Faculty and staff are required to have a red Notre Dame bicycle decal on bicycles on campus by Wednesday, May 21. Blue decals are no longer valid. Bicycles left on campus without a summer tag (for students) or red decal (for faculty and staff) may be impounded as abandoned property and donated to charity if not claimed.

To obtain a red bicycle decal:

1. Take your bicycle and your Notre Dame identification card to the Notre Dame Security Police offices in Hammes Mowbray Hall. The offices are open 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

1. Email Tracy Skibins and type BIKE DECAL in the subject line to schedule a member of the NDSP staff to come to your location. Your bicycle must be on campus at the time of the appointment.

1. If your bicycle is currently registered with a blue decal, send an e-mail with BIKE DECAL in the subject line. Provide the ND registration number, your campus address and the license number on the blue decal currently affixed to your bicycle. NDSP will re-register your bicycle and mail you a new red decal to affix to your bicycle. If you choose this option, contact NDSP before May 21.

Contact Alan Foust or Tracy Skibins for more information.

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Accessing Holy Cross Drive How to access Holy Cross drive during construction

Accessing the post office How to access the post office and police department during construction.

Logistics overview for May 19 – August 3 An overview of traffic and pedestrian flow during construction.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Hedwig Church, 331 S. Scott St., South Bend, IN 46601.

Visitation will be held Friday, Mar. 28 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Kaniewski Funeral Home, 3545 N. Bendix Dr., South Bend, IN. A Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday in St. Adalbert Catholic Church, with burial to follow at St. Joseph Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Adalbert Catholic Church.

A team from the will be on campus Monday, Mar. 31, through Wednesday, Apr. 2, as part of the University accreditation process that takes places every 10 years. Please welcome the HLC team to campus — and mark your calendars to attend one of the open sessions they will be hosting to get direct feedback from members of the ND community. The open sessions will be on Tuesday, Apr. 1, in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium (C100) as follows:

2 to 3 p.m. – Faculty
3 to 4 p.m. – Staff
4 to 5 p.m. – Department Chairs, Institute, and Center Directors
5 to 6 p.m. – Students

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice House of Elkhart.

University of Notre Dame President John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., accompanied by members of his leadership team and the Board of Trustees, exchanged messages of support with Pope Francis on Thursday, Jan. 30 during a private audience in the Apostolic Palace.

In the hour-long meeting, Pope Francis displayed flashes of his trademark humor and humility, and he also spoke seriously about the importance of defending Catholic identity and religious liberty. Read more

University president, Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C., walks with Notre Dame students during the 2014 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

More than 600 University of Notre Dame students, faculty, staff and alumni were among the participants in the march, which this year observes the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.

Before the march, Father Jenkins presided at a Mass for the Notre Dame marchers at 10 a.m. in St. Agnes Church in Arlington, Va.

Simultaneous with the beginning of the Washington march and in solidarity with the marchers, the Notre Dame Alumni Association sponsored a “Sanctity of Life” prayer service on campus at 1 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 22) in the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Confetti rained down, the Notre Dame fight song “Victory March” blasted over the loudspeakers and everyone on the Fighting Irish’s soccer team ran to one side of the field to celebrate.

For the first time in the school’s proud athletic history, Notre Dame was on top of the men’s college soccer world.

Led by goals from Andrew O’Malley and Leon Brown, and another big game from College Cup co-Most Outstanding Player Harrison Shipp, Notre Dame won its first men’s soccer title with a 2-1 victory over Maryland on Sunday at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. The Fighting Irish finished the season 17-1-6.

This and other photos are available at .

, Hackett Family Director of the and professor of political science, was awarded the $100,000 William E. Simon Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Social Entrepreneurship by the Manhattan Institute for founding and leading the (ACE).

Father received the award during ceremonies Nov. 5 (Tuesday) in New York. The monetary prize was given to the to support its worldwide education mission.

ACE, founded by Father Scully in 1993, is a component of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives. The program trains hundreds of Catholic school teachers and leaders annually to serve predominantly under-resourced schools, provides an array of research-based professional services and builds broad networks of support for schools in more than 75 dioceses across the United States. ACE’s long-term goal is to help transform the Catholic school system to ensure every child has the chance to enjoy the lifelong benefits of attaining a high-quality education.

To mark ACE’s 20 years of service, Notre Dame has launched the Fighting for Our Children’s Future National Bus Tour, a cross-country effort to raise awareness of the profound impact that K-12 schools have on the future of the nation’s children and to celebrate the unique role that Catholic schools play as agents of human formation and social transformation.

