Resources

Tutoring - UD offers over 400 hours of FREE tutoring & academic support each week in both the humanities and sciences, including business, chemistry, computer science, economics, history, languages, math, philosophy, physics, politics, and theology. The Spring 2019 academic support/tutoring schedule will be posted shortly. Tutoring only helps if you take advantage of the services. Please seek out assistance today if you are having difficulties in any of your courses - the tutors and other services are available to help you succeed!

Writing Lab - UD has a very helpful Writing Lab, offering individual 30-minute tutoring sessions for UD students working on essays, regardless of the subject or the student's writing abilities. After each session, the tutor sends a Writing Lab Report to the professor who assigned the essay, summarizing the session and suggestions. The Writing Lab is open Sunday through Friday, with appointments available as early as 10:00 a.m. and as late as 10:30 p.m. A tutoring session may be reserved by signing up for an appointment outside the Lab in Braniff 304.

Selected presentations from past Academic Success offerings:

Raise your GPA from the Dead Workshop discussing ways to improve your GPA

Learning From the Inside Out Workshop helping think about different ways to study

Forming Study Groups Workshop discussing how study groups can improve your retention of material and succeed at UD

Additional Resources

Optimal Work--a website designed by a UD graduate to help you transform your approach to challenges.

News

Alumna, Family Endow Chemistry Scholarship, Honor Retired Provost

On July 9, President Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA '82 MA '83, along with Alex and Martha Galbraith, parents of alumna Alison Galbraith, BA '12, signed the C.W. Eaker Scholarship Fund for Chemistry/Biochemistry at UD. The endowed scholarship is the first to be received by Hibbs since his presidency began on July 1; it honors longtime and much-loved chemistry professor C.W. Eaker, Ph.D., who served UD with distinction for over 40 years, first as a faculty member, then as dean of Constantin College and finally as provost of the university.

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The Distinctive Look of UD

I was always puzzled by the look of UD until one afternoon several years ago. While hiking through the woods above the seminary with my family, I happened upon something extraordinary: jutting out of the ground was the corner of a rock painted with exquisite patterns.

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Alumni Reunite 25 Years After Rome Semester, Will Marry This Fall

While many UD couples joke about their "ring-by-spring," Karen Norris, BA '88, and Michael Rouse, BS '87, have a less conventional UD love story.

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