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Research with a vision
• Date: November 06, 2009 • Categories: Academics and Research
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.
Notre Dame EMBA ranked No. 20 by Business Week
• Date: November 06, 2009 • Categories: Academics
The Executive MBA program (EMBA) at the University of Notre Dame ranked No. 20, while its custom programs earned a No. 19 slot in the BusinessWeek biennial survey of the world’s top 25 executive education programs. The ranking was announced online Nov. 5 and is available in the print magazine on newsstands now.
“The combination of rigor and values-based leadership in our programs resonates with those who are charged with leading teams and organizations through complexity,” said Sharon Keane, director of Notre Dame Executive Education at the Mendoza College of Business. “These rankings are a wonderful affirmation of our approach and work.”
Reflections on the fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years later
• Date: November 06, 2009 • Categories: Campus and Community and International
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.
Notre Dame theologian Father Groody to advise Vatican conference on migration
• Date: November 06, 2009 • Categories: Campus and Community and Faith and Service
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.
ND alumna Joan Orie Melvin elected to Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• Date: November 05, 2009 • Categories: Campus and Community
Superior Court Judge Joan Orie Melvin of Pittsburgh, a 1978 University of Notre Dame alumna, was elected Nov. 3 (Tuesday) to a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Melvin, a Republican, defeated her superior court colleague, Democrat Jack Panella, with 53 percent of the vote.
A native of Pittsburgh, Melvin majored in economics at Notre Dame, where she lived in Lyons Hall, and earned a law degree from Duquesne University School of Law in 1981.
Tylenol case expert to speak at Notre Dame
• Date: November 05, 2009 • Categories: Campus and Community
In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol pain-relief capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. The crime, still unsolved, eventually led to large-scale reforms in the way food and drug products are packaged and sold in the United States.
For Johnson & Johnson, the drug’s manufacturer, the “Tylenol crisis” resulted in a new level of corporate crisis management; namely, how does a company show its concern for public safety, while at the same time, survive as a business in the face of controversy and fear?
The Review of Politics turns 70
• Date: November 05, 2009 • Categories: Campus and Community
We can be grateful that the world of 2009 is so unlike the world of 1939, in which The Review of Politics was first published at the University of Notre Dame.
But agreeable as it is to leave the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin, the invasion of Poland, the concentration camps and fire bombings uniquely associated with that earlier time, it is not difficult in this one to share what the journal’s first editors described as a feeling “that we are living in a kind of interval of history, in a duration of formlessness and fury.” That generation-spanning resemblance may account for the Review’s enduring status as an indispensable journal of political philosophy.
Notre Dame alumnus Bob McDonnell elected governor of Virginia
• Date: November 04, 2009 • Categories: Campus and Community
Former Virginia Attorney General and Notre Dame alumnus Bob McDonnell was elected governor of his state in an off-year election Tuesday (Nov. 3).
McDonnell, who was graduated from the University in 1976 after majoring in business management, defeated Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds, 59 percent to 41 percent.
A native of Philadelphia, McDonnell served 21 years in the U.S. Army and reserves after his graduation. While serving in Germany he earned a master of science degree in business administration from Boston University and later earned a degree in law and a master’s degree in public policy from Regent University in Virginia Beach.
