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International collaboration provides students with unparalleled opportunity

Published: February 06, 2017

Tammi Freehling and Cliff Djajapranata

Students from Notre Dame obtain valuable experience working in an international lab in a country which has a long-standing, strong program in science and engineering, particularly chemistry.

Notre Dame gains scholarly resources for Black Catholic History Month and beyond

Published: November 29, 2016

Bill Schmitt

African-American Catholics are the focus of Black Catholic History Month, celebrated every November. This year’s focus has been extended and energized at Notre Dame as the University prepares major new resources for ongoing studies of religious experiences and social contexts highlighted during this month.

Panel: Diversity is desirable, but inclusive's elusive

Published: November 11, 2016

Rasmus Jorgensen

As part of the annual Stand Against Hate Week, a panel of four young alumni gave their own stories of being in the minority when they were students and offered suggestions for what might be improved for current and future students.

Panelists discuss race and educational opportunity

Published: October 27, 2016

The Observer

As part of student government’s Race Relations Week, David Robinson, former NBA player and father of student body president Corey Robinson; David Krashna, Notre Dame’s first African-American body president; Christina Brooks, the City of South Bend’s diversity and inclusion officer; and Maria and Gabby Muñoz, undocumented students at Notre Dame spoke in a panel on racial justice in the context...

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).

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.

Dolly's House

Published: July 06, 2016

Ken Bradford '76

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

Claim that MBA! A grad’s letter says it all

Published: June 17, 2016

Christine Cox

Kristen Sawdon was on top of the world when she graduated in May, especially because she never seriously considered an MBA in the past. She always reasoned that it wasn’t the right fit for her.Even an encouraging talk from her then COO couldn’t convince her. “While I never consciously discounted an MBA because I’m a woman, I do think I struggled...

Maggie Skoch receives The Jed Foundation’s Jerry Greenspan Student Voice of Mental Health Award

Published: June 08, 2016

Ann Hastings

The prestigious annual award honors a student who has reduced prejudice around mental illness, raised awareness of mental health issues on campus, and encouraged help-seeking among their peers.

David Roth '91 starts walk across America

Published: April 29, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

To raise money for veterans, a math teacher and a Notre Dame graduate and police officer from Indianapolis plan to take a walk tomorrow in Atlantic City – a long walk.

Rileys make significant gift to Notre Dame; largest gift directed to financial aid in University’s history

Published: February 05, 2017

Dennis Brown

The late Allan J. Riley, a 1957 graduate of Notre Dame, and his wife, Radwan, have made a multi-million-dollar gift in support of need- and merit-based scholarships for undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

Justice Alan Page encourages students to help others

Published: November 14, 2016

Lauren Love

As an African American growing up in the 1950s in Canton, Ohio, Alan Page thought his opportunities were limited. Most of his peers, like so many before them, would have little choice but to work in the steel mill: work that was physically demanding, dirty, and tedious. He wanted to have more of an impact.

Clergy deliver documents about black Catholic movement to Notre Dame

Published: November 09, 2016

The Pilot

A delegation of black Catholic priests paid a visit to the University of Notre Dame's Theodore Hesburgh Library in South Bend to entrust the archives there with historical documents about African-American Catholic priests, sisters, brothers, deacons, seminarians and laypeople.

Domer recognized as Champion of Change

Published: September 29, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

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.

‘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.

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.

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...

Studying sociology and Spanish prepares graduate for career in education

Published: June 14, 2016

Tessa Bangs

Notre Dame alumna Ray’Von Jones ’16 wants to make a difference in the world of education. And her sociology and Spanish majors are going to help her get there. “Education doesn’t only happen inside schools,” Jones said. “It happens in communities and in neighborhoods. So it’s important for me to have a larger understanding of what’s going on in our...

Abby Davis: 2016 Valedictory Address

Published: May 15, 2016

Notre Dame News

Watch video Gen. Dempsey, Former Speaker Boehner, Vice President Biden, Father Jenkins, distinguished faculty and guests, family, friends and fellow graduates: Today is a very important day. Today, we — the class of 2016 — are going to receive one of the most expensive pieces of paper we may ever possess: our college diploma.

Notre Dame LL.M. grads lead in South Africa

Published: April 27, 2016

Lauren Love

Twenty years since the birth of South Africa’s democracy, graduates of Notre Dame’s LL.M program in International Human Rights Law with the Center for Civil and Human Rights returned to Notre Dame to discuss their efforts to maintain and improve the country’s developing constitutionalism.

Cynthia Cordes, '04 J.D. receives award from Missouri Commission on Human Rights

Published: November 29, 2016

Tammye Raster

The Missouri Commission on Human Rights named Cynthia Cordes the recipient of its 2016 Judge Arnold Krekel Trailblazer Award for promoting civil rights and equal justice. The award honors individuals or organizations that show passion for civil rights and equal justice and is named after the federal judge who presided over Missouri’s 1865 Constitutional Convention, signing the ordinance abolishing slavery...

FIghting for Our Veterans

Published: November 13, 2016

Daily Domer Staff

At a young age, it was ingrained into Brady Quinn ’07 that it was important to respect and support the military. His father was a marine in Vietnam. His grandfathers had both served.

The unsung saint of South Vietnam

Published: November 08, 2016

William Yaley '63

My wife and I first met Sister Kateri Maureen Koverman in February 1975. She was bringing orphans from Vietnam to adoptive parents in the United States, and we helped babysit some of these children at the San Francisco International Airport while they awaited planes to take them to other states.

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.

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,...

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...

CCHR graduate addresses U.N. forum on indigenous peoples

Published: June 09, 2016

Kevin Fye

Linda Manaka Infante, a Venezuelan lawyer and 2016 graduate of the LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law, spoke before the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations this May. The session was built around the theme “Indigenous peoples: conflict, peace and resolution.”

Giving Back: A former media executive is changing lives in Paterson

Published: May 03, 2016

Elisa Ung, The Record of North New Jersey

Accountancy alum Dan Renaldo, a former NBC executive, volunteers as a mentor at Eva's Village, a social service nonprofit in Paterson, New Jersey. Story by The Record of North New Jersey.

Cordell Carter, ’07 J.D., awarded BLSA’s Alvin McKenna Alumni Award

Published: April 25, 2016

Lauren Love

Cordell Carter II, ’07 J.D., was awarded the Alvin McKenna Alumni Award at the recent Notre Dame Law School’s Black Law Students Association Alumni Banquet.