Editor’s Note: How it worked
by David Shribman
Ed Utterback’s work is a vocation, one of constant devotion, even for an 81-year-old who has handed most of the farming to a son and shared his space and chores with a drug-rehab program.
by Jonathan Malesic
The nature of work has changed over the years, leaving many of us far removed from its purpose and uncertain of its value.
by Brett Beasley
Patrick Regan is an international expert on the causes and prevention of civil wars and the politics of climate change. His work has been cited in more than 7,000 academic articles. But he left all that to start a solar energy company that employs former convicts.
by George Spencer
As climate change dramatically alters the Far North, Geoff York ’90 has spent decades trying to ensure the survival of the great white bear whose world is melting away.
by Betsy Cornwell ’12MFA
Or: How a writer creates a haven for women to mend their lives at the Old Knitting Factory along a Connemara lake in Ireland
by John Rosengren
A veterinarian treks across America’s final frontier to tend the huskies who mush 1,000 miles across Alaska in the grueling Iditarod.
by Erin Fennessy ’22
Brittany Margritz ’19 has gone to Eswatini to build bridges for people who need to cross divides to better living.
by Patrick Griffin ’87
‘If the boxing ring is an altar,’ Joyce Carol Oates once wrote, ‘it is not an altar of sacrifice solely but one of consecration and redemption.’
by Joanne Norell
Fifty marathons in 50 countries by age 50? Almost.
by Jason Kelly ’95
Embedded in pastoral African communities for decades, J. Terrence McCabe ’70 documents the resourcefulness and resilience needed to survive a harsh climate and violent conflict — and encounters struggles common to all people.
by Rev. Joseph V. Corpora, CSC, ’77, ’83M.Div.
‘All I do know is that it was very real. And I believe Dad was going between life and death, tha the veil that separates life from death was being lifted.’
by Robert Schmuhl ’70
The president who drew his identity from a legendary figure in Notre Dame lore and used the myth to create a life story
by David McGrath
by Rachel O’Grady ’18
by Grace McDermott ’21
by Rachel Plassmeyer Bené ’10
by Erin Buckley ’08
by Tess Gunty ’15
by Gretel Kauffman ’16
by David Korzeniowski ’20
by Reggie Henke ’12