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Carter Snead, director of Center for Ethics and Culture, named to Pontifical Academy for Life

Published: March 08, 2016

Founded in 1994 by Saint Pope John Paul II, the academy meets annually, holds conferences, publishes reports and collaborates with partners in the Vatican Curia and worldwide.

Notre Dame Law School names two 2015 Bank of America Foundation community sustainability fellows

Published: March 01, 2016

Denise Wager

The third-year law students each developed a public service plan to address a community sustainability problem that supported the Bank of America Foundation’s funding mission of community development, education and workforce development and critical needs.

The strength of leadership

Published: February 26, 2016

Anthony DePalma

By any measure, Father Theodore M. Hesburgh’s influence on higher education — both during the 35 years he served as president of Notre Dame and over the many years after he retired — was oversized: broad, deep and enduring, touching everything from athletics and academics to the very essence of what makes a modern university, especially a modern Catholic university.

Hunter Smith '99 kicks way to music stage

Published: February 18, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

Hunter Smith '99, the former University of Notre Dame punter and high jumper has thrived in everything from sports to singing and songwriting, and it all started on campus.

Political science, peace studies associate professor wins grant to study war's hidden costs

Published: February 12, 2016

Renée LaReau

Tanisha Fazal, associate professor of political science and peace studies, has been awarded a research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to investigate the human and financial costs of war. The costs of caring for wounded veterans are not traditionally or accurately factored into government assessments, Fazal said.

Robinson Community Learning Center celebrates 15th anniversary with ‘moments in time’

Published: February 09, 2016

Monika Spalinski

Since its founding in 2001, the RCLC has grown to service more than 500 adult and student participants each week, and its outreach programs impact thousands of South Bend and Mishawaka youths each year. The center has more than 300 weekly college student volunteers who tutor and mentor the RCLC students, and many community volunteers who support the RCLC’s efforts.

Notre Dame economists help small business owners in Kenya find success

Published: February 03, 2016

Carrie Gates

In a dense Nairobi slum best known for its toxic garbage dump, the crowded streets are lined with roadside stands. With no job prospects, residents’ best chance to eke out a living comes from selling foods and handcrafted goods at these tiny stalls. Three assistant professors in Notre Dame’s Department of Economics—Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan, and Terence Johnson—are researching ways...

ScreenPeace Film Festival addresses global issues

Published: February 01, 2016

Notre Dame News

The University of Notre Dame’s annual ScreenPeace Film Festival includes six films on topics ranging from an inside look at North Korea, to the 1965 Indonesian genocide, to the indigenous people of Chile.

Out of the Office: Remembering MLK

Published: January 22, 2016

Kit Loughran '16

I stood outside Main Building just before midnight this past Sunday, shivering in the frigid snow, waiting for my candle to be lit. A classmate shared a light; I hurried through the door. A huge gust of below-freezing wind immediately blew out the flame.

Students, staff pay tribute to two leaders in civil and human rights

Published: January 20, 2016

diversity.nd.edu

More than 800 students and staff from the Notre Dame community took part in a project to recreate a photograph of former University President Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., standing arm-in-arm with Martin Luther King Jr. The iconic image is a visible reminder of Notre Dame’s longtime involvement in the dialogue on civil and human rights. And now, a new generation of...

ND signee provides special prom surprise

Published: March 04, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

Troy Pride Jr. didn’t have to take Lina Rafkah to the prom. The 5-foot-11, 175-pound defensive back and wide receiver had plenty of reasons not to go. Before Rafkah approached him in the hallway at Greer Senior High School with an impromptu prom-posal, the two had never met.

Law School names 2016 Thomas L. Shaffer public interest fellows

Published: March 01, 2016

Lauren Love

Dean Nell Jessup Newton has named Neysa Nankervis and Ashlyn Anderson-Keelin the 2016 Thomas L. Shaffer Public Interest Fellows. The third-year law students each developed winning proposals for post-graduate public interest projects providing direct legal services to low-income people.

Institute for Latino Studies report analyzes role of gender in Latino savings and retirement

Published: February 25, 2016

William G. Gilroy

A new report by the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies examines how gender affects Latino men’s and women’s savings for retirement and concludes that there is a need to develop programs to empower lower-income women and men to save for retirement. The research report, directed by Karen Richman, a Notre Dame cultural anthropologist, applies a novel, interdisciplinary...

Observer letter to the editor: #MigrantLivesMatter

Published: February 17, 2016

Institute for Latino Studies

The cooler opened and the pungent smell immediately hit our noses. Before our eyes were dozens of dead bodies, most of them labeled John and Jane Doe. Migrant deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border are flooding the Pima County medical examiner’s office with hundreds of migrant remains each year.

