NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME NOTRE DAME BARBARA JOHNSTON NDND JULY 2018 ADAM HEET News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families digital projects specialist Hesburgh Libraries Creating a 3D Map of Campus Assistive technology for the visually impaired Pages 6-7 Health Success Story Campus Tree Project Staff Picnic INSIDE Pages 4 Page 5 Page 12 2 | NDWorks | July 2018 NEWS MATT CASHORE MATT CASHORE MATT ND file storage BRIEFS BARBARA JOHNSTON transition update In today’s collaborative environ- Now in the final phase of the WHAT’S ment, file storage requirements have transition plan, anyone with files escalated at Notre Dame. The ability remaining in their individual NetFile GOING ON Tweed Simons Botero to provide more file space, collaborate space will need to relocate them to globally and have reliable access to Google Drive by Tuesday, July 31. STAFF PICNIC files on many devices are among the The OIT has developed a migration For the first time, the annual staff received $10 million SIMONS BOOK EXAMINES top requests from faculty, staff and tool designed to help relocate your picnic will be held in the Notre to fund two new THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY students. files quickly and easily. Dame Stadium concourse. The event faculty positions and PROFESSION To be able to provide appropriate For additional information on will take place Monday, July 9, and grow the center’s Social support for teaching, learning and the ND file storage transition and Marcy Simons, organiza- the rain date is Tuesday, July 10. Innovation Fund. LEO research initiatives, a new type of file the migration tool, go to ntrda.me/ tional development librarian Shuttles will run continuously from is a research center storage was needed. netfile. at the Hesburgh Libraries, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. For more in the Department of Since February, the Office of In- If you have any questions about has published a book titled information, see page 12 of this issue. Economics that works formation Technologies (OIT) has this transition, contact your depart- to reduce domestic pov- “Academic Library Meta- rolled out a transition plan to relocate mental IT support staff or the OIT NEED TO RENT A CAR? erty and improve lives morphosis and Regenera- your individual files stored in NetFile Help Desk at 631-8111, oithelp@ through evidence-based tion” (Rowan & Littlefield) to Google Drive. You may know Net- nd.edu or chat online at help. Beginning Monday, June 25, programs and policies. The Social in which she explores the remark- File as the “N” drive or some other nd.edu. faculty and staff can reserve a rental Innovation Fund provides seed capi- able transformations in the academ- drive name. vehicle for University business online tal to support pilot projects and fund ic library profession over decades through the Vehicle Reservation the scale-up of programs that have and outlines how this complex System on InsideND or through shown early evidence of promising history can prepare the industry for the Transportation Services website. interventions. future change. Users can visit the Car Rental task on IN CASE YOU MISSED IT InsideND or Transportation Services BOTERO NAMED AATSP website to register their profile and PEOPLE TEACHER OF THE YEAR reserve a rental vehicle. Tatiana Botero, associate teach- TWEED NAMED DIRECTOR ing professor of Spanish, has been CAMPUS NEWS OF ANSARI INSTITUTE named 2018 Indiana teacher of the Keeping your data Thomas Tweed, a historian year for university-level instruction MILITARY AND VETERAN committed to improving public by the American Association of INITIATIVES RECOGNIZED understanding of religions, has been Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese private is up to you named founding director of Rafat (AATSP). For the first time, Notre Dame has and Zoreen Ansari Institute for Glob- Botero teaches a communi- The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) recently hosted a lunch and been named as a 2018 “Top Veter- al Engagement with Religion in the ty-based learning course called “Im- learn focused on social media privacy. Members of OIT’s Information Security an-Friendly School” by U.S. Veterans Keough School of Global Affairs. migration and the Construction of team led the session and packed a lot of content in a short time. Key takeaways Magazine. The list, which consists of Tweed came to Notre Dame in Memory” in which undergraduate were: 175 colleges and universities, includ- 2013 as the Harold and Martha students work with South Bend- ing Duke, Vanderbilt and Cornell, Welch Professor of American Studies based Latino immigrant families to • Social media’s primary purpose is to sell ads, not to give you a forum for will appear in the August issue