Arturo Vivante, author ofSolitude and Other Stories,has been awarded the 2006 Katherine Anne Porter Award by theAmericanAcademyof Arts and Letters.

Solitude and Other Storieswas published by Notre Dame Press in 2004, the same year Vivante was awarded the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction by the Universitys Creative Writing Program.The book includes 24 short stories representing the authors quest to uncover hidden truths.

Vivante was born inRomein 1923 and grew up inItaly,EnglandandCanada.A writer of poems, novels, essays and plays, Vivante has received numerous awards, including a Fulbright travel grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is perhaps best known for the many short stories he has had published in the New Yorker.

TheAmericanAcademyof Arts and LettersKatherine Anne Porter Award is a biennial award given to an outstanding writer of prose. It comes a prize of $20,000.The academys literary awards honor both established and emerging authors of fiction, nonfiction and poetry and will be presented May 17 inNew York City.

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Steven Cartwright, a University of Notre Dame junior fromPittsburgh, has been awarded the Richard J. Wood Student Community Commitment Award by Indiana Campus Compact.

Cartwright was honored for his record of service and determination to positively affect the Notre Dame andSouth Bendcommunities at the fifth annual Student and Faculty Service Learning Conference held atPurdueUniversity.He was nominated for the Wood Award by Notre Dames president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.

Cartwright has been involved in a variety of service activities in both his campus and local communities.Most notably, he is the founder and director of Lead-ND, a student initiative that provides leadership programs forSouth Bendyouths.Lead-ND volunteers currently are working with some 100 seventh- and eighth-graders in a yearlong service learning and leadership development program at threeSouth Bendschools.

The Wood Award is presented by Indiana Campus Compact, a consortium of 31Indianahigher education institutions.Nationally, Campus Compact is a coalition of more than 800 college and university presidents that encourages the expansion and support of educational programs involving students in volunteerism and social service.

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Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, the international organization that works with those in need to build simple and affordable housing, will speak at the University of Notre Dame at 8 p.m. April 29 (Saturday).

Fullers speech will take place outside on the South Quad near the Knute Rockne Memorial Building and is open to all Notre Dame students, faculty and staff.

The speech will be part of the Shack City event, during which Notre Dame students will spend the night on the quad in an effort to increase awareness of housing poverty and raise funds for Habitat for Humanity.

Fuller founded Habitat for Humanity with his wife, Linda, in 1976.Though Fuller had been a millionaire at age 29, he and his wife decided to sell all their possessions, give the money to the poor and seek a new direction.After successfully testing a model for housing in Africa, they returned to America to found Habitat. In its 30 years, the organization has given more than 1 million people safe, decent and affordable shelter.

Fuller was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and has received more than 50 honorary degrees.In 2005, he founded the Fuller Center for Housing to continue his quest to end housing poverty.He continues to speak worldwide to advocate decent and affordable housing for all.

Fullers speech and Shack City are sponsored by Notre Dames Habitat for Humanity campus chapter.

More information is available at .

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The University of Notre Dame will hold its second annual Eucharistic Procession on Divine MercySunday (April 23). The procession will set out from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart immediately following the11:45 a.m.Mass and is open to the entire Notre Dame-South Bend community.

The procession will make its way throughout the Notre Dame campus, stopping to celebrate Benediction at four altars constructed by various University clubs, residence halls and choirs, and will conclude at theMainBuilding. In the event of inclement weather, the procession will be held inside the Basilica.

Once a yearly event at the University, Eucharistic Processions fell out of practice more than 30 years ago, but inspired by Pope John Paul IIs declaration of October 2004 to October 2005 as theYear of the Eucharist,students, clubs and Campus Ministry staff restored the tradition last year.

For more information, visit on the Web and follow the Eucharistic Procession link.

