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2009
Hockey scores a happier home
BYThe 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.
Read full articleAcross the blue line
BYAfter 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.
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BYKevin Ford, class of 1982, is one of three Notre Dame alumni who have traveled in space.
Read full articleRocket Launched
BYAs the clock creeps past 1 a.m., Kevin Ford ’82 is lying on his back on the flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery.
Read full articleHappiness Is
BYMore than a century ago, an Irish economist named Francis Edgeworth imagined a futuristic device that would measure happiness.
Read full articleUnbalanced: The (gluten-free) staff of life
BYOur stepdaughter, who is allergic to soy, is bringing her new boyfriend for the Christmas meal. He’s a vegetarian.
Read full articleFinding the Christmas Star
BYAt 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.
Read full articleThe Playroom: A Christmas yarn, slightly tangled
BYThis advent season I was struggling with how to incorporate Christ into our Christmas traditions.
Read full articleThe lily in winter
BYThe peace lillies were sympathy gifts, and for some reason they have survived in my house.
Read full articleAnother email: Another new era
BYThis afternoon I watched the press conference introducing Brian Kelly as Notre Dame’s next new football coach. I’m on board
Read full articleUnbalanced: The inside scoop
BYBefore ND hired Brian Kelly, the campus played the guessing game.
Read full articleA foremost Catholic scientist, remembered
BYThomas 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.
Read full articleTime as a teacher
BYEducation 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.
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BYThe “Summer: Filled with Grace” poster is the last in our series of the four seasons at Notre Dame.
Read full articleLearning to talk to God
BY“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.
Read full articleWhat Time Shall I Pray?
BYWhen 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?”
Read full articleWho Was He?
BYFor many Notre Dame alumni, a walk inevitably takes one to the Grotto dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.
Read full articleWhat was the fuss about ‘death panels’?
BYThe 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.”
Read full articleA Family at War
BYNot 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.
Read full articleOn God, Country, Notre Dame
BYMy 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.
Read full articleMay I Have Your Attention Please... excerpt
BYA chapter from the book May I Have Your Attention Please … Wit & Wisdom from the Notre Dame Press Box.
Read full articleForgotten Four excerpt
BYA chapter from the book Forgotten Four: Notre Dame’s Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season.
Read full articleThe Irish Way of Life excerpt
BYA chapter from The Irish Way of Life: Stores of Family, Faith and Friendship
Read full article25 things to do on a home football weekend
BYLight a candle and say a prayer at the Grotto, and leave double the suggested offering “just to be sure.”
Read full articleI love the smell of barbecue in the morning
BYBarbecue at sunrise seemed to me perfectly appropriate after four years of football Saturdays in South Bend.
Read full articleOne shimmering Saturday
BYAnyone 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.
Read full articleThe tooth of the matter
BYThe total tonnage of my parental incompetence is staggering.
Read full articleAfter 9/11 are we any safer?
BYOn September 11, 2001 almost 3,000 people were killed in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Are we any safer in 2009?
Read full articleThe dust is off a priceless resource
BYThe 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.
Read full articleNieuwland’s own: Journal traces a century of scholarly evolution
BYFather 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.
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