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-Grace Doerfler | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
For the first time, Notre Dame will experiment with a winter session during its upcoming 10-week break, offering students a range of classes, internships and other programming to fill the winter months. The University intends to provide, “meaningful engagement opportunities for Notre Dame students to nurture the formation of mind, body and spirit” during this
Grace Doerfler | Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Thousands of members of the Notre Dame community gathered Tuesday night to remember first-year students Valeria Espinel and Olivia Laura Rojas in a mass held in Notre Dame Stadium. Both students passed away early Saturday morning after being hit by a car. Espinel, originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, lived in Badin Hall and planned to study
Grace Doerfler | Thursday, October 22, 2020
For students with wanderlust, this year’s Pasquerilla East Musical Company (PEMCO) Revue, “Gettin’ Out of Town,” may be the perfect cure. The show, running Oct. 22 to 24 with performances at 7 p.m. each day, is designed to creatively respond to the challenging conditions imposed on theater in the COVID-19 era. Tickets are $5 and
Grace Doerfler | Monday, September 28, 2020
When Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha learned that children in Flint, Mich. were drinking water so contaminated that it was corroding car engines, she knew she had to act. In a virtual lecture Friday, Hanna-Attisha, who serves as the director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, described the water crisis
Grace Doerfler | Tuesday, September 1, 2020
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the McGrath Institute for Church Life is launching virtual programming this fall to adapt to health and safety restrictions. One such series is “A Season with the Saints,” a digital take on the traditional “Saturdays with the Saints” lectures. The online edition of the perennial lecture series will offer
Grace Doerfler | Monday, August 24, 2020
Archbishop Wilton Gregory, of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., addressed the Notre Dame community virtually Aug. 21 in the inaugural lecture of this fall’s “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary” series, hosted by the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights. In his lecture, “Anti-Racism as a Moral Imperative,” Gregory spoke to the 110 students enrolled in
Grace Doerfler | Monday, August 17, 2020
Anticipated since December 2018, Johnson Family Hall — the University’s newest women’s dorm on East Quad — opened its doors this August to its first cohort of 221 residents. This is the first semester Johnson Family Hall is part of East Quad, but the Valkyries began building their community across campus in Pangborn Hall while