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Cool Courses: Two Spring Classes Explore Black Lives Matter Movement, Civil Rights in the U.S.

Published: June 01, 2021

As Jason Springs, professor of religion, ethics, and peace studies, watched Black Lives Matter protests sweep the nation last summer, he felt an urgent need to adjust his fall semester class to academically engage the movement of the moment.…

First-Year Journey: Emily Fuchs '25 embraces her love of design as an architecture major

Published: March 03, 2021

Grace McDermott

Emily Fuchs is a first-year student in Notre Dame’s architecture program and says that the unique character of the architecture school here was one of the major attractions that led to her enrollment.

'What impact can I make?' Engineering alumnus Seun Odun-Ayo '20 works toward inclusion at Microsoft

Published: February 12, 2021

Grace McDermott

Six years ago, Seun Odun-Ayo '20 was a high school student in Missouri debating whether he would even go to college. Today, Odun-Ayo is a software engineer at Xbox. He is using his Notre Dame computer science degree to make a real impact in the world.