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WHAT’S GOING ONSPRING 2018 STAFF TOWN HALLS TO BE HELD WEEK OF APRIL 9

All Notre Dame staff are invited to their division’s Spring Town Hall. Similar to last spring’s Staff Town Halls, Executive Vice President John Affleck-Graves will meet with staff across campus to discuss informa-tion that is unique to their division. There will be 13 Staff Town Halls from April 9 to 13. Division leaders across campus will invite their staff to attend the session that is customized for their college or division. If staff are unable to attend their division’s session, they are encouraged to watch a video of the Town Hall that will be available at evp.nd.edu one week after the Town Hall.

NATURAL GAS SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS

As part of the Utilities Long Range Plan for the University, the natural gas service pipeline to the Power Plant will undergo improve-ments from February through June. NIPSCO (Northern Indiana Public Service Company) has begun the process of installing a new natural gas pipeline, as well as a metering and regulating station located north of Mason Services Center.

The pipeline will be installed along the west and south boundaries of the Warren Golf Course. Additionally, the University will install a pipeline from the metering and regulating station to the Power Plant later this spring. Specific details will be provid-ed regarding any impacts to facility access and traffic as they develop during construction.

CAMPUS NEWSNOTRE DAME AMONG TOP PRODUCERS OF FULBRIGHT STUDENTS FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT YEAR

During the 2017-18 academic year, 29 Notre Dame students and alumni were awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants, sec-ond among all research institutions in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Ed-ucational and Cultural Affairs. This is the fourth consecutive year that Notre Dame has been recognized as a top Fulbright producer, as reported annually in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Established in 1964, the Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, providing more than 380,000 students with the op-portunity to exchange ideas and con-tribute to solutions to shared inter-national concerns based on academic merit and leadership potential.

PEOPLECREPP SELECTED FOR NAS COMMITTEE ON EXOPLANETS

Justin Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics, has been selected to serve on the Exoplanet Science Strategy committee that’s part of the upcoming 2020-2030 National Academy of Sciences decadal sur-vey in astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science. Crepp is one of 14 committee members, a select group of experts in the field, tasked with

identifying priorities within the field that they believe should be addressed within the next decade.

CLARK AWARDED $1.1M KECK GRANT

Patricia Clark, Rev. John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C., Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded a $1.1 million, four-year grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an innovative approach to replicate in test tubes a universal component of protein folding within cells. Results from this medical research grant could shed new light on how deadly bacterial infections spread.

WELCH TO SERVE IN MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH ROLE

Building on a strong collaboration between the state’s leading universi-ties, Christopher Welch, chief sci-entific officer for Welch Innovation LLC, will join Notre Dame, Indiana University and Purdue University as director of the Indiana Consortium for the Analytical Sciences, in the first multi-institutional hire between the three universities. In his new role, Welch will focus on creating new joint research activities in the analyt-ical sciences, utilizing resources from each of the three institutions, and building new opportunities for col-laboration with industry, government agencies, private research organiza-tions and other academic institutions.

MCKIBBEN WINS ACLS FELLOWSHIP

Sarah McKibben, an associate professor of Irish language and literature, has won a prestigious fel-lowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for her book project, “Tradition Transformed: Bardic Poetry and Patronage in Early Modern Ireland, c. 1560-1660.”

McKibben, who is also a faculty fellow in the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, focuses her scholarship on bardic poetry in Ireland during the 16th and 17th centuries.

SCRANTON AWARDED LANNAN FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP

Roy Scranton, an assistant profes-sor in the Department of English, has won a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in recognition of his fic-tion writing.

Since 1989, the foundation has given literary awards and fellow-ships to both established and emerg-ing writers “of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work.” It looks to honor work that “challenges our understanding of the world,” and past honorees include George Saunders, Edwidge Danticat, Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Kolbert, Don Mee Choi and Philip Metres.

Scranton joined the faculty in 2016 after earning his Ph.D. at Princeton University. An Army veteran who served in the Iraq war, Scranton’s debut novel, “War Porn,” draws upon his military experience in questioning hero narratives built up around soldiers and considering

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the effects violence has on the people who live where wars are fought.

His 2015 nonfiction book, “Learn-ing to Die in the Anthropocene,” is a reflection and treatise on the implications of global warming and the need for serious contemplation about the end of the Earth as hu-mans have known it. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

REGISTRAR’S OFFICE STAFF SERVE IN STATE AND NATIONAL ROLES

Jennifer Brackett, assistant reg-istrar, is serving as president of the Indiana Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers for 2018. She will lead the IACRAO October conference.

Liz Rosencrantz, senior assistant registrar, was instrumental in bring-ing the Indiana Association of Colle-giate Registrars and Admissions Of-ficers group to the University for its annual conference, which will be held in October. The group is expected to bring more than 100 participants to campus.

Christina Wojtysiak, senior re-porting specialist and Veterans Affairs certification officer, will serve on the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Veterans Reporting and Support Group. This group will assess the feasibility of aligning the veterans reporting process with existing en-rollment and compliance reporting business processes.

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Several abolitionists in St. Joseph County had ties to the Underground Railroad, including Notre Dame’s neighbor. Father Sorin had started buying up parcels of land adjacent to campus, but one parcel in particular wasn’t purchased: That of local farmer Thomas Bulla.

His home was a stop for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada seeking freedom. Bulla’s family had previously been fined for assisting runaway slaves in southern Indiana. Father Sorin knew of the goings on at the residence bordering campus, and the risk involved. Today the land is occupied by Grace and Flanner halls.

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Will lead the University’s largest and oldest college

BY PATRICK GIBBONS, PROVOST’S OFFICE

Sarah A. Mustillo, department chair and professor of sociology, has been appointed I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters by University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. She succeeds John McGreevy, who is stepping down July 1 after serving 10 years as dean.

As dean, Mustillo will lead Notre Dame’s largest and oldest college, comprising 20 departments and more than 550 faculty members.

An expert in the social causes of childhood mental illness and statistical methods used in social science research, Mustillo joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2014, after serving seven years as a professor of sociology at Purdue University and six years on the faculty at Duke

University School of Medicine. She has served as chair of the Department of Sociology since 2016.

Mustillo earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology from Duke University, after graduating magna cum laude from Notre Dame in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and gender studies.

Her research interests include medical sociology, statistics,

Mustillo appointed dean of College of Arts and Letters

social epidemiology and social psychology. She is co-editor of the American Sociological Review, the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and a frequent speaker at domestic and international conferences on topics ranging from child mental health and wellness to advanced statistical methods.

Mustillo has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on several multimillion-dollar grant-funded studies and is presently co-investigator on a $2.4 million study of sibling socialization of alcohol and drug use from early through late adolescence, funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

In the classroom, Mustillo has been honored with a number of awards for teaching and scholarship excellence, including a fellowship from the Center for Instructional Excellence at Purdue.

Muhammad Yunus, a social entrepreneur, banker and economist from Bangladesh who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, will deliver a keynote address at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12, as part of this year’s Notre Dame Forum.

The 2017-18 Notre Dame Forum explores the challenges and opportunities posed by globalization. Yunus’ talk will take place in the Dahnke Family Ballroom of the Duncan Student Center.

