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NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME BARBARA JOHNSTON NDND MARCH 2018 News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families Moreau First Year Experience Page 5 Bernard Akatu A Moreau instructor OIT Pullout Section Center for Career Development Walk the Walk INSIDE Pages 7-10 Page 6 Page 16 2 | NDWorks | March 2018 NEWS MATT CASHORE MATT MATT CASHORE MATT PHOTO PROVIDED BARBARA JOHNSTON BRIEFS BARBARA JOHNSTON WHAT’S GOING ON ICEALERT SIGN INSTALLED BY Nucciarone Corcoran Seabaugh Haenggi Kamat STAIRS IN GRACE/VISITOR LOT A color-changing IceAlert sign, intended to make pedestrians aware areas of the University, including innovation in creating or facilitating pastoral leadership development of of icy or slick conditions on the Notre Dame Research, the IDEA outstanding inventions that have CAMPUS NEWS lay ministers early in their careers. stairs, walkway or parking lot, has Center, University Relations and made a tangible impact on quality of been installed along the staircase to the Office of Public Affairs and Com- life, economic development and wel- BREITMAN AND BREITMAN- NANOVIC INSTITUTE AWARDS the Grace Hall/Visitor parking lot munications, to positively affect both fare of society.” JAKOV NAMED 2018 DRIEHAUS LAURA SHANNON PRIZE TO south of Stepan Center. The color on the South Bend-Elkhart region and PRIZE LAUREATES ‘THE WORK OF THE DEAD’ the University. the sign transitions from gray to blue CORCORAN APPOINTED Marc Breitman and Nada The Nanovic Institute for Euro- whenever temperatures dip below EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF Breitman-Jakov, Paris-based architects pean Studies has awarded the 2018 freezing. NUCCIARONE TO SERVE ON THE KROC INSTITUTE known for improving cities through Laura Shannon Prize in Contempo- HIGHER EDUCATION Erin B. Corcoran, J.D., has been quality architecture and urbanism, rary European Studies to Thomas COMMITTEE OF 50 appointed executive director of have been named the recipients of the W. Laqueur for his book “The Work The National Association of Stu- the Kroc Institute for International 2018 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at of the Dead: A Cultural History dent Financial Aid Administrators Peace Studies at the Keough School the University of Notre Dame. They of Mortal Remains,” published has selected 50 members, including of Global Affairs. Corcoran will will be awarded the $200,000 prize by Princeton University Press. La- Mary Nucciarone, the University’s help to oversee operations and staff during a ceremony on March 24 queur will visit Notre Dame during director of financial aid, to serve on administration at the Kroc Institute, (Saturday) in Chicago. the fall semester of 2018 to accept the newly formed Higher Education one of the world’s leading centers for In conjunction with the Driehaus the prize, deliver a public lecture and Committee of 50 (“Forward50”). strategies for sustainable peacebuild- Prize, Torsten Kulke, chair of the meet with students and faculty. This national committee, composed ing and the study of violent conflict. Society for the Rebuilding of the His- of forward-thinking higher educa- torical New Market Dresden in Ger- PAYNE NAMED KAVLI FELLOW tion leaders, will spend the next year SEABAUGH APPOINTED many, will receive the $50,000 Henry Jessica Payne, the Nancy O’Neill examining policy areas related to DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR Hope Reed Award, given annually Collegiate Chair and Associate Pro- access, affordability, accountability NANO SCIENCE AND to an individual working outside fessor of Psychology, has been named and transparency, with the goal of TECHNOLOGY the practice of architecture who has a 2017 Kavli Frontiers of Science PEOPLE producing practical solutions and supported the cultivation of the tradi- Fellow by the National Academy of recommendations for members of Alan Seabaugh, the Frank M. tional city, its architecture and art. Freimann Professor of Electrical Sciences. She was one of 12 scholars Congress. invited to present their research at the FORD APPOINTED Engineering, has been named the MCGRATH INSTITUTE RECEIVES ASSOCIATE VP OF NEW director of the University’s Center for Kavli’s Japanese-American-German SHINDE HONORED AS A Nano Science and Technology (ND- LILLY ENDOWMENT GRANT Symposium in Germany in Septem- BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT The McGrath Institute for Church FELLOW OF THE NATIONAL nano). As the new director, he will ber. Scott Ford, formerly the executive Life has been awarded $1 million ACADEMY OF INVENTORS lead a center that supports more than Nine Notre Dame faculty mem- director of community investment by Lilly Endowment Inc. to expand Subhash L. Shinde, associate di- 70 NDnano-affiliated faculty mem- bers have been named Kavli fellows in South Bend city government and, programs for ordained and lay pasto- rector of the University’s Center for bers from across nine departments since the program began in 1989, most recently an executive vice ral leaders in a shifting ministry land- Sustainable Energy (ND Energy), has in the colleges of engineering and and Payne is the first from the president for Bradley Company of scape. As the recipient of planning been named to the National Acade- science to grow the scale and stature College of Arts and Letters. Jessica South Bend, has been appointed funds for the Thriving in Ministry my of Inventors’ (NAI) 2017 Class of of the University’s nanotechnology Brown, an assistant professor in the associate vice president of new Initiative, the McGrath Institute will Fellows. The fellowship is considered research efforts. To learn more about Department of Chemistry and Bio- business development. expand its summer program for di- “the highest professional accolade the center, its members and its re- chemistry, was also named a 2017 A Notre Dame alumnus, Ford will ocesan priests and initiate a program bestowed to academic inventors who search, visit nano.nd.edu. fellow and invited to attend the sym- coordinate economic development that supports the professional and posium. efforts in collaboration with several have demonstrated a prolific spirit of NOTRE DAME FACULTY NAMED AMONG THE TOP 1 PERCENT OF HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHERS Two University researchers — Martin Haenggi and Prashant Historic Father Hesburgh V. Kamat — have been named to Clarivate Analytics’ 2017 Highly Cited Researchers list. Clarivate’s list identifies the scholars who published worksBY THE OFFICE OF MEDIA RELATIONSavailable onlineThe Hesburgh Portal, available at hesburghportal.nd.edu, assembles the most articles that are in the top some of the writings and images from throughout his life and makes the 1 percent of the most-cited articles. The University Archives and the Hesburgh Libraries have launched a new assets digitally available to the public. It includes about 3,500 researchers research portal dedicated to preserving and increasing access to some of the most “We are pleased that this portal allows scholars, historians and others worldwide, categorized into more important works of former University President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, from across the globe to access Father Hesburgh’s writings and works,” said than 20 different science disciplines. C.S.C., including his work on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. “We are proud to be able to share Haenggi, Frank M. Freimann his legacy with the world, and Professor of Electrical Engineering, we know his life’s work will concurrent professor of applied and continue to have an impact computational mathematics and sta- on higher education and on tistics, and affiliated member of the all who work for peace and Wireless Institute, was ranked among justice.” the highly cited scholars for comput- UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES The digital portal was a col- er science. laborative project between the Kamat, Rev. John A. Zahm Pro- University Archives and Hes- fessor of Science, concurrent pro- BRUCE HARLAN/UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES burgh Libraries with support fessor of chemical and biomolecular from the Offices of the Pres- engineering, and affiliated member ident, Mission Engagement of ND Energy, was categorized as a and Church Affairs and Information Technologies. The tool is organized highly cited researcher in chemistry. around a biographical interactive storyline divided into six chapters that cover his early years, his life as a Holy Cross priest, his dedication to Notre Dame’s students, his work as a Notre Dame administrator, his 35-year ten- ure as University president and his national work during the civil rights era. Comments or questions regarding NDWorks? Contact NDWorks managing editor Carol C. Bradley, 631-0445 ([email protected]) or Gwen O'Brien, CONTACT editor and associate director of Internal Communications, 631-6646 ([email protected]). For questions regarding TheWeek@ND or the University calendar, contact electronic media coordinator Jennifer Laiber, 631-4753 ([email protected]). NDWorks is published 11 times per year. 2017-2018 US @ publication dates are July 13, Aug. 17, Sept. 28, Nov. 2, Dec. 7, Jan. 11, Feb. 22, March 22, April 26 and May 24. March 2018 | NDWorks | 3 Eddy Street Commons Phase II Kite, Notre Dame break Designed with input from the ground on next phase University, city of South Bend and nearby home and business BY ERIN BLASKO, MEDIA RELATIONS owners, Phase II consists of five CASHORE MATT main buildings: two graduate-style apartment buildings and a new Work is underway on Phase II Robinson Community Learning of Eddy Street Commons, the $90 Center on the east side of Eddy million mixed-use project south Street and two market-rate apartment of campus. buildings on the west side of A joint effort by the University and Eddy Street. Kite Realty, the project features 8,500 Moving north to south, the square feet of restaurant space, 17 apartment buildings will step down “flex” units, 433 apartment units, 22 from four to three stories closer to single-family homes, a new Robinson Howard to blend with the existing Community Learning Center and a single-family homes there.