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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...

“I know they can’t understand me,” he clarified. “I’m not crazy — though some of my neighbors probably think I am!” The dogs’ companionship does indeed appear to help fuel...

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...

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...

Shah received his A.B. in government, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in political science, also from Harvard, in 2002. “As a Catholic Christian, I know I...

Irving, TX (December 18, 2020) -- Charlotte “Charlie” Thomas, Ph.D., has been appointed executive director of The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC), a membership-driven...

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...