Faculty Notes 387 ������ Honors 387 ������ Activities 389 ������ Publications 390 ������ Correction Administrators’ Notes 390 ������ Activities 390 ������ Publications Documentation 391 ������ Faculty Awards 393 ������ Faculty Recognition and Promotions 395 ������ Senior Fellow Comments 395 ������ Charge to the Class 396 ������ Baccalaureate Mass Homily 397 ������ Invocation 397 ������ Valedictory Remarks 399 ������ Undergraduate School Commencement Address 401 ������ The Laetare Medal

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“Discovery vs. Invention in the History of Mathematics” at the “Mathematics and Its Significance, Templeton Foundation Symposium,” Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Faculty Notes June 21–23; “Arithmetization and the Ideals of Proof” for the Dept. de la Histoire et de Honors Philosophie des Sciences, Univ. of Paris- Diderot and REHSEIS, June 18–19; “Some Michael Detlefsen, the McMahon-Hank Harvey A. Bender, professor of biological Questions Concerning Proof” as an invited Professor of Philosophy, was awarded a sciences, delivered a Hesburgh Lecture and discussant in “Workshop in the History and Senior Chaire d’excellence, by the Agence participated in the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Mathematics,” Dept. de la Nationale de la Recherche, France, for his American College of Medical Genetics in Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, U. work on ideals of proof; and is serving Phoenix, Ariz., March 12–16, 2008. of Paris-Diderot and REHSEIS, June 13–14; as distinguished invited professor at the Nora Besansky, professor of biological and “Construction and Exhibition” to Univ. of Nancy 2 during the 2007–08 sciences, was an invited speaker at the the “Indiana Univ.-Bloomington Logic and 2010–11 academic years, and as “Genetic Epidemiology of Malaria Colloquium,” Bloomington, on April 25, distinguished invited professor at the Univ. Conference” at Hinxton, Cambrideshire, 2007. of Paris-Diderot during the 2008–09 and United Kingdom, June 13–18, 2008, where 2009–10 academic years. In the spring of Alan Dowty, professor emeritus of she presented “Recombination, Adaptation political science, presented “The Arab 2009, he will also be an invited scholar and and Speciation in An. gambiae.” lecturer in the College de France. Question in the First Aliyah” and “Israel Mark A. Caprio, professor of physics, Studies—the International Dimension” at John Duffy, the O’Malley Director of the presented “Quantum Phase Transitions the “Colloquium on Trends and Challenges University Writing Program and associate in Finite Many-Body Systems” at the in Studies of the State of Israel” at the professor of English, has been appointed American Chemical Society national meet- Ben-Gurion Institute for the History of to the Committee on Disability Issues in ing in New Orleans, April 8, 2008. Israel and Zionism, Sde Boker, Israel, College Composition (CDICC), an advisory June 3, 2008. He was also interviewed on Daniel M. Chipman, professional specialist committee to the National Council of U.S. policy in the Middle East, Radio Free in the Radiation Laboratory, presented English Teachers and the Conference of Europe, on May 13. College Composition and Communication. “Dielectric Continuum Model of Solvent The CDICC advises on policy issues relating Effects on Electronic Structure” at the Giles Duffield, assistant professor of to access and inclusion for students and Central East Regional ACS meeting, biological sciences, attended the Society for faculty with disabilities; develops curricular Columbus, Ohio, June 11–14, 2008. Research on Biological Rhythms meeting in San Destin, Fla., May 16–25, where his lab materials and bibliographies relating to Michael Detlefsen, the McMahon-Hank presented two posters: “Inhibitor of DNA Disability Studies; and educates the general Professor of Philosophy, presented the Binding 2 (Id2) is a Circadian Rhythm public on disability issues. following invited talks: “Purity of Proof Expressed Gene Required for Circadian and Understanding” at the international Ralph McInerny, the Grace Chair in Clock Output in the Mouse Liver,” by workshop on mathematical understanding, Medieval Studies, received the Pro Deo et T. Hou, N.P. Watson, M.A. Israel, and Dept. de la Histoire et la Philosophie des Patria medal from Christendom College at Duffield; and “Serum Induction of Period1 Sciences, Univ. of Paris-Diderot, June 9–13, their commencement on May 10, 2008. Gene Expression is Increased in Id2 Null 2008; “On the Nature and Value of Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts: A Correlate Joseph W. Thomas, librarian and head of Construction” at the Institut d’histoire et de for Enhanced Photic Phase Shifts in Id2 the Kresge Law Library Technical Services philosophie des sciences et des techniques, Null Mice” by S.M. Ward, T. Hou, and Dept., was awarded the 2008 Renee D. Paris, on April 24; “Discovermental Duffield. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Complexity and the Evaluation of Hilbert’s Contributions in Technical Services Law Program” at the Dept. de la Histoire et de William G. Dwyer, Hank Professor of Librarianship at the American Association Philosophie des Sciences, Univ. of Nancy Mathematics, was one of two featured of Law Libraries annual meeting July 13, 2, on March 7; “Varieties of Completeness” speakers at a workshop on homotopical 2008, in Portland, Ore. as the inaugural lecture, ANR senior chaire group theory and topological algebraic d’excellence, Univ. of Paris-Diderot, on geometry held at the Univ. of Copenhagen, Activities Feb. 8; “Ideals of Proof” as the inaugural Denmark, June 16–20, 2008, where lecture, ANR senior chaire d’excellence, he presented a series of 10 lectures on J. Douglas Archer, librarian, was a member Univ. of Nancy 2, Jan. 30; “Ideals of Proof: homotopical group theory; was an invited of the “Intellectual Freedom 101” panels at An Overview” at Maison des Sciences de plenary lecturer at a follow-on conference the American Library Association annual l’Homme, Lorraine, on Dec. 7, 2007; “Ideals on the same topic held in Bonn, Germany, conference in Anaheim, Calif., June 27–28, of Proof: An Overview” at the Dept. de la June 23–27; and, on June 23, delivered a 2008. Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, keynote address titled “The Work of Haynes REHSEIS, Univ. of Paris-Diderot, on Dec. 4; Miller in Algebraic Topology.” 388 Faculty Notes

Ed Edmonds, associate dean for library Free Boundary Problems in Tumor Models” Sandra Klein, associate librarian, Kresge and information technology in the Kresge at the 11th “Free Boundary Problems Law Library, was a panel moderator for Law Library, presented “Earl Toolson and Conference,” June 9–13, Royal Institute of the Acquisitions Forum at the 16th annual His Legacy in Baseball’s Labor History” Technology, Stockholm, on June 11, 2008, “Innovative Users Group Conference,” at the “15th Annual NINE Spring and an invited talk of the same title at the April 27–30, 2008 in Washington, D.C. Training Conference on the Historical “Seminar on Mathematical Biosciences,” John LoSecco, professor of physics, and Sociological Impact of Baseball,” in Denmark Technical Univ., Copenhagen, on presented “Neutron Detection Efficiency Tucson, Ariz., March 15, 2008; and “Carl June 6. Studies” and “Simulating a Two Detector Mays, the Rise of the New York Yankees David R. Hyde, professor of biological q13 Measurement,” at the Double Chooz and the Demise of Ban Johnson’s Influence sciences, presented “Role of Muller Glia Collaboration Meeting, Champagne- on the American League” at the “Twentieth in Regeneration of Rod and Cone Ardennes, France, on June 27, 2008. Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and Photoreceptors” at the annual Association American Culture,” June 4–6. Cynthia Mahmood, associate professor of for Research in Ophthalmology and anthropology, presented the invited lectures Jeff Feder, professor of biological sciences, Vision Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., “Speech and the Definition of Humanity” presented a poster titled “Global Linkages April 26–May 1, 2008. at Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, British of Biology, the Environment, and Society” Prashant V. Kamat, professor of chemistry Columbia, and “Gender Equality in at a meeting on invasive species held at the and biochemistry, senior scientist in Contexts of Violence” at Kwantlen College, Univ. of Minnesota, March 2–5, 2008. the Radiation Lab, and concurrent Surrey, British Columbia, in June; appeared Malcolm J. Fraser Jr., professor of biologi- professor of chemical and biomolecular in the programs “Human Rights and cal sciences, presented “Progress Towards engineering, organized a symposium and the Sikh Dilemma” on CBC radio and Developing Group I Intron-Based Death presented “Decorating Carbon Nanotubes television (Canada) and “Rights, Fears upon Infection Strategies Against DENV” and Graphene with Semiconductor and and Multiculturalism” on Channel M in at the “Genetic Strategies for Controlling Metal Nanoparticles” (coauthors: B. Patrick Vancouver; and presented “Saying No to Dengue” in Irvine, Calif., June 2–6; and and staff memberRyan Muszynski) and Silence” at the Human Rights Forum in “Developing Novel Transgenic Ribozyme “Electron Storage and Charge Equilibration Vancouver, in June 2008. Strategies for Suppression of Dengue Fever” in SWCNT-Semiconductor Nanoparticles Dan Meisel, professor of chemistry at the “Fifth International Workshop on (coauthor: A. Kongkanand) at the annual and biochemistry, presented “Stages Insect Transgenesis and Genomics” held in meeting of the Electrochemical Society, in Photochemical Solar Conversion: Pacific Grove, Calif., June 15–19. May 18–22, 2008, in Phoenix, Ariz. Catalytic H2 Evolution as the Particles Umesh Garg, professor of physics, Prof. Kamat also coauthored the paper See It” (written with G. Merga, L. Cass, presented “Nuclear Incompressibility, presented by graduate student David and D. Chipman) at the DOE Solar Symmetry Energy, and Neutron Stars” at Baker, “Deposition of CdS Quantum Photochemistry Meeting, Wintergreen, Va., the “JPS Seminar” in the Physics Dept., Dots on Electrochemically Etched TiO2 June 1–4, 2008. Nanotubes for Solar Cell Applications,” Osaka Univ., Japan, May 28, 2008; and Bruce Noll, professor of chemistry and an invited talk titled “The Symmetry and graduate student Kevin Tvrdy, “Charge Injection from Excited CdSe into biochemistry, presented his work at a 2008 Term of Nuclear Incompressibility via meeting of the American Crystallographic TiO2 Nanoparticles.” Kamat presented the Giant Monopole Resonance” at the Association on Knoxville, Tenn., on June 3, “Gordon Research Conference on Nuclear “Quantum Dot Solar Cells: Modulation of Photoresponse with Particle Size 2008, in a talk titled “Crystal Packing in the Chemistry,” Colby-Sawyer College, New Thiirage-Based Gelatinease Inhibitor(s)- London, N.H., June 15–20, where he also and I-D Support Architecture (writ- ten with A. Kongkanand, K. Tvrdy, P. 4-4(4-(Thiiran-2-Ylmethyl Sulfonyl) served as a discussion leader on the topic of Phenoxylphenyl Methanesulfonate.” symmetry energy and astrophysics. Brown, and I. Robel) at the “Thirteenth DOE Solar Photochemistry Research Jeffrey W. Peng, assistant professor of Paul Helquist, professor of chemistry and Conference,” June 1–4, in Wintergreen, chemistry and biochemistry, was an biochemistry, presented an invited lecture Va., and “CdSe Quantum Dot–TiO2 invited speaker at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, titled “Collaborative Drug Development Nanotube Architectures for Solar Cells” Molecular Biophysics and Structural Strategies for Niemann-Pick Type C (coauthors: David Baker, Kevin Tvrdy, and Biology Dept. on May 25, 2008, where Disease” at the annual scientific meeting A. Kongkanand)” at the “International he presented “Functional Dynamics and of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Conference from Nanoparticles and Modular Protein”; and an invited speaker at Foundation in Tucson, Ariz., on June 6, Nanomaterials to Nanodevices and the “Gordon Conference on Computational 2008; and presented the invited lecture Nanosystems (IC4N),” Halkidiki, Greece, Aspects” at Biomolecular NMR, in Barga, “Recent Studies in Medicinal Organic June 16–18. Kamat also presented “Light Italy, on May 21, where he presented “A Chemistry” at Organikerdagarn in Ahus, Energy Conversion” at the “Conference on Site-to-Site Communication Mechanism in Sweden, on June 12. Complex and Nanostructured Materials Modular Proteins?” for Energy Applications,” June 22–26, at Bei Hu, professor of mathematics, Morris Pollard, professor emeritus of Michigan State Univ., Lansing. presented a invited plenary talk titled “PDE biological sciences and director of the #8-5-389