Visiting nearly 50 cities during the 2013-14 academic year, the tour began earlier this month in Dallas and will continue through the Midwest and East Coast in the fall, and the South, Southwest and West Coast in the spring. The bus will be in New York when Father Scully receives the award.

Pictured is the back of the sculpture the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Golden Dome atop the Main Building in the Main Quad at dawn. The Main Building, with its famous Golden Dome, is a centerpiece of Notre Dame’s past and present. Today, it serves primarily as a headquarters for administration, although it still contains classrooms, harking back to a time when it was a crossroads where students learned, ate meals and resided. This structure is actually the third building to stand on the site. It was built in 1879, the same year in which the previous building was destroyed by fire.

The Golden Dome was added to this building in 1882 and was most recently regilded in 2005. The regilding process uses only about a fist-full of gold leaf to cover the entire structure. Atop the Dome, you will find a 19-foot-tall, 4,000-pound statue of Mary, the Mother of God, “Notre Dame” (“Our Lady”). With this beautiful adornment, the Main Building is 187 feet tall, making it the second tallest structure on campus after the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

The , adjacent to the , stands close to the Notre Dame Avenue entrance to campus. Both buildings opened in 1998 to serve as a first stop for visitors. The Eck Center houses a 150-seat auditorium and presents an introductory video about Notre Dame.

A wealth of other information is also offered, and the center is the launching point for regularly scheduled campus tours. It is also the headquarters for the .

This intimate lakeside worship space is used regularly for Masses, but it serves also as a reminder of Notre Dame’s earliest days. The current Log Chapel is a replica of the one built by Rev. Stephen Badin in 1831 as a missionary headquarters for northern Indiana. The original was destroyed by fire.

But the original chapel was standing when Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., and the band of brothers who joined him as missionaries from France to Indiana arrived at the site where Father Sorin established the University of Notre Dame. A Founders’ Memorial is near the front of the Log Chapel and is dedicated to Father Sorin and the seven Holy Cross brothers who stood with him in 1842.

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Have you been to the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes lately? Thankfully for all of us, Notre Dame Photography has. University Photographer Barbara Johnston combined a series of bracketed images for a stunning view of the Grotto.

at the making of the image.

University photographer Matt Cashore was in the right place at the right time to catch this photo on campus on Friday, May 31.

Reunion weekend 2013 was threatened with stormy weather to the west of campus. Luckily, the worst of it stayed away, but it got just close enough to make some very photo-friendly conditions on that Friday night. First, campus was treated to a rainbow which conveniently ended right over the Main Building. This was followed by a rare lightning display.

More than $43,000 was raised at the ninth annual Old 2 Gold campus year-end yard sale held Saturday, June 15, in Notre Dame Stadium.

More than 2,200 people attended the annual sale of bikes, clothes, furniture and other items donated by Notre Dame students.

Proceeds were divided among 28 local charities and other nonprofit groups that provided volunteers to work the sale.

University President Emeritus Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., enjoyed a reception at the U.S. Capitol in honor of his 96th birthday. Following a 20-minute visit in the White House with President Barack Obama, Father Hesburgh received well wishes from Vice President Joe Biden, top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi and many others.

Pelosi co-hosted Father Hesburgh with Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who was expected but could not attend the 3 p.m. gathering. Both members of Indiana’s split-party U.S. Senate delegation, Dan Coats and Joe Donnelly, offered appreciative reflections. In all, it was a genuinely bipartisan affair that brought politicians and staffers from “both sides of the Capitol, both sides of the aisle and all sides of Pennsylvania Avenue,” Pelosi said.

President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. delivers the homily at the 2013 Reunion Mass held Thursday, May 30 to Sunday, June 2.

Nearly 4,000 alumni and friends enjoyed the beautiful weather while attending class dinners and celebrations, a Bookstore Basketball Tournament and many seminars, tours and programs.

Commencement principal speaker Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, accepts an honorary doctor of laws degree from Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. at the 2013 Commencement ceremony in Notre Dame Stadium.

Dolan urged graduates to consider their experiences in a fuller light: “Here our goal is not just a career, but a call; not just a degree, but discipleship; not just what we’ve gotten, but what we’re giving; not just the now, but eternity; not just the ‘I,’ but the ‘we’; not just the grades, but the gospel."