Notre Dame News | Notre Dame News | News

Glee Club to present Christmas concert Saturday

2001-12-04T19:00:00-05:00

The University of Notre Dame Glee Club will present its annual Christmas concert Saturday (Dec. 8) at 6 and 8:30 p.m. in the Stepan Center on campus. The concert corresponds with the release of “In Dulci Jubilo,” a new album of Christmas selections recorded by the Glee Club at Notre Dame’s Moreau Seminary Chapel.p.

TopicID: 2282

Philosopher to present Hesburgh Lecture in Syracuse

2001-11-27T19:00:00-05:00

David K. O’Connor, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, will present a lecture titled “Catholics in the New Millennium: How Are We Changing?” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 5) at P.J. Dorsey’s restaurant in Syracuse, N.Y.p.

TopicID: 2244

Antigone to be presented this week at Washington Hall

2001-11-26T19:00:00-05:00

The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) will present Sophocles’ “Antigone” Wednesday-Saturday (Nov. 28-Dec. 1) at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday (Dec. 2) at 2:30 p.m. at Washington Hall on campus.p.

TopicID: 2242

Jack Welch to speak on campus Dec. 4

2001-11-18T19:00:00-05:00

Seating in Jordan Auditorium is limited and people interested in attending the lecture are encouraged to arrive early. p. Jack Welch, one of America’s most respected business leaders and the recently retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer of General Electric (GE) Company, will speak at the University of Notre Dame at 5 p.m. Dec. 4 (Tuesday) in Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business.p.

TopicID: 2234

Department of Music to present three concerts on campus

2001-11-11T19:00:00-05:00

The University of Notre Dame Department of Music will present three concerts this week on campus:p.

TopicID: 2226

Weeklong series to focus on peace and war

2001-11-08T19:00:00-05:00

The University of Notre Dame will sponsor “A Week of Peace and War Education” Sunday-Friday (Nov. 11-16), featuring panel discussions, lectures and films to educate the Notre Dame community about the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and the crisis confronting the country.p.

TopicID: 2263

Two events planned for Native American Week

2001-11-07T19:00:00-05:00

The Native American Student Association and Multicultural Student Programs and Services at the University of Notre Dame will sponsor two events next week on campus in honor of Native American Week.p.

TopicID: 2261

Student's design under consideration for Alabama state quarter

2001-11-06T19:00:00-05:00

Amy Peterson, a University of Notre Dame freshman from Birmingham, Ala., could soon be right on the money—or at least have her representation of symbols from her home state selected to appear on a new U.S. quarter.p.

TopicID: 2256

Performance artist to present two shows

2001-11-05T19:00:00-05:00

Award-winning bilingual performance artist, actor and storyteller Antonio Sacre will present two shows this week at the University of Notre Dame.p.

TopicID: 2252

2 Professors receive Foik Award form Texas Catholic Historical Society

2001-11-01T19:00:00-05:00

Timothy Matovina and Gerald E. Poyo, faculty at the University of Notre Dame, have received the Paul J. Foik, C.S.C., Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society for the best book in 2000 dealing with Catholic history in the Southwest.p. “¡Presente!U.S. Latino Catholics from Colonial Origins to the Present,” which was coauthored by Matovina, associate professor of theology, and Poyo, visiting associate professor of history, is the first compilation of primary documents to address the topic of U.S. Hispanic Catholicism. It is part of a multivolume series titled “American Catholic Identities: A Documentary History,” and chronicles U.S. Latino Catholicism from 1534 to the present, exploring the similarities and differences among Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans and other groups from South and Central America as they adapt to life in the United States.p.

TopicID: 2248

Glee Club to present fall concert Nov. 1-2

2001-10-29T19:00:00-05:00

The University of Notre Dame Glee Club will present its annual fall concert Thursday and Friday (Nov. 1 and 2) at 8 p.m. in Washington Hall on campus.p.

TopicID: 2199

Panel to discuss causes and consequences of Sept. 11 attacks

2001-10-21T20:00:00-04:00

A panel discussion titled “The Economic Causes and Consequences of the September 11 Attacks” will be held Nov. 1 (Thursday) at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International 91��Ƶ at the University of Notre Dame.p.