• Contact: * _Rev. Kevin Russeau, C.S.C., 574-631-7295, Russeau.3@nd.edu
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Madeline Janis-Aparicio, co-founder and executive director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), will present two lectures on social justice and getting results through service on April 21 (Friday) at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored by Notre Dames Department of Economics and Policy 91ÊÓƵ, both presentations are free and open to the public.

The first lecture, titledSocial Justice through Public Service: How to Do It,will take place at 11 a.m. in Room 119 of OShaughnessy Hall.The second lecture,Getting Results: Strategies That Work to Overcome Urban Poverty,will take place at 2 p.m. in Room 129 of DeBartolo Hall.

Janis-Aparicio led the historic campaign to passLos Angelesliving-wage ordinance and is widely regarded as an innovator in the fight against working poverty.In 2002, she was appointed by former Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn as a volunteer commissioner to the board of the citys Community Redevelopment Agency, the countrys largest such agency, and was reappointed to the board last year by current Major Antonio Villaraigosa.Under her leadership, LAANE has spearheaded numerous campaigns to improve wages, benefits and working conditions inLos Angeles.

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William McGurn, chief speechwriter for the White House, will present a lecture titledFuture Government and Public Policyat 10:40 a.m. April 21 (Friday) in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

The lecture is part ofMendozasTen Years Hencelecture series and is free and open to the public.

A 1980 Notre Dame graduate, McGurn was appointed assistant to the president for speechwriting in March 2005.He previously served as speechwriter for News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch.

McGurn also has served as chief editorial writer and member of the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal.In addition to years of editorial and writing experience, he also is co-author of the bookIs the Market Moral? A Dialogue on Religion, Economics and Justice.

Established in 2005,Ten Years Hencewas created in response to the unprecedented challenges and opportunities present in the global society of the 21 ^st century.The lecture series offers expertsforecasts and analyses on topics such as bio-technology, water, oil and fundamentalism, and helps students develop a sense of theknowable futureby studying current positions, trends and causes related to major social, political, technological and economic issues.

For more information, visit theTen Years HenceWeb site at .

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Carolyn Y. Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean of the Mendoza College of Business and Ray and Milann Siegfried Chair in Entrepreneurial 91ÊÓƵ at the University of Notre Dame, will receive an honorary degree from Providence College in Providence, R.I., during its commencement exercises May 21 (Sunday).

A widely published scholar, Woo has served on editorial boards for numerous publications, including the Journal of Management andEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice.Her specific interests include strategic management entrepreneurship, technological innovation and organizational change.

Prior to being appointed dean of Notre Dames College of Business in 1997, Woo taught and served as associate executive vice president for academic affairs at Purdue University, where she received her bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees.
Woo currently serves on the boards of three Fortune 400 companies and on the board of Catholic Relief Services and has engaged in consulting for a number of corporations and organizations.

Mendoza College has more than 2,200 students engaged in undergraduate, graduate and executive studies and is recognized by U.S. News&World Report as one of the nations top 25 undergraduate business programs.

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These are three things you might not expect to find these days in the areas most affected by Hurricane Katrina.The storms damage remains ever-present and overwhelming, as witnessed by 11 University of Notre Dame architecture students and two of their professors on a trip toMississippiearlier this semester.

But as surreal and incomprehensible as sites in the region can be, residents and architects are seizing the opportunity for growth, safety and identity in rebuilding efforts.

Philip Bess, accompanied by faculty colleague Al DeFrees, brought his fourth-year design studio students toBiloxiand DIberville (Bil-UH-ksee and Dee-EYE-ber-vil, as pronounced by the townshospitable residents) to survey the damage and consider designs for specific sites as towns and cities begin to plan and rebuild.

In the years since World War II, a kind of sprawl had seriously eroded the regions architectural character and distinctive sense of place, Bess said.So as buildings and homes are newly designed and built, reclaiming this character is one of many factors being considered.

For the city, this is an opportunity to add to their history and renew these places, bringing back some of the life that may have been robbed by age, tourism, traffic and bad planning in the past,said architecture student Jennifer Block.