of and professor of history, roles he will document and preserve their his- sharing your vacation pictures. the magazine. retain. He is the former president of tories, enhancing the students’ lan- • Social media apps track not just what you click on or who you follow, but the American Academy of Religion, guage skills and civic engagement. where you go, what type of device you are using, what times you log in, LEO RECEIVES $10 MILLION the largest society for scholars of what you search for and much more. This helps them sell ads to you. TO FUND NEW FACULTY religion in the world, and has served • The default setting on any social media app is public. If you want to choose The Wilson Sheehan Lab for on the international advisory board who sees your postings, you must change the setting. But even if you mark Economic Opportunities (LEO) has for Notre Dame’s Tantur Ecumenical your posts as visible to only a small group of friends, the app will still collect Institute in Jerusalem. data from you. Thoreau biography wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize literature and the intersection of sci- reau — that he lived in the wilderness got to somehow ground too often assumed BY CARRIE GATES, COLLEGE OF ence and literature, received a Gug- as a hermit and a misanthrope — yourself and leave the voices to be indifferent to ARTS AND LETTERS genheim Fellowship in 2010 to begin that persist in the public imagination behind for a bit and really each other or even work on the book. She was awarded but scholars have known to be not think carefully through in conflict,” Walls Laura Dassow Walls, the William a fellowship from the National true. Previous accounts of Thoreau’s what the foundation for says. “Nothing could P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Endowment for the Humanities in life also showed hostility toward the truth and ethical action be farther from the English and a leading Thoreau schol- 2015 to complete the project. women in Thoreau’s family. would be,” she said. “He truth, as Pope Francis ar, has won the 2017 The first edition sold “Doing research into his family, I says there has to be some- makes eloquently clear Los Angeles Times out before its official discovered what strong, innovative, thing deeper and older in his 2015 encyclical Book Prize for biogra- publication date, and real leaders the women in his family than this current froth, Laudato Si, in which phy for her latest work, the book has been were — and not just one or two, but and he comes away feel- he calls for ‘integral “Henry David Tho- CASHORE MATT praised in reviews by the really all of them,” Walls says. “And ing that he has found it ecology.’ I’m fascinated reau: A Life,” published The New York Times, they clearly profoundly inspired and — and urges us to pursue by how many of the by the University of The Washington Post, influenced Thoreau, including his a similar kind of quest.” pope’s teachings are par- Chicago Press on July The Wall Street Journal abolitionism.” According to Walls, Thoreau’s alleled by Thoreau’s life and writings, 12, 2017, Thoreau’s and others. The Thoreau she chronicles has legacy endures today in part because in ways that suggest a strong conver- 200th birthday. “Thoreau carries a much to say about our own time, of “his ability to seamlessly integrate gence of spiritual traditions.” “Thoreau: A Life” is deeper, wider message too. In “Walden,” she says, he writes concern for the nonhuman environ- Writing “Thoreau: A Life” was the first comprehensive than many other writ- of the need to push through the mud ment and concern for human rights “like writing a novel with a cast of biography of the life of Walls ers. He is an American and slush of opinion in order to find and social justice.” hundreds of characters and riveting Thoreau since Walter Harding’s “The icon who stands for so many differ- the solid rocks at the bottom. Tho- “Despite his lifelong effort to events, suspense and crises and res- Days of Henry Thoreau” was pub- ent things — many of them contra- reau was frustrated with newspapers demonstrate in words and action that olutions, and triumphs and tears,” lished in 1965. dictory,” she says. taking false or loaded stances on these two forms of justice are tightly Walls says, “and it’s the most fun I Walls, a scholar of American In the biography, Walls combats events of his day, such as slavery. intertwined, after his lifetime they have ever had writing.” transcendentalism, environmental popular misperceptions about Tho- “There’s this sense that you’ve drifted apart, until today they are Comments or questions regarding NDWorks? Contact NDWorks managing editor Carol C. Bradley, 631-0445 ([email protected]) or Gwen CONTACT O'Brien, editor and associate director of Internal Communications, 631-6646 ([email protected]).