Yunus will discuss his pioneering work in the field of poverty alleviation and sustainability with Ray Offenheiser, director of the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

Yunus will also receive the Ford Family Notre Dame Award for International Development and Solidarity from the Kellogg Institute during his visit to campus. The award recognizes substantial contributions to human development through research, practice, public service or philanthropy.

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his mother’s refusal to turn away anyone asking for help. He speaks to unleashing human creativity as the key to solving intractable problems such as poverty, unemployment, disease and environmental degradation.

“Each person has tremendous potential,” he writes in his recent book, “A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions,” which will be the subject of student reading and discussion groups prior to the forum event. “She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.”

More information about Notre Dame Forum events is available at forum.nd.edu.

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Security steps at home protect Notre Dame services, too

BY LENETTE VOTAVA, OIT

Years ago, your home network was probably just a computer or two con-nected with wires. Those wires gave you internet access at home. After a while you added a wireless router and a couple of smartphones. Then your game console needed internet access, plus your smart TV and maybe a new tablet.

Today your home network may be pretty complicated. It might include a couple of smartphones and tablets, an extra access point or two, a baby monitor, a thermostat, security cam-eras, a couple of TVs, a printer, lights, a refrigerator, speakers, door locks, a garage door opener and electric win-dow blinds. Now instead of one or two devices there are dozens.

Because you rely on your home network to keep all of your devices running smoothly, it’s important to protect it from security vulnerabilities and other threats. Here are some ba-sic safety precautions you can take to safeguard your home network.

Change the router administrator password

When you first set up a new Wi-Fi router, you use what’s called the

administrator account. This account is all-powerful and can control your whole network. The passwords that come with this type of account can be found with a quick Google search.

Change the administrator account password, and keep a record of the password in a password manager ap-plication of your choice. The OIT has approved the use of an app called 1Pass-word that works on Mac, Windows and mobile devices. You can find additional information at 1password.com.

Wi-Fi router set-upWhen setting up a Wi-Fi router,

you have the option to enable securi-ty by choosing WPA2 (wireless pro-tected access, version 2). This feature helps to secure your network in two important ways.

A password would be required to connect to your network. It’s good to know only your devices can connect — especially if you are connecting not only your cameras and alarms, but also your computer with your tax information on it. Do not use the same password you used for the administrator account.

The WPA2 option also ensures that the communication between your computer, tablet, phone and other devices and the network is encrypted. This means no one can electronically eavesdrop on the data you send over your network.

Use strong passwordsThe password you use for the ad-

ministrator account on your Wi-Fi router and the password for WPA2 should be hard to guess. Passwords like 12345678 or any sequence of numbers or letters are not strong passwords.

Consider using a passphrase. This is just a sentence with the words all jammed together, like mydogis-thebest or juliabrokemyheartin4th-grade. Passphrases are more difficult to guess, and they keep your net-work safer.

Additionally, each of your devices needs a passcode, password or pass-phrase. And because smartphones, tablets and laptops are portable, they are easier to lose. If that happens, your lost or stolen device is pretty much worthless to whoever has it since they don’t have the password, passcode or passphrase.

Use a guest networkInstead of sharing your password

or passphrase for your Wi-Fi net-work with family and friends who visit your home, some Wi-Fi routers let you set up a “guest” network. It allows visitors access to your home network without giving access to all of your devices. If you choose to set this up, be sure to use WPA2 security and use a strong password or passphrase.

Proactive measures to protect your files

The information you keep on your phones, tablets and computers is important. Pictures, appointments and contacts may be impossible to retrieve if your device is damaged or hacked, or if you have acciden-tally deleted something. An online backup service is a good investment. For iPhones the iCloud service is trouble-free. Or a service like Goo-gle Drive can be used with a backup application to store your important

information online.For your computer, you may want

to consider getting a network-at-tached drive to copy your important files to. An even safer option is to take advantage of any of the many online backup services like Backblaze, Carbonite, Norton and Acronis, to name a few.

Use auto updateYour computer and the software

that runs on it are being updated all the time. These updates add new fea-tures to your software. Updates also help protect you from threats like the recent Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities.

Most computers and software can be set to update automatically. Turn on the automatic update anytime this option is available. It’s like the old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Help protect Notre Dame’s network

These tips can ensure the safety of your home network, your computers and devices. Please consider taking as many of these suggestions as you can. Many of us connect to Notre Dame services from home. Taking these steps to secure your home network helps to protect not only you, but the University as well.

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BY BRITTANY COLLINS KAUFMAN, ND WORKS

For Bill and Jim Wilkie, there’s just something about Notre Dame.

Bill (BBA ’66), the Aloysius and Eleanor Nathe Professor of Marketing in Mendoza, earned his marketing degree here in the 1960s. After going on to get his Ph.D. and MBA at Stanford University, he built his career at Purdue, Harvard and the University of Florida — but when Notre Dame came knocking in the ’80s, he couldn’t say no.

Bill moved his family, including his oldest son, Will; his daughter Allie (MNA ’09); and young son Jim (BBA ’05), now assistant professor of marketing in Mendoza, to South Bend. Jim grew up attending sports games and spending time with his father on campus — he even has a photo of himself as a 5-year-old with then President Rev. Monk Malloy, C.S.C. When it was time to apply to colleges, he knew where he wanted to go.

“I wasn’t really pressured, per se, to go here, but I always felt that I’d probably wind up here,” says Jim, who graduated in 2005. Now a consumer psychologist within

the marketing department, he credits an anthropology course he took with James McKenna for getting him initially excited about the potential of pursuing a career in which he would study human behavior.

“Beyond Professor McKenna being a superb teacher that I enjoyed learning from, that was the first course that resonated with my tendency to ponder why people do some things that, logically speaking, seem to be quite bizarre. It took a more abstract, big-picture approach to try to explain why people, as part of the human species, behave in certain ways,” Jim says. “While growing up with a father in academia made me more familiar and comfortable everything that goes along with the career, that class was probably the initial spark that

motivated me to actually pursue becoming a professor.”

After earning his doctorate at Northwestern, Jim drew interest from Yale, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame and Georgetown, among others, for his next career move. But he had married a Notre Dame alumna, Mairin Amato (BA ’07), had family here and had a newborn, Morgan, at home. For him, the choice was clear.

“It made a lot of sense to take this offer. It’s a very good, well-respected school,” he says. “I knew a lot of the

people in the department already because I grew up around them, though it was a little weird for that element as well. But, in my sixth year, I’m comfortable viewing them as colleagues and I feel that the same is true for them. So I got to start the next chapter in my life by coming

home, which is pretty nice.”“As a parent, I didn’t want to be

pushy about what he wanted to do,” says Bill, who was recused from considering Jim’s candidacy. “But I’m happy with how it turned out.”

Both Wilkies enjoy working together in Mendoza. They don’t interact much professionally — even though they’re both marketing professors, they have different areas of interest — but they like getting to spend time with each other on campus.

Mendoza’s father and son marketing professorsThey enjoy their students, too,

many of whom take classes from both Wilkies.

