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ND News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families N 2015 12, No. 10 • May Vol. D Update Campus Construction Page 5 BARBARA JOHNSTON PHOTOS: MATT CASHORE MATT PHOTOS: Sustainability Morris Inn Renovations Summer Learning Inside Page 4 Page 7 Page 8 2 | NDWorks | May 2015 tailoring and alterations on site and LIMITED-EDITION same-day service. Credit cards, cash, GROTTO PRINT checks and FOAPALs are accepted. MATT CASHORE MATT CASHORE MATT The Segura Arts Studio, part of PHOTO PROVIDED the Notre Dame Center for Arts and HAMMES BOOKSTORE Culture, has produced a limited- ACCEPTING ID CARDS FOR edition photogravure print of the DEPARTMENTAL PURCHASES Grotto. One hundred copies of Hammes Bookstore (campus “Grotto Autumn 2014” are available Alber Nerenberg Pieronek location only) has now joined all of online via Segura Arts Studio’s Food Services’ retail units as well as webpage (segura.com) for $250, Morris Inn in accepting your campus unframed. of the 2015 Rodney F. Ganey, Ph.D., ID card for charging purchases “This is the studio’s inaugural NEWS Faculty Community-Based Research to a department FOAPAL. Your ‘Notre Dame Landmark Print’—the Award, given annually by the Center ID card must first be authorized first of an annual series of prints for Social Concerns. The award, for departmental use. Simply visit that highlight important landmarks BRIEFS in the amount of $5,000, honors a irish1card.nd.edu/department- on campus,” says Doug Franson, faculty member whose research has charge and fill out the form. Upon assistant director at the Segura Arts made a contribution in collaboration approval, your card will be ready Studio. “We’ve launched this series of prints to draw attention to the with local community organizations. to use. When a purchase is made, Poster Available RESEARCH NEWS you will receive an email the next University’s growing interest in arts IN MEMORIAM: day to confirm the details. For more and culture.” A new poster, “Home Under NATIONAL SCIENCE information, contact the Campus Photographer Terry Evans FOUNDATION RENEWS CATHERINE F. PIERONEK Card Office at 631-7814 or idcard@ captured the image of the Grotto for the Dome,” features doors of FUNDING FOR JINA The campus community is nd.edu. the print. Evans, whose work is in 29 campus dormitories. The The National Science Foundation saddened by the loss of Catherine the permanent collection of the Snite poster can be ordered online at F. Pieronek, associate dean of Museum, is known for using both (NSF) announced March 30 that photos.nd.edu and is available it is renewing funding for a Notre engineering and director of the land and aerial Dame-led institute dedicated to the Women’s Engineering Program, who photography in a lustre or matte finish in four of study of nuclear processes in the died Tuesday, April 9. to uncover sizes ranging from 8x12 inches the complex universe that control stellar evolution, Pieronek graduated from Notre to 24x36 inches. Visit photos. Dame in 1984 and earned a master’s relationships trigger supernova events and lead to nd.edu, the University’s official thermonuclear explosions observed as degree in aerospace engineering that exist novae and X-ray and Y-ray bursts. from the University of California at between land photo store, to purchase prints The Joint Institute for Nuclear Los Angeles in 1987. She worked as and people. and gallery-wrapped canvas a senior systems engineer at TRW, Astrophysics (JINA) was established images of campus, and to and funded in 2003 as a NSF Physics where she helped develop both Frontier Center between Notre the Data Relay System on NASA’s read the photographers’ latest Dame, Michigan State University, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory blog posts. University of Chicago and Argonne and the Chandra satellite. National Laboratory to address She returned to Notre Dame in “Grotto Autumn 2014” critical questions about the origin of 1992 to pursue a law degree and to heavy elements in nature or nuclear serve as editor-in-chief of the Journal processes on compact stellar objects. of College and University Law. JINA will now be known as She earned her law degree in 1995 the Joint Institute for Nuclear and soon after became the director Astrophysics – Center for the of alumni relations for the Law Evolution of the Elements (JINA- School and editor of its quarterly BARBARA JOHNSTON CEE) and have four core institutions: publication. Interested in gender- Michigan State University, Notre based equity issues, she became a Dame, Arizona State University and nationally recognized expert in Title University of Washington. IX issues, writing and