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-Aidan Lewis | Friday, May 19, 2017
Members of the class of 2017 received an array of prestigious fellowships and awards this year, including two Rhodes Scholarships and 15 Fulbright grants. Jeffrey Thibert, interim director of the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE), said the Rhodes Scholarship process is intensely selective. “For Rhodes, this year there were 882 candidates, and they chose 32,” Thibert
Aidan Lewis | Thursday, April 27, 2017
David Werda, the director of Hammes Bookstore and retail operations, spoke to student senate Wednesday evening about future changes to the campus bookstore. “We’ve developed a list of goals and objectives over the last couple of years in terms of the new vision for your campus bookstore,” he said. Werda said the importance of the bookstore
Aidan Lewis | Tuesday, March 28, 2017
The Office of Student Enrichment — founded in late 2015 — was the topic of conversation at the diversity and inclusion lecture series Monday night at Debartolo Hall. Director of the Office of Student Enrichment Marc Burdell spoke about the Office’s founding and its purpose — to help make Notre Dame financially feasible for low-income students. “The
Aidan Lewis | Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Mike Eayrs, a data analyst for several college and NFL football teams, spoke about the innovative practices that earned him the name the “grandfather of NFL analytics” at Mendoza College of Business on Tuesday night. Eayrs started out as an assistant coach in the NCAA, where he said he and the other coaches were constantly arguing over
Aidan Lewis | Thursday, March 2, 2017
Daniel Karpowitz, the author of “College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration,” discussed the higher education of prison inmates on Wednesday afternoon in McKenna Hall. Karpowitz said the concept of college-in-prison programs, which aim to provide degrees to inmates while in prison, is representative of a much bigger idea. “College-in-prison awakens lurking
Aidan Lewis | Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Christopher Adkins and Amber Lattner spoke about how their experiences in sports taught them the keys to a high level of ethical performance during “Life Lessons from Sports: Performance and Purpose” at the Mendoza College of Business on Tuesday afternoon. Adkins, the executive director of the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership, said questions
Aidan Lewis | Tuesday, January 31, 2017
John Donoghue, associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, spoke Monday evening about buccaneers and their role in the slave trade during his talk, “Slave Revolts and Piratical Capitalism in the Age of Captain Morgan.” Donoghue said in the 17th century, buccaneers started out as poor French, Dutch and British citizens who had been “delivered
Aidan Lewis | Friday, January 27, 2017
St. John Paul II’s approach to canonization and beatification was unprecedented in its scale, Valentina Ciciliot said during her lecture “John Paul II’s Canonization Policy: the Italian Case.” “Pope John Paul II declared a huge number of blessed, and more than half of all the saints proclaimed by the Catholic Church since the establishment of the Sacred
Aidan Lewis | Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Tasked with contributing a photograph about gun violence in America to the Snite Museum of Art, four students in the PhotoFutures program unveiled their choices at the museum Wednesday evening. The students selected a photograph from photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz’s “We All We Got” project. The image focuses on a pool of blood while a
Aidan Lewis | Thursday, December 1, 2016
Sister Bernadette Nicolas, a nun and nurse from Haiti, spoke about her work with AIDS and tuberculosis patients in Haiti on Wednesday night in DeBartolo Hall. Nicolas is a member of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, which she said is dedicated to helping those living in poverty