“I benefit from the fact that they’ve had him first because they like him, so they come in thinking they’ll like me,” Bill jokes. But there’s one thing Bill loves to do that Jim didn’t inherit.

“I wear Hawaiian shirts every day to protest the South Bend weather in the wintertime,” Bill says. “Jim will show up to talk to my class, and he has this slide of himself in a Hawaiian shirt which he bought in Fiji on his honeymoon. He makes sure to tell them, ‘This is my only Hawaiian shirt,’ and they get a laugh.”

Now the next generation of Wilkies is growing up on campus. “This year I’ve started to take my daughter, Morgan (age 6), to sporting events on campus, and she’s really getting into it. One of the basketball players was in my class this past year and I introduced her to him, and he’s her favorite player now,” Jim says. “She and my son, Owen (age 3), already know most of the Victory March and am sure will continue to be lifelong fans of the school.”

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Holy Cross School welcomes Morris Inn chef

BY MOLLY DI CARLO, VENUEND

Holy Cross School in South Bend has long valued the richness of its diverse community. This year school leaders decided to reach out to the local community to re-envision how to integrate Black History Month

more robustly into the life of the school. They found creative methods to help students understand the many ways that African-Americans have contributed to the vitality of their nation. Holy Cross School welcomed artists, entrepreneurs, culinary experts and people of faith to help them celebrate this important month set aside for learning, celebrating and elevating.

Getting a Taste of Black History Month

The month-long spotlight on black history ended with a special visit and meal prepared by Morris Inn Sous Chef Calvin Metts and his team. In addition to the delight of tasting expertly prepared food, students learned numerous lessons like math and measurement in cooking, using the words “palate” and “cuisine” to talk about tastes and food, and the Spanish word for chef — cocinero.

Holy Cross School welcomed Morris Inn Sous Chef Calvin Metts to the school in February as a Black History Month guest. The school wanted to demonstrate to students how African-Americans contribute to the vitality of the nation. Other guests included artists, entrepreneurs and people of faith.

Metts, alongside Morris Inn food and beverage manager and Holy Cross School parent Kessa Kearse and other members of the culinary team, were on hand to talk with the students and staff about their careers and their love of working with food.

“It’s not every day that a distinguished chef comes to visit a school,” said teacher Clare Roach. “Chef Calvin shared his own life

story with our students and he invited them to understand more deeply how African-Americans have contributed to the culinary landscape of America. It was a visit our students will not soon forget. We are so grateful for our friends at Notre Dame and for their support of our efforts to spotlight African-American experts in our community.”

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BY ANNA MCKEEVER, HUMAN RESOURCES

Faculty and staff new to Notre Dame often comment that the Hu-man Resources department isn’t like those they’ve experienced before. Elsewhere, a trip to HR might be something to dread. But at Notre Dame, HR is so much more than a place to address workplace grievances or fill out paperwork. What differen-tiates Notre Dame’s Office of Human Resources is that it’s personalized and personable.

For example, 11 Human Resourc-es Consultants, or HRCs, provide guidance and support to managers and employees in designated depart-ments, colleges and institutes. Mark Kocovski, director of HR Consult-ing, wants everyone to know the HRC assigned to their office. (See sidebar to find yours.)

The HRCs specialize in perfor-mance management and employee relations. They understand op-erational facets of the office they support including organizational strategy, structure, culture, talent and processes to provide guidance for leadership and employees.

“There are a few different ways to look at the role of an HRC,” Ko-covski says. “Your HRC is a strategic partner who can proactively help your team achieve more. That could be through training or organizational design, both short-term and long-term. They’re a great partner at the

table during those discussions.” That’s similar to the feedback one

manager offered to her HRC: “Thank you so much for taking your time to come in and work through the feedback session with our leadership team today. You really did a great job facilitating discussion and moving us through the ‘three buckets’ of focus during the hour we had set aside. We came up with some great action items and were able to create buy-in for suggestions that will help us perform even better as a de-partment and as individuals. Since the feedback was specifically directed at me, I wanted to express my sincere gratitude at how you handled working with me throughout the cycle.”

“Similarly,” Kocovski adds, “if as an individual you want to be able to talk to someone whose opinion you trust and who you can confide in, you can rely on your Human Re-sources Consultant for that as well.”

One employee noted, “I recently found myself in a very stressful situ-ation and needed to make some seri-ous decisions about my future with Notre Dame. My HRC was most helpful in offering me options and helping me prioritize my game plan. I am delighted to say that I consider myself a success story and am thank-ful for the guidance and encourage-ment HR was able to offer.”

For more information about your HRC, go to ntrda.me/hrcs or give them a call through the askHR call center, 574-631-5900.

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MARK KOCOVSKIDirector of HR Consultingkocovski.1@nd.eduDepartments: Provost’s Office, Office of the President, Office of the Executive Vice President, Office of Human Resources, Investment Office

SANDRA GARCIAHuman Resources Consultant, sgarcia3@nd.eduDepartments: Auxiliary Operations (Campus Dining, St. Michael’s Laundry, Auxiliary Services, Licensing, Cedar Grove Cemetery, Irish1Card, Bookstore)

TEN GRAYHuman Resources Consultant tgray1@nd.eduDepartments: Facilities, Design and Operations, The Graduate School, Hes-burgh Library, University Press, Academic Services for Student Athletes, College of Engineering, Campus Safety and Event Management

SHARON HAWKINSSenior Human Resources Consultantshawkins@nd.eduDepartments: Campus Services (Aviation, Building Services, Landscape and Athletic Fields Services, Warehouse, Delivery and Transportation, Continuous Improvement, Sustainability, Finance and Administration)

SHELLY LIAPESsliapes@nd.eduDepartment: Faculty

LORI MAURERSenior Human Resources Consultant lmaurer@nd.eduDepartments: Office of Information

Technology, Office of Digital Learning, Institute for Education Initiatives / ACE, Athletics

LAKRISHA NEWBILL-PERRY Human Resources Consultant lnewbill@nd.eduDepartments: Enrollment, First Year Studies, Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars, TRiO, ROTC, CUSE, McGrath Institute for Church Life, CSC, IDEA Center, Keough School of Global Affairs, Snite Museum, Registrar, OPAC, Audit and Advisory

KIM PATTONHuman Resources Consultantkpatton@nd.eduDepartments: College of Arts and Letters, College of Science, ND Research, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Office of General Counsel, Student Affairs

LAURA PICKINGHuman Resources Consultantlvargo1@nd.eduDepartments: School of Architecture, VP Mission Engagement and Church Affairs, ND International, University Relations

DIANA PLACZKOWSKIHuman Resources Consultantdgarrast@nd.eduDepartment: Morris Inn/Notre Dame Conference Center

JESSICA SCHUMANHuman Resources Consultantjschuman@nd.eduDepartments: Finance Division, Mendoza College of Business, Office of Strategic Planning and Institutional Research, Law School

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• Organizational strategy• Culture• Talent• Employee Development• Structure

The role of HRCs• Guidance and support to

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Samantha Salden TeachSchool of ArchitectureAssistant dean for graduate studies and assistant professor

Samantha Salden Teach found her way through early challenges as an undergraduate student at Notre Dame. She now helps her own stu-dents through them.

