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A pair of faculty wrote for The Conversation. The Journal of College Admission featured the UD Sinclair Academy. Regional and local media covered UD's move-in and record enrollment.

For the past seven years, every University of Dayton dietetics graduate has "matched" with one of their preferred internship programs, an impressive rate far above the national average and an essential step toward career success.

After an unexpected halt to their research at the beginning of the pandemic, two University of Dayton physical therapy students shifted gears to examine whether physical and occupational therapy delivered virtually could address cancer-related fatigue. Their study won a national award from the Academy of Oncologic Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association earlier this year.

Four faculty contributed pieces to The Conversation while a trio of faculty in the School of Law contributed their expertise to Inside Higher Ed, Newsweek and Fox News. Forbes cited the research of a pair economics faculty into how a Cinderella run in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship can affect a university's bottom line. CNN International Europe and U.S. also ran the CNN #MyFreedomDay feature about anti-human trafficking work in the Human Rights Center.

The Baltimore Sun, Law360 and Jewish News of Northern California interviewed Charles Russo, director of the program in educational leadership and research professor of law, about a variety of legal topics facing schools. Slate talked to Vince Miller for its story "Santa Claus: Why do Italian priests have a vendetta against Father Christmas?" Associate Professor of Accounting Sarah Webber contributed a piece to The CPA Journal about the Cohan rule, which addresses the situation when a taxpayer lacks documentation to support items on a tax return.

The University of Dayton School of Education and Health Sciences has received a $1.92 million federal grant to work with 41 community partners in southwest and central Ohio to address the shortage of mental health workers and improve quality and access to mental health services for children at all stages of development.

The University of Dayton and Premier Health announced today another milestone in their continued partnership by teaming up with Woodard Development and Crawford Hoying to create a new medical facility on south Brown Street with medical offices that will serve the community, a health clinic for UD employees, and after-hours urgent care for UD students and employees.

President Eric F. Spina was a guest of WHIO-TV Reports to discuss the effect of the pandemic on the University. Faculty contributed three pieces to The Conversation. The National Law Journal and the Dayton Daily News highlighted the School of Law's leap in the U.S. News grad school rankings. The Dayton Daily News, along with Dayton TV station ABC22/Fox45, also featured students among the first Flyer Promise graduates.

The state of Ohio awarded the University of Dayton nearly $1.1 million for Choose Ohio First scholarships during the next five years to recruit and support students in science, health, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Ohio cable news outlet Spectrum News and several local media covered the grand opening of the The Hub Powered by PNC at the Dayton Arcade. Professor Janet Bednarek's research on people living in airports was picked up by Yahoo! News and drew more than a million overall readers.