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February 1, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 31, 2000
“The sexual orientation and practice of Roman Catholic priests remains an underdiscussed issue within the Church, despite public acknowledgment ofthe failures of some priests to keep their vow of celibacy,” according to R. Scott Appleby, director of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.p….
February 1, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 31, 2000
The University of Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees convenes for its winter meeting this week in West Palm Beach, Fla., with a new-and authentic-Irishman in its ranks.p….
Notre Dame Resources
• Date: January 28, 2000
Russia: Notre Dame political scientist Martha Merritt says of the March 26th presidential election in Russia: "Boris Yeltsin’s resignation was timed to allow him to do something the Soviet leaders never managed: select a successor. The intense manipulation of state-controlled media prior to the legislative elections in December led…
January 28, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 27, 2000
A delegation of Cambodian Buddhist monks will pay homage to the victims of the Cambodian genocide during a ceremony at the University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art Feb. 1 (Tues.) at 5 p.m.p….
January 28, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 27, 2000
The poet Robert Hahn will receive the 2001 Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry for a collection of poems entitled “No Messages,” which will be published by the University of Notre Dame Press next year.p….
Kofi Annan to speak at Notre Dame commencement
• Date: January 26, 2000
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi A. Annan, will be the principal speaker at the University of Notre Dame’s 155th Commencement May 21 (Sunday). The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. in the Joyce Center arena on campus.p….
Adams to receive Thomas A. Dooley award
• Date: January 26, 2000
John Adams, coordinator of the Youth Action Project (YAP) in the Ballymun neighborhood of Dublin, Ireland, will receive the Notre Dame Alumni Association’s Dr. Thomas A. Dooley Award at an association dinner on campus Friday (Jan. 28).p….
Notre Dame launches new summer program for academically gifted high school students
• Date: January 26, 2000
The University of Notre Dame is launching a new summer study program for academically gifted high school seniors-to-be from across the country.p….
January 26, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 25, 2000
The University of Notre Dame’s College of Business Administration will become the College of Business, effective immediately.p….
January 26, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 25, 2000
New research by a University of Notre Dame sociologist suggests that the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may not be meeting their government mandate to “lead the mortgage finance industry in making credit available for low- and moderate-income families.”p….
Gift from Mowbray establishes fellowship at Notre Dame Law School
• Date: January 24, 2000
A gift from University of Notre Dame graduate Jerry H. Mowbray of Reno, Nev., has established a new fellowship at the Notre Dame Law School in the name of his parents, the late Justice John C. Mowbray and Kathlyn Hammes Mowbray of Las Vegas.p….
Forbes ranks Notre Dame MBA program among top 20 in nation
• Date: January 24, 2000
The MBA program at the University of Notre Dame ranks among the top 20 in the nation in providing “the best bang for your buck,” according to a new survey in the Feb. 7 issue of Forbes magazine.p….
January 25, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 24, 2000
Charles K. Wilber, emeritus professor of economics, has been appointed acting director of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies by Nathan Hatch, the University provost.p….
Schell to deliver lecture on abolishing nuclear weapons
• Date: January 23, 2000
Jonathan Schell, author of the influential 1982 bestseller, “The Fate of the Earth,” will give a lecture entitled “The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now” Feb. 1 (Tues.) at 4:15 p.m. in the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Center auditorium.p….
Notre Dame Resources
• Date: January 20, 2000
Russia: Notre Dame political scientist Martha Merritt says of the March 26th presidential election in Russia: "Boris Yeltsin’s resignation was timed to allow him to do something the Soviet leaders never managed: select a successor. The intense manipulation of state-controlled media prior to the legislative elections in December led…
January 21, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 20, 2000
With an anonymous gift from a 1972 graduate, the Notre Dame Law School has established a fellowship in honor of law professor Charles Rice.p….
Lawrence to speak on Islamophobia
• Date: January 19, 2000
Bruce Lawrence, professor of religion at Duke University, will give a lecture entitled “Islamophobia: A Media Ploy for Mapping Global Conflict Minus Muslim Actors?” Jan. 24 (Mon.) at 12:30 p.m. in Room C-103 of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.p….
Forsythe to deliver lecture on abortion and middle America
• Date: January 19, 2000
Clarke D. Forsythe, president of Americans United for Life (AUL), will give a lecture entitled “The End of the Affair? Abortion and Middle America” Feb. 9 (Wed.) at 7 p.m. in the Notre Dame Law School Courtroom.p….
January 20, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 19, 2000
Four events at the University of Notre Dame will celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King.p….
Malloy prohibits manufacture of licensed products in sweatshops
• Date: January 18, 2000
(For further information, please contact William P. Hoye, associate vice president and counsel and chair of the Task Force on Anti-sweatshop Initiatives, at (219) 631-6411.) p….
Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba
• Date: January 13, 2000
Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba, says Barbara Szweda, codirector of the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic and an expert in immigration law.p. “From the standpoint of immigration law, it is pretty clear that the child should be returned to Cuba,” says Szweda. "The…
January 14, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 13, 2000
Glenn J. Rosswurm II, formerly director of development research at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to the newly created position of director of Law School advancement by Daniel Reagan, assistant vice president of University relations and executive director of development.p….
January 13, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 12, 2000
University of Notre Dame alumnus Joseph Giovanini and his wife, Jane, have made a gift of more than $2 million to fund an endowed professorship in management information systems (MIS) in the University’s College of Business.p….
January 13, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 12, 2000
A recently discovered and previously unpublished text by the American Catholic theologian Rev. John Courtney Murray, S.J. appears in the Fall 1999 “Millennial Issue” of the University of Notre Dame’s Review of Politics.p….
Notre Dame receives $5.2 million grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to combat tropical disease
• Date: January 12, 2000
The University of Notre Dame has received a $5,211,800 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a five-year pilot program to research, treat and eliminate a particularly virulent tropical disease in Haiti.p….
Malloy to address Institute on College Student Values
• Date: January 12, 2000
Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, will be among the featured speakers at the 10th annual Institute on College Student Values, Feb. 3-5 (Thursday-Saturday) at Florida State University.p….
Notre Dame Press publishes new edition of O'Rourke book
• Date: January 12, 2000
A second edition of “Campaign America ’96: The View from the Couch,” by William A. O’Rourke, professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, has been published by Notre Dame Press. The new edition includes an epilogue entitled “From Monica to Milosevic, 1998-1999.”p….
January 13, 2000 - Newswire Release
• Date: January 12, 2000
University of Notre Dame students will enroll for the spring semester Monday (Jan. 17).p….
Pratt book chronicles changes in the judiciary during the early twentieth century
• Date: January 10, 2000
For more information, contact Gretchen Sauer with the University of South Carolina Press at (803) 777-2217. p….
Collins appointed to Supreme Court clerkship
• Date: January 10, 2000
Margaret Ryan Collins, a 1995 graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, has been appointed to a Supreme Court clerkship for the 2001-02 term. She is the fourth graduate and third woman from Notre Dame in the past five years to be selected for what is considered the most…
