NDND BARBARA JOHNSTON NOVEMBER2016 News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families From Katrina Cottages to the right-sized home Page 4 MARIANNE CUSATO, Architect United Way Faith ND Irish Language INSIDE Pages 5, 7, 9, 11 Page 8 Pages 12-13 2 | NDWorks | November 2016 has been named is the McGrath- funding to provide and promote Cavadini Director of the institute. college preparation resources for local NEWS Through its resources, projects and students. affiliate centers, the institute reaches Notre Dame Talent Search will BRIEFS BARBARA JOHNSTON BARBARA JOHNSTON out to the whole spectrum of Church receive $430,875 annually for a total leaders — its bishops, clergy, religious grant award of $2.15 million over the and laity — to provide training next five years — the largest in Notre and service as well as opportunities Dame Talent Search history. WHAT’S GOING ON for spiritual rejuvenation and Currently, the program serves personal growth. approximately 900 intermediate and Burgess Temple high school students, providing aca- VIRTUAL RUN AND WALK HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS GROUP demic tutoring and advisement, ca- SUPPORTS NOTRE DAME FUND RECEIVES $2.77 MILLION NSF reer exploration, cultural enrichment, GRANT community service and college tours. The Proud to be ND Virtual Youth Institute, which promotes the Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Since its inception, Notre Dame Run and Walk takes place Tuesday, the healthy development of Indiana Lead Trust. The high energy physics group Talent Search has served more than Nov. 29. Come together with the children and youth by serving the The Manzano Prize recognizes the at Notre Dame recently received a 25,000 students. Notre Dame family wherever you people, institutions and communities work of architects who defend and 3-year award from the National Sci- Talent Search, one of eight are to have fun while supporting that impact their wellbeing. The preserve vernacular architecture and ence Foundation (NSF) to support programs collectively known as Notre Dame students. Make a RCLC program allows young people reinforce Spain’s unique architectural their research with the Compact the Federal TRiO Programs, provides gift on the registration page and to learn about Shakespeare, acting, heritage. The award is named after Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector disadvantaged youth with connec- pledge to swim, walk or run a 5k, text analysis and how to work as an Rafael Manzano Martos, who was at CERN, the European Organiza- tions to high-quality tutoring services 10k, half-marathon or marathon, ensemble. awarded the 2010 Richard H. Drie- tion for Nuclear Research. The award and counseling services for students whether on a treadmill or a trail. For haus Prize at the University. Manzano will total $2.77 million over three and families to improve financial aid more information or to register, visit NOTRE DAME MAGAZINE is an architect who has devoted his years, and represents a 15 percent literacy and financial planning for supporting.nd.edu/annual-giving/ ESSAYS HONORED professional life to the preservation of increase over the group’s previous postsecondary education. This year’s virtual-run. Gifts to the Notre the architectural and urban heritage three-year award of $2.4 million. grant competition marked the first Dame Fund support financial aid, Two essays published in Notre of Spain through both the restoration The group’s work includes phys- Dame Magazine last year have been year of encouraging evidence-based residence halls, student activities and the design of new architecture ics analysis central to the Higgs strategies for both secondary comple- and clubs, and campus operations. honored by inclusion in the 2016 based on this heritage. boson discovery. The five principal edition of Robert Atwan’s “The Best tion and postsecondary enrollment. investigators for the grant are Mike TRiO director Ethan Zagore said, WOMEN’S ADVENT DAY American Essays.” Hildreth, Colin Jessop, Kevin “The Sun in Our Midst,” written “Programs like Talent Search are OF REFLECTION CAMPUS NEWS Lannon, Randy Ruchti and Mitch necessary for the community. It by editor Kerry Temple and pub- Wayne. This NSF grant provides the Karla J. Bellinger, Department motivates, inspires and supports the lished in its Spring 2015 issue, and $15 MILLION GIFT FOR base funding for the Notre Dame of Theology and the John Marten dreams of future educators, lawyers, “How Do We Love?” written by Mel INSTITUTE FOR CHURCH LIFE high energy physics group and it sup- Preaching Institute, will lead a doctors and other change agents. Livatino and published in the Winter ports research faculty, postdoctoral Women’s Advent Day of Reflection Alumnus Robert P. McGrath and Our students need this. Our com- 2015 issue, were both listed among fellows, graduate students, and much with a theme of “Beauty Unfolding” his wife, Joan, have made a $15 mil- munity needs this.” the collection’s “Notable Essays of of the travel required to participate