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Ever So Lucky

For over 15 years, Monsignor Thomas Fucinaro has served as chaplain on UD’s Eugene Constantin Campus (aka Due Santi) just outside of Rome. However, in May, Pope Francis reassigned him to his home diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, beginning in February 2022 as pastor of the Cathedral of the Risen Christ. “Monsignor will be missed tremendously by Rome, but Lincoln is ever so lucky!” said Vallery (Bergez) Hrbacek, BA ’14. Read more at udallas.edu/ever-so-lucky.

Animating Principles

The 2021 King Fellow is Professor of Management J.Lee Whittington, Ph.D., and the Haggar Fellow is Associate Professor and Chair of Biology William Cody, Ph.D. “Thank you for making this university fully alive with the animating principles of truth, wisdom and virtue,” said President Jonathan J. Sanford, Ph.D., to all faculty. Read more at udallas.edu/animating-principles.

Business Excellence

In February, the Gupta College of Business celebrated its 2021 Hall of Fame inductees: Ramesh Bhatia, MBA ’81, former president and CEO of Atco Rubber Products and founder of The Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family Foundation; Sonia Kirkpatrick, MBA ’11, founder and CEO of PediaPlex; and Bruce Evans, professor emeritus of management.

Course for Growth

After nearly a year of planning, UD announced a comprehensive plan to reduce business operations costs and restructure some academic programs over the next three years, setting a course for growth. Read more at udallas.edu/course-for-growth.

Heard Around Campus

Hope, love, faith, the transcendent and seeking out commonalities in our stories even as we appreciate each other’s differences: These are some of the takeaways from the past semester’s events, lectures and panel discussions.

“God calls us to a true, lasting love for every person — a love which is sacrificial, a love which is both tender and fierce, a love based on objective truth and a love that extends even to one’s enemies.”

Trustee Louis Brown, during the February lecture “Christian Identity in a Time of Racial and Social Conflict.”

"Seeking out experiences in which you're the only one builds your life hard drive. Look for other who are the 'only ones,' and learn from their stories."

Lisa M. Ong, Wishing Out Loud President & Founder, during the Spring 2021 Women in Business Leadership panel.

"We must bring this sense of the transcendent with us to the domes of the working world. We must try to paint the dome of the workaday world with the transcendent. To shake that world as we have been shaken here."

Class of 2021 Valedictorian Patrick Andrews, BA ’21, during Senior Convocation.

“Ought one then to abandon all hope, all faith … ? I want to suggest that that’s the wrong question. In fact, I want to suggest that part of the difficulty that many people experience in their lives is in not realizing that that’s the wrong question. One of the glories of our faith is that it elevates our gaze to a good that surpasses our nature.”

President Jonathan J. Sanford, Ph.D., during the EnCore lecture “History, Tradition and Hope” in March.

“I came in one way and came out another. … UD was a college that let me grow in my faith, which now I think is rare.”

Trustee Mary Devlin Capizzi, J.D., BA ’88 MBA ’89, mother of a UD alumna and a current student, during an April Parent Council event.

Infinite New Treasures

Tim Shah, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Scholar in Politics

“As someone who came into the Catholic Church as an adult, the faith for me has an astonishing freshness, with infinite new treasures to be discovered and shared,”

said Distinguished Research Scholar in Politics Tim Shah, Ph.D. Read about Shah’s appointment at udallas.edu/infinitenew-treasures.