BARBARA JOHNSTON NDND DECEMBER2015 News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families NDSP Serving – and protecting – the University community Page 4 Left to right, Detective Sergeants Derrick Chambliss and Kelly Todd ND-LEEF Team Irish Shakespeare Festival INSIDE Page 3 Page 9 Page 11 2 | NDWorks | December 2015 NEWS MATT CASHORE MATT PHOTO PROVIDED LUIZA-LUCIA PUIU BRIEFS BARBARA JOHNSTON PEOPLE BURDELL TO LEAD FIGHTING IRISH INITIATIVE Marc D. Burdell has been Burdell Przybyszewski Mohammed Bracke appointed the inaugural program director for LSES (Low Socioeconomic Status) support in Department of Psychology, are co- Development and Solidarity at a current, popular fiction and other NOTRE DAME PARTNERS WITH the Division of Student Affairs. primary investigators on the grant as Nov. 16 ceremony at the Hesburgh leisure-reading collections. SJCPL POSSE FOUNDATION well. Center. provides access to these materials As program director, Burdell will The University has entered oversee the creation of a student Joel Boerckel, assistant professor The United Nations secretary and more, but it isn’t always possible of aerospace and mechanical general’s special adviser on post-2015 for students to visit county library into a partnership with the Posse life enrichment program under Foundation, a nationwide college the Fighting Irish Initiative, a engineering, was awarded a development planning, Mohammed locations,” says Tracey Morton, Collaboration in Translational was recently confirmed as senior frontline services manager for the access and youth leadership groundbreaking initiative that will development program, to offer full- fully fund the cost for low-income Research (CTR) grant for a study minister to the federal government in Hesburgh Libraries. “This new titled “Mechanical Regulation of her native Nigeria. service gives the campus community tuition scholarships to select students students to attend Notre Dame — from the New Orleans area. including tuition and fees, room Neovascularization.” The project is a The Ford Family Notre Dame online access to SJCPL resources collaboration with Mervin Yoder at Award recognizes Mohammed’s with convenient delivery right to the Founded in 1989, the Posse and board, books, transportation Foundation identifies public high and personal expenses. The program the Indiana University School tireless efforts to understand and Hesburgh Library.” of Medicine and Sherry Voytik- illuminate the true causes of poverty Besides leisure print materials, school students with extraordinary will be customized to help students academic and leadership potential acclimate and adjust to a collegiate Harbin at Purdue University. The and to unleash human creativity and children’s books, and movies, there research will enable development of potential in effective and sustainable are popular e-books and digital who may be overlooked by environment, helping to ensure they traditional college selection processes. flourish at Notre Dame. new tissue engineering strategies and ways around the world. materials available for download. anti-cancer drugs. The SJCPL card also gives access to Partnering institutions then offer these outstanding students the PRZYBYSZEWSKI RECEIVES LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP databases such as Lynda.com. To search the full catalog at the opportunity to pursue personal and NEH PUBLIC SCHOLAR GRANT ANNOUNCED academic excellence by being placed SJCPL, visit libraryforlife.org. Historian Linda CAMPUS NEWS Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and in supportive, multicultural teams Przybyszewski has been selected Holy Cross College students, faculty — or “posses” — of 10 students at as one of the first winners of the and staff who are St. Joseph County HOLIDAY BLUES? top-tier colleges. National Endowment for the CRÈCHE EXHIBITION ON VIEW residents can now pick up and return Faculty and staff feeling anxious, Once on campus, Posse students Humanities’ new Public Scholar THROUGH JAN. 31 requested St. Joseph County Public unnerved or sorrowful due to loss, will receive close mentoring by Grant Program, which aims to bring Library (SJCPL) materials at the broken relationships or the pressure faculty and administrators. Each Christmas Nativity scenes from the humanities to larger audiences Hesburgh Library. of the holiday season can contact the mentor will meet weekly with around the world will be on display and make scholarship relevant to Individuals can also obtain or university’s staff chaplain, Rev. Jim the Posse as a team and with each around campus through Jan. 31. contemporary life. renew their SJCPL library card on Bracke, C.S.C. student individually every two weeks The 31 crèches, on loan from The “These NEH grants give campus at the Hesburgh Library. The Father Jim is responsible for during their first two years of college. Marian Library at the University of serious scholars an opportunity to services are part of a new partnership meeting the spiritual needs of Notre