in from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, lion gift to his alma mater to endow TRiO is a set of federally funded 2015.” an experiment located several thou- Dec. 1, at the Stayer Center. The the University’s Institute for Church college opportunity programs that Temple joined the staff of Notre sand miles away. event is free.To participate in this Dame Magazine in 1981 and has Life. Bob McGrath, a 1955 graduate motivate and support students from opportunity to grow spiritually been the editor since 1995. He has of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s de- disadvantaged backgrounds in their through prayer, story and song, written dozens of articles and essays gree in electrical engineering, found- $2.15M FOR ND TALENT SEARCH pursuit of a college degree. Since the RSVP to Staff Chaplain Rev. for Notre Dame Magazine and others ed McGrath RentCorp in 1979, a The University’s Talent Search pro- 1960s, Notre Dame’s TRIO pro- James A. Bracke, C.S.C., at on a wide range of topics and is the diversified business-to-business rental gram was one of nearly 900 colleges grams have served first generation [email protected] by Monday, author of “Back to Earth: A Back- company. The newly christened Mc- and organizations to receive a por- and low-income students from the Nov. 28. packer’s Journey into Self and Soul.” Grath Institute for Church Life will tion of nearly $135 million in grant South Bend Community School be directed by John Cavadini, who Corp. PEOPLE HISTORIAN RECEIVES NEH LAVERNE JOINS U.S. PUBLIC SCHOLAR GRANT TO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY EXAMINE ‘BIBLE WARS’ “DREAM TEAM” Historian Linda Przybyszewski has been selected as one of the first win- ND Energy-affiliated faculty ners of the National Endowment for member, Jay LaVerne, professional the Humanities new Public Scholar PETER RINGENBERG specialist at the Radiation Laborato- Grant Program, which aims to bring ry and concurrent professor of the humanities to larger audiences physics, has joined a “dream team” and make scholarship relevant to of experts to study the chemical contemporary life. reactions that cause nuclear waste One of 36 academic nonfiction to change over time, with the goal projects to receive funding in 2015, of identifying safe, permanent her forthcoming book will tell the storage for the radioactive material. story of the Cincinnati Board of Edu- The nuclear waste is left over from cation’s decision to stop Bible reading the Manhattan Project, a research in public schools and the ensuing and development project that court battles that riveted the nation produced the first nuclear weap- in the late 1860s and early 1870s. ons during World War II. LaVerne Przybyszewski will tell the story received a grant of $448,000 for his through the eyes and experiences of role in the project, in which he will many of the participants — compli- study radiolytic decomposition, cated people grappling with complex or how radioactivity dissolves issues as they faced their own aluminum oxides, in the watery, questions of faith. highly alkaline environment of the waste tanks. NUERE AWARDED MANZANO BLUE MASS RCLC’S BURGESS RECOGNIZED ARCHITECTURE PRIZE In recognition of his research and The University’s 16th annual Blue Mass was held Thursday, Christy Burgess, program direc- leadership in the recovery of tradi- Oct. 6, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, President Rev. John tor for the Shakespeare Outreach tional Spanish carpentry methods, Initiative, part of the Robinson I. Jenkins, C.S.C., presiding. The Blue Mass was first celebrated architect Enrique Nuere will receive Shakespeare Company at the Rob- at Notre Dame for the victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the 2016 Rafael Manzano Prize for inson Community Learning Center 2001, and for the police officers, firefighters and rescue workers New Traditional Architecture, pre- (RCLC), has been awarded the who died while serving and protecting others. sented by the Notre Dame School D. Susan Wisely Youth Worker of Architecture in partnership with of the Year Award by the Indiana Comments or questions regarding NDWorks? Contact NDWorks Managing Editor Carol C. Bradley, 631-0445 ([email protected]) or Cidni Sanders, CONTACT editor and program director for Internal Communications, 631-7031 ([email protected]). For questions regarding The Week @ ND or the University calendar, contact Electronic Media Coordinator Jennifer Laiber, 631-4753 ([email protected]). NDWorks is published 11 times per year. US @ 2016-2017 publication dates are July 7, Aug. 18, Sept. 22, Oct. 27, Dec. 8, Jan. 5, Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 23, April 20 and May 18. November 2016 | NDWorks | 3 NOTRE DAME TRAIL TO RETRACE FATHER SORIN’S STEPS In November of 1842, Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., and seven Congregation of Holy PHOTOS: CAROL C. BRADLEY Cross broth- ers traveled nearly 300 miles on foot from Vin- cennes, Indiana, to South Bend to establish the University of Notre Dame.