Notre Dame receives record-breaking research grant for disease prevention
Notre Dame recently received a record-breaking grant of $33.7 million to conduct research on the prevention of mosquito-borne diseases using a new spatial repellent product that works to reduce...
View ArticleNuguse, Kusky and Tanczos highlight ACC Championships
Putting forth its best athletes, Notre Dame competed in the ACC Championships this past weekend in Blacksburg, Va. The Irish men’s team finished in 6th place with 41 points after all events were scored...
View ArticlePanel considers different faith perspectives of social justice
Members of the South Bend community came together for a discussion about interfaith dialogue and awareness of social justice in a panel hosted by the Better Together club Tuesday in the Rice Commons of...
View ArticleNotre Dame dominates by recording clean sweep at ACC Championships
The two-time defending national champions issued a mandate this past weekend, sweeping all six individual awards on their way to claim both the women’s and men’s ACC titles for the first time in...
View ArticleUnqualified qualifiers
Recently, a friend and I got into a recurring dispute. “I believe in equality,” she explained. “But I’m not angry. So I don’t feel comfortable calling myself a feminist.” While she believes in equal...
View Article‘Harverd Dropout’ speaks to a generation
Lil Pump makes music to blast on phone speakers. His loud, rhythmic rapping, along with his fragmented beats are made to be played on iPhone speakers at maximum volume. And the kids who would play Pump...
View ArticleMen look to capitalize following fourth-place ACC finish by women’s team
The Notre Dame women’s swimming and diving team successfully completed the ACC Championship with a fourth-place team finish Saturday after spending nearly two weeks off of competition in the water. The...
View ArticleFaculty, staff and students gather for black ecumenical prayer service
Emorja Roberson, a Notre Dame graduate student in the Sacred Music department, immediately set the mood for the Black Ecumenical Prayer Service on Wednesday afternoon by leading students, faculty and...
View ArticleSaint Mary’s names new director of campus safety
Saint Mary’s named Robert Post the new director of campus safety Feb 19. With over 26 years of experience in law enforcement, Post has spent the last two years as an on-call officer at Saint Mary’s,...
View ArticleNotre Dame offers TAO as free mental health resource
Psychology Today reports that in a 2013 survey of college students, 57 percent of women and 40 percent of men experienced bouts of “overwhelming anxiety,” and 33 percent of women and 27 percent of men...
View ArticleIrish look to rebound on weekend roadtrip
After splitting series with both Eastern Michigan and Incarnate Word in the Alamo Irish Classic over the weekend, the Notre Dame baseball team will open play in the Swig and Swine Classic on Friday in...
View ArticleSouth Bend Common Council meets to discuss environmental plans
University students, seventh-graders, bikers, professors, mothers and restaurant owners, different people with wildly different life stories, came together as a community in order to tackle a single...
View ArticleNotre Dame welcomes Penn State for final home games, senior night
As the race for home-ice advantage comes down to the wire, No. 17 Notre Dame is set to host No. 18 Penn State in the Big Ten regular-season finale. While conference-rival Ohio State has clinched the...
View ArticleHitchcock series offers crash course in suspense
Alfred Hitchcock, cinema’s “Master of Suspense,” has directed some of film’s most thrilling scenes. This semester, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s “Learning Beyond the Classics” series brings 14 of...
View ArticleSaint Mary’s students, faculty discuss struggles faced by first generation...
Saint Mary’s hosted the First-Generation Student Panel Thursday night in the basement of the Student Center explored the difficulties that these students may face. It featured two College faculty...
View ArticleContributing to a legacy
Every new Editor-in-Chief of The Observer inherits one heck of a legacy. That’s the nature of taking on the mantle of running a 52-year-old daily newspaper. Legends have come before you, and maybe even...
View ArticleComedian Ali Wong joins IDEA Week lineup
Comedian Ali Wong will perform her new “Milk and Money” show in downtown South Bend as part of IDEA Week, the University announced in a press release Thursday. Wong joins numerous other artists who...
View ArticleLaw school dean emeritus dies after long illness
Thomas L. Shaffer, former dean of the Notre Dame Law School and the Robert and Marion Short professor emeritus of law, died Tuesday from a long-term illness, the University announced in a news release...
View ArticleObserver Editorial: Thank you, rectors
There’s no denying that Notre Dame’s residential life sets the University apart from its peer institutions. But in reflecting on what, specifically, makes residence halls special, The Observer...
View ArticleCollin Stoecker: Life after baseball
Many athletes try to avoid thinking about life after sports. So much of an athlete’s identity is wrapped up into the sport they play that losing it is like losing a limb. Facing that harsh reality came...
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