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This is the man who will fix South Bend
BYDavid Matthews isn’t your typical builder. He broke ground on his first confirmed real estate success, the innovative Ivy Quad development that rises near the Notre Dame campus, the the year the housing bubble popped, when he was 26.
Read full articleA trip to the archives?
BYDrilling for oil and doing archival research share similarities. Both pursuits involve targeting a location, probing the territory for what you’re hoping to find, and either making a strike or moving on to another place to drill.
Read full articleA World that Works for Everyone
BYA Mendoza professor is a leader in a global movement to save the planet and ourselves by sharing what we all have in common.
Read full articleND Folk Choir releases first live CD
BYThe live album, From Gethsemani to Galway, charts the 30-year journey of the Folk Choir.
Read full article'Near perfection' — The 1936 Notre Dame championship basketball team
BYThe hardcourt wizardry of forward Tim Abromaitis and guard Ben Hansbrough on the men’s squad and superstar guard Skylar Diggins on the women’s team stoked national championship chatter among Irish basketball fans a year ago, but many remain unaware that such excitement had occurred before.
Read full articleLegendary Hockey Coach Charles “Lefty” Smith dies
BYCharles W. “Lefty” Smith Jr., the patriarch of University of Notre Dame ice hockey died Jan. 3, 2012, of natural causes in his South Bend, Ind., home.
Read full articleHavana notebook
BYSome side notes from associate editor John Nagy’s trip to Havana.
Read full articleThe Rome of the Americas
BYWinds of change are stirring in Cuba, and Notre Dame’s School of Architecture is exploring opportunities to help the city of Havana frame its future while preserving the rich and classic beauty of its past.
Read full articleThe world we live in
BYI spoke the other night to a group of ND students about writing. The Career Center had gotten us together to talk about careers in publishing.
Read full articleAnything But Clear
BYSexual assault is a crime few people want to talk about. It’s a tough topic — personally invasive and legally loaded, intricately complicated and sensitive. It’s national in scope and particularly problematic on college campuses.
Read full articleFamily hug
BYTwice that weekend, both on my flight to San Diego on Thursday and my return flight to campus that Sunday, I felt like I was going home.
Read full articleAbout the Commons
BYThe commons is actually a simple notion, but advocates say it has huge ramifications for how we lead our lives, maintain our communities and organize our society in the years to come.
Read full articleImages of Us
BYNotre Dame hosts the American debut of an international exhibit whose lens focuses on pockets of poverty, violence and oppression around the world — and reminds us that we’re affected too.
Read full articleThe House Rock Built
BYWelcome to “Stuffing the Passer,” the puppet show put on by the blog The House Rock Built that provides Notre Dame fans a funhouse mirror through which to view their team.
Read full articleSites to behold
BYNotre Dame football expanded into the digital world along with the Internet and blogging explosion over the past decade. Here are some sites for the Notre Dame and college football fan.
Read full articleShould we talk about the weather?
BYDramatic shots of the skies above South Bend called attention to campus at least twice last year.
Read full articleGovernor, meet students
BYOn November 15, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels stayed overnight in Alumni Hall, a men’s dorm and self-proclaimed “Center of the Universe.” He might have learned as much from the men of Alumni as they did from him.
Read full article‘Suite’ at 55
BYDaniel Madoff stands in a rigid pose on the Decio Mainstage Theatre stage as the spotlight rises. The dancer contorts his body in a series of complex phrases that have become synonymous with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Read full articleMr Borges
BYThis soft and redolent Indiana evening, I walked into Washington Hall, a rickety lovely castle, which that evening was to host a writer from Argentina named Jorge Luis Borges.
Read full articleHank Aaron still chasing the dream
BYFor Hank Aaron, who spoke at Notre Dame on Dec. 7, it was never about the records. It was about playing and working to his full potential — and helping others do the same.
Read full articleAn Epilogue for Neil
BYA decade has passed since 9/11 and friends still gather in his memory, laughing at the stories that keep him and his playful soul alive — and celebrate his quest for the “arduous good.”
Read full articlePioneers on the Peace Corps frontier
BYAccompanying a priest like an altar boy, Tom Scanlon headed up a mountain made dangerous by man and nature. The Peace Corps volunteer had graduated from Notre Dame in 1960, just two years earlier, and was now on a Chilean mountainside avoided by police and government officials.
Read full articleWomen’s soccer at the summit
BYWhen the women’s soccer team won its third national championship in 2010, it established itself in the pantheon of Notre Dame athletics.
Read full articleLet me tell you . . .
BYI believe in the healing of story. I think it’s good for people to talk it out. There is something clarifying, curative, restorative in the telling; some would call it “therapeutic.”
Read full articleThe Excellently Extraordinary, Iconic Emil T.
BYFew people in Notre Dame’s history have had such an impact on the place and its students. So why the T-shirts, “Deliver Us from Emil”? It might be those weekly quizzes.
Read full articleIf you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em
BYNotre Dame graduate students Matt Barnes, Andy Deines and Sheina Sim are not your average chefs — really they’re not chefs at all — but they are convinced their studies of invasive species can help you put together both an eco-friendly and appetizing menu for your next tailgate.
Read full articleLetter from Campus: Go Irish
BYI don’t know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the way — as with almost all Domers — “Go Irish” became my standard closing.
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