education abroad and service-learning projects involving the assessment and construction of libraries worldwide. In 2023, the Center for Social Concern organized an immersion trip to Puerto Rico, where participants led and served by rescuing and healing the abandoned resources of a decommissioned, public-school library. They then pre-classified and transferred them to two community branches of the newly created Citizen's Library, a project inspired by the university libraries and the Lubwe Zambia Immersion library pilot project.
== Research ==
The University of Dayton Research Institute has performed more than $2.5 billion in total sponsored research since its inception. Most of the research is done in engineering, either by 640 full-time researchers at the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) or engineering faculty. More than 370 undergraduate and graduate students work alongside researchers.
Materials engineering accounts for most of the research within engineering, followed by electrical engineering. …
