Crystal flowers

News for Notre Dame faculty

and staff and their families

MATT CASHORE

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Town Hall Meetings

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Lunar Eclipse

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Notre Dame Trail

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3-D laser printing

benefits cancer research

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NEWS

BRIEFS

WHAT’S

GOING ON

FACULTY AWARD

NOMINATIONS

BEING ACCEPTED

Nominations are being accepted

through Monday, Feb. 27, for the

Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C.,

Award for Excellence in Under-

graduate Teaching, the Dockweiler

Award for Excellence in Under-

graduate Advising, and the awards

presented at the annual President’s

Dinner for faculty. To nominate

someone, visit provostawards.

nd.edu, which also features back-

ground information on each award,

including recent winners.

VENUE ND LAUNCHES

The newly formed Ofﬁce of

Event Management, Venue ND,

has been created to book meetings,

events and academic conferences on

campus. The ofﬁce will initially be-

gin booking events at the new Dun-

can Student Center, Corbett Family

Hall and O’Neill Hall, as well as at

Morris Inn and McKenna Hall.

The three new facilities, sched-

uled for completion in August

2017, will offer two new ballrooms,

reception space and eight outdoor

terraces offering breathtaking views

of campus.

The Dahnke Family Ballroom,

located on the seventh ﬂoor on the

west side in the Duncan Student

Center, has a capacity of 580. The

Rasmus Family Club, on the eighth

ﬂoor of the Duncan Student Center,

includes a balcony that will overlook

the ballroom below. The Downes

Club on the seventh and eighth

ﬂoors of Corbett Family Hall on the

east side will seat 300 people for an

event.

The Ofﬁce of Event Management

will begin to accept bookings for

events and academic meetings in the

new spaces on Wednesday, March 1,

2017, for events occurring after Oc-

tober 1, 2017.

Contact the sales and reservations

team in the Ofﬁce of Event Manage-

ment at 631-1400 for event bookings

and information.

PEOPLE

PERKINS NAMED EARLY

CAREER FELLOW BY ESA

Alex Perkins, Eck Family Assistant

Professor, and member of the

De-

partment of Biological Sciences,

the

Department of Applied and

Computational Mathematics and

Statistics, the

Eck Institute for Glob-

al Health, and the

Environmental

Change Initiative, has been named a

2017 Early Career Fellow by the Eco-

logical Society of America (ESA).

Perkins was one of only seven

individuals nationwide honored as

an Early Career Fellow this year. The

program recognizes the many ways in

which its members contribute to eco-

logical research and discovery, com-

munication, education and pedagogy,

and management and policy.

Early Career Fellows are members

who are within eight years of com-

pleting their doctoral training, have

advanced ecological knowledge and

CONTACT

applications, and show promise of

continuing to make outstanding con-

tributions to a wide range of ﬁelds

served by the ESA. Other honorees

include scientists from institutions

such as Princeton University, Uni-

versity of California–Irvine, Mich-

igan State University, University of

Washington, University of British

Columbia, and Oak Ridge National

Laboratory.

Perkins’ research uses mathemat-

ical, computational and statistical

approaches to better understand in-

fectious diseases. His lab specializes in

dengue, malaria, chikungunya, Zika

and other diseases caused by mosqui-

to-borne pathogens.

VARGAS RECEIVES BOOK

AWARD FOR RESEARCH ON

CHICAGO TURF WARS

Robert Vargas, assistant professor

of sociology and faculty fellow in

the Institute for Latino Studies, has

received a book

award for his eth-

nographic study

of Chicago’s Little

Village neigh-

borhood and its

confrontational

relationships

between police,

politicians and

gangs, “Wounded City: Violent Turf

Wars in a Chicago Barrio.”

The Academy of Criminal Justice

Sciences presented its Outstanding

Book Award to Vargas at its annual

meeting in March in Kansas City,

Missouri.

Vargas’ book explores the hazy

boundaries between Chicago poli-

ticians’ turf and gang turf, arguing

that competition among political

groups can facilitate the persistence of

violence just as much as competition

among street gangs does.

This ACJS award recognizes a pro-

fessional’s contribution to criminal

justice as an academic or professional

endeavor, and its recipients have

made substantial contributions to

the emerging body of knowledge in

criminal justice.

CAMPUS NEWS

RILEYS MAKE LARGEST GIFT

DIRECTED TO FINANCIAL AID

IN UNIVERSITY’S HISTORY

The late Allan J. Riley and

his wife, Radwan, have made a

multi-million-dollar gift to the

University in support of need- and

merit-based scholarships for under-

graduate, graduate and professional

students. The gift is the largest di-

rected toward ﬁnancial aid in Notre

Dame’s history.

