Alonovo: Intelligent Marketplace
This site allows users to register their personal value systems (how important various
issues are on a scale of 1-5) to measure the social consciousness of each individual.
Then you can shop for clothes and other items online and obtain ratings of companies
based on your value system. Alonovo is essentially allowing you to define your own
eco-label and then find products that meet the criteria of your label.
Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition effort launched in 2004 to protect
the health of consumers and workers by securing the corporate, regulatory and legislative
reforms necessary to eliminate dangerous chemicals from cosmetics and personal care
products.
UD students not only read St. Augustine's Confessions in Rome, traveling to Ostia to marvel at the place in which, according to Book IX, St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, had a joint mystical vision of God -- they also travel 4.4 miles from the Irving campus to read the text with residents of South Irving.
+ Read MoreAs you know if you’ve read even some of our first UD Reads book, "All the Light We Cannot See," it’s possible to build a radio from random, scavenged parts, as long as you can find the necessary random, scavenged parts, as Werner does in the book. This is also essentially what Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Physics Jacob Moldenhauer did as well: He scavenged parts from the Physics Department, and built a radio.
+ Read MoreThe University of Dallas Board of Trustees announced today that it has unanimously selected Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA '82 MA '83, to serve as the university's ninth president. The first alumnus of UD to be president, Hibbs has served as dean of the Honors College and distinguished professor of ethics and culture at Baylor University since 2003.
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