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Black Law Students Association honors Ndidi Massay, ’93 J.D., with alumni award

Published: May 03, 2018

Notre Dame’s BLSA chapter presents the award each year to a graduate who distinguishes herself or himself within the legal community and supports BLSA programs and activities. The honoree also demonstrates a commitment to service through involvement in the community.

Bishop Edward K. Braxton delivers Dean’s Lecture on Race, Law, and Society

Published: March 23, 2018

Notre Dame Law School

In the prologue of his Dean’s Lecture on Race, Law, and Society, “The Catholic Church and the Racial Divide in the United States,” the Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton, Ph.D., S.T.D., Bishop of Belleville, Illinois, asked a thought-provoking question: “What if?”

Notre Dame junior named 2018 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact

Published: March 12, 2018

Shortall, JP

The fellowship lasts one year and provides training and resources that help students develop innovative and collaborative strategies for social change.

Applications open for student essay contest on global citizenship

Published: March 06, 2018

Joya Helmuth

In conjunction with the Notre Dame Forum: Going Global, Notre Dame International invites all Notre Dame students to write a brief essay addressing what it means to be a global citizen, what the challenges and rewards are, and how you have used or will use your Notre Dame education to become a global citizen.

Theology and pre-health is the perfect combination for aspiring doctor Michael Feijoo

Published: February 21, 2018

Teagan Dillon

Michael Feijoo loves finding ways his everyday life relates to big-picture questions. That’s one of the many reasons the junior finds value in majoring in theology and Arts and Letters pre-health. His combination of academic passions also brought him twice to Ecuador, where served with Timmy Global Health, a nonprofit organization that provides sustainable medical care to South American countries.

Serving the poor in Ecuador

Published: February 18, 2018

Daily Domer Staff

As a senior, David Gaus ’84 had a crisis moment when he realized he didn’t want to be an accountant. So he did what any sensible Notre Dame student would do, and scheduled a meeting with Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., the University’s president.

How a philosophy major developed a passion for researching women’s rights in Latin America

Published: February 07, 2018

Teagan Dillon

One week into her senior year, Natasha Reifenberg headed to an academic health conference in El Salvador, presenting a policy brief based in research she had been involved in for the last two years. An opportunity usually reserved for distinguished academics, the trip was just one of many highlights in an outstanding undergraduate career that includes internships at the Global Fund...

Food Rescue US looking to grow Notre Dame site

Published: January 25, 2018

Molly Moran

The Notre Dame chapter of the Food Rescue U.S. organization began last year when a senior wanted to reduce food waste from eateries around campus and help the greater South Bend community.

1,636 Admitted to Class of 2022

Published: December 20, 2017

Daily Domer Staff

The University admitted 1,636 applicants to the Class of 2022, welcoming students of exceptional academic merit, with records of service and demonstrated leadership, to the Notre Dame family.

Michael Hagerty, '13 J.D., is fighting for unaccompanied immigrant children

Published: December 07, 2017

Denise Wager

After his first year as a law student, Michael Hagerty, ’13 J.D., spent his summer hiking the desert trails of the U.S.-Mexico border. As a research assistant for Paolo Carozza, a Notre Dame Law professor and director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Hagerty was trying to better understand the challenges of migrants and the governmental and societal...

Conference to mark 50th anniversary of Fair Housing Act

Published: April 18, 2018

Kevin Allen

This month marks 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law, prohibiting discrimination against buyers and renters on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status.

Mai Ni Ni Aung to receive Kroc Institute 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award

Published: March 15, 2018

Hannah Heinzekehr

Mai Ni Ni Aung, M.A. 2003, has been selected to receive the Kroc Institute’s 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award. She is the founder of the Sone-Tu Cultural Preservation Project and the director of its sister organization, Sone-Tu Backstrap Weavings. Both organizations work to preserve and elevate the culture and traditions of the Sumtu Chin community in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

Greater China Scholars celebrate the Lantern Festival

Published: March 09, 2018

Miranda Ma

The Greater China Scholars Program wishes you a happy and prosperous Year of Dog.

Building hope by building homes in Jamaica

Published: February 23, 2018

Carol Elliott

Jim Hiltz and Zachary Pedersen, both Notre Dame MBA Class of 2018, devoted a week of their winter break to a special building project in the tiny Jamaican community of Jacob’s Ladder.

FTT to perform play exploring racism, identity

Published: February 21, 2018

The Observer

“Native Gardens” tells the story of a Latinx couple and a white couple feuding over the fence marking the boundary between their backyards and explores a variety of current social and political issues.

Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins on DACA: ‘Pray that our leaders will end the cruel uncertainty’

Published: February 15, 2018

Notre Dame News

University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., offered a statement following Thursday's (Feb. 15) failure by the U.S. Senate to pass immigration legislation.

The wedding gift

Published: January 31, 2018

Notre Dame Magazine

My father recently arrived home from India with a tired smile on his face and a slim package tucked under his arm. “Here,” he said, offering me the grey-brown envelope as he walked through the door. “I brought these back from Delhi.”

Fair aims to introduce students to service opportunities

Published: January 24, 2018

Daily Domer Staff

The Center for Social Concerns provides opportunities for students to become active in the surrounding South Bend community, and it recently held its annual fair showcasing its community partners.

Remembering the ND Villa during Fascism - A testimony from a former student of the Jewish school

Published: December 15, 2017

Costanza Montanari

Giacometta Limentani was invited to visit the old Jewish School as it is today to meet and talk with the ND students studying abroad in Rome. Her testimony detailed what she experienced and also relayed her joyful years in the same building that protected her and many other students from the outside world.

Beyond the tourist trail: interns explore Catholic education in Slovakia

Published: December 07, 2017

Rina Buznea

Judy Hutchinson reflects on a four-day trip to Bardejov, Slovakia, with students participating in the London Global Gateway’s Internship Program.

Statement by Father Jenkins on the 50th anniversary of MLK’s death

Published: April 03, 2018

Notre Dame News

"On this anniversary of his violent death, let us at Notre Dame and throughout the nation and the world recommit ourselves to work for justice everywhere.”

Award-winning poet Javier Zamora visits Washington, D.C.

Published: March 14, 2018

Therese Konopelski

Notre Dame undergrad and Latino Studies minor Therese Konopelski had an opportunity to follow and document Javier Zamora’s week-long trip to Washington, D.C., and experience first-hand Zamora’s enthusiasm for engaging with the community through schools visits, meet and greets and public readings.

English alumna uses Arts and Letters education to lead the charge against poverty

Published: March 07, 2018

Jack Rooney

Evelyn Diaz’s career has taken her to the top of Chicago’s governmental, social service, and nonprofit sectors. And at every stop along the way, Diaz ’92 has relied on skills she cultivated as an English major in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters.

‘Show Some Skin’ provides anonymous platform for personal stories

Published: February 22, 2018

Selena Ponio, The Observer

This weekend, monologues that present a wide range of lived experiences, issues and raw emotions will be brought to stage with one promise to their authors: anonymity. This year’s “Show Some Skin” production is called “Try Us,” titled so as to invite writers to “share the parts of themselves that they feared nobody would understand.”

3D campus map assists students with visual challenges

Published: February 19, 2018

Ellen Crowe Finan

Maddie Link As rising junior Madeline Link prepared to attend Notre Dame as a freshman, her father helped her learn the lay of the land. He built a cardboard model of campus for Madeline, who…

Conducting research that helps refugees and Italian locals

Published: February 14, 2018

Katie Boruff

When Francesco Tassi arrived at Notre Dame, he was sure he would major in finance. But a lecture on refugees set him on a different path — one that led him to travel through Italy for three months to study refugee integration firsthand.

New travel grant program launched for Catholic women’s history

Published: January 30, 2018

Shane Ulbrich

Open to scholars of any academic discipline, this new funding opportunity will help defray travel and lodging expenses for scholars visiting research repositories in or outside the United States or conducting oral interviews, especially of women religious

Students to build children's shelter

Published: December 25, 2017

Daily Domer Staff

Three University of Notre Dame MBA students will be spending their winter break in Jamaica, helping to build a home for abandoned and disabled children through Mustard Seed Communities.

David and Corey Robinson to deliver keynote at Notre Dame Walk the Walk Week luncheon

Published: December 15, 2017

Sue Ryan

NBA Hall of Famer David Robinson and his son, a Notre Dame graduate and former football player Corey Robinson will be the featured keynote speakers during the University of Notre Dame's Martin Luther King Celebration luncheon on Jan. 22 (Monday).

Notre Dame seminar for educators explores how popular culture, media shape ideas about race

Published: December 07, 2017

Erin Blasko

The two-day seminar is part of Teachers as Scholars, a program that brings local educators together to study, discuss and reflect upon scholarly issues with Notre Dame professors.