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Redmond Bernhold | Friday, September 29, 2023
Notre Dame faculty Walter Scheirer and Luis Felipe Murillo began teaching a course last spring called “The Archaeology of Hacking: Everything You Wanted to Know About Hacking but Were Afraid to Ask.” On Thursday, the two faculty members held a hacker roundtable where 1990s hacking and its evolution were discussed by three ex-hackers and a
Redmond Bernhold | Friday, September 22, 2023
Last week the Notre Dame student senate considered raising the student activities fee by $1 ($0.50 per semester), noting that it would accumulate an additional $8,000 to the student union. Currently, an annual $90 from each undergraduate’s tuition funds the student activities fee. The current undergraduate tuition is $40,035.50 per semester — $80,071 for a
Redmond Bernhold | Friday, August 25, 2023
Maui’s catastrophic wildfires have left many residents homeless, missing or dead. With at least 114 people dead in Lahaina and over 850 people still missing, residents are caring for each other to preserve their generational connection to Maui. Alex Vento, a junior from Lower Kula, grew up on several islands but has spent most of
Redmond Bernhold | Friday, November 11, 2022
Natasha Trethewey, two-term 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, gave a poetry reading focused on her identity and inspiration as a poet Wednesday night for the Notre Dame community. “I think of myself as an elegiac poet as well as a poet concerned with remembrance and memorialization with the intersections between
Redmond Bernhold | Friday, September 16, 2022
The University of Notre Dame, Indiana University, Purdue University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) received a repeatable five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further research the applications of quantum technologies in private industries. As a part of an Industry University Collaborative Research Center, the multi-campus research team of over 100 researchers
Redmond Bernhold | Tuesday, September 6, 2022
To learn more about snoozing, professors and researchers from the Notre Dame department of computer science collected data from daily surveys that questioned the snoozing habits of 385 individuals. The team concluded that repeatedly snoozing alarms is linked to having a higher heart rate. Postdoctoral researcher Stephen Mattingly said he was interested in the topic