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News from July 2006
Performing Arts Center announces 2006-07 season
The 2006-07 season at the University of Notre Dame's Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts features more than 30 internationally renowned touring artists focusing...
Published July 31, 2006 by Julie Hail Flory
Concert Band tour, CD commemorate Mozart's birth
"Mozart's 250th: Concert Band Tour of Austria and Czech Republic," newly released by the University of Notre Dame Band, features live recordings from its spring tour commemorating the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Published July 31, 2006 by Shannon Chapla
Annenberg gift strengthens journalism at Notre Dame
A grant from the Annenberg Foundation will establish the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame, to be occupied by Robert Schmuhl...
Published July 28, 2006 by Susan Guibert
Uncommon choir
This article about the Notre Dame Folk Choir is the cover story of the July 28, 2006, issue of the National Catholic Reporter.
Published July 28, 2006 by Renée LaReau (in the National Catholic Reporter)
James Sterba to lead Central Division of American Philosophical Association
James P. Sterba, professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected vice president and president-elect of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.
Published July 27, 2006 by Dennis Brown
Political scientist receives national award
David W. Nickerson, assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, is the recipient of the American Political Science Association's (APSA) award for best dissertation in political psychology in 2005.
Published July 27, 2006 by Susan Guibert
Latino Research Workshop to focus on obesity
The University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), through its affiliation with the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR), will host the fifth annual Latino Research Workshop from Monday to Wednesday (July 24 to 26)...
Published July 21, 2006 by Shannon Chapla
Trustee and husband pledge $100,000 to Africana studies
A University of Notre Dame Trustee and her husband have pledged $100,000 toward the endowment of the University's new Department of Africana Studies. Phyllis Stone, a 1980 Notre Dame graduate, and her husband, Jim, a 1981 alumnus...
Published July 20, 2006 by Don Wycliff
Historian honored by Indiana Humanities Council
University of Notre Dame historian George M. Marsden was one of six scholars to receive the inaugural Indiana Humanities Award from the Indiana Humanities Council at a ceremony last month in Indianapolis.
Published July 19, 2006 by Susan Guibert
Prescription poetry
For Dr. Ken Anderson, symptoms of right-brain atrophy set in early. "It begins to develop when we're about 5 or 6 years old," observes Anderson...
Published July 18, 2006 by Susan Guibert
Actors From The London Stage to open FTT season Sept. 13 with "Hamlet"
The University of Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television and Theatre (FTT) will open its 2006-07 theater season with William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," performed by international touring troupe Actors From The London Stage, from Sept. 13 to 15...
Published July 17, 2006 by Julie Hail Flory
Sociologist edits new book analyzing school sector effects on students
"School Sector and Student Outcomes," edited by renowned University of Notre Dame sociologist Maureen T. Hallinan, has been published by Notre Dame Press.
Published July 13, 2006 by Shannon Chapla
Institute for Latino Studies report examines Mexican naturalization
Fewer Mexican permanent legal residents in Chicago become U.S. citizens than immigrants from other countries with the same legal status, and they also delay naturalization an average of three years longer than other immigrant groups...
Published July 12, 2006 by Shannon Chapla
Archeological dig offers new view of historic life
A cluster of ancient roasting pits packed closely together on a bank along the Kankakee River in northwest Indiana may have been the celebratory gathering place of early Native Americans...
Published July 10, 2006 by Susan Guibert
Summer Shakespeare's Young Company to open July 16
Summer Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame will open its 2006 season July 16 with the Young Company performing the rollicking play "The Brothers Menaechmus" at St. Patrick's Park in South Bend.
Published July 10, 2006 by Susan Guibert
$10 million gift from John and Barbara Glynn family to enhance Honors Program
Alumnus John W. Glynn and his wife, Barbara, have made a $10 million gift to the University of Notre Dame to expand and fortify the joint honors program in the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Science.
Published July 10, 2006 by Susan Guibert
Sociology professor wins award for book on teens' spirituality
"Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers," a book co-authored by University of Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, has received a 2006 book award from Christianity Today magazine.
Published July 6, 2006 by Susan Guibert
Father Jenkins leads campus delegation on trip to Asia
A six-member delegation from Notre Dame, led by the University's president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., spent a week in late May and early June on a short but productive fact-finding trip to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Published July 6, 2006 by Dennis Brown
English as a New Language program to be initiated
The University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) program and Institute for Educational Initiatives will launch a Teachers of English as a New Language (ENL) beginning this month...
Published July 5, 2006 by Shannon Chapla & Aaron Wall