'Near perfection' — The 1936 Notre Dame championship basketball team

The 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.

Average Joe styles world-class bread

Joe Bellavance ’89 knows how to get people to stop at his trade show booth. He fires up an oven he’s schlepped there from home and bakes his signature artisan bread.

This is the man who will fix South Bend

David 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.

Another tour of duty

In the years since the collapse of the World Trade Center’s twin towers, hundreds of thousands of American youths have signed up for military service to sacrifice life and limb for the welfare of their fellow Americans. Dr. Kenneth Graf has spent much of that time trying to keep them from having to.

Hey, look, it’s that guy you’ve seen in lots of movies and TV shows

Richard Riehle ’70 has been known as many things in his career: character actor, theater standout and, more than anything, as the “jump to conclusions” guy from the movie Office Space (1999).

A World that Works for Everyone

A Mendoza professor is a leader in a global movement to save the planet and ourselves by sharing what we all have in common.

ND Folk Choir releases first live CD

The live album, From Gethsemani to Galway, charts the 30-year journey of the Folk Choir.

'Near perfection' — The 1936 Notre Dame championship basketball team

The 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.

Legendary Hockey Coach Charles “Lefty” Smith dies

Charles 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.

Havana notebook

Some side notes from associate editor John Nagy’s trip to Havana.

ND Folk Choir releases first live CD

The live album, From Gethsemani to Galway, charts the 30-year journey of the Folk Choir.

Flights of Fancy

In a world where the supernatural is threatened with extinction, the sacred may survive in the lands of fairies, fantasy and fable.

Reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic? Try tobacco, piraters and lumberjacks

Women & Spirit tells lovingly documented stories about faith-filled women who sacrificed family ties and material comfort to serve and lead and help shape our nation into something ennobling and entirely new.

And so then I say

I grew up in the house and the town in which my dad grew up, which meant my family hosted dozens of visits from his six siblings through the years. Whenever aunts and uncles came, they always made a trip to the cemetery to visit the family graves.

Women & Spirit

Women & Spirit is organized by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents 95 percent of Catholic sisters in the United States.

A World that Works for Everyone

A Mendoza professor is a leader in a global movement to save the planet and ourselves by sharing what we all have in common.

Gotta Have It Now, Right Now

We used to work hard to earn the American dream. Today our desires aren’t so patient. We’re driven by an appetite for instant gratification.

My Fair Share

There’s a great and growing divide in America between the rich and the poor, and it’s threatening our economic health and tearing the national fabric.

About the Commons

The 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.

Images of Us

Notre 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.

Water, water everywhere, but not enough to drink

As climate change accelerates, worldwide fresh water supplies are predicted to become increasingly stressed. However, with all that sea sloshing around, there should be enough for everybody, right? Just remove the salt. Problem solved. Well, not quite.

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Wired for Rewards

The maxim, “With age comes wisdom,” may in fact have a neurological basis.

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12th century wisdom for the 21st

She may have lived in the 12th century, but the German mystic Hildegard of Bingen speaks to the 21st, says Margot Fassler, Notre Dame’s Keough-Hesburgh professor of music history and liturgy.

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How is the brain wired?

How the brain works remains largely a mystery. But physicists at Notre Dame’s Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA), working with neuroscientists in France, have recently shed some new light on the process.

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The Damage Done

It may have seemed that time heals the brain after severe blows to the head, but the evidence shows a cumulative effect may cause long-term suffering.

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How could they?

It started as a tour of Civil War sites, but the end result was much deeper.

Gotta Have It Now, Right Now

We used to work hard to earn the American dream. Today our desires aren’t so patient. We’re driven by an appetite for instant gratification.

Come on, baby, end my wait

As we inch closer to the due date, I try to wrap my mind around this baby situation. It’s just the two of us for now, and while our lives are on the verge of big changes, Hattie feels at peace.

Average Joe styles world-class bread

Joe Bellavance ’89 knows how to get people to stop at his trade show booth. He fires up an oven he’s schlepped there from home and bakes his signature artisan bread.

If I can’t remember who I am ...

I forget things more and more these days, a tendency I attribute to growing older. To be honest, at 51, I’m not sure which makes me more anxious: my thinning hair or my lethargic synapses.