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April 19, 2022

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Care for our common home: Notre Dame Forum 2021-22

Sustainability

Conversations sparked by forum will last beyond 2021-22

This year’s Notre Dame Forum theme resonated so strongly at the University, it built bridges across campus, presenting opportunities for new research and scholarship partnerships. The forum drew on Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si' — a statement on what’s happening to Earth due to global warming-induced climate change.

“Everyone found a thread of inspiration which made for a tapestry of events that enriched our ND community in ways we never could have predicted.” — Jennifer Tank, director of the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative and the Ludmilla F., Stephen J. and Robert T. Galla Professor of Biological Sciences

Sustainability

Living more simply

In the last installment in the series Lessons in Sustainable Living, Caitlin Jacobs, with the Office of Sustainability, says of all the green products she's suggested, the ones you already have are the greenest. That's because the impact of producing that item has already happened.

Campus

Local Scouts help bluebirds at Warren Golf Course

The Boy Scouts of America, LaSalle Council, is partnering with the University to support the eastern bluebird population at Warren Golf Course, a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. Adam Heet, with the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, is the Scoutmaster.

“One of the things we push in Scouts is trying to make sure that the community is better by us existing.” — Adam Heet, a digital projects specialist with the Hesburgh Library’s Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship

K. Matthew DAmes, Edward H. Arnold University Librarian

Getting to know Notre Dame’s head librarian

K. Matthew Dames, who began his position in August, was recently the featured guest in a live chat with Lou Nanni, vice president for University relations. Dames shared he grew up in the Bronx in the 1970s. He attributes his love for libraries to his mother, who took him to a branch of the New York Public Library every Saturday.

ND in the News

Timothy Hubbard talks with CNBC

It's been a rough two years for restaurants, and CEOs of restaurant chains were not immune to the Great Resignation. Timothy Hubbard, assistant professor of management in the Mendoza College of Business, dishes with CNBC on why six CEOs decided to leave their positions.