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Roughly 400 University of Dallas undergraduate students were named to the spring 2024 dean's list for earning a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Nearly 500 University of Dallas undergraduate students were named to the fall 2023 dean's list for earning a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Nearly 250 University of Dallas undergraduate students were named to the spring 2024 honor roll for earning a semester GPA of 3.0-3.49.

More than 250 University of Dallas undergraduate students were named to the fall 2023 honor roll for earning a semester GPA of 3.0-3.49.

The University of Dallas is proud to announce the winners of several scholarships for incoming students. UD will welcome ten recipients of the Scholars of Excellence award to the Class of 2028. Scholars of Excellence are recognized for academic merit and receive full-tuition scholarships. The Crusader Scholarship, inaugurated this year, covers full tuition costs for five well-rounded students who best represent what it means to be a UD Crusader. Finally, the UD Homeschool Scholarship is a $5,000 annual scholarship provided to one exemplary high school senior attending homeschool. Director of Admission Carey Christenberry congratulated the winners and welcomed them into the Crusader community. "The winners of these scholarships represent the very best and brightest of the Class of 2028, which is saying a lot, since the Class of 2028 as a whole is remarkable," Christenberry said. "These winners represent what it means to be a Crusader: someone who seeks truth, wisdom and virtue as the purpose of education."

Aubrey Wieberg, BA '24, is UD's first Truman Scholar, as well as the creator of UD's Big Event and the founder of the Dallas Refugee Project. The Truman Scholarship is the foremost graduate scholarship in the country for aspiring public servants. The award recognizes students for outstanding leadership and grants them funding to pursue graduate education for a career in service. The competition draws applicants from top institutions, and only students that receive the approval of their institution can apply. Out of 705 applicants, Wieberg is one of just 62 students to receive the award.

One dozen high school seniors recently completed the University of Dallas' College Citizens Program, an academically rigorous summer program for rising high school seniors living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The program is funded by the Teagle Foundation through a Knowledge for Freedom initiative grant.

The University of Dallas recently welcomed back the latest group of students studying Spanish in Avila, Spain. The Avila trip, an annual summer study abroad program that the University of Dallas coordinates with the Catholic University of Avila, immerses students in medieval and contemporary Spanish culture.

Working with faculty advisor Andrew Osborn, PhD, University of Dallas students collaborate on a seasonal publication of arts and letters.

As the school year comes to a close, University of Dallas sophomores have completed a semester to remember, with much of the class having recently returned from UD's campus in Rome. The Rome trip is a fundamental part of the UD undergraduate experience. "Romers" spend one of their sophomore semesters at the Due Santi campus, a repurposed Italian villa whose name bears witness to the traditional meeting of the two saints Peter and Paul on the Appian Way. Though classes primarily take place in Due Santi, students also travel around the Mediterranean to see for themselves the settings of the classic texts they've read for the Core Curriculum.

Nearly two dozen top business undergraduates and graduates in their classes were inducted into the University of Dallas chapter of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society at the end of the fall semester. This is the highest recognition a business student anywhere can receive in a program accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).

More than three dozen University of Dallas seniors received departmental honors and awards at the spring 2023 Convocation Ceremony in May.

Joining professors and alumni, several UD students presented original scientific research at a conference recently. Presenters rubbed elbows and exchanged ideas with other members of the Mid-South Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society, including researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Emory University and the National Center for Toxicological Research as well as professional scientists from McKesson, AstraZeneca and Amazon Web Services.

Nearly a dozen University of Dallas seniors received honors and awards at the spring 2023 graduation ceremony in May.

With an essay that began as a Junior Poet final paper, a recent Constantin College graduate took first prize in the Sigma Tau Delta honor society's annual Beth DeMeo Poetry Awards.

More than 200 seniors from the Class of 2023 earned undergraduate degrees from the University of Dallas during the spring 2023 Commencement Ceremony in May.

Undergraduate students presented their scholarly work at the third annual Undergraduate Research Symposium of the University of Dallas recently. Project topics included the medieval art and architecture of Gotland, a psychological investigation of birth control, aircraft materials, fatal pathogens, coral reefs and more. Several students had already shown their work at national conferences or successfully submitted their research for publication. "I think the symposium is one of the most important events that we have on campus because it is a celebration of our students and the work they have generated as a result of their UD education," said Chemistry Department Chair Ellen M. P. Steinmiller, Ph.D, who helped establish the event. Steinmiller added that UD students have conducted their laboratory research both on campus and around the country. "UD has a rich history of students being selected to conduct research at other universities in the summer through programs such as the highly competitive National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU)," Steinmiller said. "Other students are presenting work that they conducted in UD faculty research labs." Initially focused on the sciences, Undergraduate Research Day has since expanded to include projects in the humanities and art exhibitions.

Magda Rogg, a double major in Math and Human and Social Sciences, is the primary author of a scholarly article published in the Journal of Family Violence.

A team of seven University of Dallas undergraduate students got 37th place in the Putnam Math Competition -- a first in university history -- out of hundreds of teams across North America. Senior mathematics major Isaac Hellerman placed 17th nationally, the only student in the top 25 not attending MIT, Harvard, Stanford or Yale.

Forty members of Crusaders for Life, the largest student club at the University of Dallas, traveled from Dallas to Washington, D.C., to participate in the annual National March for Life the last weekend of January 2020. The trip marked the university's first-ever official participation in the national pro-life rally.

The juniors that organized Charity Week, an annual University of Dallas tradition, picked the Low Birth Weight Development Center as a beneficiary.