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Krista Lourdes Akiki | Tuesday, October 26, 2021
I have noticed that in the past couple of months everyone around me seems to speak of the pandemic in the past tense. This is particularly true within the Notre Dame bubble. We’ve all been ecstatic at the idea of a normal semester. But we seem to forget that this situation does not mirror itself
Erin Fennessy | Thursday, September 24, 2020
The Student Policy Network (SPN), a project of BridgeND that pursues student/firm partnerships in public policy, has launched three projects for the fall semester. Juniors Greg Miller and Patrick Aimone said they initiated the launch of SPN after identifying a gap in the opportunities for students to learn more about careers in public policy at
Emma Ault | Thursday, February 21, 2019
On Tuesday, girls from Saint Mary’s Communicative Sciences and Disorders department rose before the sun to begin their journey down to the Indianapolis Statehouse for Legislative Day, which gives students the opportunity to speak face to face with state legislators about bills and laws that will directly affect them and their profession. Saint Mary’s sophomore
Courtney Becker | Friday, March 18, 2016
Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin professor of public policy at Harvard University, gave a lecture on Thursday based on his book “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis,” about the differences in opportunities for kids from affluent families and kids from low-income families. Putnam said while America has grown in several ways in
Ann Marie Jakubowski | Wednesday, November 26, 2014
By the time he graduated in May 2014, Alex Coccia was one of the most recognizable people at Notre Dame. He earned two monograms with the varsity fencing team, which won the 2011 NCAA title when he was a freshman. He majored in Africana Studies and Peace Studies, conducted research in Rwanda, served as a three-year