“I’ve had the opportunity to work with virtually every student that has passed through the school in the last several years as an adviser, instructor or both. As I see these genuinely good people going out into the world and doing meaningful work, I take great pride in having played a role in their successes and their develop-ment.”

It was genuinely good people like these who drew Salden Teach to Notre Dame. She committed after attending an alumni event in Minne-apolis. “The people I met were smart and ambitious, but sincere and kind. I wanted to be around people like that,” she remembers.

After graduation Salden Teach made her way to Atlanta to begin her professional life at Historical Con-cepts, a traditional architecture and planning firm. While there, she was exposed to a wide variety of projects and was able to take on increasing amounts of leadership. “I found my-self at 23 leading a team on a huge project, working with other design-ers, clients and contractors who were often closer to my parents’ age than my own.”

After four years in Atlanta, Salden Teach returned to Notre Dame for graduate studies. She then joined the School of Architecture faculty, moving from direct practice to trans-forming the profession through ed-ucation. She began as an adviser for student organizations, then moved to committee chair and informal men-tor. For the last several years, Salden Teach has served in administrative roles, first as director of graduate studies and then as assistant dean.

As an administrator, she has played a key role in the creation of the school’s first Strategic Plan for Diver-sity and Inclusion and has worked to address systemic issues related to historically underrepresented groups in the architecture profession. Salden Teach has also been a leader in recent curriculum reviews for the graduate

program in architecture and urban design and in the development of new programs.

“Teaching design in a classical manner is not a singular thing,” Salden Teach says. “We get to explore design through the clarity of com-mon human and structural princi-ples, but their adaptation to a variety of cultures, climates, materials and programs around the world opens us to almost unlimited opportunity.”

Lakshmi IyerKeough School of Global Affairs and College of Arts and LettersAssociate professor of economics and global affairs

As India experienced unprece-dented economic growth during the 1990s, laying the foundation for its emergence as the world’s fifth largest economy, Lakshmi Iyer opted to pursue a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo-gy. Iyer holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute.

Iyer joined the Notre Dame facul-ty in January 2017 after teaching for more than a decade at the Harvard

Business School. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Keough School of Global Affairs. Within the Keough School, Iyer also directs the sustain-able development concentration in the Master of Global Affairs program.

Iyer’s research analyzes the role of political power within emerging mar-ket countries, including the legacy of colonial rule.

“For hundreds of years econo-mists have been trying to answer the question, ‘Why are some places poor while others are rich?’” Iyer says. “I have come to feel that political insti-tutions, political rules and the actors within those systems play a very large role. If the system is rigged against you or not structured properly, in-dividual efforts are not going to be enough.”

The political participation of women in India is a central focus of Iyer’s current research. A dearth of female political leaders is a global problem, Iyer says, with women ac-counting for only 23 percent of the membership of national parliaments globally. India makes an interesting

case study because it has a quota system to ensure women are equally represented at the district and village levels.

Electing women to political office has important policy consequences, Iyer says: For example, when more women are elected to political office, more crimes against women are re-ported, and police in turn make more arrests for these crimes.

“When you are a woman and you have a female political leader in your local area, it emboldens you,” she says. “It’s similar to the Me Too movement in that way.”

Iyer also has investigated whether a woman winning a political election at the state level inspired other women to enter politics. She was disappoint-ed to find this is not the case. Similar studies around the globe confirm this result is not unique to India.

“This tells us we need to have more proactive policies in place to include women in the political pro-cess,” Iyer says. “I’m investigating how we can create a pipeline for more women candidates and also how we can include more women at local po-litical levels. I’m excited to see if such programs can make a difference.”

Kristen Collett-SchmittMendoza College of BusinessAssociate teaching professor of finance, director of special projects

Since arriving at Notre Dame, Kristen Collett-Schmitt has built a reputation as a gifted finance teacher who regularly garners prestigious and meaningful teaching awards, includ-ing a spot on Poets & Quants’ “Top 40 Undergraduate Business School Professors” list in 2017.

She helped design and launch Mendoza’s first-ever online course

for undergraduates, and she is pro-viding accreditation guidance for the master’s program Notre Dame is launching with Balkh University in Afghanistan, among her many cur-rent special projects.

Collett-Schmitt attended Bel-larmine University, a small Catholic liberal arts school in Louisville. In her senior year, she decided to earn a doctorate and become an economics professor. She landed a full scholar-ship to North Carolina State Uni-versity, where she threw herself into the doctoral program, signing on to be a teaching assistant, which meant leading lab sections for 400-student classes.

During her first semester at Men-doza, Collett-Schmitt met the chal-lenge of teaching with a lot of hard work, undertaking teacher-training programs. In fact, her teaching is now her research as well, as she has translated her techniques into a pub-lication and presentations that she

shares with fellow economists. In her third year of teaching, seven

weeks before her identical twin girls were due, Collett-Schmitt discovered during a routine checkup that daugh-ter Mackenzie had no heartbeat. She was immediately taken to the hospi-tal, where the babies were delivered. The surviving twin, Harper, was tak-en to the neonatal intensive care unit.

Harper today is a healthy 7-year-old, and Collett-Schmitt and her husband used the experience to create the Mackenzie Taylor Schmitt Me-morial Fund, which purchases neces-sities for premature babies at the local Beacon Children’s Hospital. They also provide preemie clothing to fam-ilies through their own organization, Wishes for Preemies.

As a teacher, Collett-Schmitt finds that her experiences — good and bad — have become yet another way to reach and teach her students.

“A lot of students come to Notre Dame having never failed or knowing what it’s like not to be the best and were sheltered from hardship as I was,” she says. “And then it’s devas-tating for them when they don’t do well on an exam.

“So I tell them about failing my exam or share the story about my daughter,” says Collett-Schmitt. “And I say, ‘I thought my life was over.’ But you have to prepare for failure. You can grow, and you can go on.”

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Jennifer Mason McAwardNotre Dame Law School and Keough School of Global AffairsAssociate professor of law, director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights

When Jennifer Mason McAward ’94 was an undergraduate at Notre Dame, she knew that she wanted her life’s work to advance the cause of human dignity.

It’s a calling that led her to law school and continues to inspire her teaching and research.

“At the end of the day, I always ask myself if what I’m working on in the classroom and in my research is vindicating the God-given dignity of every person,” she says.

As director of Notre Dame’s Cen-ter for Civil and Human Rights since 2015, McAward leads a unit that is focused on building capacity world-wide for lawyers to be more effective advocates for the vulnerable and oppressed. It’s a mission that stems

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from the Catholic tradition of justice that is at Notre Dame’s heart.

McAward’s research focuses on how federal litigation can be an ef-fective tool for advancing individual rights, and how the institutions of federal government can work with state and local governments to pro-tect individual rights.

As a woman who is a lawyer, a pro-fessor and a mother, McAward says she also embraces the opportunity to show law students how she balances those roles.

“I try to embrace each of those roles so students can see that I am passionate about the subjects I teach, that I am committed to my family, that I am committed to the center that I direct, and I am doing my very best to balance all I do,” she says.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, is one of McAward’s sources of inspiration. McAward served O’Connor as a law clerk from 2000 to 2001. “Justice O’Connor has excelled in many personal and pro-fessional roles and has done so with grace, wit and humility,” McAward said. “She is a great role model for me.”