Lobund Laboratory, presented “Prostate Publications (Mathematical Association of America, Cancer—State of Animal Models” at the 2008): 3–32; and was the subject of an “Joint Symposium for the International J. Douglas Archer, librarian, contributed interview in Philosophy of Mathematics: Association of Gnotobiology and Society of “Intellectual Freedom at ALA in Anaheim” 5 Questions, H. Leitgeb and V. Hendricks Microbial Ecology and Disease” sponsored to Focus on Indiana Libraries 62, No. 6 (eds.) (Automatic Press/VIP, 2007): 87–99. (2008): 13; “From the Chair: Consider by the Karolinska Institute in Djuronasets Alan Dowty, professor emeritus of political Council” to the IFRT Report 68 (2008): Kursgard, Stockholm, May 22–31. science, published “Israel’s Nuclear Policy” 4; and “Information Tips and Sources: Charles M. Rosenberg, professor in the in B. Neuberger and A. Geronik, eds., Scriptures/Sacred Books for Peace and Dept. of Art, Art History, and Design, pre- Foreign Policy Between Confrontation and Conflict Studies, Part 3” toThe Peace sented “The Art of Numismatics: Invention Agreements: Israel 1948–2008 (Raanana: Chronicle: the Newsletter of the Peace and and Tradition in Italian Renaissance Open University Press, 2008): 467–81 (in Justice Studies Association (spring 2008): Coinage” at the summer meetings of the Hebrew). 22–23. Royal and British Numismatics Societies, Thomas Jemielity, emeritus faculty, pub- Mark A. Caprio, professor of physics, Caius and Gonville College, Cambridge, lished “De Profundis: A Supernatural Tail,” published “Excited State Quantum Phase England, on July 5, 2008. in Rosebud, No. 41 (spring 2008): 13–17. Transitions in Many-Body Systems” with P. Bradley Smith, professor of chemistry Cejnar and F. Iachello, Annals of Physics 323 Prashant V. Kamat, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, from May 27 through (2008): 1106–35. and biochemistry, senior scientist in June 11, 2008, was on a lecture tour in Japan the Radiation Lab, and concurrent Kevin J. Christiano, associate professor of at six universities and his talk at each was professor of chemical and biomolecular sociology, published Religious Diversity and “Molecular Imaging of Cancer and Bacterial engineering, published “Quantum Dot Social Change: American Cities, 1890–1906 Infection.” Solar Cells, Electrophoretic Deposition of paperback reprint edition (Cambridge, Julia Adeney Thomas, associate professor CdSe-C Composit Films and Capture of England, and New York: Cambridge Univ. 60 of history, presented the keynote address Photogenerated Electrons with nC Cluster Press, 2007): xvii + 239 pages; Sociology of 60 “The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unseeing: Shell” with P. Brown, J. Am. Chem Soc. 130, Religion: Contemporary Developments (with The Showa Emperor and Photography” No. 28 (2008): 8890–1. W.H. Swatos Jr., and P. Kivisto) second pa- in celebration of the East Asian Library perback text edition, revised and expanded Nicolas Lehner, research assistant professor Resources and East Asian Studies, at the (Lanham, Md., and New York: Rowman of physics, published “The High-Velocity Univ. of Maryland, May 2, 2008; and and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008): Gas Toward Messier 5: Tracing Feedback “Raw Photographs and Cooked Culture: xiv + 374 pages; “Clio Goes to Church: Flows in the Inner Galaxy” with W.F. Zech Photography’s Ambiguous Place in the Revisiting and Revitalizing Historical (graduate student), J. Christopher Howk National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,” Thinking in the Sociology of Religion,” the (assistant professor of physics), W.V.D. at the symposium “Thinking About Presidential Address to the Association for Dixon, and T.M. Brown, Astrophysical Museums, Exhibits, and the Modern the Sociology of Religion, 2006, in Sociology Journal 679 (2008): 460–80; and “A High- City—Some Points of Departure,” Univ. of of Religion: A Quarterly Review 69 (spring Resolution Survey of Low-Redshift QSO Irvine, Calif., on May 29. 2008): 1–28; a review of Watching Quebec: Absorption Lines: Statistics and Physical Kevin Vaughan, associate profes- Selected Essays, by R. Cook (McGill- Conditions of OVI Absorbers,” written with sor of biological sciences, presented Queen’s Univ. Press) [in French, translated T.M. Tripp, K.R. Sembach, D.V. Bowen, “Phosphorylation Controls Location of from the English by M. Ducharme and B.D. Savage, E.B. Jenkins, and P. Richter, Dynein to Kinetichores During Mitosis” D.-C. Bélanger] in Mens: Revue d’histoire Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 177 at a research seminar at ABCAM meeting intellectuelle de l’Amérique française 8 (2008): 39–102. on mitosis and cell division in Worcester, (fall 2007): 132–6; and a review of The Ralph McInerny, the Grace Chair in Mass., May 18–20, 2008; and presented the Social Origins of the Welfare State: Québec Medieval Studies, edited and translated session “NPC Mutations Disrupt Dynein Families, Compulsory Education, and Family The Writings of Charles DeKoninck I (Notre Driven Organelle Transport” at the Allowances, 1940–1955, by D. Marshall and Dame: Univ. Press, 2008). Parseghian Foundation meeting in Tucson, translated by N. Doone Danby (Wilfrid June 4–16. Laurier Univ. Press) in Québec Studies 44 Bruce C. Noll, research associate professor (winter 2007/spring 2008): 104–06. of chemistry and biochemistry, published Samir Younés, the Rooney Director of “Relative Axial Ligand Orientation in Rome Studies, presented a one-day seminar Michael Detlefsen, the McMahon-Hank Bis(imidazole)iron(II) Porphyrinates: Are titled “The Courtyards of Roman Palazzi” Professor of Philosophy, published “Purity “Picket Fence” Derivatives Different?” (re- to the School of Architecture of Hampton as an Ideal of Proof” in The Philosophy print) with J. Li, S.M. Nair, C.E. Schulz, and Univ., Rome, June 6, 2008. of Mathematical Practice, P. Mancosu,ed. W. Robert Scheidt, the Warren Foundation (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008): 179–97; “Proof: Chair in Science, Inorganic Chemistry 47 Its Nature and Significance” in Proof (2008): 3841–50. and Other Dilemmas: Mathematics and Philosophy, B. Gold and R. Simons, eds. 390 Faculty Notes

Mark R. Schurr, associate professor of anthropology, published “Stable Carbon- and Nitrogen-Isotope Ratios and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) g-Values of Charred Administrators’ Notes Bones: Changes with Heating and a Critical Evaluation of the Utility of g-Values for Reconstructing Thermal History and Thomas Klepach, Radiation Lab staff Original Isotope Ratios” with coauthor Activities member, published “13C-1H and 13C-13C Robert G. Hayes, emeritus faculty, in the Deanna O’Donnell, graduate student NMR J-Couplings in 13C-Labeled N-Acetyl- Journal of Archaeological Science 35 (2008): staff member in the Radiation Laboratory, Neuraminic Acid: Correlations with 2017–31. presented “Time-Resolved Raman Studies Molecular Structure” with W. Zhang, Ian Julia Adeney Thomas, associate professor of the Electron Adducts of Benzoate Anion Carmichael (professor and director of the of history, published “Power Made Visible: in Water,” written with G.N.R. Tripathi, Radiation Lab), and Anthony S. Serianni, Photography and Postwar Japan’s Elusive at the “63rd International Symposium on professor of chemistry and biochemistry, in Reality,” as the cover story in Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy,” Columbus, Ohio, J. Org. Chem. 73, No. 12 (2008): 4376–87. Asian Studies, 67, No. 2 (May 2008). June 16–20, 2008. Getahun Merga, visiting scholar in the Samir Younés, associate professor of archi- Radiation Lab, published “Probing Silver tecture and the Rooney Director of Rome Nanoparticles During Catalytic H2 Studies, published, in association with Publications Evolution” with staff memberLaura C. Ettore Mazzola, visiting assistant professor Cass, professional specialist and concurrent of architecture, a common project: “Il porto Marlene Daut, Erskine Peters Fellow and professor of chemistry and biochemistry di Pantelleria” in La Mostra: Città di Pietra, graduate student, and Karen E. Richman, Daniel M. Chipman, and professor of Biennale di Venezia, M. Fagioli, ed. (Firenze, director of Migration and Border Studies in chemistry and biochemistry Dan Meisel, Italia: Aion Edizioni, 2008): 162–5. the Institute for Latino Studies, published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, No. 22 (2008): “Are They Mad? Nation and Narration in 7067–76. Tous les hommes sont fous” in Small Axe 26 Correction (2008): 133–48. In issue 9, it was incorrectly reported Gordon L. Hug, retired administra- that J. Christopher Howk presented an tor, Radiation Laboratory, published invited talk; the talk was a contributed “Kinetics and Mechanism of Sensitized presentation. Photooxidation of Tetramethylammonium Salt of 2-(Phenylthio)Acetic Acid in Solution: Steady-State and Flash Photolysis Studies” with J. Bartoszewicz, H. Kozubek, M. Pietrzak, J. Paczkowski, and B. Marciniak in Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chem 198 (2008): 250–5. #8-5-391

2008 REV. JOHN “POP” FARLEY, C.S.C., AWARD The Rev. John “Pop” Farley, C.S.C., Award is Documentation given annually to honor distinguished service to student life at the University of Notre Dame. Beyond his own graduate students, he has Faculty Awards advanced the work of all graduate students This year’s recipient is a Holy Cross priest in his department in his role as Director who is completing his 16th year as rector in 2008 REV. JAMES A. BURNS, C.S.C., of Graduate Studies for the past 12 years. Stanford Hall. He is known for his compas- GRADUATE SCHOOL AWARD Additionally, he has been a key member sion and love for students, and for taking a This recipient of the Rev. James A. Burns, of the effort to advance the technical and genuine interest in their lives. His love for C.S.C., Graduate School Award is a leader computing capabilities of his college and sports is also well known among the 275 in developmental psychology, particu- the University as a whole, thus benefiting all “Griffins” of Stanford who look to him for larly in the field of family processes and Notre Dame’s student and faculty. wisdom, for advice, and for making great children’s socio-emotional development. saves while defending the goal in Stanford’s For his excellence in, and commitment Revered by graduate students because of weekly floor hockey games—where, he to, graduate education at Notre Dame, we his exemplary mentoring and training, one will tell you, the Griffins hold a number of present the Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., of this prolific researcher’s many strengths league championship titles. His leadership Graduate School Award to is the ability to consistently involve his and commitment to service have engen- graduate students in every aspect of Mark A. Stadtherr dered hall programs to assist the Logan the research process—from developing Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Center and Center for the Homeless here in longitudinal studies to performing actual Engineering South Bend, as well as a Chilean orphanage. research to involving them in research He is a gifted homilist who inspires his publications and presentations. They go 2008 FACULTY AWARD residents to live out their faith in service on to publish in top journals and to secure The honoree for this year’s Faculty Award to others. In his “free” time, he labors placement in prestigious academic and is a distinguished scholar who came to the diligently on his dissertation for his Doctor clinical positions. An accessible and excel- University in 1980 as a professor of market- of Ministry and also serves as longtime lent teacher as well, he inspires his students ing and as department chair at that time. chaplain to the Notre Dame Hockey Team. to become passionate about their research This honoree served for seven years consec- It is with great gratitude for his tremendous and its implications for fostering happier utively as department chair in the 1980s and service and commitment to the students of and healthier marriages and children. is generally recognized as the “architect” of Notre Dame that we honor For his excellence in, and commitment the current department based on significant to, graduate education at Notre Dame, we faculty additions and curriculum changes Rev. Thomas E. Gaughan, C.S.C. present the Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., while maintaining a congenial atmosphere 2008 REV. PAUL J. FOIK, C.S.C., AWARD Graduate School Award to in the department and a commitment to The 2008 Rev. Paul J. Foik, C.S.C. Award E. Mark Cummings its Catholic character and excellence in recipient arrived on campus in 1989. Notre Dame Chair in Psychology undergraduate teaching. Beyond the col- lege, he received the University’s Grenville Since then, he has accepted increasing 2008 REV. JAMES A. BURNS, C.S.C., Clark Award. He is a highly recognized and challenges with dedication, compassion, GRADUATE SCHOOL AWARD accomplished scholar in consumer behavior and grace. An associate describes him as an and has provided extensive service to the This recipient of the Rev. James A. Burns, “excellent administrator, a very knowledge- marketing profession, including his efforts C.S.C. Graduate School Award has made able librarian, and a terrific colleague.” as Chairman of the Board for the American contributions to graduate education that He currently leads the largest unit within Marketing Association. are both broad ranging and exemplary. the Kresge Law Library and is playing a Held in high esteem by scholars around the The University of Notre Dame is pleased to critical role in the Law School building and world for his research on the development confer the Faculty Award upon renovation process. A past chair of both the and application of strategies for reliable en- Technical Services Special Interest Section gineering computing, he has most recently Michael J. Etzel and the Price Index Advisory Committee, turned his considerable intellect to ecologi- Professor of Marketing he has contributed significantly at the cal problems. In numerous tributes to him, national level to the American Association this faculty member’s graduate students of Law Libraries. He also served for three have praised the guidance and mentoring years as editor of the Technical Services he provides as they progress efficiently to Law Librarian. He is a role model for his their degrees while, at the same time, being professional work and for his personal given freedom to mature intellectually. 392 Documentation

commitment to Notre Dame’s ideals and contributes substantially to recruitment link between the intellectual work of the mission. committees for the Honors Program, to University and the Catholic Church’s com- assist the University in attracting the very mitment to a preferential option for the The University of Notre Dame is pleased to poor. confer the Rev. Paul J. Foik, C.S.C., Award best first-year students for each incoming upon class. His many grateful students recognize We are proud to present the Reinhold him as rigorous, accessible, challenging, and Niebuhr Award to Joseph W. Thomas sympathetic. F. Clark Power 2008 GRENVILLE CLARK AWARD An exceptional teacher-mentor, the Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies University of Notre Dame is proud to pres- This year’s recipient of the Grenville Clark ent the Thomas .P Madden Award to 2008 RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT Award and his wife Marlene try to follow AWARD the precepts of Catholic Social Teaching by Joseph A. Buttigieg assisting refugee families to resettle into the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in English Since joining the faculty in 1999, this recipi- South Bend area and to obtain medical care, ent of the Research Achievement Award has schooling, and jobs, thus enabling them to 2008 THOMAS P. MADDEN AWARD established a superb record of research and become full members of our community. An enthusiastic instructor, this scholar- scholarship while devoting considerable He and Marlene also help reintegrate into teacher is known for the clarity of his ex- time and effort to teaching and mentoring society those who have been released from planations, the rigor of his thought, and the undergraduate and graduate students. A prison and who live in the Dismas House, imagination he utilizes in keeping students philosopher by training, he has made signif- and they help the homeless through the excited about mathematics. icant and lasting contributions in the areas Catholic Worker House in South Bend. of ethics, metaphysics, political philosophy, Students take advantage of his office hours, aesthetics, and intellectual history. Through the Christ Child Society, they have even though, as several have noted, his played an important role in clothing many effectiveness in the classroom usually makes A universally recognized scholar, he is the poor children of our city. outside help superfluous. author of 31 books, 118 papers, and more than 100 international presentations. His We are especially honored to present the A longtime opera buff, now sometimes Grenville Clark Award to work has been translated into a dozen sighted on Saturday afternoons at the languages, and one monograph—Philosophy Thomas L. Nowak “Met,” this resident scholar displays his own and the Crisis in Ecology—has appeared in Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry talents on the guitar by playing at Masses six different translations. He has also been on campus. the subject of two documentaries. 2008 THOMAS P. MADDEN AWARD The University of Notre Dame is pleased to While his academic home is the Department An internationally published scholar and bestow the Thomas Madden Award on of German and Russian Languages and editor of the works of Antonio Gramsci, Literatures, his expansive intellectual this master teacher is much in demand on Dennis M. Snow background and numerous fields of interest the international lecture circuit and in the Professor of Mathematics have led to course offerings in the depart- graduate classroom. For many years he has 2008 REINHOLD NIEBUHR AWARD ments of philosophy, political science and savored the opportunity to teach students romance languages, as well as the Ph.D. in in their first year, has done it year after year, The Reinhold Niebuhr Award honors a Literature Program. Over the years, he has and has passed on the opportunity to teach person whose life and writings promote or offered courses on such topics as Theory more advanced courses for the satisfaction exemplify the area of social justice. of Justice, Augustine: The City of God, of training these beginners. This year’s recipient has spent his career in Interreligious Dialogues in the Middle Ages, the field of moral and ethical education and In his office hours he challenges students on Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance, development with particular emphasis on their arguments and invites them to think Moral Philosophy since Kant, The German at-risk populations. His work is informed harder and more precisely. The corridors Quest for God, and Ecology and Ethics. by a deep knowledge of the psychology of Decio and O’Shaughnessy halls are He teaches every level of student and every of character development, a sense of the also places where students—present and type of course: from first-year students in possibility of using knowledge to improve past—stop him for quick conversations, the University Seminar Program to German people’s lives, and by his ability to tap the verification of an approach to an assign- students in upper-level majors courses to vast gifts and talents of all individuals. His ment (from a current student) or a running graduate students in dedicated graduate work is always animated by a passionate update on current classes (from a former classes. student). He spends considerable time in commitment to the life of community. He The University of Notre Dame is honored the Honors Program lounge chatting with is a teacher and researcher with passions to present the eighth annual Research honors students, a wonderfully productive for justice and making education available Achievement Award to way to supplement classroom activities to all, whether it is his PLS students, guests and to demonstrate to our students that at the Center for the Homeless, or at-risk Vittorio G. Hösle the life of the mind continues outside the teens in the local high schools. His life and Paul G. Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters structured exchanges of the class. He also writings elegantly articulate the important #8-5-393