Our students are looking at six specific sites and each student is going to design, in some detail, a building that fits his or her site,said Bess, director of the graduate program in architecture at Notre Dame.The owners most likely will not contact the students or ask them to be architects for the actual construction,but the ideas shown, when developed in much greater detail, will give the property owners an idea of what can be done,Bess said.

The idea is to present visually well-developed design ideas that can help them make good decisions about how to rebuild,he added.

And Notre Dame architecture students are more aware and prepared for this type of project than most others in the country.According to Bess, knowledge of traditional architecture, as well as community and urban design sensibility, are imbedded in the Notre Dame curriculum.

The students are operating under traditional and new urbanist guidelines and recommendations that have emerged since Katrina hit.

A large group of architects and urban designers have already done a comprehensive plan for all of theMississippiGulfCoastcities and we are following that while taking it into greater detail,said design studio student Jeff Pollack.In particular, we are following new FEMA guidelines that include elevating buildings in order to avoid flood damage.

CoastalMississippireceived the brunt of the storm, still evident today, even months after the hurricane hit.The students witnessed a constant string of debris and bare building slabs on their drives to and fromGulfportAirport.

Even standing in the middle of blocks of destroyed buildings it is hard to imagine a city once stood tall here and even harder to imagine what the future holds,Block said.

It looks like a war zone.

Bess traveled toMississippiin December to do preliminary planning for the trip and was stunned by many things, including onebuildinghe just had to show his students.

It was six or seven stories, longer than the length of a football field, just enormous, but it wasnt a building at all,Bess said.It was a casino barge that had been lifted from its site in the water and deposited on the other side of the road.

And while the storm may have displaced buildings and people, the resilient residents ofMississippiremain hopeful.Though occasionally hard to see, changes are taking place, businesses are opening back up, and Mississippians are spirited and enthusiastic about the future, as are the Notre Dame students about their project and the work still to be done by architects.

I think we all felt blessed to be there,Block said,to see what has happened and to see that what we do can make a difference for these people and cities.

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Julio M. Ottino, dean of the Robert R. McCormick 91ÊÓƵ of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University, will present the 2006 Reilly Lectures at 3:30 p.m. March 21 and 22 (Tuesday and Wednesday) in Room 136 of DeBartolo Hall at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored by Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the lectures are free and open to the public.

Ottino will deliver a talk on March 21 titledA Window into Complex Systems – Examples, Challenges and Opportunitiesin which he will discuss complex systems and the inroads being made in anthropology, urban studies, political science and finance.He also will presentGranular Matter: Mixing, Segregation, Coarsening and the Interplay between Discrete and Continuum Viewpointson March 22.

Ottino, a native ofArgentina, has served in his current position since 2005.He is the author of more than 150 research publications, and his work has appeared in cover articles of many scientific journals, including Nature, Science and Scientific American.His 1989 bookKinematics of Mixing: Stretching, Chaos, and Transporthas been reprinted several times and is considered a classic in the field.

The Reilly Lectureship at Notre Dame was established in 1958 and is thought to be theUnited Statesoldest continuing lecture series in chemical engineering.The lectureship is supported by the Peter C. Reilly Fund, named in honor of the former University trustee and honorary degree recipient.

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Student tax-preparers from the University of Notre Dame and Saint Marys College will be available to call on taxpayers who are unable to visit the Universitys Tax Assistance Program (TAP) preparation centers.

The SWAT (Students Working at Taxes) team is part of the Vivian Harrington Gray Tax Assistance Program.The students are available to visit elderly and disabled citizens on request to assist in preparing federal and state tax returns.

To contact the SWAT team, call 574-631-7863.

TAP is a service-learning program in which students provide assistance free of charge to taxpayers whose 2005 income was at or below $35,000.In addition to the SWAT team, TAP also operates 10 local tax preparation centers.Volunteers include accountancy students and faculty from Notre Dame and Saint Marys, as well as certified public accountants from the firms of Crowe Chizek, Kruggel&Lawton, and Metzger, Mancini&Lackner.