McAward added that everyone can press for progress in the world by having a sense of purpose and using their talents to the fullest.

“People have different gifts, but all of us are called to be our very best,” she said. “Notre Dame shaped my sense of my vocation and my mis-sion, so I knew Notre Dame would

be a great place to give that back to students. We’re fortunate to be in a place that gives us a platform to work collectively and use our privilege to advance the dignity of each person.”

Crislyn D’Souza-SchoreyCollege of ScienceMorris Pollard Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences

Strong mentoring and supportive role models — which include family, professors and peers — led Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey on a path from that of a curious young girl growing up in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, to a highly respected professor and researcher at Notre Dame.

She researches how membrane trafficking impacts cell motility under normal and disease states, especially cancer. This type of foundational research is critical for identifying im-portant therapeutics and diagnostics needed to tackle cancer. This line of D’Souza-Schorey’s research has built upon itself over many years, begin-ning with her research on the role of one type of binding protein, ARF6, when she was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

In the next 20 years, she hopes her studies will have proven to have major clinical impact.

Growing up, D’Souza-Schorey had an interest in biology and organ-ic chemistry, and her parents, neither of whom are scientists, supported her endeavors. Her parents juggled dual careers and taught her the impor-tance of integrity, empathy, education and a strong work ethic.

She completed her studies for a bachelor’s degree in India by age 19, and was working toward her master’s degree when one mentor suggested she pursue a doctoral degree. Another mentor, the female head of her de-partment, told her she should consid-er studying abroad.

“It was just a ‘what if ’ statement in a conversation,” she notes, but the comment shifted D’Souza-Schorey’s outlook. She soon found herself pursuing her doctorate at the Univer-sity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, with her parents’ blessing.

Though her parents were her first mentors, D’Souza-Schorey says she’s been blessed with others — predoc-toral and postdoctoral advisers who were outstanding scientists, as well as department heads at medical schools. Working with them was a unique privilege, she says. She references those experiences as she mentors students in her lab and leads others in her role as chair of the Department of Biological Sciences.

Promoting diversity and inclusive excellence within the department is important for her, she says, because wide-ranging perspectives engender a richer intellectual environment. That’s why one recruiting and hiring metric she’s focused on is the battle against “implicit bias” — uncon-scious thoughts that label women, men and people of different cultures and races in stereotypical ways. It pervades society and is an important issue that needs addressing, she says.

But she commends Notre Dame’s progressive culture. “Science, like it should, transcends gender and race,” D’Souza-Schorey says. “We must provide our students the very best education in a diverse intellectual community. It is important that we grow diversity to build excellence in all our endeavors.”

Ashley ThrallCollege of EngineeringMyron and Rosemary Noble Associate Professor of Structural Engineering, director of the Kinetic Structures Laboratory

Ashley Thrall’s path to a career in engineering took several turns along the way.

After graduating from Vassar College with a degree in physics, the Connecticut native worked at CERN, the particle accelerator in Switzerland, followed by performing further CERN research at the Uni-

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versity of Michigan before returning to school to study engineering.

Inspired by the book “The Tower and The Bridge” by David Billing-ton, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Princeton University, she was accepted to Princ-eton’s civil and environmental engi-neering graduate program, where she studied under Billington and earned her doctorate degree. She said of Billington, “He basically taught me an entire undergraduates’ worth of civil engineering just in one-on-one meetings. So he really took me under his wing.”

At Princeton, Thrall learned bridge engineering from Ted Zoli, the national bridge chief engineer of HNTB Corp. A class project on movable bridges under his mentor-ship turned into her Ph.D. disser-tation and ultimately inspired her interest in kinetic structures.

After Thrall arrived at Notre Dame in 2011, she founded and directs the Kinetic Structures Laboratory — a state-of-the-art facility within the De-partment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences that is focused on investigating the behavior of a variety of moving and deploying structures.

Through a National Science Foun-dation Faculty Early Career Devel-opment (CAREER) Program award, she and her graduate students are developing new approaches to rapidly erectable steel bridges. This research aims to develop technologies that can be used for disaster relief, military op-erations or accelerated construction of permanent infrastructure.

With support from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Develop-ment and Engineering Center, she and her team of students designed, analyzed and experimentally tested a half-scale prototype of an origami-in-spired shelter that is quickly deploy-able and that conserves energy in heat-ing and cooling. This work included constructing a full-scale prototype and led to two utility patents.

Thrall enjoys the educational as-pects of her position. Outside of her teaching and mentoring activities at Notre Dame, she has also devel-oped and implemented BRIDGES (Building Relationships to Inspire and Drive Girls to Pursue Engineer-

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ing and Science) — a before-school enrichment program aimed toward increasing the participation and re-tention of women in engineering at Riley High School in South Bend.

“That’s the really fun part of the job, getting to teach the undergrad-uates and working with the graduate students on their research projects,” she said. “It keeps you young and active. All of these new ideas; it’s a very energetic climate.”

Christina WolbrechtCollege of Arts and LettersProfessor of political science, director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, and C. Robert and Margaret Hanley Family Director of the Notre Dame Washington Program

Christina Wolbrecht was raised

in a very civically engaged family.

She began college planning to em-bark on a career managing political campaigns, but soon realized that her true calling was in studying and researching politics.

Wolbrecht went on to earn a Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis before joining Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters in 1997. In her graduate studies, she chose to focus on American political parties, and her first book traced the evolution of the Republican and Democratic parties on issues related to women’s rights.

An affiliated faculty member in Notre Dame’s Gender Studies Pro-gram, Wolbrecht is also a founding member of the editorial board of Women Also Know Stuff, which promotes and publicizes the work and expertise of female scholars in political science. The organization has created an online, searchable database to help journalists and academics connect

with more than 1,000 female experts in the field.

“One of the biggest challenges for women is implicit bias,” Wolbrecht said. “When we think of a profession-al, the image of a man in a suit is still dominant. And when we think about who experts are and when we look at professional networks — these things are still dominated by men.

“There are many things we need to do to challenge implicit bias, but presence is a big piece of it. We need to challenge the stereotypes we all hold — men and women — about who is competent, who is intelligent, who has something to contribute.”

In addition to undergraduate and graduate courses on American political parties and democracy, Wolbrecht regularly teaches a class on women in politics. It is an exciting and chal-lenging time to be researching and teaching about gender and American politics, Wolbrecht said.

It is also an energizing moment for women.

“Some of my work has been on the role model effect — how seeing wom-en in political roles makes younger women more politically engaged,” she said. “And now tens of thousands of women are considering running for political office — not just for Con-gress, but at the state and local level.

“All of this creates a pool of talent that could have an important long-term impact on American politics. It’s going to test a lot of our ideas about women in American politics — what’s going to happen when more women run for office than have ever run be-fore? It’s going to be fascinating.”