Additionally, Posse staff will travel Dayton, will be located at several write books the general public is between Notre Dame’s main Dame staff, including prayer services, from New Orleans to Notre Dame sites on the Notre Dame campus. interested in,” says Przybyszewski, Hesburgh Library and the county staff Masses, one-on-one conversations three times each year to meet with The University’s Institute for Church an associate professor in the library system. and discussion groups. To speak with students, University staff and on- Life is sponsoring this second annual Department of History and the Law “Students often request that the Father Jim directly, call 631-4131 or campus mentors. exhibition to celebrate the Christmas School. Hesburgh Libraries purchase more email [email protected]. season and highlight the beauty and One of 36 academic nonfiction diversity of religious culture. projects to receive funding in 2015, This year, crèches from Canada, her forthcoming book will tell the Australia, South America, Europe story of the Cincinnati Board of and the United States will be on Education’s decision to stop Bible display in the Eck Visitors Center, reading in public schools and the the Morris Inn, Geddes Hall, the ensuing court battles that riveted Coleman-Morse Center and the the nation in the late 1860s and CASHORE MATT Main Building. early 1870s. At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, the public is invited to meet at the Eck ARTS AND LETTERS AND Visitors Center to make a pilgrimage ENGINEERING FACULTY WIN in prayer and song while visiting INDIANA CTSI AWARDS the exhibit locations. President Notre Dame faculty from Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., will Psychology and Aerospace and welcome pilgrims to the Main Mechanical Engineering have been Building. Families are encouraged awarded grants from the Indiana to bring the baby Jesus figures from Clinical and Translational Sciences their own crèches for a blessing. Institute (CTSI). Refreshments will be served. Julie Braungart-Rieker, Visitors may take a self-guided professor of psychology in the tour of the exhibit using a full-color College of Arts and Letters and booklet that can be found at any director of the William J. Shaw of the display sites. Full details, Center for Children and Families, including times and locations, are was awarded a Community Health available at icl.nd.edu/events/ Engagement Program (CHEP) second-annual-international- Community Based Research Pilot creche-display. Award for a study titled “Reducing Obesogenic Home Environments in Low-Income Households with AMINA MOHAMMED RECEIVES Mothers of Pre-school-Aged FORD FAMILY NOTRE DAME Children.” Elizabeth Moore, AWARD VETERANS DAY VIGIL associate professor of marketing in Global human development the Mendoza College of Business, advocate Amina Mohammed was ROTC cadets and midshipmen stand vigil at the Clarke Memorial Fountain in honor of Veterans Day. and Jennifer Burke LeFever, awarded the 2015 Ford Family assistant research professor in the Notre Dame Award for Human 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 12 times a year. US @ 2015-16 publication dates are June 23, July 23, Aug. 27, Sept. 24, Oct. 29, Dec. 3, Jan. 7, Jan. 28, Feb. 25, March 24, April 21 and May 16. December 2015 | NDWorks | 3 ND-LEEF pavilion receives awardBY ALEX GUMM, from Indiana AIA ND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE INITIATIVE The Morrison Family Education CASHORE PHOTOS: MATT and Outreach Pavilion, the inaugural building at the University’s Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility (ND-LEEF) at St. Patrick’s County Park, received a 2015 Citation Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Indiana. Constructed in October 2014, the pavilion is the first University structure to receive a commendation from AIA Indiana Design Awards. The Morrison Pavilion was recognized in AIA’s new construction category for projects costing less than $1 million. The four- member AIA Jury commented on the pavilion: “We were impressed with every detail and choice made in the design of this structure. The decision to orient the building along the summer solstice, and to situate it with its back to the approach, a simple swath of mown meadow, was poetic.” The pavilion also received “high commendation” for Excellence in Design in Community Engagement from the International Network of Traditional Architecture and Urbanism at its World Congress event in London last spring. The Midwest Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America recognized the pavilion with an Acanthus Award in November. “We are very proud of the As the centerpiece of ND-LEEF, recognition that the pavilion has the Morrison Family Education and received, most notably for being a Outreach Pavilion offers a year-round structure that both demonstrates outdoor classroom and outreach and celebrates the critical destination located 5 miles from relationship between the built and campus at St. Patrick’s County Park.