Graduate Schools

Accountancy Class Secretary — Kim Talianko; ktalianko@alumni.edu

 

Architecture

The ND School of Architecture announced the selection of Liam O’Connor, Kensington, UK, as the 2025 Richard H. Driehaus Prize Laureate, and Philippe Rotthier, Island of Ibiza (Spain), Polynesia and Brussels (Belgium) who won the Henry Hope Reed Award. The $200,000 Driehaus Prize, the largest cash award in architecture worldwide, is granted by the Chicago-based Driehaus Trust. The trust also provides the $50,000 Henry Hope Reed Award. The jury is selected and headed each year by the ND professor and dean of the School of Architecture, currently Stefanos Polyzoides. O’Connor received the prize “in recognition for the design of a body of excellent new traditional public and private buildings and monuments, his war memorials in particular.” His classical British Normandy Memorial overlooks Gold Beach, adjacent to one of the five D-Day Landing beaches during WWII. Rotthier won the Henry Hope Reed Award for “his lifelong initiatives and continued commitment to the cause of a new traditional architecture and urbanism.” Among his notable accomplishments is his relentless advocacy for architectural change that has enabled generations of significant architects capable of exploring alternative forms of architectural modernity, including O’Connor. Congratulations to Doug Marsh ’82, South Bend, on his 30 years as vice president for facilities design and operations and University architect. Doug is the first person to hold the title “University Architect,” which he obtained in 1999. He retired in May. During his stewardship, the campus’ 1,250-acre grounds had an era of record expansion and reinvestment. The physical space in campus buildings grew 55 percent — from 7.3 million to 11.3 million square feet — and 60 major buildings have opened. Congratulations also to Kate Chambers ’18MArch for winning the New York City-based Institute for Classical Architecture & Art’s top prize for “emerging professionals whose work exhibits a holistic understanding of the principles of classical design.” Kate is a senior project architect at Tippett Sease Baker Architecture, Montgomery AL. Margaret Derwent Ketcham ’85, Chicago, won the 2024 Raphael Award for “On-Site Line Drawing” of the Prince Edward Memorial, Vancouver, presented by Traditional Building magazine. The award is named for Italian Renaissance painter and draftsman Raffaello Sanzo da Urbino (1483-1520), and is one of the many magazine’s award categories that seek to encourage the study of Classical and Neoclassical architecture through the practice of hand drawing and to recognize “the best in traditional drawing and painting.” Michael J. Molinelli, AIA, ’82, Briarcliff Manor NY, keeps busy with his own award-winning firm that specializes in educational buildings for elementary up to universities, health care, and religious buildings while also serving as Pace U Architect and part-time adjunct professor at the Catholic U of America, Washington DC. He is the host and creator of the Architecture Codex video blog that discusses great works of architecture through the eyes of a practicing architect. He is also a part-time freelance guest lecturer and architecture history instructor in the Greater NY City area. — Orlando T. Maione, FAIA Emeritus, FACHA Emeritus; 27 Bucknell Lane, Stony Brook NY 11790-2521; 631-246-5660; cell 516-578-5320; omaione@optonline.net

 

