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HEARD around CAMPUS Aligning Missions. Psychology major Mary-Catherine Scarlett, BA ’21, was one of 15 students to receive a stipend from UD’s COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund for a summer internship at either Catholic Charities Dallas or the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (nonprofits whose missions align with UD’s), thanks to a program launched by the Office of Personal Career Development. Read more at udallas.edu/aligning-and-gaining.
Eye on the Helpers.
photos: anthony mazur, wikimedia commons, mike russell, jeff mcwhorter.
Eileen Rauh, BA ’21, Alex Ralles Martinez, BA ’21, Maureen Shumay, BA ’21, and Catherine Thelen, BA ’21, spent their summer serving at the Crossroads Community Services (CCS) food pantry in Dallas. Meanwhile, politics major BeLynn Hollers, BA ’21, (above) participated in site briefings at the White House, the Department of State, the British Embassy and the Hong Kong Economic Office — albeit virtually — in her internship with the nonprofit Mil Mujeres Legal Services.
In this tumultuous year, we’ve found wise words both within our immediate community and in the larger Catholic and intellectual communities. These words aid us in situating UD’s mission to address the challenges of our world.
“Talk to somebody, and allow yourself to hear and be moved … you have to allow the law to be informed by the human condition, and that’s the realism of a Christian anthropology and a Christian theology of the law.”
New Faces, 2020 Edition.
Bishop of Brownsville Daniel Flores, BA ’83 MDiv ’87, during “Presidential Conversation Episode 2: Made in God’s Image: A Catholic Vision of Difference and Unity.”
UD welcomed 15 new faculty members this academic year. Their knowledge and insights will further enrich student learning in many disciplines, including art, biology, economics, education, English, history, mathematics, philosophy, physics, theology and the library. Read more at udallas.edu/ new-faces-2020.
Professor Emerita of English Eileen Gregory, Ph.D., BA ’68, at the Sybil Novinski Scholarship Fund Endowment Ceremony.
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“One thing [to hope for] is that this sense of estrangement drives people to search for solidarity, sources of unity, something to believe in and belong to, and that this search might be met by some appropriate, proper objects of loyalty and devotion that can bring us together.” Yuval Levin, Ph.D., of the American Enterprise Institute, during “Presidential Conversation Episode 4: E Pluribus Unum: Is American Unity Still Possible?" BeLynn Hollers, BA ’21, at the Legacy Society Appreciation Event.
“Those sins and crimes, far from being the implications and entailments of our constitutional principles … were precisely deviations from those great principles. My hope is that (t)he solution is greater fidelity to [them].” Robert P. George, Ph.D., of Princeton University, during “Presidential Conversation Episode 4.”
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Canadian Partnership. A new UD partnership will enable the University of Windsor’s Odette School of Business MBA/Master of Management graduates to gain internationally recognized cybersecurity skills and certification all online. Learn more at udallas.edu/canadian-partnership.
The U.S. Air Force awarded UD and Cerium Labs a $500,000 contract to develop a type of silicon nitride seal to extend engine life in gas turbines. Affiliate Research Assistant Professor of Physics Will Flanagan, Ph.D., and Associate Professor of Chemistry Ellen Steinmiller, Ph.D., are collaborating. Read more at udallas.edu/granted.
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