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Texbook Rental Calendar Launch • travelND • Notre Dame Book of Prayer • Zipcars Vol. 8, No. 3 News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families September 23, 2010 notre dame forum 2010 • Working for the Common g o o d Jennifer Karaffa Pae ’92 “Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed photo provided better than inaction.” – Bhagavad Gita BY CAROL C. BRADLEY, NDWORKS including the University’s Office of Student Affairs and the Student Jennifer Karaffa Pae ’92 is the International Business Council, founder of Friends of Kibera stepped in to found the Father (friendsofkibera.org), an American- Jim Karaffa Business Academy for based program that provides Women, which empowers women resources to promising programs through education and microlending. and established nonprofits within Pae traveled to Kenya on behalf of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, her family to attend the academy’s one of the largest slums in Africa first graduating class. “That’s how I and home to an estimated 250,000 got involved,” she says. “I met the people. women, I saw Kibera first-hand.” Pae is the niece of Rev. James “One cannot visit a place like Karaffa, C.S.C., an American Holy Kibera and not act. There are Cross priest stationed in Kenya, who hundreds upon hundreds of aid had a special interest in helping the organizations there, yet Kibera still poor women of Kibera. exists. The residents know the only After Father Karaffa’s untimely ticket out is education. It is up to us death in 2002, a number of groups, to help make that happen.” Jennifer Karaffa Pae with Mary, a Kibera resident who had been stricken with polio. Mary tends the garden behind them. G. David Moss, Assistant Vice President, Student Affairs I have a firm belief that God is already at work all around us. In 2002 I visited a slum in Nairobi, Kenya called Kibera. It was like no other place I had ever been, with one million people in one square mile. The denseness of the poverty, the absence of opportunity and the assault on all five senses were suffocating. In the midst of this despair, I saw God at work in the form of a Kenyan social worker named Edel Quinn Odongo. She was slight of stature, but a giant in her ability to UPCOMING NOtre DaMe FOrUM eVeNtS serve the poorest of the poor. My heart was moved and I decided to join the work. The Professions and the Common Good Together we created the Father Jim Karaffa 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 6, Washington Hall Business Academy for Women (JKBAW). A panel discussion with professionals who have made choices Our goal is give each woman an based on their desire to contribute to the common good. opportunity to pursue change—first in the form of personal growth, then Technology: Boon or Bane in the form of micro-loans to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12, Washington Hall advance her chosen economic Panelists discuss their thoughts on “Caritas in Veritate” enterprise. We have seen and how it relates to their work as scientists and their photo provided some amazing things in this responsibility as human beings. work, and you are welcome to join us (JKBAW.org). The Global Marketplace & the Common Good 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 3, Leighton Concert Hall Isabella Nyanchama The keynote speaker for the signature Forum event is Thomas receiving her JKBAW Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist. certificate of completion from Moss and Jill For more information about the 2010-2011 Notre Dame Forum Bodensteiner, then and associated events, visit forum.nd.edu. of the Office of General Counsel, now associate See also “Working for the Common Good: athletic director. The Science of Generosity,” Page 10. New Faculty Inside » 2010 Team Irish Page 2 Zipcars Page 5 Page 6 What’s going on Page 12 2 | NDWorks | September 23, 2010 President Barack Obama receiving an Executive Vice President John Affleck- believe this alignment will provide program with the Kroc Institute and News Briefs honorary degree and speaking at the Graves was created last October greater efficiency and enhance all the Departments of history, political 2009 Commencement. Notre Dame to examine Notre Dame’s current safety-related services to Notre Dame science, sociology and psychology. NAtional Cyber SecuRitY Magazine has been honored by the structure, as well as the organizational students, faculty and staff.” “People’s understanding of religious Awareness Month Catholic Press Association with second models at other colleges and faith often determines if a conflict place honors in general excellence. universities. Working in conjunction erupts into violence or instead moves activities with an outside consultant, the Peace StuDies Ph.D. toward new relationships and peaceful New Office Of CampuS committee made the recommendation program establiShed communities,” says Robert Johansen, The Information Security for the realignment, which is effective director of doctoral studies at Kroc. division of the Office of Information SAfEtY created Friday, Oct. 1. The University has established a “It’s exciting to receive inquiries Technologies (OIT) will be “By positioning these three Ph.D. in theology and peace studies from outstanding students who aspire sponsoring events on campus in The University’s police, fire departments into one collaborative to educate and train scholars in to be leaders in religious thinking and celebration of National Cyber and risk management and safety unit, an already world-class public both theology and interdisciplinary teaching and who are very serious Security Awareness Month in departments will be aligned under a safety organization at the University peace research. The program is a about studying the causes of war, October. new Office of Campus Safety to be will be even better,” Affleck-Graves partnership between Notre Dame’s the conditions of peace and how to This annual national public directed by Michael Seamon, who said. “The task force members found Department of Theology and Kroc build peace.” awareness campaign is designed to has been promoted to associate vice that bringing police and fire under Institute for International Peace encourage individuals to protect their president. the same leadership is increasingly the Studies. Notre Dame’s Ph.D. in peace computers and our nation’s critical An eight-member task force led by standard in higher education, and we studies, established in 2008, is a joint cyber infrastructure. The effort is spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance. National Cyber Security Awareness team Irish awards ‘Fiscal discipline’ will Month has been celebrated every In his 2005 inaugural address, Presi- faculty to pre- October since 2001. The 2010 theme dent Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., identified pare propos- is “Our Shared Responsibility.” research preeminence as an integral part als, managing support ND growth Additional details and an event of Notre Dame’s plan for the future, and set grants and con- Father Jenkins lauds careful stewardship in a goal to surpass $100 million in annual tracts, processing schedule will be available soon. research award dollars. The goal was met in non-faculty research faculty address April 2010, with a final total for 2009-2010 of appointments, tracking ALumni AssociAtion’S almost $119 million. proposals and awards and accounting for by gAiL HINCHION MANCiNi, iNtERNAL COMMuNiCATIONS Lennon tO retire Two offices whose staff members worked research funds, epitomize Notre Dame’s core skillfully and tirelessly to assist in University values of teamwork, integrity, accountability, A transcript of Father Jenkins’ address to the faculty can be found researchers’ achievement of this goal are leadership in mission and leadership in online at president.nd.edu. Charles F. (“Chuck”) Lennon Jr. the recipients of the season’s first Team Irish excellence. will retire in June 2011 after 30 years Award: The Office of Research, including Pre- As a team, the Office of Research and The University has made significant strides in campus expansion, as executive director of the Alumni Award Administration, Post-Award Adminis- Research and Sponsored Programs Account- faculty hiring and strategic initiatives during difficult economic Association. Louis M. Nanni, vice tration and Electronic Research Administra- ing are to be commended for outstanding times, largely through disciplined reapportionment of fiscal president for University Relations, tion, and the Controller’s Group’s Research performance in a time of significant growth resources to core University goals, University President Rev. John I. will conduct a national search for and Sponsored Programs Accounting Office. and change, in a high-profile and important Jenkins, C.S.C., said last week. Lennon’s successor. Their efforts, which include working with area of the University. In his annual address to the faculty, Father Jenkins said the University will continue to rely on “shrewd identification of areas of opportunity and tough fiscal discipline” to advance the University OPAC awards announced during a continuing era of financial instability. “We are not only a respected institution holding its own, but The Office of Public Affairs one that’s on the move,” said Father Jenkins, who thanked the and Communications earned faculty for the sacrifices and contributions it has made to continued a silver award from the Council progress. for Advancement and Support of An unstable economy has had continued and notable impact— Education in the crisis management on the growth of the endowment, student need