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This past summer, Yeabkal Wubshit, BA '20, earned the internship that every computer science major dreams of: a position at Google. A junior computer science major with a concentration in applied...
“You bring me a letter of acceptance to a Catholic school for your child, and I promise your child will attend Catholic school.” This is the promise Father Mark Hamlet, BA ’68 MBA ’70,...
The University of Dallas will celebrate the extraordinary achievements of four alumni with its 2019 Distinguished Alumni Awards. Award recipients Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, MTS ’00, Laura Felis...
Two graduate students enrolled in the University of Dallas’ Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business — Luis Almanza, MS ’18, and Susan Horak, MBA MS ’23 — in addition to alumnus...
UD's Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business announced a partnership with The Study USA. The new partnership aims to further the Gupta College of Business’ mission to prepare students in a...
UD is proud to announce that Professor of Philosophy Robert (Bob) Wood, Ph.D., was named the 2018 Aquinas Medalist on behalf of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA). On Saturday,...
Steve T. Landregan, MA ’73, a longtime generous benefactor of the University of Dallas, passed away on Nov. 25. Landregan was fond of remarking that his earliest memories of being on the UD...
Earlier this month, the University of Dallas announced a partnership with the Institute of World Politics (IWP). UD will be the ninth institution of higher learning to partner with IWP. "As an...
Growing up in a half-Irish Catholic family in Cincinnati, the seven Teller children knew a household full of music. Every year, their parents would host a huge party with music at its center; each...
A few years back, the University of Dallas began to form a relationship with the Dallas Zoo, when Assistant Professor of Biology Deanna Soper, Ph.D., and her colleague, Professor of Psychology...
Dallas/Fort Worth area faithful gathered at the Irving Convention Center for the 12th Annual Dallas Ministry Conference (DMC) Oct. 11-13, 2018. Sponsored by the Diocese of Dallas and the...
Torrential downpours greeted out-of-town guests visiting for Alumni and Family Weekend Oct. 11-14, but these steadfast travelers (as well as those of us who live here) persevered nonetheless....
The University of Dallas is proud to announce another year of record-breaking undergraduate enrollment of 1,471 students. Record freshman classes within five of the last seven years have...
Next week kicks off the long-held junior class tradition, Charity Week — and as the UD community gathers on Monday, Oct. 15, Catholics around the world also celebrate the feast of St. Teresa of...
As many as 100 classical school teachers will receive scholarships this year as the University of Dallas intensifies its efforts within the classical education arena. The university also plans to...
Have you ever felt like you don’t deserve your successes? Whether it be an A on a test, a compliment from a friend or coworker, or a promotion at work, do you sometimes feel unworthy of your...
Ever since he was little, Jose Fernando Martinez, BA ’22, has been part of the pro-life movement. Yet, his experience has not been the typical one: His grandmother is the founder of the movement...
UD's Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition titled “Shape-Shifter: Drawing from Observation,” featuring four artists who turn the common notion of observational...
“It wasn’t my plan,” explained Edna Ramos, MTS ’20. “It was God’s plan; it was meant to be.” This past year, as she prepared to send one son off to college at Rice University and the...
“Poetry is civically important for a healthy and happy society,” said three-time UD alumnus Matt Mehan, BA ’00 MA ’09 PhD ’14. “In other words, a healthy politics requires a healthy...
Kimberly Diwa, BA ’22, first heard of the University of Dallas during a Bible study at her church. As she listened to a woman talk about her daughter’s experiences during her Rome semester and...
UD Reads is a new community reading initiative sponsored by the Office of the President, the Provost's Office, the Office of Alumni Relations, the Eugene McDermott Lectureship and the...
As University of Dallas students flourish under the guidance of our faculty, so too does the national reputation of the university. Once again earning its placement among the country's best higher...
The University of Dallas welcomes eight new faculty members this 2018-19 academic year. Their knowledge and insights will further enrich the university in several areas, including biology,...