2008 REV. WILLIAM A. TOOHEY, C.S.C., 2008 PRESIDENTIAL AWARD Kevin J. Christiano Sociology AWARD FOR PREACHING For 20 years this individual has expertly This year’s Rev. William A. Toohey, C.S.C., represented the University of Notre Dame Michael Detlefsen Award for Preaching is presented to a and assisted in its growth and develop- Philosophy Holy Cross priest who has entered into a ment—on campus, in the community, Paul A. Down number of different facets of ministry at the and throughout the world. During her Art, Art History, and Design University of Notre Dame during his short distinguished career, she has shared her time with us. He preaches often not only in advice and expertise with virtually every Barbara J. Fick the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and in the administrator on campus. As her clients Law residence halls but also participates as one can attest, she makes herself available day Malcolm J. Fraser Jr. of the six homilists for ndprayercast.org. and night, 365 days a year. She is a leader, Biological Sciences The recipient’s homilies are always well a problem solver, a mentor, and a consum- Prashant V. Kamat prepared, and he consistently offers words mate team player. She represents the Chemistry and Biochemistry that inspire, as well as comfort, those who University with integrity, passion and, when listen to him. necessary, tenacity. Alan D. Krieger Hesburgh Libraries Carrying on the work of other Holy Cross Most recently, she tirelessly led the priests who have preceded him in ministry, University’s decennial review of its Gregory P. Kucich he continues to revitalize and devote his Academic Articles. During this complex English energy to work with the growing number and time-consuming review, she provided Louis MacKenzie of Hispanic students through the Latino wise counsel and leadership, and—as Romance Languages and Literatures student ministry programs of Campus always—she willingly “rolled up her sleeves” Ministry. to perform the tedious tasks involved. Scott P. Mainwaring Political Science The University of Notre Dame is proud to This individual announced her retirement present the Rev. William A. Toohey, C.S.C., from the University effective October 1. Holly E. Martin Award for Preaching to Her wisdom, her compassion, and her First Year of Studies dedication to Notre Dame and its people Rev. Ralph L. Haag, C.S.C. will be dearly missed. Kathie E. Newman Rector of St. Edward’s Hall Physics Because she has embodied the Notre 2008 REV. WILLIAM A. TOOHEY, C.S.C., Dame spirit throughout her career at the Terrence W. Rettig AWARD FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE University, we are pleased to present the Physics Presidential Award to The Rev. William A. Toohey, C.S.C., Award Juan M. Rivera for Social Justice is awarded to a man who Carol C. Kaesebier Accountancy has been present at the University of Notre Steven T. Ruggiero Dame off and on for more than ten years. Faculty Recognition and Physics From his days as an undergraduate student on campus, he has always committed a part Promotions Stephen H. Watson Philosophy of his life to service. 50 YEARS OF SERVICE Our recipient has been recognized by the John P. Welle Notre Dame Alumni Association with a Walter R. Johnson Romance Languages and Literatures Physics number of awards and distinctions because TO EMERITA OR EMERITUS of his generous service. Among the current Kenneth M. Sayre James O. Bellis service projects in which our recipient is Philosophy engaged are the Casa de Amistad, St. Joseph Anthropology 50 YEARS OF SERVICE Regional Medical Center Pediatric Therapy, Norman A. Crowe The Logan Center Toy Lending Library, The Walter R. Johnson Architecture Northern Indiana Center for History, and Physics the Reins of Life. Michael J. Etzel Kenneth M. Sayre Marketing The University of Notre Dame is proud to Philosophy confer the Rev. William A. Toohey, C.S.C., Br. Louis Hurcik, C.S.C. Award for Social Justice to 25 YEARS OF SERVICE Physical Education and Wellness Paul R. Brenner Bruce A. Bunker Walter R. Johnson High-performance Computing Engineering, Physics Physics Center for Research Computing 394 Documentation

Donald P. Kommers John A. Blacklow Boldizsár Jankó Political Science Music Physics LeRoy J. Krajewski Patricia L. Clark Joseph M. Powers Management Chemistry and Biochemistry Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering George M. Marsden Jon T. Coleman Gabriel A. Radvansky History History Psychology Vaughn R. McKim Michael T. Ferdig Michael C. Rea Philosophy Biological Sciences Philosophy Ke-Hai Yuan Albert E. Miller J. Nicholas Laneman Psychology Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Electrical Engineering Thomas .J Schlereth Keir A. Lieber TO ENDOWED PROFESSOR American Studies Political Science Bradley D. Smith Sylvia Li-chun Lin Emil T. Hofman Chair TO ASSOCIATE East Asian Languages &Cultures in Chemistry and Biochemistry PROFESSIONAL SPECIALIST Gitta Lubke TO DEPARTMENT CHAIR Connie L. Mick Psychology University Writing Program Charles E. Barber Scott C. Morris Art, Art History, and Design Janet L. O’Tousa Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Donald Crafton Accountancy Film, Television, and Theatre TO TENURE: ASSOCIATE Shauna L. Williams Bei Hu Romance Languages and Literatures PROFESSOR Amy Coney Barrett Mathematics TO PROFESSIONAL SPECIALIST Law Gary A. Lamberti Alan R. DeFrees David T. Mayernik Biological Sciences Architecture Architecture Louis MacKenzie Music Siiri S. Scott Rev. Paulinus I. Odozor, C.S.Sp. Film, Television, and Theatre Theology Richard R. Mendenhall Finance Barbara M. Turpin Steven W. Semes Graduate School Architecture Robert E. Norton David Wayne Thomas German and Russian Languages and Anre Venter Literatures Psychology English TO PROFESSOR John E. Renaud TO ASSOCIATE LIBRARIAN Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Charles E. Barber Jessica N. Kayongo Art, Art History, and Design Michael P. Zuckert Hesburgh Libraries Political Science Anthony J. Bellia Jr. Cheryl S. Smith Law TO ASSOCIATE DEAN Hesburgh Libraries Patricia L. Bellia Roger D. Huang TO LIBRARIAN Law Mendoza College of Business Carole J. Pilkinton Laura A. Carlson William K. Kelley Hesburgh Libraries Psychology Law

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Senior Fellow Comments You’ll start happening too. There can be no doubt that you are the Oh, the places you’ll go! better for having been here together, so now, Rev. William M. Lies, C.S.C. Seniors—and I can only call you that for a bring your very best … to the places you Thursday, May 15, 2008 couple more days—before you take your will go! leave, before all our time together gets away Good night, my friends. from us, let me say just a couple things. Good evening, I am Father Bill Lies, and I am really happy to be with you tonight… I want to invite you to think about where Charge to the Class and I am humbled to receive this honor you are … what you’ve learned … and …     from you—the Notre Dame class of 2008. about the places you will go. But, most importantly, I want you to think about how    It has been a grace for me to walk with you you will be and how you will love along the Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C. these past years… and not just for me, but way … and when you get there. for so many of us. Thursday, May 15, 2008 Promise yourself today that you will be The truth is, in some way, as I stand up On an evening like this, and especially at this people of peace and integrity, people of here tonight, I stand here for all who have Grotto of so many prayers and memories, courage and faith. Be like Christ … and love walked with you. For as you honor me we can already feel some sadness for a like Him, too. For my part, I promise that I tonight, you honor all who have helped you privileged time that is about to come to an will pray for you … I will pray that the Holy to think new thoughts, wrestle with difficult end. But we know that these final days of Spirit of Pentecost, that we celebrate these questions, see the world more clearly, and nostalgia and anxiousness have also been a days, will guide your steps and bless your live a deeper, richer faith. time of blessing and grace. In the midst of all way. I pray that you … and all of us—like these mixed emotions, we manage somehow So, I speak for all your professors and the first disciples sent out—will be continu- to convey genuine affections, treasured priests, your rectors and mentors and ally transformed from frightened followers truths, hopeful words, and some of our friends. to fearless witnesses of Christ. I pray that you deepest beliefs in God’s providence and love: Well, needless to say, with the weight of will find ways to love so well, that people will The last class ends, and a few students linger this responsibility upon me, I’ve thought a wonder about you … will wonder how you to offer gratitude to faculty who have given lot about what to say … and I realized that know and love God so much. them so much in the name of knowledge someone said it better than I ever could … There will be days ahead for you, my and counsel. Dorm residents quickly exit, a while ago. friends, and for us all, when you will long pushing overloaded carts to overstuffed So, let me steal some passages from a great for the Grotto, days when the burdens of life U-Hauls, and on the fly they say kind words mentor to us all … from a book that most weigh too heavy, or to love seems too hard to rectors and housekeepers, sometimes of you know well, because Mom and Dad … in those moments, pray for the Spirit ... summing it all up with a feeble but heartfelt started reading it to you 16 or 17 years ago. and never forget the joy that God’s love can “Thanks for everything.” And, indeed, So, here’s a bit from… no, not Jesus and the bring. The Spirit will come, just as surely as graduates prepare to leave. After lots of Gospels … but Dr. Seuss’s and Oh, The it did to the first disciples, just as surely as it tentative plans to meet for the first home Places You’ll Go: is here now. game next fall, they tell each other just how Congratulations! In closing, I want to share a bit of a passage much they care. The goodness, the sadness, Today is your day. from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamzov that’s in the gratitude, is finally expressed. All those You’re off to Great Places! your program … because I think it would be conversations and good-byes are powerful You’re off and away! wrong for me not to, for it speaks well to what rituals that help us mark an important time you have known here and to how and who of growth and friendship and faith. You have brains in your head. you have become: You have feet in your shoes. In the midst of those moments and at your You can steer yourself any “Let us agree that we shall never kind invitation, I am to offer tonight a direction you choose. forget one another. And even though brief “Charge to the Class of 2008,” which I we may be involved with the most suppose can be thought of as my own little You’re on your own. important affairs, achieve distinction piece of Commencement-like wisdom. And you know what you know. or fall into some great misfortune … With your indulgence, allow me to offer not And YOU are the one who’ll all the same, let us never forget how one piece, but two: Let go of your self. And decide where to go. good it was when we were all to- hold on to your God. Out there things can gether, united by a good and decent First, let go of your self. It’s a strange happen and frequently do feeling, which made us, for that time, reflection on the cusp of Commencement to people as brainy and footsy as you. perhaps better than we actually are.” as you celebrate all of the knowledge, skills, And when things start to happen, maturity, and self-possession that you’ve don’t worry. Don’t stew. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky gained here. In fact, it seems the height of Just go right along. irony that as the best and brightest graduate 396 Documentation

