Check to see if you are registered to vote, learn how to request an absentee ballot, and help your dorm compete for a prize awarded to the residence hall with the highest percentage of TurboVote users! Refreshments and music provided.
Originally published at conductorshare.nd.edu…
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The Center for Social Concerns’ International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) is both a four-credit course and an eight-week summer service-learning program in Catholic social tradition and social analysis which together provide a critical lens through which students are invited to interpret an array of global issues. …
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An evening of prayer and reflection. Hear members of the Notre Dame community share how they have learned to see God active in their daily life.
Featured storytellers include:
Ryan Kolakowski, Class of 2019, Zahm Hall
Rachel Kiesel, Class of 2020, Welsh Family Hall
Jess Mannen Kimmet, Campus Minister, Saint Mary’s College…
In the town of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, an award winning organization, Casa Pueblo, is leading an “energy insurrection, an uplifting, a revolution,” according to founder and director Alexis Massol González. Their goal is 50% energy generation at the point of consumption with solar panels and independent microgrids by 2027. Arturo Massol Deyá, son of Alexis and executive director, will tell the story of one town’s fight for energy independence.…
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“Global Unions, Strategic Campaigns: Worker Solidarity in the Age of Amazon”
Tim Beaty, ND ‘79, director of global strategies, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Higgins Lunchtime Labor RAPS feature experts — scholars, activists, and policymakers — exploring the past, present, and future of work, in the U.S. and beyond. All Notre Dame community members are welcome, and lunch is provided for those who RSVP…
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Dr. Leroy E. Hood graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1964 with an MD and from Caltech with a PhD in biochemistry in 1968. After three years as a senior investigator at NIH, his academic career began at Caltech, where he and his colleagues developed the DNA gene sequencer and synthesizer, and the protein synthesizer and sequencer–four instruments that paved the way for the successful mapping and understanding of the human genome. A pillar in the biotechnology field, Dr. Hood has played a role in founding fifteen biotechnology companies including Amgen, Applied Biosystems, Integrated Diagnostics and Arivale. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. Of the more than 6,000 scientists world-wide who belong to one or more of these academies, Dr. Hood is one of only fifteen people nominated to all three.
Presented by Patrick Kain, associate professor of philosophy at Purdue University and 2018-2019 Alvin Plantinga Fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame.
Abstract: Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals…
Anthony Pagliarini, Assistant Teaching Professor of Theology, Notre Dame
Saturdays with the Saints is a Notre Dame football gameday lecture series that combines the university’s rich traditions of Catholic faith and spirited game days.
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Presented by Niklaus Largier (Berkeley).
Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.
The Urban Plunge is a one-credit, experiential-learning course designed to give students a brief but important opportunity to engage with communities experiencing poverty in U.S. cities. With sites in most major cities, students will spend two to four days in a city near their hometown with the chance of spending time with people who face the challenges of poverty and the organizations and those who work to support them and/or work to eradicate this inequity. Leading up to and during this immersion, students will examine the root causes of poverty in urban areas focusing on dimensions such as opportunity, race, mental health, faith-based efforts, gender, housing, criminal justice system, and employment. The application deadline is October 29, 2018.…
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John Wilsey (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) will discuss writing religious biography, drawing on his current research on the religious life of John Foster Dulles.
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The Center for Social Concerns hosts an annual Postgraduate Service Fair each fall, providing an opportunity for representatives from service organizations and students to chat about postgraduate service options. Come by to talk to representatives from over 50 nonprofit organizations, including service groups like Jesuit Volunteer Corps and Peace Corps as well as social justice groups. Are you interested in advocacy/organizing, legal affairs, communications, health care, education, social services, ministry…and more? …
The Urban Plunge is a one-credit, experiential-learning course designed to give students a brief but important opportunity to engage with communities experiencing poverty in U.S. cities. With sites in most major cities, students will spend two to four days in a city near their hometown with the chance of spending time with people who face the challenges of poverty and the organizations and those who work to support them and/or work to eradicate this inequity. Leading up to and during this immersion, students will examine the root causes of poverty in urban areas focusing on dimensions such as opportunity, race, mental health, faith-based efforts, gender, housing, criminal justice system, and employment. The application deadline is October 29, 2018.…
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Presented by Niklaus Largier (Berkeley).
Originally published at medieval.nd.edu.
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Join us in celebrating the legacy of St. Francis of Assisi as we strive to follow in his footsteps in caring for creation and the poor.
Mass to pray for the Care of Creation will be celebrated by Rev. Terry Ehrman, C.S.C., in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at 5:15 p.m.…
The Center for Social Concerns’ International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) is both a four-credit course and an eight-week summer service-learning program in Catholic social tradition and social analysis which together provide a critical lens through which students are invited to interpret an array of global issues. …
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Enjoy a free lunch and seminar-style conversation with Associate Professor of Philosophy John O’Callaghan. Sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life. Lunch is free but you must register.
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Sponsored by the IDEA Center, Elevate Ventures and Startup SouthBend/Elkhart, the New Venture Launch Weekend will provide an opportunity for students from Notre Dame and individuals from the South Bend/Elkhart region a chance to pitch startup ideas and form teams to move those ideas forward over the course of two days. Cash prizes!…
The Catholic Social Tradition (CST) minor is an interdisciplinary minor in the College of Arts and Letters, co-directed by the Center for Social Concerns. Students will have the opportunity to talk with its co-directors and learn about the CST Minor over brunch.
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The Center for Social Concerns’ International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) is both a four-credit course and an eight-week summer service-learning program in Catholic social tradition and social analysis which together provide a critical lens through which students are invited to interpret an array of global issues. …
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