lecturing widely on that topic. NEW COMPUTATIONAL MODEL In 2002, Pieronek joined the College of Engineering, serving as its WILL AID IN STUDY OF BLOOD associate dean and establishing the CLOTS, BIOFILMS women’s engineering program Applied mathematician Mark to increase the retention rate of Alber and environmental biotechnol- women in the college. ogist Robert Nerenberg have devel- Last year Pieronek was named oped a new computational model a fellow of the Society of Women that effectively simulates the me- Engineers (SWE) cited for having chanical behavior of biofilms. Their had a lasting and positive impact model may lead to new strategies for on engineering education, and for studying a range of issues from blood illuminating public discourse on clots to waste treatment systems. gender equity in science, technology, “Blood clotting is a leading cause engineering and mathematics of death in the United States at this (STEM) fields. point,” says Alber, who is the Vincent J. Duncan Family Professor of Applied Mathematics in the College of Science and an adjunct professor CAMPUS NEWS of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine–South Bend. LAUNDRY DISTRIBUTION “We can now use a very fast and CENTER RENOVATED biologically relevant computational The St. Michael’s Laundry model to study deforming structures Distribution Center, located at the of the clots growing in blood flow.” corner of Sorin Court and Holy HOLY CROSS PRIESTS ORDAINED Cross Drive (in the A15 parking lot behind the Main Building) has Six priests received the Sacrament of Holy Orders from the Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C., in PEOPLE been renovated. Business hours are services at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart Saturday, April 11. Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; phone 631-7565; SEDLACK RECEIVES 2015 Left to right: Rev. Chase Pepper, C.S.C.; Rev. David Halm, C.S.C.; Rev. 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May 2015 | NDWorks | 3 Q&A: ND medical Judge dismisses ESPN lawsuit University not a vice president for public affairs General Assembly did not include, benefits program review ‘public agency’ and communications, after the Members of the University’s health plans will change next year, but we and did not intend to include, ruling on April 20. “As always, our care strategy working group have will continue to keep you informed private university police departments. BY DENNIS BROWN, police department will continue to been busy the last few months. as we move through this process and Hostetler agreed and ruled that, investigate and report in a manner The 16-member working group’s make decisions. MEDIA RELATIONS under the statute’s plain language, the consistent with the highest standards purpose is to provide a set of guiding University—including NDSP—is of law enforcement and in accord principles to Notre Dame’s leadership How can faculty and staff stay St. Joseph Superior Court Judge not a “public agency.” In reaching with state law.” and Benefits Committee that will involved in the process? Steven Hostetler has dismissed a this decision, Hostetler noted that Under the APRA, only entities help them select future medical plans Now through the end of May, lawsuit filed by the sports media while the General Assembly is that fall within the statute’s definition for the University. you can work with your Human company ESPN, which claimed that responsible for enacting laws, the of “public agency” are subject to the To do so, the working group has Resources consultant to invite a Notre Dame had violated Indiana’s court is responsible for interpreting act’s requirements. The University been reviewing the current medical representative to attend one of your Access to Public Records Act (APRA) them, and in this case, the court argued that in creating the law, the benefits program, studying national upcoming department meetings or by refusing to make public certain would not rewrite the APRA to reach General Assembly was careful to health care trends, benchmarking to have more information provided records of the Notre Dame Security an outcome the legislature never specify that the APRA’s definition peer institutions and talking directly to your team. To contact the working Police Department (NDSP). intended. of “public agency” includes law with the people who would be most group on your own, you can send an The University argued, and Private institutions of higher enforcement agencies of the impacted by any potential changes— email to healthcareworkinggroup@ Judge Hostetler agreed, that Notre education in other states have government, such as state police and faculty and staff across campus.