from a distinguished university that what because of a profound gratitude for God’s providence and guidance in your lives. they ought to do somehow is to divest gifts to us in the past, as well as a profound So be thankful. themselves of it all. But that is precisely my trust that God will bring to completion all And finally this is a weekend of anticipa- hope for you. To explain, let me borrow the good things we hope for in years ahead. tion. Graduates, you are about to go on to from a much better source than my own As Joshua says in the Hebrew Scriptures, the next stage of your lives. You no doubt musings. When Jesus describes for his “Choose whom you will serve … but as for feel some excitement about your prospects; friends what a full life is like, he says quite me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” perhaps also a little anxiety, and perhaps, simply and forcefully, “Whoever would save Hold on to your God. too, a little sadness at leaving friends and a a life will lose it, and whoever loses a life for Tonight I offer the simple prayer that all of place you have grown to love. my sake will find it.” There goes Jesus again, us may let go of ourselves and hold on to On this day, in this mix of powerful emo- turning worldly wisdom on its head, chal- our God. In the end, that is the deep mean- tions and thoughts, the Church gives to us lenging some of our favorite notions. ing of the life of Mary, whom we revere at for our reflection and prayer the Feast of Notions like “You are the master of your the Grotto, and that is the essence of the the Holy Trinity: the feast of the doctrine own destiny.” Or that you are the sum of discipleship that follows in the footsteps of that God is three persons—Father, Son, and the accomplishments on your resumé. Or, Jesus Christ. You are our very best hope for Spirit—while remaining wholly one. While as they like to tell you in marketing circles, that discipleship, and for that, especially as we affirm this doctrine, it may initially seem that “It’s all about you.” It’s not. It’s all about you prepare to leave here, we are so proud hard to connect it with today’s turbulent how well you give it away. So I hope you and grateful. Thanks for all that you have mix of thoughts and emotions. The doctrine let go of your self. Commit to a spouse. Or been, and are, and will be to this place. God of the Trinity, one of the most fundamental raise children. Or cultivate good friends. Or bless the Class of 2008, and God bless Notre doctrines in the Christian faith, also care for your parents. Or lift up the poor. Dame. Or devote yourself to something that draws remains one of the most mysterious and on your deepest impulses of generosity. I inaccessible to us. We think we understand hope you spend every last ounce of love Baccalaureate Mass Homily the Trinity, but we most certainly don’t. We proclaim the Trinity, yet we know we on somebody else’s well-being. And I hope Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. you let go of every measure of your own cannot enter into God’s inner life. Saturday, May 17, 2008 ample talent, intelligence, and knowledge So how can this doctrine illumine our day to address issues that threaten our common Brothers and sisters, Paul writes to the today at Notre Dame? What instruction can good, to pursue concerns that go beyond Corinthians, “Rejoice!” Those are appropri- it give us for the road ahead? A great deal, I your private preferences, to build commu- ate words for today. I say the same to you, think. Today’s Gospel begins, “God so loved nities that are broader than just the people graduates, family and friends of our gradu- the world that he gave his only Son, so that who are like you. ates, and all our faculty: Rejoice! Rejoice in everyone who believes in him might not Second, hold on to your God. It fits nicely your accomplishments. perish but have eternal life.” It’s hard to find with letting go of your self. Frankly, most of Rejoice in your family and friends with a more succinct and powerful summary of us don’t have the inner resources to give and whom you share this day. Rejoice in all your the Christian faith than that sentence. gifts. Rejoice in God’s love. You have much serve and love and spend ourselves without The doctrine of the Trinity holds that the to be proud of, so rejoice. prompting of some kind. Even though we Son, Jesus Christ, is fully and truly God. are told that in losing a life we will gain it, This weekend is also a time of remembrance In encountering Jesus, then, we encounter that promise would seem distant and unap- for our graduates. You graduates look back God. Not simply a representative of God, proachable were it not for God, who gives on coming to not simply a great creature, but God him- us everything we need. How else could we Notre Dame years ago. Undergraduates self. You have encountered Christ at Mass. ever explain successes that are beyond our came, if I may say so, as kids. You often You have encountered him in the Eucharist. talents, or friendships and families that acted like it. But you leave very much as You have encountered him in the scriptures. can only be described as unearned gifts, adults and we are very proud of you. Think You have encountered him in so many ways or hardships that we have overcome in the of the friends you’ve made, the memories in your time here, in conversations, and face of staggering odds? God’s providence you shared, what you have learned, the reflection and prayer. You’ve encountered has been more than just a safety net; it has skills acquired, the insights gained. It’s a God in Jesus. been the constant in our time together. good time to remember. The beauty of Commencement at Notre Last Sunday we celebrated the Feast of It’s also a time to be grateful. You graduates Dame is that it means so much more than Pentecost, the day when God sent the Holy would not be here today if not for so many just a celebration of remarkable academic Spirit to the Church. The Holy Spirit dwells people who helped and supported you— achievement in the lives of its distinguished in us, guiding us, strengthening us, com- first your parents, then other relatives; your students. Because we are a place that joins forting us, giving us strength. The doctrine friends, your teachers, your rectors, and so reason and faith, intellectual inquiry and of the Trinity teaches us that the Holy Spirit many other people who’ve helped and sup- spiritual formation, human striving and really is God guiding us, strengthening us, ported you along the way. And you would God’s grace, we find joy in these days consoling us, challenging us in this same not be here were it not for God’s great Spirit. You might have experienced the #8-5-397

Spirit in moments of peace during your world and through your lives. That world Strengthen our faith in the good you call time here; in moments of insight, moments will be changed, will be elevated, will be each of us to offer this world, as we pursue of inspiration, moments of perseverance enriched, will be made better. in confidence our vocation. While the spirit and hope, in a faith that endures. This is our prayer for you. This is our hope of your transfigured Son burns brightly In each of our lives as Christians we partici- for you: In whatever you chose, in whatever within our hearts, we know that we cannot pate in some way in the life of our triune God. life you live, you will bring the Spirit into make tents here; we must come down from We believe in Jesus Christ, we are moved the world and transform it. I am sure that the mountain. Let all we have seen and been entirely by the Spirit and we pray to the each and every one of you will find great trap us not in memory but in a genuine love Father. At every Mass we hear the words of successes and much to be proud of. I am for you as we collaborate in your great work Jesus in the gospels; we receive his body and also sure that you will encounter frustra- of creation. blood. We are brought here by the Spirit. We tions, disappointments, hardships, and May your light shine through us and pray to God, our Father. And when we make detours in your lives. brighten the shadows of every doubt, that the sign of the cross, we say almost without But as we celebrate this Mass, as we celebrate we may remain steadfast in faith, trusting thinking, “In the name of the Father, the Son, the mystery of the Trinity, as we celebrate that who we are is exactly who you call us and the Holy Spirit.” A Christian life is life in God’s love in our lives, I leave you two prom- to be. We ask this through the intercession the triune God. ises: First, wherever you go and whatever you of our Mother Mary, Notre Dame, and her You know we often speak about, but find do, you’ll always be in our prayers here at Son, Jesus Christ, in unity with the Holy difficult to define, the spirit of Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Second, wherever you go and Spirit. Amen. There are so many dimensions, so many whatever you do, you’ll always have a home aspects to it. But I want to suggest today at Notre Dame. Valedictory Remarks that the depth of that spirit, the depth we May God bless you all and continue to Mr. Joshua Hammack all here feel, comes because through God’s work through you for the building of his grace we are each of us, individually and kingdom and the good of the world. Sunday, May 18, 2008 communally, enveloped in God’s mystery in Your Eminence, Father Jenkins, distin- the Holy Trinity: through Christ in whom guished faculty and guests, family, friends, we believe, in the Spirit who moves in our Invocation and fellow graduates: This is an incredibly hearts, to the Father to whom we pray. Mr. Patrick E. Reidy humbling moment, because I know I Our lives daily and intimately touch the mys- didn’t do this alone. Before I get ahead of tery of God, even when we don’t allude to it Sunday, May 18, 2008 myself, I’d like to take some time to thank or even think about it. Through that mystery Let us begin in the name of the Father, and all the people who were so instrumental our lives have the very dignity they possess. of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. in making this day a reality. On behalf of Through that mystery we are the sons and Loving Father, we thank you for all who all the graduates, I’d like to thank all of our daughters of God. Through that mystery we have brought us to this moment. Bless our parents and families, all of the people who feel a call—to go forth, to do good, to serve families and friends who show us your have sacrificed, supported, and cheered the kingdom. goodness each day. Be always with our pro- us on, not only for the last four years, but Last Thursday Father Bill Lies, the 2008 fessors and mentors, including members of for our entire lives. I’d also like to thank senior class fellow, addressed you seniors the Congregation of Holy Cross, who have all the wonderful people who make Notre and spoke about this when he called you guided our search for your truth. Enrich us Dame unique: our rectors and priests, to be people of peace and integrity, people all with the zeal of all of the professors who have continu- of courage and faith. “Be,” he said, “like Father Moreau to make you known, loved, ously encouraged us to think beyond the Christ and love like him, too.” Father Mark and served in our Notre Dame community classroom, the administrators for the great Poorman, in his address to the class, said and around the world. work they do, and the staff and support something similar: “Let go of yourself. that keep our grounds and dorms beautiful Grant us courage as we leave Notre Dame Cling to God.” I say to you today as well, and our dining halls full. Finally, I want to to preach a gospel of hope through our lives live in the mystery of God. Give of your- express how incredibly grateful I am to have as once our Mother Mary brought your selves generously. attended this University, where spirituality word into the world through hers. May and prayer are such an important part of Sorry for the lack of originality, for repeat- we always be mindful of those in greatest our education, and where people are always ing a message for the third time but in so need, remembering especially today those willing to pause from their busy lives to many ways it’s the central message of our whose lives were recently touched by the help a friend. Whether it was lighting a lives. If you continue to live in the mystery disasters in Myanmar and China. May we candle at the Grotto, an evening service in of God’s presence in your life, in the be men and women of compassion, ready to the dorm, or Mass in the Basilica, we have mystery of God’s love, in the mystery of the serve your people with generous hearts and always come together as a community to Trinity, you will carry with you the depth of undying love. give thanks for our blessings and ask God what you’ve learned and experienced here for assistance in times of need. at Notre Dame. 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Allow me to move on to a story that began compliment, because God didn’t put us live in a dream world, and there are some four years ago and happens to coincide with here to be ordinary anyway. And when who face reality; and then there are those our arrival here on campus. A close friend you really think about it, it’s the people precious, crazy few who turn one into the of mine goes to the University of Hawaii who were called crazy and the events once other. But the thing that sets those people and, back in August of 2004, we both called impossible that have had some of the apart is the willingness to dare, the willing- arrived at our respective schools. That first biggest impacts on our lives. Just imagine ness not just to dream, but to take a chance, day, Notre Dame was beautiful and sunny; coming to America to found a university too. I’ve come to realize that the only way to barely even a cloud in the sky. In fact, it with only $300 in your pocket. Many would be truly happy is to risk losing everything was two degrees warmer here than it was in call that crazy, and many would argue that for what you believe. If you can find the Hawaii … Yeah, that was a cruel trick! You founding a long-lasting institution with so thing that’s worth taking that risk, there’s see, in December of that same year, as she little is impossible, but Father Sorin would no question as to whether or not you’ll be swam with dolphins in 80 degree weather, disagree. And, through this University, he successful. Because it’s trying when you I left my 12 by 15 dorm room to trek to continues to change the world today, not know you can lose, when you know you can DeBartolo through eight inches of snow, in only in those who attend Notre Dame, but really fail, that sets you apart. And, in truth, subzero temperatures, not having seen the also in all the people we touch. You see, only failure should never be a deterrent. We sun for what seemed like months. And at when you’re willing to dare the so-called are all doomed to fail at some point in our that moment, as the 20- mile-an-hour wind “impossible” can you achieve the incredible. lives. That’s just part of being human. It’s cut through my winter jacket, I wondered And for those precious few who are coura- how you react to failure that will ultimately for the first time if perhaps I was crazy. geous enough to take the risk, “crazy” has an determine how far you go. If you can move You know, the kind of crazy that seems to odd tendency of turning into “brilliant.” So, from one failure to the next without losing have inspired previous generations to walk embrace the label; it’s nothing more than a faith, without losing hope, and without through snow to school barefoot, uphill, precursor to greatness. losing your passion, success will be the only both ways. But as I looked around, I was Speaking of the impossible, I believe that thing left. Because experience is little more comforted by the fact that I was far from word takes unfair blame for people’s unwill- than a great collection of mistakes from alone. Hundreds of other students seemed ingness to try. It seems like whenever you which you have learned what not to do and, just as crazy as I was—bundled in multiple have an audacious goal, someone wants to thus, have derived some pattern for what layers of coats and scarves, making that focus on its impracticality. And it’s easy to should be done. And the simplest formula very same trek. Shortly thereafter, I realized give up on something you know will be dif- for success is persistence and perseverance. we are all crazy, and maybe crazy isn’t such ficult, something perhaps no one else even It is the culmination of several failures and a bad thing. That’s right, I believe Notre believes can happen, but those are exactly many sleepless nights, and it’s the absolute Dame has made us crazy. In fact, it’s kind the goals worth fighting for. So from now refusal to stop when others have already of hard to argue against when you think on, if people aren’t telling you it’s impossi- walked away. about it. Students who agree to four years of ble, you haven’t set your goals high enough. But the really great thing about Notre Dame those treacherous winters, who trade sleep Nothing truly great has ever been achieved is that, while it certainly has taught us a for club involvement and service trips, who with unanimous support. To change things, lot and changed us greatly, it has avoided actually believe they can make a difference to really make a difference, you must be molding us. We don’t come off of some in places like Bangladesh and willing to be opposed, to be called crazy, to Notre Dame assembly line ready for the Darfur … it sure seems crazy. And just look be told it’s impossible, because it’s how you world. Rather, we leave with our individual- at the football games: student push-ups after respond in those moments that will define ity intact, prizing the things that make us every touchdown, perfectly synchronized you. Others will always be quick to tell you unique, each crazy in our own way. We cheers, standing for four hours straight … what you can’t do, but you should never be haven’t been told what to think, and no an- It’s all crazy! No one can deny it. But our content doing the things everyone knows swers have ever been handed to us; instead, craziness is much deeper than all of that. you can do. Now, you must dare to do the we have been shown how to think, and When you get right down to it, Notre things no one believes you can do. And let we’ve learned how to search for answers. Dame has made us crazy because it has every person, every voice who tells you “you And that’s precisely what we are called to do made us believe. It’s encouraged us to see can’t” propel you to prove that you can. as we move forward. We have all been ex- potential where no one else believes any Because seeing a change that needs to occur posed to the many collective problems that exists. It’s fostered this incredible notion is only the beginning. Having a dream is a plague our world today. But Notre Dame that we are actually capable of changing good start, but it’s not enough. It’s the effort has also shown us that recognizing those things and, thus, it has compelled us to and the action, the willingness to work problems isn’t enough. We must become action. You see, only the perfectly sane through trials and failure, and the dedica- part of the solution by stepping forward are ever willing to admit they’re crazy and tion to doing things the right way that allow and working for change, by being willing to embrace the freedom it provides. But it’s us to really make a difference. To borrow share the gifts we’ve been given. And that’s always the ones who are crazy enough to from former Canadian Senator Douglas what sets us apart as a community and as a believe they can actually change the world, Everett, people can essentially be divided University, because it’s one thing to get what who do. So, being called crazy is quite a into three categories: there are some who #8-5-399