Trustee Megan Smith, D.O., BA ’02 MBA ’18, just returned to Dallas after a trip to Rome for the ribbon cutting to officially open the new dormitory on the Eugene Constantin Campus for this fall’
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of handmade artist books and printed works, titled “The Space Between,” which converges around the idea of the space...
The following is a message from Trustee Richard Husseini, J.D., BS '88, chair of the presidential search committee. It is my distinct honor and privilege to chair the presidential search committee...
College life for the University of Dallas' freshman class of nearly 380 students officially began today as new students moved into on-campus housing. The Class of 2022 is one of the university’s...
This past 2017-18 school year, the University of Dallas began a faculty and staff exchange program with the Catholic University of Avila (Universidad Católica de Ávila, or UCAV) in Spain,...
The University of Dallas Board of Trustees is pleased to share several updates regarding the search for a new university president. Richard Husseini, BS ’88, current vice chair of the board and...
Strengthening and enriching our communities, both local and global, is an important part of living with a dedication to truth and virtue. We seek to nurture not only our own families but also our...
Catherine Blume, BA ’18, first became fascinated by Czech fairy tales as a child listening to the stories of her art teacher, a close family friend who had immigrated from the Czech Republic....
Strengthening and enriching our communities, both local and global, is an important part of living with a dedication to truth and virtue. We seek to nurture not only our own families but also our...
This spring, the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine awarded the Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff School of Ministry a $24,050 grant to support the CCD’s goals of promoting Catholic biblical literacy....
The University of Dallas was recently named, once again, a national College of Distinction among nearly 400 of America’s best liberal arts institutions. Adding to the university’s list of...
The University of Dallas has received a $300,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to purchase a scanning electron microscope (SEM), which will support teaching and research for both faculty and...
In an age when differences often lead to divisiveness, Associate Professor of Management Richard Peregoy, D.P.S., uses his research on mindfulness and spirituality to build bridges across...
At a time when many small liberal arts universities are struggling, the University of Dallas has some good news to offer: The strategic sale of the apartment complex owned by the university for 24...
In the 62 years since its founding, UD has put down roots and grown into this shifting Irving soil in more ways than current students or far-flung alumni often realize: Irving and its surrounding...
Valor Public Schools founder David Williams, who pursued graduate coursework at UD from 2006-7, and superintendent Steve Gordon, BA ’97 MA ’01, believe that a school should be an environment...
Bringing Truth Into the Light “Graduates of this university are academically well-prepared to dialogue with our pluralistic world,” said Cardinal Kevin Farrell at the ribbon-cutting and...
Outdoor chairs filled up quickly as droves of graduates, professors, families and friends arrived on the Braniff Mall the morning of Sunday, May 12, to participate in the 59th annual Spring...
The University of Dallas Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of Executive Vice President John G. Plotts, Ed.D., as interim president of the university. Plotts joined the university in...
The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation named the University of Dallas’ own Eileen Gregory, Ph.D., professor of English, as one of this year’s Piper Professors. The award, which honors 10...
For UD’s Class of 2018, the end of the spring semester also signifies the beginning of a new journey. Much like the university witnessed the successes of UD’s first graduating class with the...
Margaret Milam McDermott, a graduate of Highland Park High School and one-time society editor of the Dallas Morning News, passed away on Thursday, May 3, at the age of 106. Born in Dallas in 1912...
The University of Dallas is pleased to welcome two notable alumni, Tom Nealon, MBA '88, and Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun, MBA '86, who will address the Class of 2018 during the university's annual...
University of Dallas Board of Trustees Chairman Thomas M. Zellers, M.D., announced today that President Thomas W. Keefe, J.D., will be completing his tenure at the university at the end of this...
A self-proclaimed Irish-Catholic Yankee and an altar boy starting in second grade, Russell Greene first learned of the University of Dallas upon moving to North Texas in 1994. “I grew up always...
