Hockey scores a happier home
By Rachel Guerrera ’10
The downside to the Notre Dame hockey team’s sudden popularity is that not all fans have the chance to catch a game because of limited seating inside the lackluster arena.
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Across the blue line
By Rachel Guerrera ’10
After almost a decade away from the college game, Notre Dame hockey coach Jeff Jackson returned in 2005 to guide a floundering Notre Dame program to new levels of success.
Other Domers who have gone before
By Walton Collins ’51
Kevin Ford, class of 1982, is one of three Notre Dame alumni who have traveled in space.
Rocket Launched
By Walton Collins ’51
As the clock creeps past 1 a.m., Kevin Ford ’82 is lying on his back on the flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery.
Happiness Is
By Andrew Santella
More than a century ago, an Irish economist named Francis Edgeworth imagined a futuristic device that would measure happiness.
Unbalanced: The (gluten-free) staff of life
By Carol Schaal '91M.A.
Our stepdaughter, who is allergic to soy, is bringing her new boyfriend for the Christmas meal. He’s a vegetarian.
Finding the Christmas Star
By Grant J. Mathews
At this time in the Christian year, we are often reminded that the Gospel of Matthew records a peculiar astronomical event that occurred at the birth of Christ.
The Playroom: A Christmas yarn, slightly tangled
By Maraya Goyer Steadman ’89, ’90MBA
This advent season I was struggling with how to incorporate Christ into our Christmas traditions.
The lily in winter
By Jamie Goodrich Ziegler '80
The peace lillies were sympathy gifts, and for some reason they have survived in my house.
Another email: Another new era
By Kerry Temple '74
This afternoon I watched the press conference introducing Brian Kelly as Notre Dame’s next new football coach. I’m on board
Unbalanced: The inside scoop
By Carol Schaal '91M.A.
Before ND hired Brian Kelly, the campus played the guessing game.
A foremost Catholic scientist, remembered
By Richard Conklin ’59M.A.
Thomas P. Carney, the second chair (1982-86) of Notre Dame’s lay board of trustees who died December 7 at age 94, led by intellect.
Time as a teacher
By Bill Brennan '01MBA
Education has a rhythm, a seasonality that naturally occurs as pupils flow from anxious beginners to stretched, tested performers who are ready to begin a new chapter in their lives.
Summer poster
By Don Nelson
The “Summer: Filled with Grace” poster is the last in our series of the four seasons at Notre Dame.
Learning to talk to God
By Carolyn Alessio
“I want to thank God for the things we have and things we don’t have,” my daughter began at dinner one night. My husband and I looked at each other, intrigued. Lately our 5-year-old had begun to improvise grace before meals.
What Time Shall I Pray?
By Mary Ellen McGinty Collins
When my friend Barbara said she had a meeting later in the day that could result in a lucrative consulting project, my mother’s stock response rolled right off my tongue. “What time shall I pray?”
Who Was He?
By Paul McCauley, M.D., ’66
For many Notre Dame alumni, a walk inevitably takes one to the Grotto dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.
What was the fuss about ‘death panels’?
By Bud Hammes ’72, ’78Ph.D.
The political debate about health care reform turned ugly this past summer. Reforms would lead to “death panels,” several alleged, and government bureaucrats would be making decisions to “pull the plug on grandma.”
A Family at War
By Tom McMahon '69
Not since he was a baby, when I would walk with him at night to lull him to sleep, did I hug my only son as long as I hugged him that Saturday night.
On God, Country, Notre Dame
By Amanda (Dodd) Miller '99
My twin sister, Lacy Dodd ‘99, and I had looked for college money and found it with the U.S. Army. So we arrived at Notre Dame in 1995 as students and cadets in its Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program.
May I Have Your Attention Please... excerpt
By Mike Collins ’67 & Sergeant Tim McCarthy
A chapter from the book May I Have Your Attention Please … Wit & Wisdom from the Notre Dame Press Box.
Forgotten Four excerpt
By Donald J. Hubbard ’84J.D., Mark O. Hubbard ’72
A chapter from the book Forgotten Four: Notre Dame’s Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season.
The Irish Way of Life excerpt
By John Shaughnessy' 77
A chapter from The Irish Way of Life: Stores of Family, Faith and Friendship
25 things to do on a home football weekend
By Notre Dame Magazine staff
Light a candle and say a prayer at the Grotto, and leave double the suggested offering “just to be sure.”
I love the smell of barbecue in the morning
By Steve Wojcikiewicz, '97, '99ACE
Barbecue at sunrise seemed to me perfectly appropriate after four years of football Saturdays in South Bend.
One shimmering Saturday
By John F. Marszalek '63M.A., '68Ph.D
Anyone with any interest in college football has either watched or heard about some miracle comeback by some Notre Dame football team at one time or another.
The tooth of the matter
By John Nagy '00M.A.
The total tonnage of my parental incompetence is staggering.
After 9/11 are we any safer?
By Dan Lindley
On September 11, 2001 almost 3,000 people were killed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Are we any safer in 2009?
The dust is off a priceless resource
By John Nagy ’00M.A.
The story goes that Father Sorin obtained Notre Dame’s first natural history museum collection through an exchange with a physician for land Sorin held near Detroit.
Nieuwland’s own: Journal traces a century of scholarly evolution
By John Nagy '00M.A.
Father Julius A. Nieuwland’s renowned contribution to chemistry was his laboratory research on acetylene, which famously led to the invention of that durable synthetic rubber, neoprene, by DuPont developers in 1930.