you want, but it’s quite another to give what and fathers and your families. I want to say that I am very much out of place among you have. that the valedictorian really set the bar very them, but I join them with great recognition We each have the rare ability to say we’ve high for the rest of us this afternoon. of the honor which you do me today, which graduated from Notre Dame. It’s an honor First of all, may I greet my dear brother and I have in speaking to you. just to be accepted, just to be among the friend, Bishop John D’Arcy. The bishop has I want to offer my joyful congratulations few who ever get the opportunity to walk been a wonderful, thoughtful and coura- to all of you as you achieve this great this campus as students. It’s no more than a geous servant of the Church, especially here milestone in your life. To graduate from the dream to so many people, but we’ve actually in Indiana, for so many years. He has also University of Notre Dame is an honor and a lived it. And, because of this accomplish- been a great and loyal friend of Notre Dame. distinction that will be with you for the rest ment, we’ve been blessed with a great It was at his encouragement that I accepted of your lives. Allow me too, to congratulate burden. Wonderful things will be expected the awesome privilege of talking to you all your parents and your families and to of us simply because of our association today, a task which I approach with deep thank them for the sacrifices which they with this great University. But we can’t be recognition of the honor and the responsibil- have made to make it possible for you to content with mere expectations. We can’t be ity of trying to say something that will truly come to this University. For them, there is a satisfied defining ourselves in terms of what be meaningful and not just for today, but for justifiable pride today as you graduate from others think. We are here precisely because your future. Notre Dame. we’re crazy enough to continuously ask On that note, I want to mention that I had Let me begin with a story. It’s a personal sto- more of ourselves. We’ve demanded more heard that a number of my fellow graduates ry, but I hope it will give you a smile. Some than anyone else has even imagined. Now, had hoped that the famous Bono might weeks ago, I was visiting one of my nieces it’s time to be daring. It’s time to spark the be our commencement speaker. Now as a who has been blessed with a large number of changes that today seem impossible, time friend of Bono, I also thought that would be children. In the course of a conversation to make the world see that, at Notre Dame, a good idea, and so I did the next best with her 6-year-old—very difficult to have a with God as your guide and the Blessed thing. I called him and I told him about our long conversation with a 6-year-old—but in Mother at your side, all things are possible. graduation and I asked him to give me a the course of that conversation, I mentioned Before I close, I want to thank one last thought that I might share with you. I told that I was going to receive an honorary de- group of people: everyone who ever told him it could be serious or funny. His serious gree from Notre Dame. The little guy said: me that a moment like this was impossible, thought was very powerful. For me it was “Notre Dame, WOW!” He said it so loudly every person who said I was crazy for like a short meditation. that his mother came in from the kitchen dreaming I could even come here. Without He asked me to tell you to choose your and asked what that was all about. When I those people, I may have never seen just enemies carefully, because you will be told her, she looked at me and smiled. And how possible it really was. Listen, these defined by that choice. He suggested that then she said, “WOW!” (As you see, we are next few steps may be shaky ones for each oftentimes, our enemies are within us, and a bit vocabulary-challenged in my family.) of us, but just remember that you’ll always he volunteers that his enemy had been That is not the end of the story. When my have the support of your family. And now indifference. I answered for all of us that 13-year-old nephew came home an hour we graduate into an extensive family, one he had certainly conquered that enemy, later, his little brother told him immediately which literally spans the globe—the Notre and that his extraordinary commitment about the honorary degree. He got it right, Dame family. It’s our responsibility to the poor and the suffering of the world, although he pronounced it somewhat he- to uphold that rich tradition, while taking especially the underdeveloped nations of roically. The teenager, on hearing the news, on new challenges and embracing every Africa, was a great testimony to the victory. turned to his mother in disbelief and said in opportunity, always remaining just crazy I just thought I would share with you this his high, subtly changing enough to change the world. powerful message today and at the same falsetto: “Uncle Ted, a degree from Notre Thank you. time, to give you his regards. Dame? REALLY!” I want also to greet our Laetare Medalist, Two WOWS and a REALLY—and from Undergraduate School President Josiah Bart– … I mean, Martin three different age groups! What an enor- Sheen, who in so many ways has been a mous tribute to any institution. There is Commencement Address great example to every one of us. I suspect probably not a college in the nation that can there may be a number of write-in ballots do better than that. Let’s talk about why for Theodore E. Cardinal McCarrick to return him to the West Wing next a few minutes this afternoon, and reflect on Sunday, May 18, 2008 November. the challenge and responsibility that comes Father President, Your Excellency, Bishop Truly, it is really an honor and a privilege from being that kind of a place in the hearts D’Arcy, my dear brother priests, my dear for me to be giving this talk. I know and minds of people. Brothers and Sisters in Consecrated Life, that I join an extraordinary group of For most people in our country, I would members of the faculty and administration, distinguished Americans and citizens of the guess that Notre Dame is a combination of my dear fellow graduates of the Class of world who have stood before a graduating a number of great and wonderful things. 2008 and, in a special way, your mothers class of Notre Dame over the years. I realize It is an outstanding house of studies, a 400 Documentation

true educational powerhouse, a center That is true, I believe, not only of those we may deepen our understanding of why of scientific and sociological research, a who profess our faith or who are guided the reputation of this University brings out welcome harbor for reflection and spiritual by our rule of life, but in a real sense true the OHs and the AHs, the WOWS and the values, a place where learning and athletic of all who sign on as crew or passengers REALLYs of so many. excellence tend to go hand-in-hand, an on this exciting voyage on the high seas of Born in 1799 and died in 1873, Father ever-developing think tank for the nation university education. Pope Benedict, just Moreau lived the challenging political and and for the world. Notre Dame, indeed, is a month ago on his historic journey to our religious life of France in an age of vast and all those things, but as a Catholic university country, summed it up with eloquence rapid change. The great blessing of Basil it is more. My own Archbishop, Donald and clarity: “First and foremost, every is that he never changed, he was always Wuerl, who has been a great grace to the Catholic educational institution is a place the same person, dedicated to education, Church in our country as a major Catholic to encounter the Living God Who, in Jesus especially dedicated to the education of the educator and leader, spoke to a national Christ, reveals His transforming love and poor. A humble man, and yet a strong man. educational association a few months ago in truth… in this way, those who meet Him A man who could be direct, and a man these words: “A Catholic university has the are drawn by the very power of the Gospel who could be stubborn, but always a man unique capacity to deal with and emphasize to lead a new life characterized by all that is who loved the Church, embraced the Holy the spiritual beautiful, good and true.” Notre Dame fits Cross, and loved his Congregation. dimension of human life. Revelation, that description, and perhaps nowhere more religious conviction and faith enable than in the great spiritual and pastoral life it It was his extraordinary trust in God the student and professor to carry our offers to its students. and his confidence in God’s help which allowed him to face challenge and difficulty, understanding of human existence beyond And so, today is for me—your new and the natural and physically viable into the obstacle, and disappointment. Blessed Basil rather ancient classmate—a very great found it most important that education spiritual dimension needed for full and honor to sign on with you as you come to complete human life.” be filled with hope. Constantly he would the glorious conclusion of this adventure, talk of his priests and brothers as those Our own Prof. Scott Appleby—you note sailing these waves of higher education who have cause to be “men with hope to that I say “our own” because I already feel through calm seas and sometimes turbulent bring, those who could make God known, that I am close to graduating—mentions ones. I pray that this sail has been a happy loved, and served, for there is the promise that diversity is one of the great strengths one for you. It has, of course, not been we are called to live.” It is interesting that of Catholic higher education. He speaks without the challenges that taught you Pope Benedict, when he came to America of different types of Catholic institutions, how to grow in your ability to stand fast as last month, spoke clearly to this in a very one of which might “urge retreat into a you learned to navigate the weaving decks similar way: “Catholic education is an Catholic enclave walled with great books, of changing times and shifting currents, outstanding apostolate of hope. To all of others which would stress the centrality of a to gain a balance of your strengths and you, I say bear witness to hope, account for vibrant campus ministry and liturgical life. opportunities, and to seek the signs that the hope that characterizes your lives by Still others, which would prioritize social are necessary to understand as you join the living the truth which you propose to your outreach and justice and peace activism multitudes of other travelers along the paths students.” or awareness as the guarantor of Catholic that hopefully lead to the fulfillment of your identity.” But as we look at Notre Dame, dreams. The Pope is very clear about what real it can claim all three of those models to Catholic education is all about. He said, But we still need to discover what is it that “Catholic identity is not dependent mirror and so to represent what is best in Notre Dame deserves two WOWS and a Catholic higher education. on statistics. Neither can it be equated REALLY. What do people look to see in the simply with orthodoxy of course content. It In a sense, Notre Dame faces an enormous men and women of Notre Dame? Maybe demands and inspires much more: namely, challenge. It is not an ordinary university. another story will help. This past year has that each and every aspect of your learning It is not an ordinary Catholic university. been a specially blessed one for Notre communities reverberate with the ecclesial Oftentimes, the fact of your singular promi- Dame. It was the year in which the founder light of faith.” Basil Moreau is not far nence and your scholastic excellence in of the Congregation of Holy Cross was sol- behind him. Listen to his words: “Education fields of study both classic and prophetic emnly recognized by the Church as Blessed. in its proper sense implies the expansion implies a greater responsibility. The world Brilliant educator, zealous missionary, and cultivation of all the faculties, mental of academe has always understood that to prudent leader, and meticulous administra- and physical—the cultivation of the heart as those to whom more has been given, more tor, Blessed Basil Moreau made a difference well as the mind, and of these the formation may be required. In the world of Catholic in his own lifetime—and, through the and enrichment of the heart is undoubtedly universities, a leader must strive to be first Congregations he founded, in the lives of the more important of the two.” He goes not only in scholarship and in vision, but millions of men and women, just like you on to say the education of the heart and first in example and in the courageous and me. We should not be surprised if the the development of a family spirit in each witness to the truths which it holds and kind of education we receive at Notre Dame school at every level was what embodied teaches. bears the mark of Blessed Basil Moreau, the educational vision of Blessed Basil. so that if we look at him and his history, #8-5-401

Yet it was not just the family spirit that sum- be to the poor, to those who have no one of poverty, and to proclaim the dignity of marized the educational vision of Blessed else to show them preference, to those who every human being. To that accomplish- Basil. He wanted an institution that was have the least knowledge, to those who lack ment we can proudly add the work of excellent. He would suffer no compromise skills and talents, and to those who are not the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, to with excellence. That was a quest that every Catholic or Christian.” He was determined which Notre Dame has given a home, like one of his schools should have, and he was to reach out to those who didn’t have the the Kroc Institute, as well as many of the very clear about it. He was determined that opportunities that he and others had, the countless other initiatives, which have put his schools, the schools of the Congregation, grace, the chance, the gifts! The wonderful Notre Dame in the forefront of initiatives be not only equal to and able to compete story when as a youth, he entered the for a better, a more just and humane and with the schools of the state, but that they seminary at Le Mans, his father walked with peaceful world. accept in every form, in every field, the him the 50 miles of the journey, embraced I guess I give a lot of credit to Blessed challenge of being better. Here is a quote him, and walked back home again on foot. Basil Moreau. I believe that his spirit is from Basil on education: “No one need fear Basil knew what it was to be poor. He would still present here in a special way. It is the that we shall confine our teaching within never turn the poor away. spirit of a combative, zealous, brilliant, and narrow and unscientific boundaries; no, we He also knew that the whole person is not courageous man. His life is an adventure of wish to accept science without prejudice just mind and body, but mind and body faith, an adventure of generosity, and what and in a manner adapted to the needs of the and soul. And therefore, this institution, so we say of Blessed Basil, we must be able to times. But we shall always place education firmly founded in this family in the Church, say of Notre Dame. This, then, is the chal- side-by-side with instruction; the mind must never cease to give the clear signs lenge. Whatever your faith, whatever your will not be cultivated at the expense of the that it has never lost its character as a place background, whatever your talents, use h e ar t .” where the inspired teachings of its founder them for others, build a better world, strive In the quest for excellence in education, are revered and modeled and where the val- beyond your own abilities, reach beyond there can always be shades of opinion. ues of the Gospel are lived and proclaimed. your grasp, make a difference. If a man The Holy Father spoke of them in his I truly believe that it is on this foundation whose long life was almost totally confined great homily at Yankee Stadium last that all those WOWS and REALLYs are to a middle-sized city in the northwestern month. Pope Benedict says, “Authority, brought to life. part of France could be responsible for the obedience, to be frank, these are not easy In an eloquent talk in Rome to the Trustees revolution in American Catholic education words to speak nowadays. Words like these of the University, Bishop Daniel Jenky of that Notre Dame has accomplished, and represent a stumbling block for many of Peoria, a member of the family of Moreau, continues to accomplish, then you and I our contemporaries, especially in a society speaks very clearly and beautifully. He asks can accept no lesser challenge than that of which places a high value on freedom. But the question, “Is there any other single making our globalized world more human the Gospel teaches us that true freedom … Catholic school you know about that has and more humane, more committed to the is found only in the self-surrender which is at last count, 64 chapels where Mass is protection of life and dignity, of peace and part of the mystery of love. Only by losing celebrated and the Eucharist is reserved? justice, of faith and love. It is because of ourselves, the Lord tells us, do we truly find Is there any place on earth, except perhaps this commitment that Notre Dame merits ourselves.” Blessed Basil would have no Lourdes and Rome, where Mary is more at least two WOWS and a REALLY and trouble with that, believing it, teaching it, deeply and universally reverenced than at why you and I must live so that we deserve and organizing his religious Congregation her school and at her campus?” Blessed them, too. on the basis of those principles. He says in Basil once wrote to his religious commu- May God bless you on your journey, dear the preface to his book on Christian educa- nity, “An education that is complete is one friends, dear fellow graduates, and may tion a wonderful statement, “Society … in which the hearts and hands are engaged angels go with you and keep you safe along needs people of virtue more than people of as much as the mind.” And that is certainly the way. learning.” This comes from a man who was what he had in mind when he launched this Thank you. really an educator and determined to make great enterprise of Catholic education. sure that people learned, but he never lost his compass. He never lost the value system Shortly after his inauguration as President The Laetare Medal which was so important for his life and his of the University, Father Jenkins convened a work. national task force on the future of Catholic Martin Sheen schools in the United States. The teaching A Recipient’s Remarks There is still another element that we can of Basil Moreau is echoed on every page of always see clearly in the reflection of Basil that document and initiatives, like Notre Sunday, May 18, 2008 Moreau. We must be able to see this always Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education, are Thank you. Thank you so much. As the as we look at Notre Dame and, indeed, signs not just of the importance of Catholic as we look at ourselves as well. It is Basil’s former acting President of the United education that is seen so clearly here, but States, I now have the best of both worlds: dedication to the education of the poor. He a desire to be faithful to the teaching of writes to his brothers, “If at times you show a successful administration and a Notre Blessed Basil, to give the poor the very best Dame degree. But I am here principally preference to any young person it should in education, to break through the cycle 402 Documentation

