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Jennifer Flanagan | Thursday, April 23, 2015
The Notre Dame Dance Company will host its annual Spring Showcase on Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Washington Hall. The show consists of 24 student-choreographed dances by 111 dancers from the Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s student body. Sophomore Maura Doré, the public relations executive officer of the Dance Company, said the rehearsals for the
Jennifer Flanagan | Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Wednesday night at 8 p.m. the Jewish Federation of South Bend will host a Holocaust remembrance service at the Grotto to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust. Trent Spoolstra, a 2013 graduate of Notre Dame who has volunteered with the Jewish Federation for the past seven months, helped to bring the event to Notre
Haleigh Ehmsen and Jennifer Flanagan | Sunday, March 29, 2015
Since its inception in 2012, the Love Your Melon Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping children with cancer, has built a network of over 900 ambassadors nationwide. The ambassadors, dubbed “Campus Crews” by the Foundation, help to advance the mission of Love Your Melon (LYM) to put a hat on every child battling cancer.
Jennifer Flanagan | Monday, March 16, 2015
Former Irish president Mary McAleese discussed her experiences as a primary advocate for the Irish peace process Monday in the McKenna Hall Auditorium. As the first president of Ireland, McAleese served two consecutive terms from 1997 to 2011, ruling the nation during the Troubles, a time ravaged by civil war between Unionists, who were predominantly Protestants, and
Jennifer Flanagan | Wednesday, February 25, 2015
For the 15th consecutive year, the University of Notre Dame ranked among the nation’s top Peace Corps volunteer-producing universities, earning the 24th spot among medium-sized colleges and universities. The Peace Corps and the University of Notre Dame have shared a history since the agency’s establishment by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. University President Emeritus Fr. Theodore Hesburgh encouraged involving
Jennifer Flanagan | Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Eight seniors gathered Tuesday night in LaFortune Student Center Ballroom to share the senior secrets they acquired over time at Notre Dame to a group of freshmen. Alex Cantrell, an RA in and former president of Alumni, kicked off the event by sharing five pieces of advice. “Try to organize and time manage, attack with a focus, take
Jennifer Flanagan | Sunday, February 22, 2015
Sarah L. Townsend, a visiting faculty fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute, traced in a talk Friday the literary usage of the term “pig” during the Celtic Tiger period in Ireland. Townsend analyzed the Celtic Tiger, a name for the rapid economic growth of the Republic of Ireland in the late 1990s, in the lecture titled “Miracles of Development: From
Jennifer Flanagan | Sunday, February 8, 2015
David O’Connor, an associate professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, encouraged audience members Friday to think more broadly about the history of concepts of beauty in his keynote address at the 10th annual Edith Stein Project Conference in McKenna Hall Auditorium. “What I wanted to do, to start out the conference, was to think in a pretty broad
Jennifer Flanagan | Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Four panelists brought the global conversation of free speech rights and extremism and Western conflict to the Hesburgh Center Auditorium on Tuesday as part of a panel called “Paris 2015.” The four panelists, Margaret Meserve, Olivier Morel, Ebrahim Moosa and Elliot Visconsi, discussed the international significance of the recent unrest in Paris following the murder of
Jennifer Flanagan | Sunday, November 23, 2014
Addressing a maximum-capacity crowd in Mendoza’s Jordan Auditorium last Friday, investor Kevin O’Leary of the hit ABC show “Shark Tank” shared his thoughts on great entrepreneurship and judged three business proposals pitched by Notre Dame student entrepreneurs. Before transforming the auditorium into a mock ‘shark tank,’ O’Leary first explained what the show reveals about entrepreneurship.