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Citation of Merit (Given to a resident in each hall who has worked to enhance Student Life at Notre Dame):  Michael Mercurio;

Spirit Award (Given to a resident in each hall who exemplifies the 'Spirit of Notre Dame':  faith, scholarship, service):  Kevin Kelly;

Fr. Andrew Morrissey Leadership Award (Given to a Manor resident for dedicated service to the Manor fraternity):  E.J. Sanchez Read More

One of the University of Notre Dame’s most visible traditions will be celebrated again Friday (April 19) as the 2013 version of “The Shirt” is unveiled during events beginning at 4 p.m. at the Hammes Bookstore on campus.

The celebration, which is open to the public, will include a variety of outdoor activities such as face painting, prizes and inflatables as well as performances by the Notre Dame Band, Glee Club, cheerleaders and Pom Squad. Notre Dame’s head football coach, Brian Kelly, along with the 2013 Shirt committee will unveil The Shirt during a stage presentation at 6 p.m. Details, a schedule and more information about the celebration and about The Shirt are available online. Read More

An American Association for Justice (AAJ) trial team from the University of Notre Dame Law School took top honors at the 2013 AAJ Student Trial Advocacy National Competition held recently in New Orleans.

The mock trial team advanced to win nationals after winning the regional competition held in Louisville by a unanimous 3-0 decision. Notre Dame also won last year’s AAJ Student Trial Advocacy Regional Competition.

The winning 2013 AAJ National Competition team is composed of students Brian Salvi, Sheila Prendergast, Michelle Pope, Kristian Weir, Brian Ellixson, Ted Koroshetz, Andrew Spica and Bryan Pasciak. Read More

China’s vice minister of education, Hao Ping, will visit the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday (April 9) at the head of an official delegation of Chinese government and educational leaders.

The principal reason for Ping’s visit is to sign and celebrate an agreement between Notre Dame and the Ministry of Education’s China Scholarship Council (CSC), whose secretary general, Mme. Liu Jinghui, will also be a member of the delegation. The CSC supports numerous graduate students from China pursuing doctoral degrees at Notre Dame. While the CSC supports graduate students at other universities around the world, it has very few such exclusive agreements. Read More

Wolfgang A. Herrmann, president of the Technical University of Munich, will present the Nanovic Forum at 5 p.m. April 9 (Tuesday) in the Jordan Hall of Science at the University of Notre Dame. The lecture, titled “What is an Entrepreneurial University? A Case Study,” is free and open to the public. Gregory Crawford, William K. Warren Foundation Dean of Notre Dame’s College of Science professor of physics, will present the introduction.

Under the direction of Herrmann, the Technical University of Munich has dramatically increased student enrollment, the number of full-time female professors and the levels of external funding. Germany’s Excellence Initiative has recognized the Technical University of Munich twice in the last decade as a University of Excellence. Read More

A simple brilliance lies at the heart of the AMC show Mad Men, which premiered for what will likely be its sixth and penultimate season this week. For a show that is fundamentally about identity and the process of creating, destroying or denying who we are, is there a better setting than an advertising agency? Read More

Today is Good Friday. Jesus’ body has been taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb. The tomb has been sealed, and now we wait. There’s not much else we can do as Good Friday comes to a close. I think that’s one reason why Good Friday is so difficult for us. We know that Easter is just around the corner, and we know that when Easter comes, all of the suffering of Good Friday will be redeemed. It will somehow make sense. But as Good Friday comes to a close, there’s no resolution to the many difficult things that we experience in Jesus’ Passion. Read More

At Notre Dame, on Tuesday of Holy Week, winter has gone on exactly too long. A dusting of stubbornly persistent snow falls from a galvanized gray-steel sky. Darting from residence hall to lecture hall students stoop against the oncoming wind gusts, scowling into their iPhones, looking, and doubtless feeling, uncertain and out of joint, as if suddenly feeling that they don’t belong here, that some placement mistake has been made. And the feeling is contagious. Read More

Three Deacons of the Congregation of Holy Cross, United States Province of Priests and Brothers, will be ordained to the priesthood 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

Provincial Superior, the Rev. Thomas J. O’Hara, C.S.C., will present the Rev. Mr. Brian C. Ching, C.S.C., the Rev. Mr. Mark F. DeMott, C.S.C., and the Rev. Mr. Jarrod M. Waugh, C.S.C., for ordination. The Most Rev. Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C., Bishop of Peoria, Ill., will confer the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Read More