NDND BARBARA JOHNSTON MAY2017 News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families Hearing Service Dog is newest staffer in Risk Management Page 8 THOMAS WALDSCHMIDT and BODIE Tribute to Moms Construction Update Miracle Baby INSIDE Pages 4-5 Pages 6-7 Page 9 2 | NDWorks | May 2017 MATT CASHORE MATT CASHORE MATT MATT CASHORE MATT PHOTO PROVIDED PHOTO PROVIDED PETER RINGENBERG Gibbons Gebhard Gerhold Holland Boyle McGraw HOLLAND NAMED CHAIR OF sighted in the area, either visually or REV. GREGORY J. BOYLE, S.J., STEELCASE GRANT WILL INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE on radar. TO RECEIVE LAETARE MEDAL UPGRADE DEBARTOLO NEWS For more information and se- ASSOCIATION vere weather safety instructions, Rev. Gregory J. Boyle, S.J., found- ROOM 232 Peter Holland, the College of Arts visit ndsp.nd.edu/crime-preven- er and executive director of Homeboy The University has been awarded BRIEFS and Letters’ associate dean for the tion-and-safety/severe-weather or Industries in Los Angeles, California, a $65,000 Active Learning Center arts and the McMeel Family Chair in email the Office of Campus Safety will receive the University of Notre Grant from furniture company Shakespeare Studies, has been named at [email protected]. Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal — the Steelcase. Of 961 proposals, eight PEOPLE chair of the International Shakespeare oldest and most prestigious honor awards were given to institutions Association. given to American Catholics — at of higher learning, 2017 recipients GIBBONS, GEBHARD Holland, a professor in the Depart- the 172nd University Commence- include Appalachian State University, APPOINTED TO ment of Film, Television and Theatre, ment ceremony on May 21 (Sunday). the University of Massachusetts Bos- was selected by the association’s ex- Homeboy Industries, which began ton and Cal Poly Pomona. COMMUNICATIONS ROLES ecutive committee from candidates in 1988, is the largest gang interven- Through the Active Learning Patrick Gibbons, formerly chief nominated worldwide. tion, rehabilitation and re-entry pro- Center grants, Steelcase partners with communications officer at the The association, based in Strat- gram in the world. Homeboy’s holis- those interested in active learning — Johns Hopkins University Applied ford-upon-Avon, England, the tic approach — including therapeutic using the physical classroom space Physics Laboratory in Laurel, birthplace of Shakespeare, seeks to and educational offerings, practical as a way to advance learning in new Maryland, has joined the University further the study of the playwright’s services like tattoo removal, and work ways. as executive director of academic life and to connect Shakespeareans readiness and job training-focused Steelcase’s goal is for educators communications. and Shakespeare societies around the UNIVERSITY NAMED 2017 social enterprises — serves 10,000 and designers to rethink classrooms, In this role, Gibbons will work world. ENGAGED CAMPUS men and women a year. libraries, cafés and other informal closely with faculty, administrators spaces to incorporate user-friendly and staff members across campus KIJEWSKI-CORREA, Indiana Campus Compact has MCGRAW NAMED TO technology, flexible furniture and to enhance Notre Dame’s aca- REIFENBERG TO LEAD announced that the University has BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME other tools to support active learning. demic reputation nationally and been named 2017 Engaged Campus The grant covers the costs of furni- internationally among its peers in KEOUGH INTEGRATION LAB of the Year for its commitment — in- Muffet McGraw, Karen and ture, design, installation, onsite train- higher education as well as with Tracy Kijewski-Correa and Steve trinsic to its founding mission — not Kevin Keyes Family Head Women’s ing, and a pre- and post-occupancy prospective faculty and students. Reifenberg have been appointed only to serve the broader community Basketball Coach, has been named as measurement tool. Marissa Gebhard joined the co-directors of the Integration Lab but also to educate generations of a member of the Naismith Memorial Assistant Registrar Linda Martel- Office of the Executive Vice (i-Lab), an innovative feature of students for lives of civic and social Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of laro and Jeff Bain-Conkin, academ- President (EVP) at the beginning the new Keough School of Global engagement. 