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Sister Norma Pimentel, M.J., champion of immigrants, to receive 2018 Laetare Medal

BY AMANDA SKOFSTAD, MEDIA RELATIONS

Sister Norma Pimentel, M.J., ex-ecutive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and long-time advocate for immigrants and refugees, will receive the 2018 Lae-tare Medal — the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics — at Notre Dame’s 173rd University Commencement Ceremo-ny on Sunday, May 20.

“Jesus said, ‘When I was a strang-er, you invited me in.’ Sister Norma Pimentel has given her life to wel-coming Christ in the immigrant and refugee,” said Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. “In awarding her the Lae-tare Medal, Notre Dame celebrates her witness of seeking and generously serving Christ in the most vulnera-ble.”

Sister Pimentel, a religious sister of the Missionaries of Jesus, has overseen the charitable arm of the Diocese of Brownsville (Texas) since 2008, providing a range of services that includes emergency food and shelter, housing assistance, clinical counseling and pregnancy care to all four counties in the Rio Grande Val-ley. She was instrumental in organiz-ing local response to the 2014 surge of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States. This included helping to establish the Humanitari-an Respite Center in McAllen, Texas.

In 2015, Pope Francis recognized and thanked Sister Pimentel person-ally for her work with immigrants in a virtual town hall meeting that was featured on ABC’s “20/20.” Also in 2015, she was named one of “Our

Sunday Visitor’s” 2015 Catholics of the Year and won a nomination for “Texan of the Year.”

In response to learning she had been named the 2018 Laetare Med-alist, Sister Pimentel said: “I am truly honored to receive this award. This year’s Laetare Medal brings forth the cries of the suffering for the world to hear. I would like to thank the University of Notre Dame for this recognition and for being a voice for immigrants in our midst.”

Herself the daughter of Mexican immigrants, Sister Pimentel grew up crossing back and forth from Brownsville to Matamoros, Mexico, to be with family on both sides of the border. It was while her parents were awaiting response from U.S. authori-ties on their application for residency that Sister Pimentel’s mother gave birth to her in Texas.

In her reflection on immigrants in “A Pope Francis Lexicon,” Sister Pimentel wrote: “I am a U.S. citizen

by chiripa — sheer chance. I grew up entre dos fronteras, enjoying life in two countries, Mexico and the United States.”

Sister Pimentel received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Pan Ameri-can University, a master’s degree in theology from St. Mary’s University and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Loyola University Chicago.

Sister Pimentel said some of her most formative and pivotal experiences took place shortly after she professed final vows with the Missionaries of Jesus. Border patrol agents would bring immigrant fami-lies to the sisters’ convent, often late at night. Sister Pimentel said Sister Juliana Garcia, her religious superior at the time, “would immediately pre-pare a room to welcome the family when they arrived. The mother and her children would become part of our community family for about a week or so, and I quickly learned the

mighty, and it shall prevail”). Established at Notre Dame in

1883, the Laetare Medal was con-ceived as an American counterpart of the Golden Rose, a papal honor that antedates the 11th century. The medal has been awarded annually at Notre Dame to a Catholic “whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the Church and enriched the heritage of humanity.”

Previous recipients of the Lae-tare Medal include Civil War Gen. William Rosecrans, operatic tenor John McCormack, President John F. Kennedy, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day, novelist Walker Percy, Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House John Boehner, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, labor activist Mon-signor George G. Higgins, jazz com-poser Dave Brubeck, singer Aaron Neville and actor Martin Sheen.

‘Living out our faith by how we welcome and protect those who need us’

importance of living out our faith by how we welcome and protect those who need us.”

For Sister Pimentel, the call to compassion to those in need extends to all Christians — and results in radical transformation.

“Scripture comes to life and our faith becomes flesh,” she said. “It is not until you find yourself in front of the face of the immigrant child or mother that you will understand this. It is a moment of realizing we are all one human family.”

The Laetare (pronounced lay-TAH-ray) Medal is so named because its recipient is announced each year in celebration of Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent on the Church calendar. “Laetare,” the Latin word for “rejoice,” is the first word in the entrance antiphon of the Mass that Sunday, which ritually anticipates the celebration of Easter. The medal bears the Latin inscription, “Magna est veritas et praevalebit” (“Truth is

Above right Sister Norma Pimental, M.J., executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, the charitable arm of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, and 2018 Laetare Medalist. Left, refugees entering the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley building.

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IN MEMORYThe University extends sympathy to the families and friends of these recently deceased employees and retirees:

Mary Freeman, retiree, Dec. 13Nancy Wilkeson, retiree, Dec. 21Ruey-Wen Liu, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, Feb. 17

Dennis Moran, professional specialist emeritus, The Review of Politics, Feb. 21

Mary Ellen Konieczny, Henkels Family Associate Professor of Sociology, Feb. 24

50 yearsH.G. Campbell, Campus Technology Services

45 yearsLawrence Robinson,Custodial Services

40 yearsJohn E. Heisler, Athletics Media Relations

35 yearsSherry L. DePoy, UNDERC

25 yearsMarilyn E. Coleman, South Dining HallMichael W. Favorite, Office of the ControllerDouglas A. Healy, Campus Dining AdministrationCharles E. Schnur, Development

20 yearsRoberta A. Anderson, Accounts PayableKelley J. Collins, Provost’s OfficeIsaac N. Holmes, Campus Technology ServicesRichard F. Klee, Office of the ControllerKathryn D. Pitts, University Press

APRIL SERVICE ANNIVERSARIESThe University congratulates those employees celebrating significant service anniversaries:

15 yearsMichelle L. Burgess, Investment OfficeMasaru K. Kuno, Chemistry and BiochemistryLau T. Pham, South Dining HallJacquelyn R. Rucker, Community RelationsLauren P. Sarber, Morris Inn

10 yearsKimberly A. Biagini,DevelopmentSusan M. Hurley, Human Resources

Joseph E. Nagle, Equipment RoomKara J. Palmer, MendozaCollege of BusinessJulie M. Pawlak, IT Service DeliveryJustin M. Rittenhouse, Hesburgh LibrariesKelley M. Shrock, Investment OfficeMargaret E. Sturdivant, Morris InnCristofer J. Worm, Golf Course Operations

Brandon J. Aitken, Prodip Dhali, Amy S.Garland, Dion L. Johnson,Kristin M. Pawlak andHong V. Tran, Morris InnKassandra M. Archer andTiara R. Hemphill, FoodServices, Holy Cross HouseSharon K. Bacon, AliciaD. Cummins and Stephen A.White, Law SchoolChristopher M. Bacsik,Darwin Beacham, LarryBlack, Terry Joseph,Nicholas G. Lezynski,Christopher J. O’Leary andRobert A. Stiner, FootballLea Valentine F. Barthuly,Alumni AssociationBrian M. Benedict andShannon B. Longo, Annual Giving ProgramsDaschane M. Bishop,Jonathan E. Bowman, Devin L. Brown, MayH. Daoud, LaToya Flaks,Shauntell N. Jayme, Kevin M. Jones, Sarah A. Taylorand Earl E. Walker,Custodial ServicesGilberto A. Carles Barrazaand RaSheda Humphrey,Procurement Services

