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Domer recognized as Champion of Change

Published: September 29, 2016

Nicole Hurd '92 has led College Advising Corps from a pilot project in Virginia to the largest college access program in the country, placing hundreds of peer advisers in high schools from coast-to-coast. In the 2016-2017 school year, CAC’s 600 advisers will assist over 180,000 low-income, first generation, and underrepresented students in navigating the path to college.

Engaging America’s future: Latino youth

Published: September 16, 2016

Institute for Latino Studies

In this blog post, co-director of the Institute for Latino Studies, Luis Ricardo Fraga, focuses on the obligation society’s leaders have to provide the younger Latino community with opportunities to take lead and develop a state of responsibility for their community’s future.

‘Feel the music, change the world’

Published: September 13, 2016

Carol Schaal '91M.A.

A mix of entertainment and education to tell the story of slavery in America and the anti-slavery efforts of whites and blacks is the foundation of the Ray of Hope Project, launched by Alika Hope Bryan ’99 and Ray Morant in 2013.

Going green is for girls — but branding can make men eco-friendly

Published: August 25, 2016

Shannon Roddel

A study by James Wilkie, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, provides evidence that shoppers who engage in green behaviors are stereotyped by others as more feminine and also see themselves as more feminine. In a series of seven studies, Wilkie and his co-authors manipulated small details about the products, attempting to...

Small acts of great love

Published: August 15, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

Notre Dame undergraduate Emily Vincent discovered the nonprofit Chunmiao Little Flower on a service trip during high school in 2013. There, she learned the extent of China’s issue with orphaned and abandoned children. There are an estimated 600,000 abandoned children in China—98 percent of whom have disabilities.

Emergency financial aid from call centers effectively prevents homelessness

Published: August 11, 2016

Brittany Collins Kaufman

Each year more than 2.3 million people experience homelessness, 7.4 million people live “doubled up” with friends or family for economic reasons, and many more are on the brink of homelessness. In addition to the negative mental, developmental and health problems that arise among homeless adults and children, the issue costs a community more than $5,000 for each person who...

You're not listening to me

Published: August 04, 2016

Chris Lowery '72

It may be, as my father warned me on the eve of my marriage — marriage being an apt metaphor for the indissoluble relationship among the races in America — that the very struggle to achieve the common understanding that eludes us is intensifying our frustrations.

Prayer Vigil for Peace: Rev. Joseph Corpora, C.S.C., prayer

Published: July 21, 2016

Rev. Joseph Corpora

Prayer by Rev. Joseph Corpora, C.S.C., director of university-school partnerships for the Alliance for Catholic Education Lord, we thank Thee for this place where we dwell, For the love that…

The call of the streets

Published: July 15, 2016

John Rudolf

How Jim O’Connell’s one-year plan turned into a lifetime of taking health care and humanity to the homeless of Boston.

Dolly's House

Published: July 06, 2016

Ken Bradford '76

Where doors and arms opened to the abandoned, abused, disabled and addicted.

Alum Alan Page named Heisman Humanitarian

Published: September 28, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

The Heisman Trophy Trust has named College and Pro Football Hall of Famer and Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page as the eleventh Heisman Humanitarian Award Winner.

Scholarship to help sociology/pre-med student gain international educational experience

Published: September 13, 2016

Rina Buznea

Sociology and pre-med student King Fok has been awarded the Lord Acton Memorial Scholarship for his semester of study at the London Global Gateway. In his acceptance speech, King explained how studying in London would help him pursue his dreams of becoming an orthopedic surgeon; he plans to research rehabilitative services for amputees and to volunteer with organizations that support disabled people.

A conversation with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Published: September 13, 2016

William G. Gilroy

Watch video U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ann Claire Williams, a Notre Dame alumna and Trustee, asked Ginsburg a series of questions on a wide range of issues.In a reflective, frank and often wryly humorous conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Monday night (Sept. 12) at the University of Notre Dame’s Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center,...

CCHR welcomes LL.M. Class of 2017

Published: August 23, 2016

Kevin Fye

The Center for Civil and Human Rights welcomes its new class of international human rights lawyers. The diversity of this year’s group is seen as one of its greatest strengths.

Center for Arts & Culture hosts conference for family caregivers

Published: August 15, 2016

Alexandra Schaufele

The Community Relations Department at Notre Dame recognized that, and hosted "Walking Alongside: A Navigation Conference for Family Caregivers."

Irish Abroad: Adams' Indian education

Published: August 10, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

"While I thought I knew what I was getting myself into having worked in India last summer for two months at an NGO for children with disabilities, nothing could prepare me for this new adventure," blogged Adams, a senior goalkeeper on the Irish soccer team.