As we age, most of us ask ourselves, where has the time gone? Borrowing text from UD’s Core curriculum, this spring semester’s Galbraith Lecture will explore the difference between our own...
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition featuring two Dallas/Fort Worth area artists, Peter Ligon and Layla Luna, who articulate the architectural styling of...
Although she herself is not able to vote, Liz Magallanes, BA ’18, works to make voting possible for other people. Liz Magallanes arrived in the U.S. with her family at age 7 and, after...
The University of Dallas has announced the recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award - the highest honor the university can bestow on its alumni. They include Patrick Daly, BA '76 MBA '82,...
In the 62 years since its founding, UD has put down roots and grown into this shifting Irving soil in more ways than current students or far-flung alumni often realize: Irving is increasingly...
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery proudly announces the opening of a two-person exhibition, “What Remains,” featuring artists Rachel Meginnes and Assistant Professor of Ceramics Kelly O'Briant....
Christian philosophers have always discussed God’s objective attributes and His divine being, though these philosophers don’t generally ask about God’s own personal experience: Does He...
“Mary’s place as the first disciple is an inspiration to all of us who seek to follow her instruction to ‘do whatever He tells you’(Jn 2:5),” said Ann and Joe O. Neuhoff School of...
For the University of Dallas community, the beginning of the spring semester also means that another significant event is on the near horizon: Groundhog 2018. It’s the 55th Groundhog celebration...
After spending nearly a decade in the banking industry, Sister Josephine (Toni) Garrett, C.S.F.N., BA ’03, began searching for ways to build upon her Catholic faith, and on Monday, Jan. 15,...
The University of Dallas is honored to bring together three of the most prominent voices in Catholic journalism in the United States for the 2018 Eugene McDermott Lectureship titled “The Papacy...
“The Order of Malta has an emphasis that is very ancient,” said Assistant Professor of Politics Gladden Pappin, who was invested in the order in November as a Knight of Magistral Grace....
As an opera singer at Dallas’ Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Reagan Miller, BA ’21, had never heard of the University of Dallas prior to receiving an...
University of Dallas President Thomas W. Keefe announced today that he has appointed Jonathan J. Sanford as university provost. Sanford has served as dean of the university’s undergraduate...
“Being a twin is one of the best things about life,” said Vi Dang, BA ’21. She and her twin, Lam Dang, BA ’21, both started their college journeys as UD freshmen this fall. Their aunt and...
After retiring from his career as a computer programmer with IBM, Charles Uhl came to work in UD’s IT Department. He was a lifelong student who audited several classes while working at the...
The University of Dallas has been recognized in the 2017-18 Colleges of Distinction Guidebook for the eighth consecutive year among nearly 400 of America’s best liberal arts institutions. The...
They came here so that someday, they can go back with even more to offer. Sana Kandalan, MA ’19, and Anmar Oghanna, MBA ’19, are a wife and husband hailing from Ankawa, Erbil, in Iraq. They...
After happening across the early biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll as a freshman biology major, Professor of Psychology Scott Churchill began peering into the worlds of animals through what...
The Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, as you may know, founded UD. The sisters were intermittently part of UD’s faculty and staff until 2001, when Sister St. John Begnaud retired from the English...
During their freshman year, a mere nine miles from the University of Dallas campus, President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963. The children of World War II veterans and...
University of Dallas alumni develop a lifelong love of Italy after their time spent there during the Rome semester. Some alumni are drawn further into Italian culture through experiences...
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery proudly announces a new collaborative exhibition, “site_midnight_sun>>orangegreengrey,” featuring the dynamic “Drone Beuys” Nick Bontrager and Adam Fung....
Sophomore Mary Kate Tomassi, BA ’20, “embodies the diligent student who loves learning mathematics,” explained Assistant Professor of Mathematics John Osoinach, as faculty and students...
Father Thomas More Barba, O.P., BA ’09 ’10, who began serving as UD’s newest campus chaplain in August, shared with us the following reflection of family and friends on the occasion of...