Timothy Checkley, Customer IT SolutionsMichael K. Clayton andKatie E. Layman, SecurityErin B. Corcoran, HannahE. Heinzekehr and Caroline S.Hughes, Kroc InstituteJacob D. Cronk, Finance andAdministrationJohn C. Ditmar, NPDAdministrationMarcus L. Dittmer, LeteciaMcKinney, Min Hee Myungand Kathleen M. Webb, MendozaCollege of BusinessRyan W. Fahey, Brian A. Plotkinand Chad E. Riley, Men’s SoccerMark J. Futa, GeorgeMandarakas, William L. Riberaand Sean R. Sharpe, DevelopmentElizabeth A. Ganger, GBP Career ServicesSydney L. Griffin, AthleticAdministrationStephanie L. Hasse, Institute forScholarship in the Liberal ArtsSteven Heilman, MathematicsRachel Heisler, Snite MuseumPaul G. Hernandez, GBP AdmissionsBenjamin R. Hoggan andTimothy P. Riley, VP andAssociate Provost for Innovation

Krystal L. Hoogenboom and Laura A. Rowland, KelloggInstituteSara K. Jeszenszky, SAPC ProjectsMichael A. Jonatzke, Service CenterShannon E. Jones, UNDERCMurray Kaijala,Turbomachinery FacilityAmelia A. Lutz and Neal J.Wozniak, Notre Dame ResearchPablo L. Magana and RichardL. Thomas, Center for Culinary ExcellenceAllison K. Mihalich, Office of SustainabilityIan E. Owen, Office of DigitalAsset ManagementMatthew L. Paras, AthleticsMedia RelationsBrittney M. Rieck, Marketing CommunicationsCynthia R. Schwartz, UniversityHealth ServicesAudrey M. Scott, Alliance forCatholic EducationKyle C. Skinner, VarsityStrength and ConditioningDaniel Stein, Sacred MusicYang Xu, Center for Research Computing

The University welcomes the following employees who began work in January and February:

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BY PHILLIP JOHNSON, OFFICE OF CAMPUS SAFETY

The spring season brings the po-tential for severe weather, including thunderstorms and tornadoes. Now is the time to make or review safety plans for campus and at home.

Watch? Warning? What’s the difference?

The National Weather Service issues watches and warnings. Ac-cording to NWS, a watch means “be prepared” and a warning means “take action.”

Severe thunderstorm watch:Severe thunderstorms are possible. Stay informed and be ready to act if a severe thunderstorm warning is issued.Severe thunderstorm warning: Severe weather is imminent. Damag-ing winds and hail can be expected, presenting danger to life and prop-erty. Take shelter in a substantial building.

Tornado watch: Conditions are favorable for the development of tornadoes. Stay

informed and be ready to act if a tornado warning is issued.

Tornado warning: A tornado has been sighted in the area. Tornadoes are violent and can demolish well-made structures, uproot trees and hurl heavy objects through the air. (See sidebar for safety tips.) The St. Joseph County Emer-gency Management Agency’s tornado warning system will activate the siren atop the North Dining Hall. There will be a steady tone for 3 to 5 min-utes. During a tornado warning, the University will issue NDAlert messages if campus is threatened.

FYI: Tornado siren tests occur at 11:30 a.m. on the first Thursday of everymonth and consist of a one-minute steady tone, followed by one minute of silence and a one-minute wailing tone.

Be prepared for severe spring and summer weather

What to do when a

tornado warning has been issued:

• Immediately take shelter in the nearest substantial build-ing. The best protection will be in the basement, an interior room or a hallway on the lowest floor possible. Avoid win-dows, large rooms, auditoriums or gymnasiums.

• If feasible, put walls between yourself and the outside.

• Get under sturdy furniture and hold on to it, or crouch low to the floor and cover your head with your hands.

• Remain in a safe location until advised that it is safe to return to regular activities. An all-clear is broadcast via lo-

cal media and through the NDAlert public address system.

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MUSICACA 3Department of Music7 p.m. Saturday, April 7Leighton Concert Hall; $20The Notre Dame Undertones are proud to present ACA 3, an all-male a cappella showcase featuring four of the nation’s leading a cappella en-sembles. This showcase features the renowned Michigan G-Men, Wisconsin Madhatters, Vanderbilt Melodores and the Undertones sharing the stage for one incredible night of music.

FILMIn the Year of the Pig (1968)Learning Beyond the ClassicsNot Rated, 103 minutes7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28While certainly in the background of many films, the Vietnam War receives central focus in this documentary by Emile de Antonio, who delivers both a condemnation of the Vietnam War and a history lesson on its roots. Beginning with the French colonialists at the turn of the 20th century and continuing through Communist leader Ho Chi Minh’s rise to power and the beginnings of American involvement in the region in the early 1950s, de Antonio combines historical news footage and his own interviews with prominent figures like peace activist Daniel Berrigan and journalist David Halberstam.

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)Learning Beyond the Classics7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4Rated G, 25 minutesThis Disney adaptation of the A.A. Milne children’s series begins with Pooh at his famous thoughtful spot when his friend Gopher warns him that it’s Windsday. Pooh goes off to wish Piglet a happy Windsday, but Piglet is lifted into the air by the strong winds. Pooh then acts on intuition and uses all the resources he can muster to keep things from figuratively and literally blowing away.

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968)Learning Beyond the Classics7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11Not Rated, 75 minutesDirector William Greaves begins filming a movie scene in Central Park: an argument between a couple. At the same time, a documentary crew films the crew filming the movie. Meanwhile, a third crew films the filming of the two films. As Greaves plays the role of clueless artist and on-set condi-tions deteriorate, his collaborators mutiny. The result is a head-spinning landmark of experimental film that playfully smears the line between fiction/reality and art/artifice.

Faces (1968)Learning Beyond the Classics7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18Rated R, 130 minutesSeen by many as the grandfather of American independent cinema, John Cassavetes would set the stage for much of New Hollywood in the 1970s and mumblecore of the 2000s. “Faces” received widespread recog-nition, including multiple Oscar nom-inations, a rarity for a film completed so acutely outside the studio system. Here, middle-aged suburban husband Richard (John Marley) abruptly tells his wife, Maria (Lynn Carlin), that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman (Gena Rowlands), Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man (Seymour Cassel). As the couple and those around them confront a seemingly futile search for what they’ve lost — love, excitement and passion — this classic American independent film explores themes of aging and alienation.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)Learning Beyond the Classics7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 25 Not Rated, 96 minutes A hugely important film for many reasons (e.g., how it was made, how it was distributed, the zeitgeist it tack-led), George Romero’s zombie classic is an urtext for the billions and billions of dollars and hours and hours of time devoted to zombies. In his low-budget classic, a disparate group of individ-uals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben (Duane Jones) does his best to control the situation, but when the reanimat-ed bodies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic. As any semblance of order within the group begins to dissipate, the zombies start to find ways inside. And one by one, the living humans become the prey of the walking dead.