2017. ic technologist in OIT’s Office of of the spring semester and will Affairs that engages students, faculty Indiana Campus Compact is a Says President Rev. John I. Jen- Teaching & Learning Technologies, play a critical role in strategic and partners around the world in partnership between 42 Indiana kins, C.S.C., “For 30 years, Muffet prepared the proposal with DeBar- communications planning and addressing complex global challenges. college and university campuses ded- McGraw has led our women’s bas- tolo Room 232 in mind. The grant, coordination for the Office of Kijewski-Correa is the Leo E. and icated to preparing college students ketball program to the pinnacle of says Registrar Chuck Hurley, “will the EVP in collaboration with Patti Ruth Linbeck Collegiate Chair to advance the public good in their success, winning a national champion- make this a truly innovative class- University Communications. As a and associate professor, Department communities. ship, reaching the Final Four on seven room. Our utilization of this room is member of both University Com- of Civil and Environmental Notre Dame was a founding mem- occasions and garnering 765 victories, already quite high, but we hope that munications and the Office of the Engineering and Earth Sciences, ber of the compact; President Emer- and 853 overall. As importantly, her these upgrades will attract faculty Executive Vice President, she will and associate professor of global itus Rev. Edward “Monk” Malloy, players have excelled in the classroom who are interested in new learning be responsible for developing and affairs. Reifenberg, who has taught C.S.C., was a founding member of and she has served as a wonderful environments as well as emerging implementing communications international development and served the board of directors. The genesis for ambassador for her sport and this Uni- technologies such as augmented plans for the Office of the EVP as executive director of the Kellogg the compact, formed in 1993, said versity. I know that the entire Notre reality and virtual reality.” and its constituency groups. Institute for International Studies Father Malloy, “was a collective sense Dame family joins me in congratu- Renovations to the classroom will Before joining the Office of the since 2010, is associate professor of that higher education needed to lating Muffet on her election to the take place over the summer — the EVP, she directed the marketing the practice in the Keough School. focus more directly on making a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall space will be ready for fall classes. communications team of the Col- difference in our communities and of Fame, and we look forward to cele- lege of Science. She earned a Bach- neighborhoods.” brating her induction in September.” elor of Business Administration in CAMPUS NEWS marketing and management from Saint Mary’s College and a Master of Nonprofit Administration from BE ON THE ALERT FOR SEVERE the University of Notre Dame. SPRING WEATHER Spring is the most active time NOTRE DAME FENCING TAKES NINTH NATIONAL TITLE GERHOLD APPOINTED for tornadoes. Please take the time DIRECTOR OF LICENSING to review your plan for safety in case of severe weather. If a tornado The Notre Dame fencing Tomi Gerhold has been named warning is issued, county authorities CASHORE MATT program clinched its ninth the University’s director of licensing. will activate outdoor warning sirens; national title Sunday, March 26, Gerhold will oversee the University's NDAlert messages will go out if at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum extensive trademark licensing pro- campus is threatened. Warning sirens in Indianapolis, capping four gram, which is widely regarded as are tested on the first Thursday of the days of dominance at the 2017 one of the most successful consumer month at 11:30 a.m. National Collegiate Fencing products licensing programs in the A severe thunderstorm watch United States. Gerhold joined Notre means that damaging winds and hail Championships. The Fighting Dame's Licensing Department in are expected. It often precedes the Irish clinched the championship May 2000, serving first as senior ad- issuance of a tornado watch. in the fourth round with a 5-1 ministrative assistant, licensing spe- A tornado watch means that con- win by senior Lee Kiefer over cialist, and then associate director, ditions are favorable for the develop- Cornell's Lyubov Kiriakidi on before being named interim director ment of tornadoes. (Watches may be the foil strip. Later in the day, of the program in July 2016. issued frequently. Except for keeping Kiefer took her fourth individual informed via radio or television, they title, becoming just the third do not require immediate action.) collegiate fencer to earn four A tornado warning requires weapon titles. immediate action — move to a safe shelter — because a tornado has been 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. 12, Jan. 26, Feb. 23, March 23, April 20 and May 25. May 2017 | NDWorks | 3 NewThe campus ID card votes are in! design chosen Honorary degree BY COLLEEN O’CONNOR, FOR ND WORKS recipientsSix distinguished men and women announced in the sciences, religion, business and architecture will join principal speaker Vice President Mike Pence Faculty, staff and as honorary degree recipients at the 172nd University Commencement students — 4,600 of Ceremony on Sunday, May 21.