This article originally published in the 2018 winter edition of Tower magazine. Standing on the edge of border America, Diocese of El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz, BA ’76, serves a role of vital...
During this semester’s trip to Greece, UD’s Romers toured the ruins of one of history’s most famous military engagements — the Battle of Marathon — dating back to 490 B.C. The trip...
In the modern economy, too often our financial system fails drastically, moving from one devastation to another. As part of recent efforts to promote Catholic Social Teaching, the University of Dallas
The 11th annual Dallas Ministry Conference (DMC) was held Oct. 19 - Oct. 21, 2017, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas. The event featured two keynote addresses, one in English...
In the spirit of the season, Father Thomas More Barba, O.P., BA ’09 ’10, who began serving as UD’s newest campus chaplain in August, shared with us the following Christmas reflection....
The University of Dallas Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business announced the four recipients of the annual Gupta College of Business Tower Awards. This year’s honorees include Chris Blue,...
On Friday, Oct. 13, Catholics around the world gathered to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima, and as the UD community rallies for another Charity Week, we are reminded of our...
As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”: “It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even...
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery proudly announces the opening of “Moments,” featuring the Vietnamese Catholic priest Rev. Martin Lam Nguyen, C.S.C., who will transform the gallery into a...
The Office of Personal Career Development (OPCD) has launched the university’s first Virtual Alumni Panel, amassing a network of 34 notable UD alumni from all four colleges — including two...
Shortly after Adolf Hitler seized power and the Nazi Party turned Germany into a totalitarian state in 1933, Blessed Cardinal Clemens August von Galen began openly speaking out against the...
As Houston and other Texas coastal areas endured catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, the University of Dallas community rallied in support of the victims. Not only did those in...
Leadership may very soon become mankind's most valuable asset. Whether designing a new military campaign strategy or navigating the battlefield of a Fortune 500 company, there’s still a lot we...
None of his four older siblings went to college, and Daniel Bishop, BA ’21, has been working in the ticket office at the Perot Museum for the past couple of years since graduating from high...
After calculating the donations from last week’s North Texas Giving Day (NTGD), the University of Dallas will retain its unofficial title as the most generous university community in North...
The University of Dallas reinforced its placement as one of the nation's top universities in the 2018 edition of U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges guidebook. Published online Tuesday,...
On Thursday, Sept. 14, people from across the U.S. (and, for that matter, the world) will come together to support North Texas nonprofits on the ninth annual North Texas Giving Day. Last year’s...
Huddled backstage in the Hilton Houston Post Oak Ballroom in early August, roughly 50 contestants dressed in formal evening gowns anxiously awaited the judges’ decision in the 2017 Miss Texas...
Colin Lancaster, BA ’21, didn’t initially consider UD because so many family members — including his parents, Michelle (Seitz) and Michael Lancaster, both BA ’92, many of his mother’s 10...
The University of Dallas recently received another high mark of distinction from Money Magazine, recognizing the university for its significant merit-based scholarships awarded to students. “The...
Muriel Bailey, BA ’21, didn’t have a typical high school job. Instead, she worked as an undercover youth agent for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services,...
Summer slumber has come to an end as UD students begin their first day of fall classes today. The Mall is bustling as students and faculty navigate between classes, and the Cap Bar is a more...
After high school, Maria Zambrana, BA '21, wanted to explore her roots — an exploration that took her to Spain, where her great-grandparents hailed from, and to the Universidad de Navarra,...
This past summer, senior Nicholas Terranova, BS ’18, spent 11 weeks running and processing magnetic simulations at the National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg,...
The university's largest freshman class in history, with more than 420 students, moved in Friday, Aug. 18, greeted by orientation leaders, resident assistants, faculty and staff, as well as...
This fall, UD’s Eugene Constantin Campus just outside of Rome will welcome new faces to the faculty and staff, as well as new roles for returning faces. Affiliate Assistant Professor of...
