NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME MATT CASHORE MATT NDND SEPTEMBER2017 News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families Campus Pages 4 -7 Construction Hesburgh Stamp Irish1 Card Places to Eat INSIDE Page 9 Page 13 Page 14 2 | NDWorks | September 2017 FALL 2017 TOWN HALL MEETINGS MATT CASHORE MATT PHOTO PROVIDED All Notre Dame staff members are invited to their division’s Town Hall. Please attend the session for your division if possible. CASHORE MATT Wednesday, Sept. 27 11 a.m. to noon Laneman Morrell Washington Hall Investments, Development, Alum- ni Association, Public Affairs and movement theory, English educa- Communications, colleges, schools, tion and African diaspora popular institutes, centers, Office of the Pro- NEWS culture — has been appointed Coyle vost and other units reporting to the Professor in Literacy Education and Provost’s Office BRIEFS inaugural director of the Center for Literacy Education in the Universi- Wednesday, Sept. 27 ty’s Institute for Educational Initia- 2 to 3 p.m. tives. He will join the faculty in fall Washington Hall PEOPLE 2017, holding joint appointments Athletics, Audit, Auxiliary Opera- in the Department of English and tions, Facilities Design and Oper- ADDO TO LEAD LONDON the Department of Africana Studies. ations, Finance, General Counsel, GLOBAL GATEWAY The new Center for Literacy Office of Strategic Planning and LAW PROGRAM Education will foster collaboration Institutional Research, President’s between the institute’s English edu- Office and Student Affairs Notre Dame Law School has se- cation faculty and the College of Arts lected Michael K. Addo to be direc- and Letters with a goal to transform Wednesday, Sept. 27 tor of the London Global Gateway literacy scholarship and practice in 10 to 11 p.m. Law Program. Addo comes to Notre today’s urban and multicultural ur- McKenna Hall Auditorium Dame from the University of Exeter ban schools. Auxiliary Operations, Campus Safety, as an international law and human Morrell was most recently the Campus Services and Facilities rights specialist with more than 25 Macy Professor of English Education Design and Operations years of experience in research, teach- at Columbia University’s Teachers ing and policy advice. College and was the director of Thursday, Sept. 28 Originally from Ghana, Addo Columbia’s Institute for Urban and 1 to 2 p.m. earned a bachelor of laws degree with Minority Education (IUME). Washington Hall honors at the University of Ghana He is the author of several books, Campus Safety, Campus Services, and a graduate diploma in legal prac- including “Critical Media Pedagogy: Human Resources and OIT tice at Ghana Law School. He holds Teaching for Achievement in City Affleck-Graves a diploma in international human Schools,” which won Choice Mag- rights law from the International azine’s Outstanding Academic Title Institute of Human Rights at the Award in 2014. University of Strasbourg, France, and obtained master of law and doctoral degrees at the University of Essex in England. CAMPUS NEWS SACRED MUSIC PROGRAM LANEMAN RECEIVES AWARDED $1.6 MILLION IEEE TOMIYASU AWARD LILLY GRANT The Institute of Electrical and The University has received a Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has $1.6 million grant from Lilly named J. Nicholas Laneman, pro- Endowment Inc. to support the fessor of electrical engineering, the Sacred Music at Notre Dame recipient of the 2018 Kiyo Tomiyasu (SMND) program and its transfor- Award. The Tomiyasu Award honors mative work with graduate students outstanding contributions toward and the community. “technologies holding the promise This is the program’s second grant of innovative applications” made by from the Lilly Endowment, a private, researchers in early to mid-career. philanthropic foundation that sup- Laneman is being cited for his “con- ports the causes of religion, education tributions to wireless network com- and community development. The munication theory, algorithms and first, a $1.9 million grant in 2012, architectures.” helped launch SMND. Since then, Laneman, who also serves as co-di- graduate students in the Master rector of Notre Dame’s Wireless In- of Sacred Music and Doctor of stitute, joined the University in 2002. Musical Arts programs working His research uses tools from informa- through SMND have expanded tion theory and signal processing, as outreach efforts to churches across well as prototyping and experimental northern Indiana, including through validation, to develop new methods the Notre Dame Children’s Choir. 