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Research with a vision
Date: November 06, 2009
To the naked eye, humans may not appear to have much in common with the zebrafish, a small tropical freshwater species belonging to the minnow family.
But a Notre Dame biologist is taking a much closer look at the two species and finding potential for treating a number of diseases and conditions.
Research by David Hyde, the Rev. Howard J. Kenna, C.S.C., Memorial Director of Notre Dame’s Center for Zebrafish Research, uses adult stem cells in zebrafish to study how neurons regenerate. The work holds promise for treatments for such human problems as glaucoma and macular degeneration in the eyes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in the brain, and even spinal cord injuries.
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Reflections on the fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years later
Date: November 06, 2009
University of Notre Dame political scientist James McAdams recalls the first time he stepped over the border from West Germany to East Germany in 1973 as a 19-year-old college student studying in West Berlin.
“The first time I entered East Berlin, it felt like I was going to an anti-Disneyland. It was like going from color television in West Berlin to black and white in East Berlin,” says McAdams, the William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs and director of Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
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Notre Dame theologian Father Groody to advise Vatican conference on migration
Date: November 06, 2009
While human migration is as old as human history, there are more migrants today than ever before.
Displaced from their homelands by wars, genocide, famine, natural catastrophes, and collapsed or withering economies, there are 200 million such people worldwide, roughly the equivalent of the population of Brazil, according to Rev. Daniel G. Groody, C.S.C., assistant professor of theology and director of the Center for Latino Spirituality and Culture in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies.
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Saturday Scholars Series: "Going Global: Medical Ethics in the Age of AIDS”
Sat Nov 7, 2009 • 12:00PM - 1:00PM Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art
You are invited to experience an intimate discussion with Notre Dame’s most engaging faculty speakers on some of the most pressing and fascinating issues of our times. Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters.
Speaker: Maura Ryan, John Cardinal O’Hara Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Department of Theology.
Location: Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Museum of Art
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Notre Dame scholar debunks myths about Jesus
College of Arts and Letters
Professor John P. Meier continues his work to correct common misconceptions about what Jesus thought and taught. This year, the Notre Dame theology professor published the fourth volume of his larger work, “A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus.” In this latest volume, “Law and Love,” Meier explores Jesus’ relationship to Mosaic law.
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Internationally recognized tenor Mark Beudert, director of Opera Notre Dame, performs in Leighton Concert Hall. Beudert and pianist Dalton Baldwin performed a program of songs by Duparc, Berlioz, Richard Strauss, Poulenc, Bowles, Ives, Hundley, Hoiby and Duke Ellington.…