TAP, in its 35 ^th year, is endowed by 1964 Notre Dame graduate Timothy M. Gray in honor of his mother, Vivian Harrington Gray.

For more information, visit the TAP .

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FiveUniversity of Notre Dame students will be representing the University at the 22 ^nd annual Campus Outreach Opportunity League (C.O.O.L.) Idealist National Conference March 3 to 5 atVanderbiltUniversityinNashville,Tenn.

Kamaria Porter, a senior history major, will deliver one of two student keynote addresses at the conference and speak on the power to enact change.Porter has been active in many projects at Notre Dame, including the founding of the Campus Labor Action Project in 2005 to advocate for workers’ rights and the living wage for campus employees.She also helped to build a young adultsorganization in her nativeChicagocalled Public Action for Change Today.

Four students also will lead workshops during the conference.Sarah Liu, a senior fromTaiwan, will presentProvoking Hope: AIDS Epidemic inCambodia,based upon her summer service project experiences there.

Lupe Gomez, a senior fromEast Chicago,Indiana, will leadFarmworker Solidarity after Taco Bell,detailing the story of the Coalition of Imakolee Workersvictory over the fast food chain and highlighting the importance of student involvement.

Sara Snider, a sophomore fromWaddington,New York, will presentRemixing Leadershipon ways leaders can use diversity to create a new generation of change-agents.Katie McHugh, a sophomore fromElmhurst,Illinois, will leadLiving Wage on Your Campusto discuss how and why campuses should adopt a living wage.

The studentstrip is sponsored by Notre Dames Center for Social Concerns, Arts and Letters Undergraduate Intellectual Initiative, and Institute for Latino 91ÊÓƵ.

The C.O.O.L. Idealist National Conference annually draws over 1,500 students and is the countrys largest meeting of campus community members involved in service, activism, politics and socially responsible work.

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Liliane Tsui, one ofHong Kongs leading commercial artists, will present a lecture titledAligning Art with ArchitectureFeb. 22 (Wednesday) at4:30 p.m.in Room 104 of Bond Hall at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored by Notre Dame’s91ÊÓƵofArchitectureand Snite Museum of Art, the lecture is free and open to the public.

Tsui’s images have appeared worldwide in magazines, corporate brochures, advertisements, calendars and even on postage stamps. She was the firstHong Kongartist to have her illustrations featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Her work also has appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and Forbes and she has received numerous commissions from world-class hotels for interior design including over-sized oil paintings and bronze-relief work.

* Contact: * _Kara Kelly,91ÊÓƵofArchitecture, 574-631-5720, Kelly.166@nd.edu
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The University of Notre Dames Mendoza College of Business will present a series of lectures this spring focusing on the major forces that shape political, technological, social and competitive environments.

TitledTen Years Hence,lectures in the series will take place at10:40 a.m.inMendozas Jordan Auditorium.Each session is free and open to the public.

Erik Peterson, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International 91ÊÓƵ, will deliver the first lecture March 3 (Friday) titledSeven Resolutions.Peterson is director of the Seven Resolutions Initiative, a broad-based effort to forecast key trends out to the year 2025.

The remaining lectures are:

• March 24 (Friday) -Technology and Talent: Reshaping Global Architectures,by John Hagel III, management consultant, public speaker and author ofOut of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services.

• March 31 (Friday)-Four Paths to Four Futures,by John Petersen, considered by many to be one of the worlds most informed futurists and president of the Arlington Institute, a non-profit, future-oriented research institute.

• April 7 (Friday) -Public Health Issues in the Future: America and Beyond,by Dr. James Curran, dean and professor of epidemiology at the Rollins 91ÊÓƵ of Public Health, author of over 250 scientific publications, and 1966 Notre Dame graduate.

