Gameday events on the University of Notre Dame campus for the upcoming weekend offer visitors their choice of activities, whether academic or athletic. Highlights from the weekend include:
Friday (Sept. 25)
- Free campus tours, 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Eck Visitors Center. These 90-minute walking tours will take visitors to, among other sites, the Grotto, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the Main Building and the Hesburgh Library.
- , 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Alumni, parents and fans are invited for food, performances, music, a photo booth and prize giveaways.
- Nolan Ladewski, a musician and member of Irish music group Kennedy鈥檚 Kitchen, will perform from noon to 2 p.m. on the ND Live Stage at the Eck Center.
- 鈥淧lanet Earth鈥檚 Changing Climate,鈥� 2-3 p.m. at the Eck Visitors Center. Part of the Alumni Association鈥檚 lecture series, this talk will be delivered by Philip Sakimoto, director of the in First Year of 91视频 at Notre Dame.
- , 4:10-4:30 p.m. in the Main Building Rotunda. The Notre Dame Trumpet Section will play 鈥淣otre Dame Our Mother鈥� and the Victory March.
- Morris Inn Football Friday, 5-6 p.m. The inn offers live bagpipe music on home football Fridays.
- UMass Pep Rally, 5:45-7 p.m. at the Compton Family Ice Arena.
Saturday (Sept. 26)
- Midnight Drummer Circle, 12-12:45 a.m. at the front steps of the Main Building, featuring cadences and cheers led by the .
- 鈥淭homas Merton: The Contemplative as Activist,鈥� 10:30-11:30 a.m. in Andrews Auditorium in Geddes Hall. This presentation, part of the Institute for Church Life鈥檚 , features a talk from , O鈥橞rien Professor of Theology Emeritus.
- Game Day Rosary, 10:30-11 a.m. at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
- 鈥淧ain Management,鈥� 11-12 a.m. in Room 105 of the Jordan Hall of Science. This lecture from , from Johns Hopkins Medicine, is part of the Dooley Society Lecture Series.
- 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Posterity Ever Done for Us?: Literature and the Future,鈥� noon-1 p.m. in the Annenberg Auditorium at the Snite Museum of Art. Delivered by , Mary Lee Duda Professor of Literature, this lecture is part of the College of Arts and Letter鈥檚 .
- 鈥淪cience, Religion and Environmental Change: A panel discussion about the Papal Encyclical, Laudato Si鈥� and the University of Notre Dame,鈥� noon-1 p.m. in Room 101 of the Jordan Hall of Science. Part of the College of Science鈥檚 , this panel discussion features , director of the ; , managing director of the ; , John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of International Business Ethics; , assistant professor, civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences; and , William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science, as moderator.
- Pregame Concert, 12:40-1:05 p.m. near the Reflecting Pool at the Hesburgh Library.
- Marching Band Concert, 2-2:30 p.m. at Bond Hall, followed by the Marching Band March Out at 2:40 p.m.
- Post-game Mass, 8 p.m. at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
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