Emilie Johannes, a University of Dallas (UD) alumna, recently returned to campus to share her scientific interests through a talk entitled The Wicked Problem of Arctic Oil and Gas Development . Prior to the event, Johannes shared her journey from UD to the Arctic with editors of the University of Dallas Journal of Science (UDJS).
My mother is graced with a talent for explaining medical complexities in simple terms; her explanations affirmed my natural curiosity and fostered my ever-growing fascination with medicine. From elementary school through high school, I watched my mother go through residency and establish a practice.
On Feb. 25 and 26, seven UD students traveled to Austin with Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Enrollment Michael Probus, BA '12 MBA '15, to advocate for continuing and/or increasing Tuition Equalization Grant (TEG) money.
+ Read MoreMike Kiegerl's youngest daughter, Christine, would have graduated from UD in the Class of 1994, but just before her graduation, she was struck by an impaired truck driver and died instantly. Kiegerl and his wife, Peggy, established the Christine S. Kiegerl Memorial Scholarship in their girl's memory in 1997.
+ Read MoreUD 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.
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