2017 FIGHTING IRISH FIGHTING HUNGER for communication system engineer- With the first Lilly Endowment ing, including cooperative commu- grant, the program also launched the FOOD DRIVE NEEDS YOUR HELP nications, dynamic spectrum moni- Notre Dame Children’s Choir. Since toring and access, cognitive radio and that time, the initiative — now called The 2017 Fighting Irish Fighting Hunger Food Drive will be held Monday, Sept. 4, through Saturday, information security. the Sacred Music Academy — has Sept. 30. The effort raises money and collects food for the one in five people in our community who don’t have grown from 20 children to more enough to eat. Donations are split between the Food Bank of Northern Indiana and the United Way’s coalition of than 300 in multiple choirs, some of MORRELL APPOINTED food pantries, People Gotta Eat. DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR which tour and record their music. LITERACY EDUCATION An album commissioned by the No- The drive is run by volunteers in offices and departments across campus who get the word out about the tre Dame Children’s Choir debuted event, collect donations and run local events as time permits. If you would like to be part of this amazing and Ernest Morrell — expert in at No. 1 on Billboard’s traditional rewarding effort or if you have questions, please contact Anne Kolaczyk ([email protected]). For information critical educational theory, social classical albums chart in 2016. about past drives, see fightinghunger.nd.edu. 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 @ 2017-2018 publication dates are July 13, Aug. 17, Sept. 28, Oct. 26, Nov. 30, Jan. 11, Feb. 22, March 22, April 26 and May 24. September 2017 | NDWorks | 3 Food will be available for purchase New facilities launch with a Kicks & Flicks Weekat some stadium concession stands. pair of free events Gates will open at 2 p.m., and the MATT CASHORE MATT scrimmage will begin at 3:30 p.m. BY SUE LISTER, MEDIA RELATIONS Seating in the stadium bowl will be general admission. Tailgating is The University will publicly unveil prohibited prior to and during the the largest construction project in its New & Gold Game. 175-year history with a pair of events On Friday, Aug. 25, Notre Dame during Kicks & Flicks Week Aug. 20- will welcome students back to 25. From a football scrimmage and campus and open the stadium again tours of new facilities to a movie on to visitors for Flick on the Field, an the video board, fans of all ages are open house event featuring a showing invited to experience the enhanced of “Rudy” on the new video board. amenities in and around Notre Dame Prior to the movie, fans will be Stadium during these events. entertained by music and can make On Sunday, Aug. 20, the New & purchases at some of the stadium Gold Game will feature a simulation concessions stands. Students from of a game day experience including Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College a Fighting Irish scrimmage, a and Holy Cross College will be performance by the Notre Dame allowed to sit on the football field Marching Band and participation to watch the movie. Students are from the Notre Dame cheerleaders. permitted to bring blankets on the Self-guided tours of portions of field, but food and drinks on the field Duncan Student Center (the are prohibited. Other attendees may building located on the west side of sit in the stadium bowl and seating Notre Dame Stadium the stadium), Corbett Family Hall will be general admission. (the east building), and O’Neill Hall Gates will open at 6 p.m. Guests (the south building) will also be first floor of concourse near sections take guests to the Downes Club on the bowl; the addition of a Diamond should use Gates B and E for general available for fans to see some of the 28-31. Elevators will take guests to the seventh floor and Level 8. Tours Vision high-definition video board admission seating, and students must University’s newest spaces. the Dahnke Ballroom on the seventh of O’Neill Hall will begin on the and sideline ribbon video boards; enter the stadium via the tunnel Tours will be held from 2 to 6 floor and the Rasmus Family Club upper concourse (fourth floor) on the upgraded concession stands and entrance (across from Hesburgh p.m. and offered on a first-come, on the eighth floor where they can south side of the stadium underneath restroom facilities; a 1930s art deco Library) for access to the field. The first-served basis. Guests wishing to view the premium seats and views of the video board. Guests will be able look added to the main concourse; movie will begin at 7:30 p.m. Both tour Duncan Student Center should campus. to view South Club. the addition of nearly 150 television events are free, open to the public line up at Door 14 on the south side Tours of Corbett Family Hall will Attendees at the New & Gold monitors throughout the concourse; and will be held rain or shine.