because I believe that every single one of us family, and I am deeply grateful. For more and the answer is simple, I haven’t a clue. has the power to lift up this nation and all than half a century, this institution has But it was less a conscious effort than it was its people to a place: been my ideal. And for seven years, one of a natural progression. I learned early on “Where the mind is without fear, and the most satisfying aspects of being on The that you serve yourself best when you serve the head is held high; West Wing was portraying an American others first. Of course, if you grow up in a Where knowledge is free; President who was a graduate of Notre large, poor, immigrant family, chances are Where the world has not been broken Dame. I thought Josiah Bartlett was as close you’re either Irish-Catholic or Hispanic. up into fragments by narrow, domes- as I was ever likely to come to a personal I was lucky enough to be both, so I had tic walls; relationship with the Fighting Irish, until a huge advantage when it came to social Where words come out from the now. So thanks to your dangerously gener- justice activism. depth of truth; ous gift. I’m afraid we’re stuck with each Indeed the truth is mighty and it shall Where tireless striving stretches its other, and I couldn’t be happier. prevail. arms towards perfection; I was working in Canada, where they’re “Each time someone stands up for Where the clear stream of reason has not as familiar with this honor, and it was an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of not lost its way into the dreary desert announced, and I overheard a discussion others, or strikes out against injus- sand of dead habit; between two gentlemen on the crew. One tice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of Where the mind is led forward by said, “What’s this thing Sheen’s getting hope, and crossing each other from thee into ever- widening thought and from Notre Dame?” The other responded, a million different centers of energy action— “Oh, I guess it’s some thing they give you and daring, those ripples build a Into that heaven of freedom, my in the States if you live long enough and current which can sweep down the Father, let our country awake.” stay Catholic.” Indeed, the truth is mighty. mightiest walls of repression and Amen. Although, I did not hesitate to accept this injustice.” honor, I was not unaware of the glory of Some of you recognize that as a poem from its promise, or the demands of its purpose. Those words were spoken at the University Rabindranath Tagore, who was one of Nor was I unmindful of the historic and of Capetown in South Africa in 1966 India’s great poet laureates. He won the heroic ranks of previous recipients and their by Robert Francis Kennedy. They are Nobel Prize for literature in 1917, the year extraordinary contributions; on the contrary. enshrined on his memorial at Arlington that fellow Laetare Medal recipient, John Yet more than anything else, what quickened National Cemetery as well, and they have Kennedy, was born. Tagore was a great my response to accept it was the fact that, been a powerful source of inspiration for friend and supporter of Ghandi. In fact, without exception, each and every single my generation ever since. it was Tagore who gave Gandhi the name recipient evoked a common humanity and Whether we acknowledge it or not, we Mahatma, which means “Great Spirit.” common goal inspired by an iconic young are all responsible for each other and the He died in 1941, seven years before India rabbi, who assured us all more than 2,000 world, which is exactly the way it is, because achieved independence, but when they years ago that to know the truth would set us consciously or unconsciously, we have made did in 1948, the Indian government chose free. So, therefore, this annual gathering is a it so. And while none of us made any of the one of his poems as the words for their celebration of freedom in the truest sense of rules that govern the universe or the human national anthem. And I learned that poem the word, and I am grateful for the invitation heart, we are all beneficiaries of a divine in 1981, while I was in India to play a role to attend this year’s party. promise, that the world is still a safe place in Gandhi, which I am happy to say was despite our fears, and we in it, are not asked a very successful movie everywhere, but I have been an actor all my life. In fact, I have no conscious memory of ever not to do great things; we are asked to do all nowhere was it more successful than in things with great love. Hollywood. Go figure. But it won the Oscar being an actor. I couldn’t identify it as such for Best Picture in 1982, and everyone in when I was a child, until I started going to Surely, a lofty ideal as rare in a culture of Hollywood seemed to love Gandhi. In fact, the movies around the age 5 or 6, and then so many compromised values and so much everyone in Hollywood wanted to be just it gradually began to dawn on me that, cynicism, a culture that all too often knows like Gandhi—thin, tan, and moral. “Oh, I was one of those people up on the the price of everything and the value of screen.” And it was an extremely comforting nothing. Yet, there remains a very real and For the past few months, I have had a revelation because I knew even then, that I mysterious yearning, deep within each nagging fear that the reality of this moment, would never be happy unless I pursued that and every human heart that compels us to in this historic place, would be such that wondrous mystery that possessed me and journey outside of ourselves by descending anything I might try to add to it would be it gave me a possession of myself. So, in a deeper within. Yet this inadvertent root anticlimactic. And so I resolve that come sense, my chosen profession was a foregone must be built to the specifications of the what may, I would accept this cup as of- conclusion, and taking it all and all, I have individual heart, and the cost is high. If it fered, not altered. But to my great relief, and not the slightest regret. were not so, we would be left to question to your eternal credit, from the moment I But while acting is what I do for a living, its value. For some of us in this journey, it arrived here on campus, I have been taken may be a natural progression; for some, it up in the warm embrace of the Notre Dame activism is what I do to stay alive. And I’m often asked how I came to unite the two, may be a sudden shift; for some, it may be #8-5-403

the result of a near-death experience, or a and those voices need to be reminded that dead-end realization. For some, it may be arrogance is ignorance matured. less a journey than a pilgrimage. America is the oldest country in the world It does not matter how we define it or when because it was the first to enter the 20th it begins, but it is absolutely essential that century, which was made possible in large it continue, because it is only here we can measure because for the first 200 years come to know ourselves, in deeply revealing of our history, America opened its doors ways that confirm our worth and define our wider and kept them open longer than any purpose. It is here where we are forced to other nation on earth. The immigration acknowledge our powerlessness, and where issue is a vastly complex one that is worthy we begin to realize how truly powerful we of an honest, intelligent, and compassionate are. It is here where the ego befriends the debate, not blame, angry resentment, or truth, and we are free to visualize the very the cowardly irresponsible bluster that so first small, conscious acts of heroism that currently dominates so much of the popular bring rejection from the crowd and satisfac- media. And I think, from time to time we tion from the heart. And it is here into this all need a very gentle reminder of how this world, this demented end inn, where there great experiment in democracy got started. is absolutely no room for Him at all, that “Not like the brazen giant of Greek Christ comes, uninvited, to lift us up and set fame, us on the path that will unite the will of the whose conquering limbs astride from spirit to the work of the flesh. land to land; The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates, at gates of heaven, and he asks to be let in, shall stand and St. Peter says, “Of course. Show us your A mighty woman with a torch, whose scars.” The man says, “I have no scars.” St. flame Peter says, “What a pity. Was there nothing Is the imprisoned lightning, and her worth fighting for?” name However we perceive the purpose of our Mother of Exiles. From her beacon- journey or the route we pursue, at the final hand twilight, when we must confront the reality Glows world-wide welcome; her mild of that undiscovered realm from which no eyes command traveler returns, the only things we can take The air-bridged harbor that twin-cities with us are the things which we cherished frame. and gave away with love, including our precious time and talent. “‘Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she I began my remarks with a poem by Tagore With silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, to honor America, and I would like to your poor, conclude with a poem by Emma Lazarus to Your huddled masses yearning to honor all of America’s immigrants, which breath free, includes both of my parents. My father was The wretched refuse of your teeming Francisco Estévez, born near Vigo, Spain, shore. on July 2, 1898. Oy vey! The very day the Send these, the homeless, tempest- United States declared war on Spain. My tossed to me. mother was Mary Ann Phelan, born in I lift my lamp beside the golden door!’” County Tipperary, Ireland, on May 22, 1903. They met in Dayton, Ohio, and were Thank you. Now go out and change the married in 1927. She had 12 pregnancies, 10 world. survived, nine boys and one girl. I was their seventh son, and my real name is Ramón. We are hearing a great deal of anti- immigration rhetoric these days, and some of it is even coming from public servants, which is disturbing. But what is far worse are the many unchallenged, swaggering, arrogant, immigrant-bashing voices across the land, 404 Research

Research Awards and Proposal Summary 05/01/2008 to 05/31/2008

Awards Received

Category No. Amount

Research 60 $7,045,908 Instructional Programs 1 $450,386 Total: 61 $7,496,294

Proposals Submitted

Category No. Amount Research 58 $17,934,829 Instructional Programs 2 $374,266 Total: 60 $18,309,095

May 2008 Cumulative summary Awards Received

07.01.2005 - 05.31.2006 07.01.2006 - 05.31.2007 07.01.2007 - 05.31.2008 Category No. Amount No. Amount No. Amount Research 358 $60,786,574 393 $62,311,030 392 $75,510,069 Facilities and Equipment Instructional Programs 3 $308,546 6 $729,452 11 $1,501,791 Other Programs Service Programs 1 $6,500 Total: 361 $61,095,120 399 $63,040,482 404 $77,018,360

Proposals Submitted

07.01.2005 - 05.31.2006 07.01.2006 - 05.31.2007 07.01.2007 - 05.31.2008 Category No. Amount No. Amount No. Amount Research 758 $191,326,608 725 $252,220,556 649 $232,416,268 Facilities and Equipment Instructional Programs 23 $4,317,101 34 $3,968,117 31 $3,239,245 Other Programs 1 $5,000 1 $9,750 4 $112,500 Service Programs Total: 782 $195,648,709 760 $256,198,423 684 $235,768,013 All awards and proposals are credited in the Monthly Summaries report to the academic department of the primary principal investigator. The Office of Research proposal routing form asks principal investigators to indicate at the time the proposal is submitted which unit will be responsible for the conduct of the project. If that unit is a center or institute the proposal/award is included in the Centers/Institutes report that is a subset of the Monthly Summaries report. The Office of Research is doing what it can to ensure all units receive credit for the proposals/awards they submit and receive. However, it depends on the PI to properly iden- tify responsibility for the project at the time the proposal is submitted. Please notify the Office of Research at [email protected] or 631-7432 if you are aware of any proposals or awards that have not been properly credited to a center or institute.

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months

Awards for Research Department or Office: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Corke, Thomas C. Wind Tunnel for Department of the Air $56,286 24 Airbourne Platform Force Nelson, Robert C. Laser and Flight Thomas, Flint O. Control Dunn, Patrick F. (Center or Institute) Jumper, Eric J. Morris, Scott C.

Niebur, Glen L. Growth of Trabecular National Institutes of $214,650 12 Bone Damage Due to Health Ovaert, Timothy C. Off-Axis Loads

Renaud, John E. GOALI: Hybrid Cellular National Science $274,095 36 Automata for Topology Foundation (Center or Institute) and Topography Synthesis in Automotive Structural Design.

Department or Office: Anthropology

Chesson, Meredith S. Numeira: Excavations Harvard University $30,000 9 at the Town Site (1977-1983) Volume 4 of the final Publications of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan

Chesson, Meredith S. Place, Identity, and National Geographic $24,733 18 Connectivity In Bronze Society Age Calabria: Household Archaeology at Sant' Aniceto

Schurr, Mark R. Register Nomination Indiana Department of $4,842 13 for the Collier Lodge Natural Resources Archaeological Site (12 Pr 36)

Sheridan, Susan G. REU Site: National Science $90,087 36 Undergraduate Foundation Research in Biocultural Anthropology

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months Department or Office: Biological Sciences

Belovsky, Gary E. Contract to conduct State of Utah $69,001 12 laboratory and in situ experiments on brine shrimp

Boyd, Sunny K. Comutational Models National Science $169,998 48 for Neuroendocrine Foundation (Center or Institute) Control of Social Behavior

Duman, John G. Collaborative National Science $204,606 36 Research: Deep Foundation Supercooling to -100C and Lower in Alaska Populations of the Beetle Cucujus Clavipes

Feder, Jeffrey L. Collaborative National Science $58,000 48 Research: Diapause Foundation Energetics in the Apple Maggot Rhagoletis Pormonella

Fraser, Malcolm J. Developing Transgenic Corporate Funding $140,000 26 Silkworms as Bioreactors for Novel Silk Fibers

Lamberti, Gary A. Dean John A Knauss University of $40,132 12 Marine Policy Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (Center or Institute) Fellowship

Severson, David W. Molecular Genetics of National Institutes of $638,769 12 Dengue Resistance in Health Romero-Severson, Jeanne Mosquitoes (Center or Institute) Streit, Thomas G.

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months Department or Office: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Brennecke, Joan F. Ionic Liquids for CO2 Private Foundation $61,000 12 Capture from (Center or Institute) Advanced Post-Combustion or Advanced Pre-Combustion Gases

Zhu, Yingxi E. Water-Immersed Department of Energy $70,302 36 Polymer Interfaces and the Role of their Materials Properties on Biolubrication

Department or Office: Chemistry and Biochemistry

DuBois, Jennifer Cloning Expression Environmental Protection $37,000 36 and Characterization Agency of Chlorite Dismutase from Dechloromonas Aromatic ...

Helquist, Paul Computational Design, American Chemical $100,000 24 Virtual Screening and Society Experimental Validation of Chiral Catalysts.

Henderson, Kenneth W. Development of National Science $121,000 36 s-Block Foundation Organometallic Reagents

Kuno, Masaru K. CAREER: Disorder National Science $110,000 36 induced optical Foundation heterogeneity in solution based straight/branched nanowires

Mobashery, Shahriar Resistance to National Institutes of $64,061 12 Beta-Lactam Health Antibiotics

Smith, Bradley D. Molecular Probes for National Institutes of $329,812 36 Biomembrane Health Recognition

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months

Taylor, Richard E. Conformation - National Institutes of $279,648 12 Activity Relationships Health (Center or Institute)

Wiest, Olaf G. Antimicrobial Drug University of Pittsburgh $32,922 12 Discovery Scheme for (Center or Institute) Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

Department or Office: Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

Fein, Jeremy B. The Role of Sulfhydryl Princeton University $35,607 12 Sites on Bacterial Cell Walls in Affecting Metal Mobilities in Contaminated Groundwater Systems.