TopicID: 2187

Theologian to serve as omsbudsperson for discriminatory harassment

2001-10-16T20:00:00-04:00

Maxwell Johnson, associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed ombudsperson for discriminatory harassment complaints at the University.p.

TopicID: 2171

Rev. Eugene Rivers to speak on campus

2001-10-11T20:00:00-04:00

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III, cochairman of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, will present a lecture titled “The Responsibility of Christian Intellectuals in Periods of Political Crisis” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 16) in Washington Hall at the University of Notre Dame.p.

TopicID: 2168

Collection of essays analyzes 12th century Jewish and Christian relations

2001-10-09T20:00:00-04:00

A new book coedited by two University of Notre Dame faculty members examines the relationship between Jews and Christians in medieval Europe.p.

TopicID: 2161

Writer David Matlin to give presentation Oct. 9

2001-10-07T20:00:00-04:00

Novelist, poet and essayist David Matlin will give a presentation Tuesday (Oct. 9) at 4 p.m. in the Recker’s Hospitality Room at the University of Notre Dame.p.

TopicID: 2220

Library auditorium named in honor of '46 alum

2001-10-03T20:00:00-04:00

The auditorium in the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Library has been named in honor of the late William J. Carey, a 1946 graduate of the University whose $16-million estate gift is the largest of its kind ever made to Notre Dame.p.

TopicID: 2210

Bender to deliver Hesburgh lecture in Idaho

2001-10-03T20:00:00-04:00

Harvey Bender, professor of biological sciences and director of the Human Genetics Program at the University of Notre Dame, will present a lecture titled “The New Medicine: Genes for Sale” at 7 p.m. October 22 (Monday) at the Boise State University Special Events Center in Boise, Idaho. The lecture is free and open to the public and a reception will follow.A long-time professor of genetics and a practicing geneticist, Bender has been a member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1960. His present research involves human developmental genetics and the epidemiology of human genetic disease.Bender served as a U.S. Public Health Research Fellow in genetics at the University of California, Berkeley, and held postdoctoral positions as a Gosney Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and as a visiting professor at the Yale University 91��Ƶs of Medicine and Law.A graduate of Case Western Reserve University, Bender earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University. He was elected a Carnegie Scholar this year and is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics and a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.Sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of Idaho in cooperation with the Boise State Catholic students organization, Bender’s lecture is a presentation of the Notre Dame Alumni Association’s Hesburgh Alumni Lecture Series. Offered each year through Notre Dame’s network of more than 200 alumni clubs, the Hesburgh Lectures are delivered by Notre Dame faculty members nominated by their colleagues and the deans of the University’s colleges and law school. The series is named for Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of Notre Dame.p.

TopicID: 2211

Miami Wind Quartet to perform on campus Oct. 9

2001-10-02T20:00:00-04:00

p.
The Miami Wind Quintet, one of North America’s leading performing groups and a faculty ensemble-in-residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, will perform Tuesday (Oct. 9) at 7:30pm in the Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. The concert is free and open to the public.
p. Featuring guest pianist Andrea Trovato, the ensemble will perform works by Mozart, Poulenc, Luigi Dallapiccola and Bohuslav Martinu.
p. Each member of the ensemble performs regularly as a soloist, and as a group the quintet has traveled to Taiwan, Canada, Luxembourg, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic.
p. In August, the group was a featured ensemble at the Stratford-Upon-Avon Music Festival in England, and in May, the quintet performed and led master classes at the Hochschule fur Musik in Saarbrucken, Germany. The quintet has four recordings to its credit, including three joint efforts with the Prague Wind Quintet on the Mastersound label.

TopicID: 2207

1982 alum Rev. Mike Sis to celebrate Mass Saturday in College Station

2001-09-27T20:00:00-04:00

Rev. Mike Sis, a 1982 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic chaplain at Texas AUniversity, will celebrate Mass tomorrow (Sept. 29) 30 minutes after the Notre Dame-Texas Afootball game in College Station, Texas.p.

TopicID: 2633