Biological Sciences

Parasitologists and virologists among alumni of the department will be very familiar with Dickson D. “Dick” Despommier ’67Ph.D., professor emeritus at Columbia U, who died Feb. 7 at age 84. The New York Times honored Dick with a generous number of column inches in an obituary Feb. 18 which included a photo of Dick amongst his vegetable plants in a vertical (high rise) farm. (See his book The Vertical Farm.) Another, online Times report about Dick’s life shows him posing in a New York subway (reprints are available from the NY Times). Dick spent his career studying Trichinella spiralis and long considered that his development of a serologic test for the parasite in swine to be his most impactful scientific contribution. The test led to the eradication of the parasite from domestic swine herds resulting in increased consumption of pork since it no longer required it to be cooked well-done. Wendell Murphy, founder of Murphy Farms, one of the largest pork producers in the USA, recently told your correspondents that the elimination of trichinosis in swine had a profoundly positive impact on the industry since people were no longer afraid of getting trichinosis. Virologists, on the other hand, will recognize Dick as the founder, along with fellow Columbia U Prof. Vincent Racaniello, of “This Week in Virology” (see TWiV #1195 for a memorial to Dick titled “Parasitologist Without Borders”). Until the time of his death, Dick was actively engaged in research and being the “straight” man on TWiV as the non-virologist posing questions the uninitiated might ask. As a teacher Dick was exceptional, being named Teacher of the Year six times, and in 2003 he earned that title nationally. Beyond science, Dick always had a smile and tale to tell. He was an active fly fisherman, mostly of trout, in the Catskill and Adirondack mountains of NY (and perhaps the only grad student to catch trout in Juday Creek north of the ND campus). He often contributed articles to fly fishing magazines (this once went too far when he disclosed to the readership a close friend’s “secret” fishing spot on NY’s Ausable River). In addition to Dick being a close friend of your correspondents, Robert “Bob” Gwadz ’62, ’70Ph.D. was also a longtime friend since first meeting as grad students at ND. Bob recounts that Dick was a student of the late ND Prof. Bernard “Bob” Wostmann. Gwadz and Despommier became good friends after graduation with Bob contributing several chapters to the many editions of the textbook Parasitic Diseases, which they coauthored with two others. For 20 years, Bob was a guest lecturer in Dick’s microbiology course for second-year students at Columbia U College of Physicians and Surgeons. Please see the next issue of this report for a list of the department MS and Ph.D. graduates of 2024 - 2025. — Joan Smith Carter ’71MS and Philip B. Carter ’67, ’71Ph.D.; 12916 Barsanlaw Drive, Raleigh NC 27613-6400; res 919-848-2192; phil@ncsu.edu

 

History Class Secretary — Mary Linehan ’91Ph.D.; maryline113@yahoo.com

 

Mathematics Class Secretary — Tori Spalding;
574-631-6008; tspaldin@nd.edu

 

Master of Nonprofit Administration

Greetings to all MNA, EMNA and MSA alumni. A huge congratulations to Michael T. Benson ’11, the new president of West Virginia U. He will bring three decades of academic and administrative experience in higher education to his role leading WV’s flagship, land-grant higher education institution into a new era. He will begin his appointment as WVU’s 27th president in July and shared, “I am honored to be named president of West Virginia U — one of our nation’s oldest land-grant institutions. My 30-year career in public higher education has prepared me for this singular opportunity, and I wish to thank the Board of Governors for the trust they have placed in me and hope to earn that same level of trust and support from the entire WVU community.” Wishing him much success in this exciting new chapter. All MNA, MSA and EMNA alumni are encouraged to submit your news for upcoming Class Notes. You may email me directly at the address below. — Betsy Quinn ’12; betsyquinn@alumni.nd.edu

 

Master of Science in Management

Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a great summer. Please join me in congratulating Emily McNally ’17MSM on her graduation this past May from IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. She is now working as a deputy prosecuting attorney in Morgan County IN, focusing on domestic violence crimes. Emily and her husband Andrew ’17MSEng live in Greenwood IN with their three daughters Selah (5), Mary Ann (3) and Eden (6 months). — Maddie Corsaro ’17; mcorsar1@alumni.nd.edu

 

Political Science Class Secretary — Charlie Kenney; 455 W. Lindsey, Room 205, Norman OK 73019;
405-325-3735; ckenney@ou.edu

 

Graduate Degrees

A new star is on the horizon at Notre Dame. Servant of God Brother Columba O’Neill, CSC, 1848-1923, lived a humble life as a cobbler working at the rear of the Dome. He began his life at Notre Dame in 1885 and remained there until his death 38 years later. He pledged himself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Cures were attributed to the humble cobbler and his small shop was filled with crutches and braces of the lame. He died peacefully on Nov. 23, 1923. His cause for canonization opened in 2022. — Marvin J. LaHood ’58MA, ’62Ph.D. English; 93 Parkhaven Drive, Amherst NY 14228; 716-691-4648; mlahood@roadrunner.com