NDND CASHORE MATT SEPTEMBER2016 News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families A new campus Police Chief and a new plan for Campus Safety Page 5 Opening Mass RecSports classes New DPAC season INSIDE Page 2 Pages 10-11 Page 14-15 2 | NDWorks | September 2016 $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the 5+1 NEWS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program guarantees that students who finish BRIEFS their dissertations and complete degree requirements within five years of enrollment will receive a one-year postdoctoral fellowship. CAMPUS NEWS This fully funded transitional year will provide an ideal opportunity for new doctorate recipients to prepare SAVE THE DATES FOR FALL for an increasingly competitive job TOWN HALL MEETINGS market by furthering their research, expanding their teaching portfolio, or Fall Town Hall meetings take exploring career opportunities out- place Wednesday and Thursday, side the academy. Oct. 5 and 6. Information on times This year’s first class of 5+1 post- and locations for the meetings will The keynote event of the 2016 Notre Dame Forum takes place Wednesday, Sept. 14, doctoral fellows will take up place- be forthcoming. ments at the University of Notre in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The event will RICCI FAMILY’S Dame Press, University Relations, feature a conversation among Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission $5 MILLION GIFT WILL the Rome Global Gateway and a on Presidential Debates, and past debate moderators Jim Lehrer and Bob Schieffer, teaching exchange at the University as well as Dorothy Ridings, former president of the League of Women Voters. SUPPORT MARCHING BAND of Heidelberg’s Department of Amer- AND RECSPORTS ican Studies. Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., also a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, will serve as convener. For more information and a list of upcoming events, visit Kenn and Pamela Ricci of Wil- loughby, Ohio, have made a $5 GAME DAY LAUNCHES forum2016.nd.edu. million gift to the University for a NEW WEBSITE project that will create an outdoor Since 2009, Game Day operations home for the Band of the Fighting has overseen all aspects of home Irish and a world-class facility for football and Shamrock Series week- students participating in RecSports. ends. This season, Game Day has President Rev. John I. Jenkins, The facility, located adjacent to launched a new website offering a C.S.C., speaks to an ND Votes CASHORE MATT Stepan Center and to be named clean and attractive new layout with “Pizza, Pop and Politics” Ricci Family Fields, will be used by faster load times for mobile phones event at the Center for Social the Notre Dame marching band as a and tablets. Users will now be able to Concerns. Father Jenkins is a rehearsal field. The fully lit, artificial print, email and share to social media member of the Commission on turf football field, complete with a directly from the site. Game Day is Presidential Debates, a band director’s tower, will enable the one-stop site for season schedules nonpartisan, nonprofit the Band of the Fighting Irish to and events, as well as information on organization that has pro- practice in the same location on a directions and parking, tailgating and duced all U.S. presidential consistent basis throughout football stadium bag policies. View the re- and vice presidential season for the first time in its 170- designed website at gameday.nd.edu. debates since 1988. year history. When not in use by the band, Ricci Family Fields, along with two additional lighted turf fields, will PEOPLE be used for more than 1,000 games and by 10,000 students participat- CURRAN TO LEAD NEW ing in various RecSports activities BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT annually. The Ricci Family Fields project Jack Curran, former vice presi- CASHORE MATT will also include a new storage dent of mergers and acquisitions at building, restrooms and locker Textron Inc., is joining the University room facilities to meet the needs in a newly created role as associate of the Band of the Fighting Irish. vice president of new business devel- The restrooms will also be available opment. for year-round use by RecSports, in In this role, Curran will coordinate addition to the locker rooms when multidisciplinary functions to execute not occupied by the band. and advance economic develop- The gift will not only impact ment efforts that will have a positive the marching band and students impact on Notre Dame and the participating in RecSports, but will surrounding area. He will also work also allow the University to con- closely with Tim Sexton, associate tinue