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April 2017

The Shirt Project to fund new Student Enrichment Endowment

Published: April 28, 2017

A portion of the profits from The Shirt will fund a new Student Enrichment Endowment, which ensures all students can participate in the full Notre Dame experience, regardless of their financial situations.

Students volunteer with refugees while studying abroad in Rome

Published: April 26, 2017

Costanza Montanari

During their study abroad year in Rome, students have the chance to learn more about the refugee situation in Italy and throughout Europe through community-based learning activities and the Rome Global Gateway collaboration with refugee centers in Rome.

Two undergraduate students awarded Gilman Scholarships to study abroad this summer

Published: April 21, 2017

Joya Helmuth

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.

‘Electric Mile’ benefits the homeless

Published: April 16, 2017

Daily Domer Staff

Circle K, one of the largest service clubs on campus, partnered with Flaherty Hall to start a new event this year called Electric Mile to benefit the homeless.

Theology and peace studies professor wins Luce Fellowship for research on sub-Saharan Africa

Published: April 11, 2017

Tom Coyne

Rev. Emmanuel Katongole will begin a yearlong study in January aimed at looking at ethnic, religious and ecological violence in African countries south of the Sahara.

Vision and Action panel honors women faculty pioneers and looks to the future

Published: April 04, 2017

Amanda Skofstad

A panel of six notable University of Notre Dame women — all with successful careers in higher education and beyond — reflected on past and present experiences and also paid tribute to the earliest Notre Dame women faculty, several of whom were in attendance.

Inked with signs of faith

Published: April 28, 2017

Robert O. Smith

My experience of Holy Week in Jerusalem this year was marked by deep tragedy and profound compassion, tied together by . . . tattoos. The tattoo design was Coptic; it’s from Razzouk Tattoo, a family that has been inking Christian pilgrim tattoos in Jerusalem for close to 700 years.

In Memoriam: Adam Arnold, first African-American faculty member

Published: April 24, 2017

Dennis Brown

Most of his professional life was spent at Notre Dame, where he became the first African-American appointed to the faculty in the Department of Finance in 1957 and the first to receive tenure. He served as the faculty advisor to the League of Black Business Students, and in 2003 received the William P. Sexton Award from the Notre Dame Alumni...

Majority of persecuted Christian communities build resilience through adaptive strategies, study finds

Published: April 19, 2017

Amanda Skofstad

Under Caesar’s Sword is the first systematic and global investigation into how Christian communities respond to severe violations of religious freedom. The collaborative, three-year research endeavor involves a team of 17 scholars and partnerships with Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, the Religious Freedom Institute and Georgetown University’s Religious Freedom Research Project.

Annual Wheelchair Basketball Tournament

Published: April 14, 2017

Daily Domer Staff

Ryan Hall hosted the sixth annual Wheelchair Basketball Tournament, their signature event benefitting the organization Whirlwind Wheelchair International.

Does a free society need anti-discrimination laws?

Published: April 06, 2017

Kevin Allen

Are anti-discrimination laws essential to freedom, or hostile to freedom? That’s the question two legal experts explored and debated Friday during a luncheon presented by the Potenziani Program in Constitutional Studies and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.

Hearing service dog Bodie  is new staffer in Risk Management

Published: April 27, 2017

Carol C. Bradley

Thomas Waldschmidt, safety specialist in Risk Management and Safety, joined the University in January, along with his service dog Bodie, a 5-month-old golden retriever that’s been his partner since March. Waldschmidt is training Bodie as a hearing service dog.

Alums talk to LGBT Forum about diversity in the legal profession

Published: April 21, 2017

Kevin Allen

Two NDLS alums, Jim Basile and Karen DeSantis, recounted the history, progress, and current issues for diverse lawyers, including racially and culturally diverse lawyers, women, and lawyers with diverse identities, while speaking Wednesday to students from the LGBT Law Forum at Notre Dame Law School.

Notre Dame partners with Brady Quinn to bring Warrior-Scholar Project to campus

Published: April 18, 2017

Sue Ryan

The Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP) was established as an introduction to the demands of college life by offering a free immersive academic boot camp hosted at American partner universities for current and former military service members who wish to pursue higher education.

Learning through the soles of the feet

Published: April 13, 2017

Andy Fuller

Since its opening in 1998, the Dublin Global Gateway has grown into a hub for more than 1,500 Notre Dame undergraduates who have come here to broaden their intellectual and cultural horizons in virtually every discipline.

To have and to hold

Published: April 05, 2017

Carol Schaal '91M.A.

The images of the millions of displaced people living in refugee camps can be overwhelming to those who wish to offer assistance. It hurts even more to know that, as the Refugee Council USA says, “Over half of all recorded refugees are children who have been deprived of their material possessions, statehood, and sometimes even loved ones.” Steve Lehmann ’14MBA...