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O'Rourke to deliver lecture in San Diego

2002-07-28T20:00:00-04:00

James S. O’Rourke IV, associate professor of management and director of the Fanning Center for Business Communication at the University of Notre Dame, will present a lecture titled “Persuasion: Your Competitive Edge in the New Economy” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 15 (Thursday) at SeaWorld in San Diego.p.

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Electrical engineering professor awarded grant

2002-07-24T20:00:00-04:00

Martin Haenggi, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) for the 2002-03 academic year.p.

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Lisa Sedor, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

2002-07-11T20:00:00-04:00

Lisa Sedor, assistant professor of accountancy at the University of Notre Dame, has received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Accounting, Behavior, and Organizations Section of the American Accounting Association.p.

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Dean to deliver Hesburgh Lecture in Wichita

2002-07-11T20:00:00-04:00

Mark W. Roche, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, will present a lecture titled “The Intellectual Appeal of Catholicism and the Idea of a Catholic University” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1 (Thursday) at Newman University in Wichita, Kan.p.

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Notre Dame political scientists publish new book

2002-07-07T20:00:00-04:00

Two political scientists from the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace 91��Ƶ have collaborated to examine the dynamic context and significance of sanctions and the security difficulties currently faced by the UN Security Council in a new book titled “Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action.”p.

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Law school graduate appointed to U.S. Supreme Court clerkship

2002-07-07T20:00:00-04:00

Leon F. DeJulius Jr., a 2002 graduate of the Notre Dame Law 91��Ƶ from Davenport, Iowa, has been appointed to a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship for the 2003-04 term. He is the sixth Notre Dame graduate in recent years to be selected for what is considered the most prestigious position a recent law school graduate can attain.p. DeJulius is serving as a law clerk for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit until late 2003, when he will begin his clerkship for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.p. A 1997 graduate of Saint Louis University with a degree in finance, DeJulius received the Law 91��Ƶ’s Dean Joseph A. O’Meara Award for his academic achievement. He also served as editor-in-chief for the Notre Dame Law Review, and as executive editor of the National Symposium Editorial Board for the Harvard Journal of Law&Public Policy.p. Richard Garnett and Nicole Stelle Garnett, assistant professors of law, coordinate the clerkship program for Notre Dame Law 91��Ƶ graduates. Both are former Supreme Court clerks themselves, for Rehnquist in 1997-98 and for Justice Clarence Thomas in 1998-99, respectively.p. Four other Notre Dame Law 91��Ƶ faculty members also have served as Supreme Court clerks: Professor Walter Pratt, for retired Chief Justice Warren Burger; Associate Professor William Kelley, for Burger and Justice Antonin Scalia; and Assistant Professors A.J. Bellia and Tricia Bellia, for Scalia and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, respectively.p. Each of the nine Supreme Court justices appoints four clerks every term, except Rehnquist and Justice John Paul Stevens, who choose to hire just three.p. p.

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Physics professor named Outstanding Junior Investigator

2002-06-26T20:00:00-04:00

Michael D. Hildreth, assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, has been named an Outstanding Junior Investigator by the U.S. Department of Energy.p.

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Two faculty members receive fellowships

2002-06-26T20:00:00-04:00

The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation has awarded $20,000 fellowships to two University of Notre Dame faculty for the 2002-03 academic year for work in the arts.p.

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Accounting professor receives award for publication

2002-06-20T20:00:00-04:00

p. Kenneth W. Milani, professor of accountancy at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a certificate of merit in an annual competition sponsored by Strategic Finance Magazine for his manuscript, titled “Medical Practice Management: A Strategic Financial Information Approach to the Income Statement.”
p. Milani’s article appeared in the Summer 2001 edition of Management Accounting Quarterly, a publication of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
p. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1972, Milani is coordinator of the University’s annual Vivian Harrington Gray Tax Assistance Program, through which Notre Dame students voluntarily assist low-income taxpayers with preparation of their state and local returns. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Milani was awarded the Lybrand Silver Medal in 2001 for outstanding article of the year in Strategic Finance Magazine and has been a manuscript director for the IMA since 1998.
p. Milani will receive the award at a luncheon Monday (June 24) in San Diego.

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Government and international studies professor publishes new book

2002-06-20T20:00:00-04:00

p. Michael P. Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Government and International 91��Ƶ at the University of Notre Dame, examines the philosophical and religious thought of John Locke in a new book published this month by the University Press of Kansas.p. In “Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy,” Zuckert presents more than a dozen essays that explore Locke’s engagement with his philosophical and theological predecessors, his significant influence on later liberal thinkers, and his transformation of political understanding in the Anglo-American world.p. Zuckert is the author of “Natural Rights and the New Republicanism,” published by Princeton Press, and “The Natural Rights Republic,” published by Notre Dame Press and named an Outstanding Book for 1997 by Choice Magazine. He coauthored and coproduced the public radio series “Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson: A Nine Part Drama for the Radio” and is at work on a book titled “Completing the Constitution: The Post-Civil War Amendments.”p. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Zuckert teaches political philosophy, American constitutional law and theory, and American political thought. He previously has taught at Carleton College, Cornell University, Claremont Men’s College, Fordham University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan.

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Institute for Latino 91��Ƶ to kick off national AIDS prevention campaign

2002-06-19T20:00:00-04:00

The Institute for Latino 91��Ƶ at the University of Notre Dame is organizing the first event in a national poster campaign titled “Prevenir es Vivir,” designed to bring attention to the issue of HIV/AIDS prevention throughout the Latino community. The event will launch locally with a seminar to be held tomorrow (Friday) at 1 p.m at AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist located at 833 E. Northside Blvd. in South Bend.p.

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High school students invited to attend workshop

2002-06-06T20:00:00-04:00

High school-age students are invited to learn strategies for their personal success at a workshop titled “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers,” to be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 21 (Friday) in the Notre Dame Room of the LaFortune Student Center at the University of Notre Dame.p.

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Summer session enrollment to take place on June 17

2002-06-06T20:00:00-04:00

University of Notre Dame students will enroll for the summer session June 17 (Monday) from 9 a.m. to noon in the east wing of the South Dining Hall.p.

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Shakespearean scholar to lecture at Eck Center

2002-06-05T20:00:00-04:00

Paul A. Rathburn, professor emeritus of English and founder and artistic director of Summer Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, will present a lecture titled “The Tempest” at 7 p.m. June 20 (Thursday) at the Eck Center auditorium on the Notre Dame campus. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley, the event is free and open to the public and a reception will follow.p.

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