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.