Westerink, Joannes J. USACE - St. Charles Corporate Funding $8,00 9 Parish Surge Sensitivity Analysis

Westerink, Joannes J. USACE-Developing U.S. Army Corps of $72,723 8 Advanced Hurricane Engineers Storm Surge Modeling Capabilities-Research Needs

Westerink, Joannes J. USACE - Mississippi Corporate Funding $14,700 9 River Surge Propagation

Department or Office: Computer Science & Engineering

Chen, Danny Z. Graph-Based Medical University of Iowa $96,532 34 Image Segmentation in 3D and 4D

Kogge, Peter M. Support of ExaScale Georgia Institute of $17,771 19 Computing Feasibility Technology Study

Poellabauer, Christian NDMesh: A Test Bed Department of Navy $259,874 12 for Experimental Laneman, J. N. Research and Striegel, Aaron Education on Wireless Mesh Networks

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months

Striegel, Aaron CAREER: National Science $12,000 60 Transparent Foundation Techniques for Bandwidth Conservation

Department or Office: Electrical Engineering

Bernstein, Gary H. Quilt Packaging Corporate Funding $63,000 4 Development Fay, Patrick J.

Hall, Douglas C. High-Index-Contrast National Science $6,000 36 Waveguides for Foundation (Center or Institute) Enhanced Optoelectronic Devices and Integration

Jena, Debdeep Diodes Fabricated Corporate Funding $30,150 7 from BTD-grown GaN (Center or Institute)

Porod, Wolfgang Biologically-Inspired Department of Navy $160,965 62 CNN Image Bernstein, Gary H. Processors with Fay, Patrick J. Dynamically-Integrated Hyperspectral Huang, Yih-Fang Nanoscale Sensors (Center or Institute)

Porod, Wolfgang Biologically-Inspired Department of Navy $266,675 62 CNN Image Bernstein, Gary H. Processors with Fay, Patrick J. Dynamically-Integrated Hyperspectral Huang, Yih-Fang Nanoscale Sensors (Center or Institute)

Porod, Wolfgang South West Academy University of Texas $50,000 12 for Nonoelectronics Bernstein, Gary H. (SWAN) (Center or Institute)

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months Department or Office: English

Hall, Thomas N. Digital Edition of Western Michigan $7,500 12 Cambridge, Pembroke University MS 25

Department or Office: History

Lyandres, Semion The Fall of Tsarism: National Endowment for $35,000 12 Untold Stories of the the Humanities Febr;uary 1917 Revolution: Translation and Annotations.

Noble, Thomas F. Advancing Byzantine Private Foundation $800,000 12 Studies at the Roche, Mark W. University of Notre (Center or Institute) Dame

Noll, Mark Bradley Fellowship Private Foundation $25,000 12 Program

Department or Office: Institute for Church Life

Cavadini, John C. New Wine, New Private Foundation $15,482 26 Wineskins

Department or Office: J&B Glynn Chair

Doody, Margaret A. Visiting Professorship Princeton University $274,575 10 at Princeton University

Department or Office: Mathematics

Akai, Terrence J. Jacob Javits Department of Education $41,822 48 Fellowship (Center or Institute)

Shaw, Mei-Chi Partial Differential National Science $172,455 36 Equations in Several Foundation Complex Variables.

Stolz, Stephan A. FRG: Collaborative National Science $204,912 36 Research: How the Foundation Algebraic Topology of Closed Manifolds Relates to Strings and 2D Quantum Theory.

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months

Zhang, Yongtao ORAU: High Order Oak Ridge Associated $5,000 12 Accuracy Numerical Universities Methods on Unstructured Meshes and Their Applications in Computational Biology.

Department or Office: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Kilpatrick, Peter K. Probing the Role of Corporate Funding $199,751 12 Heavy Metal Atoms in Asphaltene Aggregation

Department or Office: Physics

Balsara, Dinshaw S. Simulating the National Science $118,073 36 Turbulent, Multiphase Foundation (Center or Institute) Intersellar Medium: Howk, Jay C. Comparing with Observations

Kolata, James J. Nuclear Reactions University of Michigan $94,653 24 with Short-Lived Nuclear Beams

Lehner, Nicolas Galactic Winds, National Aeronautics and $72,243 24 Accretion, and Tidal Space Administration Howk, Jay C. Stripping in the Nearest Galaxiies: A Far-UV Study of The Magellanic Clouds.

Wayne, Mitchell R. Jadwiga Warchol Fermi National $46,332 12 Salary and Benefits Laboratory

Department or Office: Political Science

O'Donnell, Guillermo A. Residential Fellowship University of Oxford $4,430 10 at Oxford (Center or Institute)

Department or Office: Program of Liberal Studies

Stapleford, Thomas A. Home & Market: American Academy of $34,500 8 Women, Economics, Arts & Sciences and the Study of Consumption 1910-1960.

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months Department or Office: Psychology

Cummings, E. M. Children and Political National Institutes of $266,489 12 Violence in Northern Health (Center or Institute) Ireland Darby, John Maxwell, Scott E.

Maxwell, Scott E. Editorship of Private Foundation $23,500 60 Psychological Methods Journal

Department or Office: Robinson Community Learning Center

Caponigro, Jerome V. Supplemental Service South Bend Community $14,250 9 Provider Project School Corporation (Center or Institute)

Caponigro, Jerome V. Engaging the Wisdom Private Foundation $25,000 14 and Experience of (Center or Institute) Older Adults for Civic Good.

Department or Office: Sociology

Cardenas, Gilberto Building Tomorrow's Private Foundation $250,000 12 Chicago: A Funding (Center or Institute) Collaborative

Awards for Instructional Programs Department or Office: Upward Bound

Coates, Alyssia J. Upward Bound Department of Education $450,386 48

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months

Proposals for Research Department or Office: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Corke, Thomas C. SDBD Plasm Actuator Corporate Funding $363,255 18 Enhanced Convective Heat Transfer.

Goodwine, John W. Fundamental Methods for Corporate Funding $0 12 Control Humanoid Robotic Locomotion.

Gordeyev, Stanislav V. The Physics of Department of the Air Force $345,208 36 Boundary-Layer Jumper, Eric J. Aero-Optic Effects.

Jumper, Eric J. Directed Energy Beam Corporate Funding $802,893 36 Improvement by Gordeyev, Stanislav V. Expanding the Field of Cavalieri, David Regard

Morris, Scott C. The 2030 Aircraft: Quiet University of Miami $273,071 18 Ultra-Efficient Integrated Aircraft Using Co-Flow Jet Flow Control.

Renaud, John E. Hybrid Cellular Automata Mississippi State University $1,143,690 12 for Vehicle Structural Ovaert, Timothy C. Design for Improved Schmid, Steven R. Soldier Crash Safey & Survivability. Mukasyan, Alexander S. Tomar, Vikas McGinn, Paul J.

Sen, Mihir Intelligent Control for the Ohio Northern University $284,583 60 Optimization of Solar Residential Systems.

Wang, Meng Numerical and Department of the Air Force $529,659 36 Experimental Corke, Thomas C. Investigation of Separation Control for Compressible Turbulent Boundary Layers

Department or Office: Art, Art History and Design

Barber, Charles E. Poetics and Painting in National Endowment for the $50,400 12 the Art of Renaissance Humanities Crete.

Department or Office: Biological Sciences

Feder, Jeffrey L. A Network Approach for Private Foundation $100,000 12 Lymphatic Filariasis Lodge, David M. Eradication and Toroczkai, Zoltan Evaluating Drug Resistance Risks on Haiti.

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months

Hager, Kristin M. Secreted Virulence National Institutes of Health $262,500 12 Factors in Toxoplasma gondii

Hollocher, Hope Agent-based Modeling to Private Foundation $100,000 12 Target Intervention Madey, Gregory R. Strategies. Fuentes, Agustin

Lamberti, Gary A. Saint Croix National National Park Service $15,000 7 Scenic Riverway Understanding Fish Habitat History in the Namekagon River-Cold Water Zone.

Lodge, David M. Aquatic Invasive Species U.S. Army Corps of $79,759 16 Risk Assessment for the Engineers Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Lodge, David M. What Difference Will Association of Fish and $724,038 36 Climate Change Make to Wildlife Agencies Hellmann, Jessica J. Managing Valued and Invasive Species?

McDowell, Mary A. Mosquito Saliva and Private Foundation $100,000 12 Immunity to Malaria.

Severson, David W. Analysis of the Functions Indiana University-School of $375,000 60 of Axon Guidance Medicine Molecules During Mosquito Development.

Severson, David W. Midgut Bacteria in Aedes National Institutes of Health $40,320 12 Aegypti and vector Competence.

Suckow, Mark A. Chemotherapy of Invasive Penn State College of $69,948 12 Prostate Cancer by Medicine Selenium Derivative of Celecoxib.

Vaughan, Kevin T. Microtubule-Dependent Ara Parseghian Medical $249,700 24 Transport of Research Foundation NPC-Containing Membranes.

Department or Office: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Maginn, Edward J. Ionic Liquids: Department of Energy $2,479,253 24 Breakthrough Absorption Schneider, William F. Technology for Brennecke, Joan F. Post-Combustion C02 Capture.

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months

Zhu, Yingxi E. Supplement: Department of Energy $150,000 33 Water-Immersed Polymer Interfaces and the Roles of Their Materials Properties on Biolubrication

Department or Office: Chemistry and Biochemistry

Castellino, Francis J. Plasminogen and National Institutes of Health $375,000 12 Plasmin: Structure and Function

Castellino, Francis J. Pathophysiologies National Institutes of Health $2,032,541 12 Involving Ploplis, Victoria A. Hemostasis-related Genes.

Clark, Patricia L. Minimizing Antibiotic Private Foundation $100,000 12 Resistance By Disrupting Extracellular Virulence. Proteins.

Hartland, Gregory V. Gold Nanocages as a Washington University in St. $447,566 12 New Class of Therapeutic Louis Agents for Photothermal Cancer Treatment.

Mobashery, Shahriar Targeting MT-MMPs in Wayne State University $987,278 60 Cancer Progression.

Department or Office: Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

Neal, Clive R. Crystal Stratigraphy in National Aeronautics and $591,750 36 the Analysis of Planetary Space Administration Materials.

Westerink, Joannes J. USACE - St. Charles Corporate Funding $8,000 10 Parish Surge Sensitivity Analysis

Westerink, Joannes J. USACE - Mississippi Corporate Funding $14,700 10 River Surge Propagation

Department or Office: Computer Science & Engineering

Bowyer, Kevin W. Automated Entity Corporate Funding $20,000 6 Classification In Video Using Soft Biometrics.

Chawla, Nitesh V. Knowledge Management Corporate Funding $244,393 27 Framework for Boeing.

Hu, Xiaobo Hardware Accelerated Medical College of $135,971 60 Replanning - A New Wisconsin Paradiam of Radiation Therapy.

Kogge, Peter M. Exascale Computing Georgia Institute of $70,000 9 Software Study. Technology

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months Department or Office: East Asian Languages and Literatures

Lin, Sylvia L. Between Memory and National Endowment for the $46,200 11 History: Documentary Humanities Films on Atrocity in Taiwan

Shamoon, Deborah M. Passionate Friendship: National Endowment for the $50,400 12 The Aesthetics of Girls' Humanities Culture in Japan

Department or Office: Economics and Econometrics

Hungerman, Daniel M. Conference and Book on National Bureau of Economic $47,995 24 Economics and Religion. Research

Department or Office: Electrical Engineering

Laneman, J. N. Software Radio for Public Corporate Funding $19,986 12 Safety Communications.

Department or Office: Gender Studies Program

White, Sophie K. "Clothing and National Endowment for the $50,400 12 Colonization in French Humanities Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley 1673-1769."

Department or Office: History

Lyandres, Semion The Fall of Tsarism: National Endowment for the $46,200 11 Untold Stories of the Humanities Febr;uary 1917 Revolution: Translation and Annotations.

Przybyszewski, Linda The Cincinnati Bible War, National Endowment for the $50,400 12 Competing Theories of Humanities Church and State, and the Origins of Modern Religious Liberty.

Department or Office: Institute for Latino Studies

Brown-Gort, Allert R. Spillovers of Healthy Private Foundation $108,788 8 Lifestyle Changes in Latino Families: The Case of South Bend, Indiana

Department or Office: Irish Language and Literature

McKibben, Sarah E. Endangered National Endowment for the $46,200 11 Masculinities: Gender, Humanities Sexuality and Colonialism in Early Modern Literature in Irish, 1540-1780.

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months Department or Office: J&B Glynn Chair

Doody, Margaret A. Visiting Professorship at Princeton University $205,700 10 Princeton University

Department or Office: Marketing Management

Moore, Elizabeth S. Evaluating William Mitchell College of $96,880 24 Self-Regulation of Law Children's Food Marketing.

Department or Office: Mathematics

Cholak, Peter A. EMSW21-RTG-Notre National Science Foundation $1,178,000 60 Dame's Mathematical Buechler, Steven A. Logic Program. Knight, Julia F. Starchenko, Sergei

Department or Office: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Kilpatrick, Peter K. Energy Efficient Electron Corporate Funding $1,297,265 24 Beam Processing of Petroleum and Petrochemicals.

Department or Office: Physics

LaVerne, Jay A. Radiolytic Degradation of Department of Energy $135,000 12 Chlorinated Polymers in Pimblott, Simon M. Nuclear Fuel Separation.

Rettig, Terrence W. Gas and Dust Settling in National Aeronautics and $324,230 36 Preplanetary Disks Space Administration Balsara, Dinshaw S. Around Young Stars.

Ruggiero, Steven T. Gas Detector Array for Corporate Funding $114,305 12 On-line Leak Detection and Imaging.

Tanner, Carol E. Absolute Optical National Institute Standards $150,000 36 Frequency & Technology Measurements in Neutral Silver: Toward the Realization of an Optical Clock.

Wayne, Mitchell R. USCMS Project Fermi National Laboratory $164,748 12 Memoranda of Ruchti, Randal C. Understanding - Five Karmgard, Daniel J. Components. Jessop, Colin P. Hildreth, Michael D.

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Months Department or Office: Political Science

Botting, Eileen H. Inventing Feminism: National Endowment for the $50,400 12 Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Humanities Women's Rights Activism.

Lopez, George A. Counter-Terrorism and Private Foundation $35,256 17 Development: Avoiding Adverse Consequences.

Department or Office: Program of Liberal Studies

Mongrain, Kevin J. A Christian Secularist: National Endowment for the $46,200 11 Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Humanities Political Theology.