Scholar of Chinese literary and internet culture appointed director of Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies

Published: February 12, 2016

Joan Fallon

Michel Hockx has been appointed director of the University of Notre Dame’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies within the new Keough School of Global Affairs. Hockx is professor of Chinese and director of the China Institute at SOAS, University of London. He will join the Notre Dame faculty in August 2016 and teach in the Department of East...

Notre Dame celebrates Black History Month

Published: February 05, 2016

Sarah Snider

Multicultural Student Programs and Services invites you to celebrate Black History Month at one of these many exciting events happening on campus and in the community.

Inaugural Ursula Williams Faculty Fellow develops hybrid Chinese language course

Published: February 03, 2016

Anne Daly

The Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures has partnered with the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning to offer the Ursula Williams Faculty Fellowship. The fellowship connects foreign-language faculty with technology experts and supports research to help faculty members determine which technological tools are most helpful in language classrooms. Chengxu Yin, associate teaching professor of Chinese, was awarded...

Next steps in our journey of purpose; beyond Walk the Walk Week

Published: January 27, 2016

Cidni Sanders

What does it mean for the Notre Dame community — its students, faculty and staff — to be doers, not merely speakers or hearers, of the call to Walk the Walk? As the campus paused January 18-22 to reflect on the values central to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the mission of the University,…

New Political Science faculty expand department’s international profile

Published: January 22, 2016

Tom Lange

As students read news about China’s turbulent economy or about Russia flexing political muscle, two new professors in Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science can provide them with context about what’s happening. Associate Professor Karrie Koesel and Assistant Professor Susanne Wengle have both lived in Russia and studied its culture and politics for years. Koesel has also worked and researched...

King Day prayer service honors the past, looks to Notre Dame’s future

Published: January 18, 2016

Cidni Sanders

The midnight prayer service held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2016 was just as much about the historic actions of the slain civil rights leader as it was about the prospective actions of the Notre Dame students, faculty, staff and guests who gathered together. More than 1,000 people attended the service at 12 a.m. on Monday, January 18, the...

Women lead: Profiles of six pre-eminent faculty members

Published: March 01, 2016

Office of Brand Content

The power to lead is the power to transform. Notre Dame is proud to celebrate women whose scholarship and leadership are leaving an indelible imprint on the global community.

Video: Father Ted's enduring legacy

Published: February 26, 2016

1842stories.nd.edu

On the one-year anniversary of the passing of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., the 18/42 Stories of Notre Dame digital storytelling series reflects on the enduring legacy of the University's former president.

Robert O. Smith named academic director of Jerusalem Global Gateway

Published: February 24, 2016

Amanda Skofstad

Robert O. Smith, historian and specialist in American Christian theologies concerning the Israeli-Palestinian context, has been appointed the first academic director of the Jerusalem Global Gateway by Nick Entrikin, vice president and associate provost for internationalization. Smith is concurrent faculty in the Department of Theology and Keough School for Global Affairs.

Black Domers book honors pioneers

Published: February 12, 2016

Kerry Temple ’74

Some stories need to be lived in order to be told truthfully, truly and fully. But even an African-American student would be unable to tell the story of being black at Notre Dame because there is no single story, no singular experience, no one person who can speak for all who have come here from so many places, families and...

Notre Dame scholars address challenges for Latino Catholic education

Published: February 11, 2016

Michael O. Garvey

Luis Ricardo Fraga, Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science and co-director of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, served as co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Catholic Education, its first issue ever to focus specifically on Latinos and Catholic education.

‘Stakes are high’ in pope’s visit to Mexico, experts say

Published: February 04, 2016

Michael O. Garvey

When Pope Francis travels to Mexico, he will visit six cities — including two in the state of Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state — and will celebrate a Mass in Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. The first pope from Latin America, where 40 percent of the world’s Catholics live, he will be touring the country that’s...

Helping those in need One Shirt, One Body at a time

Published: February 02, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

What if more student-athletes gave their extra gear and clothing to those in need? That simple notion gave birth to a nonprofit organization now known as One Shirt One Body, a student-athlete led initiative to donate athletic apparel to local communities

Enrollment Division establishes Matriculate chapter

Published: January 25, 2016

Dennis Brown

The University of Notre Dame’s Enrollment Division has established a Matriculate chapter on campus. Founded in the fall of 2014, Matriculate is a college-access organization based in New York City that helps high-achieving, low-income high school students make the transition to college by pairing them with advising fellows at leading colleges and universities nationwide.

Black Lives Matter co-founders share message with overflow crowd

Published: January 20, 2016

Sarah Snider

Black Lives Matter co-founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors spoke January 18 to an overflow crowd of 600 interested students, faculty, administrators and South Bend community members at DeBartolo Hall.

Building a community of genuine love and respect

Published: January 18, 2016

Notre Dame News

The following is a transcript of University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.’s remarks at the University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Luncheon on Monday (Jan. 18).