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Observer Sports Staff | Friday, May 19, 2023
All-Commencement Teams Men’s Athlete of the Year: In first year as starter, Ryan Bischel reaches the next level Women’s Athlete of the Year: Olivia Wingate leads line for Irish women’s soccer ND Football: Irish ride rollercoaster in Freeman’s first season ND Men’s Basketball: Irish men’s basketball prepares to start fresh after season of trials and
Isa Sheikh | Friday, May 19, 2023
With 70% of graduating seniors reporting their post-graduation plans to the Meruelo Family Center for Career Development (CCD), early results indicate trends for the class of 2023 similar to previous classes. According to data collected in a joint effort by the CCD and Office of Strategic Planning and Institutional Research (OSPIR), about two-thirds of students
Isa Sheikh | Friday, May 19, 2023
Miguel Coste understands that it’s strange advice for a Notre Dame salutatorian to tell students to “focus a lot more on the people around you,” rather than work and academics. Having spent the past four years learning on and off campus — from James Joyce’s “Ulysses” to readings on the importance of sleep for memory
Liam Kelly | Friday, May 19, 2023
This weekend, students across the tri-campus will reach the culmination of their academic experiences as commencement ceremonies at Notre Dame, Holy Cross and Saint Mary’s all take place. The festivities begin Friday, May 19 as Saint Mary’s holds its commencement mass at 4 p.m. in O’Laughlin auditorium. Holy Cross also holds a commencement mass in
Liam Kelly | Friday, May 19, 2023
The path to Holy Cross College valedictorian for Stephen McNulty has been a non-traditional one. McNulty, who hails from Scranton, Pennsylvania, attended King’s College, a Catholic liberal arts college near home, for his freshman year, studying computer science and computer engineering. After the pandemic, though, which McNulty said “changed everything,” he transferred to Holy Cross
Observer News Staff | Friday, May 19, 2023
Ahead of their 56th commencement ceremony, Holy Cross College announced their speaker for the 2023 commencement will be the President of Holy Cross Family Ministries, Fr. Fred Jenga, C.S.C. Fr. Jenga, originally from the Jinja District of Uganda, was ordained in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 2005. He earned his bachelor of theology degree
Meghan Lange | Friday, May 19, 2023
Three seniors from Saint Mary’s graduating class, Chyan Rangel, Emily Morin and Natalie Volling, have been recognized as valedictorians for the 2023 commencement. Chyan Rangel Rangel will graduate from Saint Mary’s College with a bachelor of science in neuroscience with a concentration in neurobiology and a minor in chemistry. She was selected by the College’s
Genevieve Coleman | Friday, May 19, 2023
Writing this column will be the hardest part of my time here. Not being sent home in the middle of freshman year. Not triple majoring. Not writing my thesis. Not student teaching. Because finishing this column inevitably means the end of a very long journey which started when I tentatively attended my first Saint Mary’s
Observer Staff Report | Sunday, March 19, 2023
Sister Rosemary Connelly, a lifelong advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities, will receive Notre Dame’s 2023 Laetare Medal, according to a press release. The Laetare Medal is awarded at commencement each year to an American Catholic leader “whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the Church and enriched the heritage