Department or Office: Robinson Community Learning Center

Caponigro, Jerome V. Engaging the Wisdom Private Foundation $25,000 14 and Experience of Older Adults for Civic Good.

Department or Office: Theology

Anderson, Gary A. Almsgiving in Early National Endowment for the $50,400 12 Judaism and Christianity. Humanities

Clairmont, David A. Person as Classic: Moral National Endowment for the $29,400 7 Struggle and Comparative Humanities Religious Ethics.

Proposals for Instructional Programs Department or Office: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Goodwine, John W. A New Modular National Science Foundation $145,074 24 Undergraduate Intellectual Property Course for Engineering Students.

Department or Office: Political Science

Zuckert, Catherine H. Towards a Private Foundation $229,192 16 Post-Positivistic Political Zuckert, Michael P. Science. Barber, Sotirios A.

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Awards and Proposal Summary Centers and Institutes Report 05/01/2008 to 05/31/2008

Awards Received

Department or Office No. Amount

Center for Aquatic Conservation 1 $40,132 Center for Astrophysics 1 $118,073 Center for Children and Families 1 $266,489 Center for Flow Physics and Control 2 $330,381 Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases 1 $638,769 Center for Research Computing 1 $32,922 Environmental Research Center 1 $169,998 Institute for Latino Studies 1 $250,000 Kellogg Institute for International Studies 1 $4,430 Medieval Institute 1 $800,000 ND Energy Center 1 $61,000 Nano Science and Technology Center 5 $513,790 Robinson Community Learning Center 2 $39,250 The Graduate School (Other) 1 $41,822 Walther Cancer Research Center 1 $279,648 Total: 21 $3,586,704

Proposals Submitted

Department or Office No. Amount Center for Aquatic Conservation 3 $818,797 Center for Flow Physics and Control 5 $2,314,086 Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases 5 $877,820 Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics 1 $150,000 Center for Transgene Research 2 $2,407,541 Freimann Life Science Center 1 $69,948 Institute for Latino Studies 1 $108,788 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies 1 $35,256 Radiation Laboratory 1 $135,000 Robinson Community Learning Center 1 $25,000 Total: 21 $6,942,236

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Awards and Proposal Summary Centers and Institutes Report 07/01/2007 to 05/31/2008

Awards Received

Department or Office No. Amount

ACE Educational Outreach 2 $85,000 Alliance for Catholic Education 2 $302,500 Biological Sciences 2 $214,853 Center for Applied Mathematics 1 $120,000 Center for Aquatic Conservation 3 $995,769 Center for Astrophysics 7 $471,456 Center for Children and Families 6 $2,801,402 Center for Flow Physics and Control 26 $3,232,365 Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases 17 $9,057,320 Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics 4 $1,676,822 Center for Research Computing 2 $131,254 Center for Social Concerns 2 $13,374 Center for Transgene Research 1 $355,568 Center for Zebrafish Research 1 $250,547 Center for the Study of Religion and Society 1 $25,000 Environmental Research Center 2 $339,996 Freimann Life Science Center 6 $262,235 Gigot Center 1 $14,700 Institute for Church Life 2 $160,000 Institute for Educational Initiatives 1 $50,000 Institute for Latino Studies 8 $568,930 Institute for Theoretical Sciences 1 $57,976 Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Biocomplexity 1 $346,252 John A. Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 1 $42,880 Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics 4 $2,266,604 Kellogg Institute for International Studies 4 $175,055 Medieval Institute 5 $940,400 ND Energy Center 5 $262,190 Nano Science and Technology Center 27 $4,601,354 Nuclear Structure Laboratory 5 $3,566,250 Radiation Laboratory 5 $4,182,918 Robinson Community Learning Center 7 $170,250 The Graduate School (Other) 2 $163,322

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Awards and Proposal Summary Centers and Institutes Report 07/01/2007 to 05/31/2008 Department or Office No. Amount

Walther Cancer Research Center 5 $1,253,200 Total: 169 $39,157,742

Proposals Submitted

Department or Office No. Amount ACE Educational Outreach 2 $85,000 Alliance for Catholic Education 1 $25,000 Biological Sciences 1 $45,883 Center for Applied Mathematics 1 $1,113,246 Center for Aquatic Conservation 14 $8,929,831 Center for Astrophysics 9 $2,173,350 Center for Children and Families 3 $1,238,013 Center for Complex Network Research 4 $1,062,728 Center for Educational Opportunity 1 $35,000 Center for Ethics and Culture 1 $103,500 Center for Flow Physics and Control 23 $5,936,393 Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases 26 $11,919,655 Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics 5 $1,265,747 Center for Philosophy of Religion 4 $120,000 Center for Social Concerns 1 $2,500 Center for Transgene Research 8 $5,669,688 Center for Zebrafish Research 14 $3,088,015 Center for the Study of Religion and Society 1 $25,000 Department of Athletics 1 $30,000 East Asian Languages and Literatures 1 $1,500,000 Environmental Research Center 2 $525,110 Freimann Life Science Center 8 $870,688 Institute for Church Life 2 $547,000 Institute for Educational Initiatives 5 $371,000 Institute for Latino Studies 12 $1,232,151 Institute for Theoretical Sciences 1 $86,964 Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Biocomplexity 4 $1,659,825 John A. Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning 1 $42,880 Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics 6 $30,967,291 Kellogg Institute for International Studies 5 $180,000 Keough Institute for Irish Studies 2 $172,526 Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies 6 $962,465 Lobund Laboratory 1 $69,203 Medieval Institute 3 $960,000 ND Energy Center 8 $7,409,288 Nano Science and Technology Center 29 $16,461,318

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Awards and Proposal Summary Centers and Institutes Report 07/01/2007 to 05/31/2008 Department or Office No. Amount

Nuclear Structure Laboratory 2 $9,955,879 Performing Arts Center 1 $100,000 Radiation Laboratory 8 $1,573,553 Robinson Community Learning Center 19 $486,180 Walther Cancer Institute Chair I 1 $225,000 Walther Cancer Research Center 6 $1,776,309 Total: 253 $121,003,179

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008 Centers and Institutes Report

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Award #

Awards for Research Department or Office: Center for Aquatic Conservation

Lamberti, Gary A. Dean John A Knauss University of $40,132 007397-001 Marine Policy Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (Center or Institute) Fellowship

Department or Office: Center for Astrophysics

Balsara, Dinshaw S. Simulating the National Science $118,073 006821-001 Turbulent, Multiphase Foundation (Center or Institute) Intersellar Medium: Howk, Jay C. Comparing with Observations

Department or Office: Center for Children and Families

Cummings, E. M. Children and Political National Institutes of $266,489 006518-001 Violence in Northern Health (Center or Institute) Ireland Darby, John Maxwell, Scott E.

Department or Office: Center for Flow Physics and Control

Renaud, John E. GOALI: Hybrid Cellular National Science $274,095 007405-001 Automata for Topology Foundation (Center or Institute) and Topography Synthesis in Automotive Structural Design.

Corke, Thomas C. Wind Tunnel for Department of the Air $56,286 006833-001 Airbourne Platform Force Nelson, Robert C. Laser and Flight Thomas, Flint O. Control Dunn, Patrick F. (Center or Institute) Jumper, Eric J. Morris, Scott C.

Department or Office: Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

Severson, David W. Molecular Genetics of National Institutes of $638,769 006275-001 Dengue Resistance in Health Romero-Severson, Jeanne Mosquitoes (Center or Institute) Streit, Thomas G.

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008 Centers and Institutes Report

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Award #

Department or Office: Center for Research Computing

Wiest, Olaf G. Antimicrobial Drug University of Pittsburgh $32,922 006902-001 Discovery Scheme for (Center or Institute) Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

Department or Office: Environmental Research Center

Boyd, Sunny K. Comutational Models National Science $169,998 007175-001 for Neuroendocrine Foundation (Center or Institute) Control of Social Behavior

Department or Office: Institute for Latino Studies

Cardenas, Gilberto Building Tomorrow's Private Foundation $250,000 007414-001 Chicago: A Funding (Center or Institute) Collaborative

Department or Office: Kellogg Institute for International Studies

O'Donnell, Guillermo A. Residential Fellowship University of Oxford $4,430 007161-001 at Oxford (Center or Institute)

Department or Office: Medieval Institute

Noble, Thomas F. Advancing Byzantine Private Foundation $800,000 007400-001 Studies at the Roche, Mark W. University of Notre (Center or Institute) Dame

Department or Office: ND Energy Center

Brennecke, Joan F. Ionic Liquids for CO2 Private Foundation $61,000 007358-001 Capture from (Center or Institute) Advanced Post-Combustion or Advanced Pre-Combustion Gases

Department or Office: Nano Science and Technology Center

Jena, Debdeep Diodes Fabricated Corporate Funding $30,150 007408-001 from BTD-grown GaN (Center or Institute)

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008 Centers and Institutes Report

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Award #

Porod, Wolfgang Biologically-Inspired Department of Navy $266,675 006071-001 CNN Image Bernstein, Gary H. Processors with Fay, Patrick J. Dynamically-Integrated Hyperspectral Huang, Yih-Fang Nanoscale Sensors (Center or Institute)

Porod, Wolfgang Biologically-Inspired Department of Navy $160,965 006071-001 CNN Image Bernstein, Gary H. Processors with Fay, Patrick J. Dynamically-Integrated Hyperspectral Huang, Yih-Fang Nanoscale Sensors (Center or Institute)

Porod, Wolfgang South West Academy University of Texas $50,000 006973-001 for Nonoelectronics Bernstein, Gary H. (SWAN) (Center or Institute)

Hall, Douglas C. High-Index-Contrast National Science $6,000 007068-001 Waveguides for Foundation (Center or Institute) Enhanced Optoelectronic Devices and Integration

Department or Office: Robinson Community Learning Center

Caponigro, Jerome V. Engaging the Wisdom Private Foundation $25,000 007406-001 and Experience of (Center or Institute) Older Adults for Civic Good.

Caponigro, Jerome V. Supplemental Service South Bend Community $14,250 007330-001 Provider Project School Corporation (Center or Institute)

Department or Office: The Graduate School (Other)

Akai, Terrence J. Jacob Javits Department of Education $41,822 006607-001 Fellowship (Center or Institute)

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Awards received during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008 Centers and Institutes Report

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Award #

Department or Office: Walther Cancer Research Center

Taylor, Richard E. Conformation - National Institutes of $279,648 006785-001 Activity Relationships Health (Center or Institute)

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008 Centers and Institutes Report

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Proposal #

Proposals for Research Department or Office: Center for Aquatic Conservation

Lodge, David M. What Difference Will Association of Fish and $724,038 08110643 Climate Change Make to Wildlife Agencies Hellmann, Jessica J. Managing Valued and Invasive Species?

Lodge, David M. Aquatic Invasive Species U.S. Army Corps of $79,759 08110680 Risk Assessment for the Engineers Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

Lamberti, Gary A. Saint Croix National National Park Service $15,000 08110681 Scenic Riverway Understanding Fish Habitat History in the Namekagon River-Cold Water Zone.

Department or Office: Center for Flow Physics and Control

Gordeyev, Stanislav V. The Physics of Department of the Air Force $345,208 08110634 Boundary-Layer Jumper, Eric J. Aero-Optic Effects.

Wang, Meng Numerical and Department of the Air Force $529,659 08110649 Experimental Corke, Thomas C. Investigation of Separation Control for Compressible Turbulent Boundary Layers

Corke, Thomas C. SDBD Plasm Actuator Corporate Funding $363,255 08110666 Enhanced Convective Heat Transfer.

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008 Centers and Institutes Report

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Proposal #

Morris, Scott C. The 2030 Aircraft: Quiet University of Miami $273,071 08110678 Ultra-Efficient Integrated Aircraft Using Co-Flow Jet Flow Control.

Jumper, Eric J. Directed Energy Beam Corporate Funding $802,893 08110687 Improvement by Gordeyev, Stanislav V. Expanding the Field of Cavalieri, David Regard

Department or Office: Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

Hager, Kristin M. Secreted Virulence National Institutes of Health $262,500 08110646 Factors in Toxoplasma gondii

Severson, David W. Midgut Bacteria in Aedes National Institutes of Health $40,320 08110675 Aegypti and vector Competence.

Severson, David W. Analysis of the Functions Indiana University-School of $375,000 08110676 of Axon Guidance Medicine Molecules During Mosquito Development.

McDowell, Mary A. Mosquito Saliva and Private Foundation $100,000 08110688 Immunity to Malaria.

Hollocher, Hope Agent-based Modeling to Private Foundation $100,000 08120700 Target Intervention Madey, Gregory R. Strategies. Fuentes, Agustin

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008 Centers and Institutes Report

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Proposal # Department or Office: Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics

Zhu, Yingxi E. Supplement: Department of Energy $150,000 08110674 Water-Immersed Polymer Interfaces and the Roles of Their Materials Properties on Biolubrication

Department or Office: Center for Transgene Research

Castellino, Francis J. Pathophysiologies National Institutes of Health $2,032,541 08110648 Involving Ploplis, Victoria A. Hemostasis-related Genes.

Castellino, Francis J. Plasminogen and National Institutes of Health $375,000 08110686 Plasmin: Structure and Function

Department or Office: Freimann Life Science Center

Suckow, Mark A. Chemotherapy of Invasive Penn State College of $69,948 08110683 Prostate Cancer by Medicine Selenium Derivative of Celecoxib.

Department or Office: Institute for Latino Studies Brown-Gort, Allert R. Spillovers of Healthy Private Foundation $108,788 08110679 Lifestyle Changes in Latino Families: The Case of South Bend, Indiana

Department or Office: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Lopez, George A. Counter-Terrorism and Private Foundation $35,256 08110665 Development: Avoiding Adverse Consequences.

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Proposals submitted during the period May-01-2008 to May-31-2008 Centers and Institutes Report

Investigator(s) Title Sponsor Dollars Proposal # Department or Office: Radiation Laboratory

LaVerne, Jay A. Radiolytic Degradation of Department of Energy $135,000 08110655 Chlorinated Polymers in Pimblott, Simon M. Nuclear Fuel Separation.

Department or Office: Robinson Community Learning Center

Caponigro, Jerome V. Engaging the Wisdom Private Foundation $25,000 08110658 and Experience of Older Adults for Civic Good.

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