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Engineering students building hope through bridge construction
Date: January 27, 2012
“Building Bridges-Building Hope” is the motto of an innovative program in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering that enables undergraduate students to use the knowledge they have gained to benefit residents of impoverished countries.
Now in its third year of operation, ND SEED (Notre Dame Students Empowering through Engineering Development) connects rural communities stricken with poverty to greater opportunities through cooperative design and construction of footbridges that span otherwise impassible rivers. Tracy L. Kijewski-Correa, associate professor and Leo and Patti Ruth Linbeck College Chair in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, serves as advisor for the program.
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Molly Kinder to receive Kroc Institute Distinguished Alumni Award
Date: January 27, 2012
Molly Kinder, a 2001 graduate of the University of Notre Dame in political science and peace studies, will receive the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award from Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Kinder, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., is director of special programs for Development Innovation Ventures in Washington, D.C., a new initiative at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that funds groundbreaking approaches to global development challenges.
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ND Expert: Electoral effect of Latino vote significant, but overstated
Date: January 27, 2012
According to University of Notre Dame theologian and historian Timothy Matovina, “bold proclamations about Latino voters determining presidential elections have become a regular feature of political commentary.”
Matovina, professor of theology and director of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, is the author of a recent history entitled “Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church.”
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Winds of change are stirring in Cuba, and Notre Dame’s School of Architecture is exploring opportunities to help the city of Havana frame its future while preserving the rich and classic beauty of its past. Architecture graduate students visited Havana in September 2011.
Cover story in Winter 2011-2012 Notre Dame Magazine
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Physics Ph.D. alumnus launches video series of scientists
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César Hidalgo, who earned a Ph.D. in Physics at Notre Dame in 2008, has started an online video series of scientists, “Cambridge Nights: Conversations About a Life in Science.” The series is produced at the M.I.T. Media Lab that he joined last year.
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Some 350 Notre Dame students, faculty and staff who traveled to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 23 to take part in the March for Life.