AT THE BROWNING: THE MET LIVE IN HDCosì fan TutteThe Met: Live in HD1 p.m. Saturday, April 7; $23211 minutes; one intermission; encoreA winning cast comes together for Phelim McDermott’s clever vision of Mozart’s comedy about the sexes, set in a carnival-esque, funhouse environ-ment inspired by 1950s Coney Island — complete with bearded ladies, fire eaters and a Ferris wheel. Manipulat-

ing the action are the Don Alfonso of Christopher Maltman and the Despina of Tony Award-winner Kelli O’Hara, with Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss and Adam Plachetka as the pairs of young lovers who test each other’s faithfulness. David Robertson conducts.

Luisa MillerThe Met: Live in HD12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14; $23218 minutes; two intermissions; live broadcast Plácido Domingo adds yet another role to his legendary Met career in this rarely performed Verdi gem, a heart-wrenching tragedy of fatherly love. Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role opposite Piotr Beczala in the first Met performances of the opera in more than 10 years. Conducted by Bertrand de Billy.

CendrillonThe Met: Live in HD1 p.m. Saturday, April 28; $23167 minutes; one intermission; live broadcast For the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met. Joyce DiDonato stars in the title role, with mezzo- soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the fairy godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the imperious Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook production.

THEATERSpring AwakeningDepartment of Film, Television, and Theatre7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 187:30 p.m. Thursday, April 197:30 p.m. Friday, April 202:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 212:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22Patricia George Decio Theatre; $20“Spring Awakening” book and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik. Based on the play by Frank Wedekind. A musical explosion of adolescent angst and repressed sexuality. “Spring Awakening” is presented through spe-cial arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

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The Met Live in HD:Luisa Miller

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

Winnie the Pooh

The Met Live in HD: Così fan Tutte

DPAC New SeasonThe DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Presenting Series cele-brates 14 seasons of collabora-tive programming initiatives in the arts at Notre Dame with an April 29 announcement of the 2018–2019 season lineup. Season tickets go on sale Monday, July 30, and single ticket sales begin Monday, Aug. 20. Sign up for the center’s weekly email at perform-ingarts.nd.edu to receive all 2018–2019 season updates.

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Patti LuPone: Don’t Monkey with Broadway

Music

Presenting Series

In “Don’t Monkey with Broadway,” two-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone explores, through indelible interpretations of classic Broadway show tunes by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Stephen Schwartz, Charles Strouse, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, how her lifelong love affair with Broadway began and her concern for what the Great White Way is becoming today. Co-sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre.

Rare Books and Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh LibraryThrough Friday, Aug. 10.

An exhibition in the Hesburgh Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections gallery details the history of newspapers, magazines and the periodical print revolution in the colony and nation of Peru. The exhibition draws on the strengths of the library’s José E. Durand Peruvian History collection.

A Peruvian scholar and bibliophile, Durand (1925-1990) sought out and amassed an unparalleled collection of early Peruvian imprints and periodicals, including an impressive array of 19th-century newspapers, circulars and popular song and verse imprints. The gallery is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Saturday and Sunday. For more information, visit rarebooks.library.nd.edu/exhibits.

Friday, April 207:30 p.m. Leighton Concert Hall$65

‘In a Civilized Nation: Newspapers, Magazines and the Print Revolution in 19th-Century Peru’

pressed with the proactive and positive approach to the ND Voice results.

“They really delved into their ND Voice results and utilized the information to help the college move forward. Some supervisors might read the results and be really discouraged. But

in this case, they took the results and made it a positive.”

O’Hayer practices neuroplasticity and even taught himself to play two-handed pingpong.

“I’m a self-learner. A collector of useful tools, if you will. When I see a really useful tool, I learn

it and kind of put it in my tool bag and keep it there until it’s time to use it,” he says.

When the survey results came out, O’Hayer dug into his figurative bag and pulled out neuroplasticity and the “never leave the playground” philosophy of Stephen Jepson (neverleavetheplayground.com).

Jepson, 74, is a retired University of Florida ceramics professor who is famous for mind and body fitness. He built a playground for himself in his backyard. He regularly rides

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BY GWEN O’BRIEN, INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS

Looking for a way to break out of the cubicle and get to know your neighbors? A good old-fashioned field day may be in order.

That’s how College of Science administrators responded to staff feedback from the 2016 ND Voice, an employee engagement survey ad-ministered every two years.

“Our staff was looking for in-per-son, back-and-forth touchpoints with people from other departments who

are in leadership positions, but also across labs. We’ve got people who are fairly isolated, siloed in different buildings,” explains Bill O’Hayer, senior director of finance and administration in the College of Science.

So, instead of the typical format for the annual staff meeting, in February the College of Science hosted the Brain-Body Field Day.

Staff from administrative offices and research labs were randomly assigned to teams — identifiable by colored bandanas — and took part in in games that tested participants’ coordination, non-dominant hand skills and ability to memorize and play rhythms on hand drums.

In addition to team building, it was an experiential science learning opportunity.

“They learned about neuroplastici-ty, a mechanism of learning and memory,” says Nancy Michael, director of un-dergraduate studies for the neuroscience and behavior

major, the newest and one of the college’s most pop-ular majors.

The professor and 20 of her students facilitat-ed field day as a version

of brain awareness fairs they present in the South Bend communi-ty. She says neuroplas-ticity activities are good for adults.

“Once we get to a certain point in our career, we just do the same thing over and over again. With any

job, there’s initially a really steep learning curve and then it’s pretty stable. So, the same set of synapses are used over and over again, while lots of other ones don’t get used much,” she says. “Engaging in things like yoga, ballroom dancing or flipping a cup with your right and left hands introduces synapses outside of the normally used neural network. It gives you neural

flexibility.”O’Hayer and Kassie

Spencer, program director of finance and administration, pored over the survey results and came up with the concept of a field day. Kim Patton, the col-lege’s human resources consultant, was im-O’Hayer

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a unicycle, juggles while balancing on a bongo board, throws knives, plays jacks with both hands and walks tight-rope. Jepson calls these activities “age-proofing the brain and the body.” He is onto something.

“There is a terrible myth that your brain is

largely done developing by the time you are 5,” says Michael. “Neuroplas-ticity lasts throughout a lifetime, and it really is just small changes in the neural networks that allow for new learning to occur. The idea is that if you are working on your balance now, in 10 years, that skill could pro-tect you from falls and injuries and things like that.”

Spencer and O’Hayer watched Jep-son’s videos to come up with the field day activities.

“One of our emphases in the College of Science is continuous improvement, and this was a unique way to give people some tools to ex-plore that further,” says Spencer.

Patton couldn’t resist participating in Brain-Body Field Day herself. “To-day was also about wellness, which is a big part of HR. It’s important for employees to focus on every aspect of their wellness.”

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“Engaging in things like yoga, ballroom dancing or flipping a cup with your right and left hands introduces synapses outside of the normally used neural network. It gives you neural flexibility.” – Nancy Michael, neuroscientist

“One of our emphases in the College of Science is continuous improvement, and this was a unique way to give people some tools to explore that further.” – Kassie Spencer, College of Science

Brain-Body Field Day featured 10 activities. Rhythm to You’s Nicole Williams led staff members on the hand drums.

Kathy Phillips, Deanna McCool, Mike Brueseke and Mike Rupley use string to stack cups. Grant Osborn,

Linda Rock and April VanDenDriessche play Kendama. Lotta Barnes, right, plays horseshoes.

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