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Love Ye Core. Pass on the Core.

Every gift to the Love Ye Core campaign is more than a donation. It is an opportunity to pass on the books, ideas and traditions at the heart of a UD education. Every gift of $170 or more directly funds a Core Curriculum book and gives you the opportunity to leave a personal inscription honoring a book, professor or friendship that mattered to you, or encouraging a future reader.

Help us reach 40 Core Curriculum books by Sept. 4. This milestone represents all the books students encounter during their first year and Rome semester. When we reach 40, a generous donor will add $10,000 to the campaign.

“Welcome to a wonderful new chapter. Enjoy the journey, make lasting memories, and always be proud of where it takes you.”

Joseph Gavigan, BA ’00

“I trust you will find wisdom and inspiration in these pages if you seek them.”

Dr. Jim Webb, MBA ’84

“Hail fellow traveler! You are embarking on an arduous but glorious journey in pursuit of timeless truths. The Church and UD alumni are with you!”

Eleanor Carrano, BA ’15

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Unlock Three $20,000 Matching Gifts

Help your gift go twice as far for the Core.

As the campaign reaches each fundraising milestone, a $20,000 matching gift will be unlocked for the Cor Fund. Three matches are waiting—help us unlock all $60,000 and expand access to the books, conversations and traditions at the heart of a UD education.

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Fund a Core Text for Future Students

We aim to expand student access to the books at the heart of the UD Core — but we need your help!

When you make a gift of $170 or more, you help fund a newly added Core text for the University library, with the option to include a personal inscription honoring a book, professor or friendship that shaped your UD experience.

Want to pass on more than one? You can fund multiple Core texts by making additional qualifying gifts.

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Win a Core Conversation With a Favorite Professor

Give and help your class climb the leaderboard!

The class with the most participation — measured by the number of Core textbooks funded — will earn an exclusive virtual conversation with a beloved UD professor, revisiting a Core text or enduring question through the lens of life after graduation. Together, classmates can reflect on how work, family, faith and experience have deepened, or changed, their understanding.

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Fuel Faculty Research

Support the groundbreaking research, scholarship and mentorship that make UDallas professors exceptional.

Every $50,000 raised unlocks a $20,750 matching gift, funding one Faculty Excellence in Research Award. Three awards are in planning — help us reach the next milestone!

Faculty Excellence Awards Funded:

2

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Send A Love Ye Prof Package to Every Professor

We aim to show appreciation for all 283 UDallas professors — but we need your help!

When you make a gift of $137 or more, you help deliver a Love Ye Prof Package to a professor, with the option to write a personal note to a favorite faculty member or department.

Want to honor more than one? You can send multiple packages by making additional qualifying gifts.

Love Ye Prof Packages Delivered:

191

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Win Time With Your Favorite Professors

Give and help your class climb the leaderboard!

The class with the most participation — measured by the number of Love Ye Prof Packages sent — will earn an exclusive opportunity to spend time with their favorite professors, on campus or off.

Number of Gifts:

328

See how your class is doing

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Excellence in Research & Mentorship

Each summer, Drs. Jacob Moldenhauer and Will Flanagan lead UDallas students to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), one of the world’s most advanced research facilities. As the only undergraduates in the n_TOF collaboration, our students impress international scientists with discoveries that could advance cancer treatment.

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Excellence in Interdisciplinary Thinking

Drs. Brett Bourbon and Renita Murimi bring literature and cybersecurity together in a groundbreaking book exploring truth and misinformation in the digital age. Their interdisciplinary work reflects UDallas’ commitment to intellectual rigor and relevance.

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Excellence in Catholic Scholarship

Dr. Irene Alexander’s award-winning research enriches Catholic teaching on some of today's most pressing moral issues, such as embryo adoption and organ transplantation, and enlightens the Church teaching on human sexuality and theology of the body.

“Dr. Moran, thank you for the gracious welcome you extended to our family when we brought our daughters to Rome. Be able to attend Mass inside the Vatican with UD profs and RC's, to see the Due Santi campus, and to fortuitously bump into you in the city are precious memories for us. You always had a ready smile and warm invitation. Your goodness enabled us, "the rents", to trust in the care of UD for our daughters. We thank the good Lord for you!”

The Littells

“Dr. Dougherty! Sending prayers for a fruitful academic year. I am grateful for the formation I received from you and the other Politics profs at UD. I first learned the City of God from you, and now I get to teach it to others for a living!”

Theresa (Smart) MacArt

“Dear Dr. Kenney, thank you so much for sharing your love and enthusiasm for literature with me and countless other students! May God bless you and your new students over the coming school year.”

Catherine Anne Rogers

“My favorite professor was the late Bruce Evans. I took his capstone class in spring, 2000. It was a great experience that helped me grown in my career. "Professor Bruce" as he liked to be called, guided his students towards real and measurable changes with the particular business which was our class assignment. UD is a great Catholic university and teachers like him separate the university from most others.”

Joseph Michael Gavigan

“Dr. Roper, count on many prayers for this new school year. We are so proud of the institution you all are building in this current chapter of UD history and feel very blessed to enjoy the overflow of the community as local alumni. Keep up the great work!”

Ben & Chelsea Gibson