The eighth annual Saturday Scholar Series at the University of Notre Dame will feature lectures by leading faculty members on each home football game weekend this fall.

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters, the lectures add a scholarly dimension to a weekend roster of athletics, pageantry and fine arts performances. ...

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Higgins Labor Studies Program joins Center for Social Concerns

The University of Notre Dame's Higgins Labor Studies Program and Center for Social Concerns have entered into an official partnership, effective July 1.

The partnership will allow for new and creative growth of the Higgins Program in the area of labor studies at Notre Dame. ...

Marianne Corr elected VP and general counsel at Notre Dame

Marianne Corr, vice president and deputy general counsel for the Fortune 500 company Textron Inc. ...

ND law scholars consider proposed changes in environmental law

Earlier this week, the Bush administration proposed changing the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by eliminating the independent scientific reviews it has required for dam and highway construction and other federal projects affecting the plight of vulnerable species. ...

Father Malloy resting comfortably after donating kidney

Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, is resting comfortably after the transplant of one of his kidneys Monday (Aug. ...

Georgetown president to speak on athletics, academics

John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University and a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, will speak on the interplay of athletics and academics at 4 p.m. Monday (Aug. 18) in the Browning Cinema of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame. ...

Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival to present “Macbeth”

The 2008 Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival will present a mainstage production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” Aug. ...

ND Law School’s O’Connell assesses legality of Caucasus war

Mary Ellen O’Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law in the Notre Dame Law School, said that both the Obama and McCain presidential campaigns correctly assessed the legality of war between Russia and Georgia. ...

Notre Dame ReSource: Obama campaign getting a good deal on text messaging plan

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s plan to announce his choice of running mate via e-mail and text message has benefits to his campaign that go beyond reaching the masses, according to Robert Schmuhl, Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Professor of American Studies and Journalism and director the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. ...

Notre Dame to host Fulbright orientation for foreign language teachers

The University of Notre Dame will host its third annual Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship (FLTA) orientation for the coming academic year, bringing 61 foreign language teachers from 34 countries to campus Aug. ...

Latino population increase slows in suburban Chicago

The Latino population of the Chicago Metropolitan area continued to increase this year, but the rate of increase has slowed slightly in the suburban counties surrounding Cook County, according to the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), which cites estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Latino population growth historically has been concentrated in urban Chicago, but since the 1980s, the growth rate has been faster in the suburbs than in the city. ...

Notre Dame Olympics Celebration set for Aug. 15 in Beijing

Alumni, students, faculty, administrators and friends of the University of Notre Dame will gather at the Beijing American Club from 5 to 9 p.m. Aug. 15 (Friday) for the Notre Dame Olympics Celebration.

Current and former Irish athletes who are participating in both the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing will be recognized at the event, which will take place at about the mid-point of the Olympics competition. ...