There’s student-athletes, student media, student managers, but Harry Peluso might be one of the first student-engineers working on campus. Peluso is working an internship 10 hours a week with the engineering firm Shiel Sexton, who is building the new athletic facility on the east side of campus, Shields Family…

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Inside DeBartolo Hall, the packed auditorium gave Gov. Ron DeSantis a standing ovation as he took to the stage.

The Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government invited the governor to deliver the 2024 Jeanie Poole O’Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture on “Conservative Leadership on the Eve…

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Rev. Peter McCormick, C.S.C., assistant vice president for Campus Ministry in the Division of Student Affairs, has been at the university since 2006. From assistant rector of Dillon Hall to rector of Keough Hall to director of Campus Ministry, Fr. Pete’s popularity amongst the Notre Dame student body…

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On Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, while many members of the Notre Dame community were making their way into the DeBartolo Hall auditorium to listen to a lecture by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a group of students with a different opinion of his presence on campus organized outside of the venue. At 3:30 p.m.,…

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Ahead of Notre Dame’s matchup with Stanford on Oct. 12, two Californians assembled on Notre Dame’s campus for an entirely different type of confrontation. John Yoo and Harry Litman — both prominent law professors and former government officials, but with opposing political views — met to engage in…

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Every four years, college campuses across the country become charged with an atmosphere of political debate, discourse and engagement, and Notre Dame is no exception. In anticipation of the upcoming 2024 presidential election, there have been a number of campus events and initiatives to increase civic…

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Professor Geoffrey Layman, chair of the Political Science Department, has taught at the University of Notre Dame for fifteen years. Since 2016, students across all academic disciplines have fought through lengthy wait lists and tense competition for a seat in Professor Layman’s live, real-time Election…

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Nationwide, college students today tend to favor the Democratic Party. The Fall 2024 Harvard Youth Poll, which is a national poll conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, found that Vice President Kamala Harris decisively leads former President Donald Trump by 31 points…

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Students prefer to make statements rather than converse in this election season. 

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Early this morning, three protestors from the Occupation Free Notre Dame group placed a cardboard missile and sign at the university’s Main Gate on Notre Dame Avenue. The missile read “ND funds death” and the sign read “We’re a Catholic University funding genocide.” It was signed by OFND.

Occupation…

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Celebrating the Inauguration of Fr. Dowd as the University's 18th President

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On Sept. 13, 2024, the University of Notre Dame inaugurated its 18th president, Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. But this momentous occasion was not just a singular event, it was a week-long celebration. From a feast on Library Lawn to the Inaugural Ball held in Notre Dame Stadium, few students and faculty…

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“Ad multos annos,” which in Latin means, “for many more years,” represents the legacy of St. Thomas Aquinas’s contributions to Catholicism, culture and philosophy during the 800th anniversary of his birth this week.

To celebrate, Notre Dame hosted a four-day conference…

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The celebration of Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C.’s Inauguration kicked off with a campus-wide picnic on Wednesday, Sept. 11. With both North and South Dining Halls closed for the occasion, students, faculty, staff and their families ditched their typical dinner tables for lawn chairs and picnic blankets.…

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Dr. Margaret Pfeil is a professor at Notre Dame and holds joint appointments in the Department of Theology and the Center for Social Concerns. Pfeil teaches a course on sustainability in the tri-campus community. Pfeil got her undergraduate degree in International Studies with a concentration in Latin…

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“One, two, three . . . GO IRISH!” Somewhere in South Bend, IN, a group of determined individuals donning gold helmets huddled together and shouted these words.

Don’t be fooled! This wasn’t a Saturday in Notre Dame Stadium during a home game weekend. That rallying cry didn’t echo from the Fighting…

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In a poll conducted this week on campus, Scholastic Magazine and NDTV found that 57.4% of Notre Dame students intend to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. To see more of the results from the poll, check out the report below.

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CHICAGO–For Luca Ripani ’23, the Democratic National Convention just so happened to be in his backyard. The former Democratic Hill Staffer recently moved back to his hometown of Chicago, Illinois and wanted to get involved somehow with the convention.

“I decided that I didn’t really want a…

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Spring in South Bend is always a gamble. Within a given April week, a Notre Dame student could be met with scorching 80 degree weather, a torrential downpour with 45 mph wind gusts and, yes, even a snowstorm that necessitates dusting off the parka that was prematurely put in storage. Monday, April…

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Notre Dame has alumni currently elected to the United States’ Congress. As they run for reelection this fall, here’s a full list.

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A tribute to Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.

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Scholastic interviews Professor Anna Haskins.

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Skwarcan '24 Publishes "Titanic" Book.

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Students participate in Back the Bend service project.

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Double Domer Joe Donnelly (class of 1977 and law school class of 1981) still doesn’t know the prayers of the Catholic Mass in Latin. He didn’t know them when he was an altar boy at age nine in Massapequa, New York, and he doesn’t know them now as the United States Ambassador to the Holy See. “They…

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Eddy Street is a staple of the Notre Dame experience today, with spots like Brothers and Dave’s Hot Chicken being popular student hangouts. However, it is important to note that just 20 years ago, the Eddy Street we know was nonexistent.

Today, students live in the Foundry apartments, study…

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Dear Notre Dame,

We cannot begin to express the honor we feel in this opportunity to serve you as your next Student Body President and Vice President. We both love this community so much and look forward to making real, positive changes that every student can feel during our time in office.…

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Dana Horgen is an associate teaching professor of chemistry who started in July 2023. She has taught general and organic chemistry labs in her first two semesters for both chemistry and biochemistry majors and non-majors. Intrigued by Hollywood’s portrayal of chemistry, Horgen created a new lecture…

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When Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer started to speak, the first words out of her mouth were a quiet “thank you” and, after the briefest of pauses, “bozho ndénwemagnek:” hello, all my relatives. These words are not only a greeting, but an invitation — a call to recognize the interconnectedness of this world…

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Notre Dame signs NBC media deal, preserving independence.

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