Three questions with Latino theologian Peter J. Casarella

Published: July 28, 2016

Michael O. Garvey

Peter Casarella, associate professor of theology at Notre Dame and interim director of Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANACC), is a scholar of Latino theology.

Prayer Vigil for Peace: Keri Kei Shibata prayer

Published: July 21, 2016

Keri Kei Shibata

NDSP Chief Keri Kei Shibata’s prayer for fallen police officers and community members as well as their loved ones, based on Isaiah 61. Good and just God, bestow upon us, your servants in law enforcement, ears to hear the truth and tongues to speak it; strong hands…

Calling for closer ties, Father Jenkins decries insults directed at Mexico

Published: July 08, 2016

Dennis Brown

Calling recent insults to Mexico and its people “churlish, insulting political theater,” the president of the University of Notre Dame, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., said Friday (July 8) that he is dedicated to strengthening the University’s presence in that nation’s academic, government, corporate and Church sectors.

His church and mine: A love story

Published: July 06, 2016

Nicole Steele Wooldridge ’07

“So, you’re Catholic, but you’re married to a Lutheran pastor. How does that work?” I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been asked this question in my seven years of marriage. Depending upon the inquirer, I have a few canned answers that easily roll off the tongue, but the simplest and most genuine is this: “By the grace of...

Introducing Notre Dame Police Chief Keri Kei Shibata

Published: September 27, 2016

Carol C. Bradley

Keri Kei Shibata, the University’s recently appointed police chief, is a 12-year veteran of the Notre Dame Security Police Department (NDSP).

New program for inclusive education

Published: September 13, 2016

Alliance for Catholic Education

The University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) has established the Program for Inclusive Education, a range of educational opportunities aimed at supporting the needs of all learners that will welcome its first cohort of inclusive educators in the summer of 2017. PIE will directly address the need for inclusion in our nation’s Catholic schools, as more than 185,000 students are...

Out of the office: A supreme speaker

Published: September 13, 2016

Carol Schaal '91M.A.

Parade magazine reported in its September 9th issue that 10 percent of college grads polled thought Judge Judy was on the U.S. Supreme Court, but it was an actual Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who showed up on campus on September 12th to address Notre Dame students and members of the public. The session began with a look at...

Two worlds meet for Shannon Hendricks

Published: August 16, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

Giving back to the special needs community has always been close to the heart of University of Notre Dame women’s soccer sophomore Shannon Hendricks. This spring, Shannon began helping coach the ND Special Olympics Unified soccer team, of which her brother Brian is a member. It was only a matter of time before she brought her two worlds together.

Former basketball star sets her sights on a new challenge

Published: August 14, 2016

Lauren Love

Cameasha Turner walked into South Bend’s Center for the Homeless earlier this month a little bit apprehensive, but mostly excited to volunteer in the community she would be calling home for the next three years. Turner grew up in a predominately black and poor community and is one of 11 children. Because her home life was not always stable — she...

Hesburgh and King statue in the Works

Published: August 04, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

In 2017, The City of South Bend will install a sculpture at Leighton Plaza depicting figures of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh and the Rev. Martin Luther King joining hands, just as they did at a civil rights rally in 1964.

Two students named Gilman Scholars

Published: July 27, 2016

William G. Gilroy

The program aims to diversify the students who study and intern abroad and the countries and regions where they go. Scholarship recipients have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of other cultures, countries, languages and economies, making them better prepared to assume leadership roles within government and the private sector.

Prayers for peace, justice and solidarity amid divisive time across the nation

Published: July 21, 2016

Cidni Sanders

It may come as no surprise that, in times of division and frustration in the United States, members of the Notre Dame community choose to unite in prayer. Students, faculty, staff and community members were invited to attend two prayer vigils promoting peace, unity and understanding. “We come here today to pray and spread love. ... WWe hope that love overcomes hate,...

The forsaken virtue

Published: July 06, 2016

Andrew Barlow '88

To be effective voices in arresting our nation’s spiral into distance, disrespect and disenfranchisement, we must embrace dignity, our own and that of others, regardless of consequence. As a starting point, it is helpful to remember the difference between dignity and arrogance. Dignity flows from the belief that each human life is not just inherently valuable but is equally valuable. Arrogance says,...

Sustainability students cross disciplinary boundaries to address real-world issues

Published: June 29, 2016

Tessa Bangs

Notre Dame’s sustainability program, open to all majors, seeks to inspire students to cultivate practices and ways of living that preserve natural resources for future generations. “It is important to think about how our different areas of knowledge complement each other and to understand that many of our most serious problems are not well behaved and do not stay within...