After three days of running a financial investment forum for over 2,500 students, faculty and financial advisers, senior Anna Sorg most fondly remembers Thursday night's cleanup. "Everybody was tired and we all just stuck together as a group and we cleaned everything in a quick time," Sorg said. "R.I.S.E. is the time when everyone from the Davis Center comes together and realizes what a bonded group we are."

Forty students from the Davis Center, where a $9 million portfolio

is managed, and 60 finance club volunteers ran this year's ninth annual R.I.S.E. (Reinventing Investment Strategy Education). The students created committees like registration team and transportation

to run the forum from Thursday to Saturday.

Over 300 universities sent students to R.I.S.E. "I think a lot of them are just inspired by other people's careers," Sorg said. "There's no reason anybody in that audience can't take the path someone else has taken."

David Sauer, managing director of the forum and a University of Dayton finance professor, also said in a press release that the forum's keynote speakers and sessions are organized to give students opportunities to interact with leaders in economics and finance.

"R.I.S.E. is a completely interactive environment," Sauer said in the release. "Each keynote speaker begins with a five-minute opening remark of what they feel is the issue of the day, and then we open it up to student dialogue."

Saturday afternoon, the end of R.I.S.E., was perhaps Sorg's second

favorite part of the forum. "You really don't have time to sleep," Sorg said. "It was so much fun, but at the same time you are so happy it's over and you have time to catch up on your sleep."