to pursue an ambitious goal vice president for public affairs, and of carbon reduction. In addition, the regional community on ways to the construction project creates the promote economic development in opportunity to build a 1,350-ton the South Bend-Elkhart region. geothermal well field beneath the new playing fields. BURMAN TO DIRECT Construction of the three syn- MEDIEVAL INSTITUTE thetic turf fields and support build- Thomas E. Burman, a scholar OPENING MASS AND PICNIC ing is scheduled to begin in spring of medieval Christianity and Islam, of 2017, immediately following has been named the Robert Conway All students, faculty, staff and their families are invited to attend the 2016-2017 Opening Mass and the completion of the geothermal Director of the Medieval Institute. Picnic on Tuesday, Aug. 23. Mass will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Joyce Center’s Purcell Pavilion; a picnic well field. Ricci Family Fields are Burman, currently a professor of on South Quad follows until 8 p.m. expected to be completed by August history at the University of Tennes- of 2017. see, Knoxville, will begin his new role in January 2017. NEW POSTDOCTORAL He is the author or editor of four PROGRAM LAUNCHED books—including “Reading the tingent of medievalists at any North professor of global affairs. Kay will of international trade policy. She has Qur’an in Latin Christendom, 1140- American university. hold a joint appointment in the conducted intensive ethnographic The College of Arts and Letters 1560,” which won the American Department of Sociology. fieldwork in Brazil, Mexico, Colom- has launched a new, guaranteed Philosophical Society’s Jacque Barzun KAY TO JOIN KEOUGH SCHOOL Kay is the author of the award- bia, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Nigeria postdoctoral fellowship that will Prize in Cultural History. OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS winning book “NAFTA and the and India for her third book project, incentivize timely dissertation com- The Medieval Institue offers both Tamara Kay, a scholar with exten- Politics of Labor Transnationalism” which focuses on transnational rela- pletion and prepare graduate stu- an undergraduate major and a Ph.D. sive experience in Latin America and (Cambridge) and co-author of a sec- tionships among nongovernmental dents to launch their careers. program and maintains a faculty ros- Africa, will join the new Keough ond book manuscript on trade bat- organizations in the U.S. and in Funded in part by a three-year, ter of more than 60—the largest con- School of Global Affairs as associate tles, activism and the politicization developing countries. 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. September 2016 | NDWorks | 3 Pant honored as top PHOTOS: MATT CASHORE PHOTOS: MATT university chef PHOTO PROVIDED A RECORD RAINFALL A record-breaking overnight rainfall of more than 8 inches on Monday and Tuesday, August 15 and 16, resulted in flooding and power outages across campus. The South Bend Tribune reported that it was the most rainfall on any date in South Bend history. Above, Mike Seamon, vice president of Campus Safety, checks on Holy Cross Drive, which was blocked by standing water near the Grotto. At right (inset) cars in the D6 parking lot. Power was restored to all campus buildings by 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Pant BY MOLLY FREEMEAU, petitions held earlier this year. FOOD SERVICES Competitors were required to incorporate the featured ingredients Chef Charu Chandra Pant was including red rice, edamame and Enter the NDWorks 2016 awarded first place in the National black kale. Chef Pant won the chal- Association of College and Uni- lenge and gold medal with his dish, versity Food Services (NACUFS) “Himalayan Bowl: Seared Lamb with National Culinary Challenge. Red Rice Pilaf, Sauteed Black Kale, PHOTO CONTEST! The competition took place on Tourneed Turnips with Sweet Tomato Those of us who work on campus see things visitors don’t — campus at sunrise and July 14, at the NACUFS national Sauce, Cucumber Mint Raita and conference in Anaheim, California. Rich Tomato Shorba.” sunset, hidden spots that ordinary people don’t get to, close encounters with the The Culinary Challenge recognizes Chef Pant has been a part of the squirrels of Notre Dame and more. outstanding food preparation and Campus Dining team since 2007. presentation skills in collegiate He currently serves as executive chef dining services. for the South Dining Hall. He also The competition took place in served as test kitchen chef as well as front of a live audience of college retail executive chef before moving to and university foodservice manag- the South Dining Hall.