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Historian in demand
• Date: December 25, 2003
Appleby takes low-key approach to explosive religious issues p. R. Scott Appleby recalls attending parochial school in the 1960s and being taught that if communist Russia attacked the United States and he were to die testifying to his Catholic faith, he would bypass purgatory and go directly to heaven….
FTT professor's film selected to National Film Registry
• Date: December 22, 2003
p. “Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman,” an Academy Award-nominated documentary by University of Notre Dame filmmaker Jill Godmilow, is one of 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to the National Film Registry for 2003.p. A film biography of Antonia Brico, history’s first woman symphony conductor, “Antonia”…
Art professor wins national award
• Date: December 18, 2003
Nyame O. Brown, assistant professor of art, art history and design at the University of Notre Dame, has received a 2003 Painters and Sculptors Grant Award from The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc.p. Brown is among just 10 artists nationwide to be selected for this year’s award, which includes a…
Biologist Lodge calls for federal action on invasive species
• Date: December 17, 2003
p. University of Notre Dame biologist David Lodge joined other scientists at a Washington, D.C., press conference today (Thursday, Dec. 18) to call attention to the lack of progress by Congress and the president in dealing with the issue of invasive species.p. The National Environmental Council on Invasive Species…
NBC, Notre Dame extend football agreement through 2010
• Date: December 17, 2003
The University of Notre Dame and NBC Sports announced today a new five-year agreement in which NBC will televise Irish home football games through 2010.p. The extension provides NBC rights to Notre Dame home games from 2006 through 2010. Notre Dame will provide a minimum of six home games…
Event to celebrate Mexican tradition of La Posada Dec. 21
• Date: December 15, 2003
The University of Notre Dame will celebrate the Mexican tradition of La Posada by hosting a screening of ?La Gran Posada,? a documentary produced by J. Roberto Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs and communication at Notre Dame, Dec. 21 (Sunday) at 5 p.m. in the Bendix Theater at…
(Opinion): Extremist gains slow momentum of Good Friday Accords
• Date: December 11, 2003
Northern Ireland’s voters have rejected the great leap forward of the Good Friday Agreement. At first glance, recent election results look like a great leap back to the old familiar suspicions and violence.p. Why did it happen? The key to the maneuverings in Northern Ireland over the last decade…
Lilly Endowment awards $1 million to help plug "brain drain"
• Date: December 11, 2003
The University of Notre Dame has been awarded a $1-million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support creation of the Indiana Careers Initiative at Notre Dame. The grant was made as part of the endowment’s “Initiative to Promote Opportunity through Educational Collaborations.”p. The grant supports a five-year plan to…
Construction to affect parking, traffic on east side of campus
• Date: December 11, 2003
The coming construction of the Jordan Hall of Science and the Don F. and Flora Guglielmino Family Athletics Center at the University of Notre Dame will bring changes to parking and pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the east side of campus.p. Two parking lots will be eliminated due to…
University Health Services to get upgrade
• Date: December 10, 2003
The University Health Services facility at the University of Notre Dame will undergo extensive renovations and upgrading, largely through a $6million gift from the William K. Warren Foundation.p. William K. Warren, Jr., a resident of Tulsa, Okla., is a 1956 graduate of Notre Dame and chair of the foundation…
Faculty and staff newspaper ND Works premieres
• Date: December 09, 2003
The University of Notre Dame has initiated a new faculty and staff newspaper, titled ND Works, to focus on the creativity and spirit of its employees.p. The first edition was delivered today (Wednesday, Dec. 10). It will be published bimonthly during the academic year and once during the summer.p….
Two physics professors elected to American Physical Society
• Date: December 07, 2003
p. Two University of Notre Dame physicists have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS).p. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics, was cited ’for his discovery of scale-free networks and for his theories of surface roughening and strained surfaces." Stefan G. Frauendorf, professor of physics,…
Dennis Moore, associate VP for public affairs, dies at 55
• Date: December 02, 2003
Dennis K. Moore, associate vice president for public affairs and communication at the University of Notre Dame, died today (Wednesday, Dec. 3) at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City. He was 55 and had battled prostate cancer for the past year.p. ’We have lost a dear friend and…
Princeton provost to deliver lectures Dec. 4-5
• Date: December 01, 2003
Amy Gutmann, professor of politics and provost at Princeton University, will present two lectures Thursday and Friday (Dec. 4-5) in the Provost’s Distinguished Women’s Lecture Series at the University of Notre Dame.p. They are as follows:p. ? “Why Diversity Matters,” 4:30 p.m. Thursday, 102 DeBartolo Hall ? "Identity and…
Dean of Arts and Letters publishes new book
• Date: December 01, 2003
Catholic identity in the world of higher education is the focus of a recently published book by Mark W. Roche, I.A. O?Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame.p. Titled “The Intellectual Appeal of Catholicism and the Idea of a Catholic University,”…