• April 21 (Friday) -Future Government and Public Policy,by William McGurn, chief speechwriter for the White House, former chief editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, and 1980 Notre Dame graduate.

• April 28 (Friday) -The Future of the Faith in an Age of Fundamentalism and Secularism,by Harry Attridge, leading scholar of Christian origins and former theology professor and dean of the faculty of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame.

Established in 2005,Ten Years Hencewas created in response to the unprecedented challenges and opportunities present in the global society of the 21 ^st century.The lecture series will offer expertsforecasts and analyses in major areas like bio-technology, water, oil and fundamentalism, and help students develop a sense of theknowable futureby studying current positions, trends and causes related to major social, political, technological and economic issues.

For more information, visit theTen Years HenceWeb site at .

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Guillermo ODonnell, the Helen Kellogg Chair in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to the advisory board of the newly created United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF).

ODonnell is one of only three members individually designated to the board, as appointed by the secretary general.The board consists of the representatives of 11 U.N. member states and two non-governmental organizations associated with the United Nations, as well as three individually appointed members.

UNDEF was established in 2005 to promote the creation and strengthening of democratic institutions throughout the world.Its policy guidelines will be set at the boards first meeting in March.

ODonnell, the recipient of numerous honors and awards, also recently received the International Political Science Associations Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

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The spirited music and dance ofBrazilcome to the University of Notre Dame as the Kellogg Institute for International 91ÊÓƵ presents its eighth annual Carnaval celebration Feb. 24 (Friday) at 8 p.m.in Notre Dames South Dining Hall

This years Carnaval will feature food, professional Brazilian dancers and the samba and axé music of Chicago Samba.The event is free and open to the public.

Carnaval is sponsored by the Kellogg Institute, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, OLA, La Alianza, International Student Services and Activities, the Institute for Latino 91ÊÓƵ, the Program in Portuguese and Brazilian 91ÊÓƵ, Fischer Graduate Residences and the Office of International 91ÊÓƵ.

Carnaval is held to encourage engagement with international questions through culture, as well as to bring the Notre Dame and South Bend communities together to celebrate the final days before the beginning of Lent.

For more information, visit .

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The University of Notre Dames Mendoza College of Business will present its ninth annual Ethics Week lectures and discussions Feb. 13 to 16 (Monday-Thursday).

Each event in the series will take place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. inMendozas Giovanini Commons.All events are free and open to the public.

Elizabeth Moore, professor of marketing at Notre Dame, will deliver the first lecture, titledEthics and Advertising Specifically Targeted at Children,on Feb. 13 (Monday).

Other Ethics Week events are:

• Feb. 14 (Tuesday) -Our Policy: Give to a Charity – Have Your Taxes Prepared for Free,Daniel Weidner, 1978 Notre Dame graduate and certified public accountant, Weidner and Company

• Feb. 15 (Wednesday) -Peace Through Commerce: A New Dimension of Ethics Education,Rev. Oliver Williams, C.S.C., associate professor of management and director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business

• Feb. 16 (Thursday) -Community Service: An Ethical Imperative,Carol Ann Mooney, president of Saint Marys College

Ethics Week was established to encourage the discussion of ethical matters in undergraduate and graduate business classes at Notre Dame and to secure a foundation for future ethical discussions inside and outside the classroom.

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TheUniversityofNotre Dame Bandswill celebrate Black History Month with two concerts on campus Feb. 17 and 18 (Friday and Saturday) in conjunction with Junior Parents Weekend.

The Notre Dame Concert Bands will perform at 5 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.The diverse program will feature both traditional and contemporary selections, including pieces dedicated to the Tuskegee Airmen and in memory of Rosa Parks.

Bill Nicks, drummer and adjunct faculty member, will join the Concert Bands for a medley of Motown songs Feb. 18 at 2 p.m. in Washington Hall.Nicks has previously performed with Patti LaBelle and the original Temptations.The Notre Dame Jazz Bands also will perform, paying tribute to Ray Charles and other significant black composers and musicians.

