Knowles oversees operations west of the Mississippi, using her 23 years of experience as a Verizon engineer and leader to guide her team in rapidly...
“Do not accept anything as truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth! One without the other becomes a destructive lie.” --Pope Saint John Paul II Founded as...
Each year since 1985, UD’s faculty have gathered at the beginning of the spring semester for the prestigious awards ceremony to recognize and honor fellow faculty who have gone above and beyond...
The University of Dallas Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business will celebrate and honor its 2021 Hall of Fame inductees during the annual award ceremony virtually on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021...