Both concerts are sponsored by the Notre Dame Department of Music.They are free and open to the public, but tickets are required.To reserve tickets for the Feb. 17 concert, call the performing arts center ticket office at 574-631-2800.To reserve tickets for the Feb. 18 concert, call theLaFortuneStudentCenterbox office at 574-631-8128.

For more information, visit the Department of Musics concert Web site at .

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Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, has been reappointed to the board of governors of theUniversityofNotre Dame Australia.

In reappointing Father Malloy to the board through 2009, the trustees of Notre Dame Australia cited his numerous contributions to the university and his support in carrying out its mission of Catholic education.

Father Malloy and Catholic university leaders from Notre Dame and around the world were integral in initial research and studies before Notre Dame Australia was established in 1990.The Universitys enrollment has grown from 60 in 1992 to over 3,000 today.

Father Malloy served from 1987 to 2005 as the 16 ^th president of Notre Dame and led the University during a period of significant growth in resources, faculty and academic reputation.He continues to teach a first-year undergraduate seminar and lives on campus in a student residence hall as he did during his presidency.

Father Malloy has been a member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1974. His sixth book,Monks Notre Dame,was published last fall.

TheUniversityofNotre Dame Australiais the nations first Catholic university and has campuses in three Australian cities. Although there are no legal or financial ties between the institutions, Notre Dame Australia was patterned after itsU.S.namesake.

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Robert Campbell, a Pulitzer Prize winner and veteran architecture critic for the Boston Globe, will present a lecture titledWhy Dont the Rest of Us Like the Buildings the Architects Like?at4:30 p.m.Feb. 6 (Monday) in Room 104 of Bond Hall at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored by Notre Dames91ÊÓƵofArchitecture, the presentation is free and open to the public.

Campbell, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for distinguished architecture criticism, will offer his reflections and observations after 30 years writing for the Globe and other publications. His honors include the medal for criticism from the AmericanInstituteofArchitectsand the Award of Honor from theBostonSociety of Architects.

Campbellhas been architecture critic since 1972 for the Globe, where he writes criticism, news stories, opinion pieces and feature articles about all aspects of architecture.He also has been a practicing architect since 1975, chiefly as a consultant for the improvement or expansion of cultural institutions inBoston.

The presentation is part of the91ÊÓƵofArchitectures 2005-06 lecture seriesArchitecture and its Allied Disciplines.More information on the series can found online at .

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Guillermo ODonnell, the Helen Kellogg Chair in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the International Political Science Association (IPSA).

ODonnell, the first-ever recipient of the award, is being recognized for the impact of his scholarly work on the political science community around the world.The award ceremony will be held in July at the 20 ^th IPSA World Congress inFukuoka,Japan, where ODonnell also will present a prize lecture.

ODonnell has published extensively on authoritarianism, democratization and democratic theory, most recently co-editingThe Quality of Democracy,published in 2004 by Notre Dame Press.

ODonnell was elected in 1995 to theAmericanAcademyof Arts and Sciences, the nations leading learned society.In 2003, the Latin American 91ÊÓƵ Association awarded him the Kalman Silvert Award for lifetime contribution to the study ofLatin America, the organizations highest honor.

A native ofArgentina, O’Donnell earned his bachelor of laws degree from the National University of Buenos Aires and his master’s and doctoral degrees fromYaleUniversity.He joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1982 and served as academic director of the Universitys Kellogg Institute for International 91ÊÓƵ from 1982 to 1997.

Awarded by the Foundation Mattei Dogan, the IPSA Prize for Lifetime Achievement is awarded to a scholar of high international reputation in recognition of his or her contribution to the advancement of political science.IPSA is an international scholarly association formed in 1949 to promote the advancement of political science through the collaboration of scholars around the world.

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