The gift made through Mr. Riley’s

estate will be used to support two

distinct scholarships:

The Allan J. and Reda Radwan

Riley Scholarships will be awarded

to undergraduate, graduate and

professional students on the basis of

demonstrated ﬁnancial need or aca-

demic merit.

The Leo and Edna Riley-Aref and

Helena Jabbour Scholarships will

be awarded on the basis of need or

merit to undergraduate, graduate and

professional students who have either

lived in one or more of the countries

of the Middle East or expressed in-

terest in studying the history, culture,

language, literature or politics of the

Middle East or individual countries

in the region.

The initial awards of the two

scholarships will be for the 2017-18

academic year. At least 15 percent

of the funds drawn annually for the

scholarships will be used to assist

graduates of schools operated by the

Order of the Brothers of the Blessed

Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (often

referred to as Carmelite Schools).

A patron of the arts, Mr. Riley

made a gift to Notre Dame in 1982

to renovate a chemistry building on

campus, now the Leo and Edna Ri-

ley Hall of Art & Design, named in

honor of his parents. The Rileys have

funded annual student scholarships

in the ﬁelds of design, art history,

studio art and photography, and he

served on the advisory council for the

University’s

Snite Museum of Art.

Among his permanent gifts to

the museum are a portrait painting

by Joshua Reynolds and a land-

scape painting by Louis Remy Mi-

gnot. In 2002, the Rileys funded

the purchase of 40 British drawings

from the 18th and 19th centuries

that remain part of the Snite’s Riley

Collection.

NOTRE DAME RECEIVES

$25 MILLION GIFT FOR

O’NEILL HALL

A gift of $25 million has been

made to the University for the con-

struction of O’Neill Hall, adjacent

to the south end of Notre Dame

Stadium. The building will be named

in honor of Notre Dame alumnus

and Trustee Joseph I. O’Neill III.

The gift was made to the Uni-

versity by Helen Schwab and her

husband, Charles, in honor of her

brother Joe O’Neill. The Schwabs are

signiﬁcant donors to the University

and major donors to O’Neill Family

Hall.

“We are deeply grateful to Helen

and Charles for their many years of

support and, in particular, for this re-

markable gift and what it represents

for the future of music and the arts

at Notre Dame,” said Rev. John I.

Jenkins, C.S.C., the University’s

president. “We are also truly thankful

for the extraordinary leadership and

support Joe O’Neill, his wife, Jan,

and their entire family have provided

to Notre Dame. They embody the

Notre Dame spirit, and we look

forward to dedicating this building

named in their honor.”

O’Neill Hall joins Corbett Family

Hall and the Duncan Student Center

as the three structures surrounding

Notre Dame Stadium. It will be

a six-story, 100,000-square-foot

building for the Department of

Music, the Sacred Music at Notre

Dame program, and hospitality

space, with completion scheduled for

August.

A 1967 Notre Dame graduate

with a degree in ﬁnance, O’Neill

earned a master of business adminis-

tration degree from the University of

Michigan a year later and then served

Perkins

MATT CASHORE

Vargas

PHOTO PROVIDED

O’Neill Hall will house the Department of Music and the Sacred Music at Notre Dame program.

WINTER TAILGATING

February was unusually warm in South Bend — warm enough that fans gathered to tailgate before

a men’s basketball game.

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March 2017 | NDWorks | 3

in the U.S. Army Special Forces. He

is the managing partner of O’Neill

Properties Ltd. in Midland, Texas.

O’Neill is a past president of the

Notre Dame Alumni Association’s

Board of Directors and, in that ca-

pacity, served for two years as an ex

ofﬁcio member of the University’s

Board of Trustees. He served for nine

years on the College of Engineering

Advisory Council before his election

to the University Board of Trustees in

2001. In 2012, O’Neill received an

honorary degree from the University,

and in 2013 the Alumni Association

bestowed the Rev. Edward F. Sorin,

C.S.C., Award on him for distin-

guished service to the University.

O’Neill is chair of the Midland

Memorial Hospital Foundation

and serves on the hospital’s board

of governors. He also is on the

board of governors for the High Sky

Children’s Ranch and the executive

committee of the Texas Oil and Gas

Association and the U.S. Oil and

Gas Association.

O’Neill and his wife, Jan, have two

children, Catherine, class of 2002,

and Flynn, class of 2011.

O’Neill Family Hall, a men’s res-

idence hall on Notre Dame’s West

Quad, was underwritten with a gift

from the O’Neills, Schwabs and Joe

and Helen’s father, Joseph I. O’Neill

Jr. The building is named for the

family, with a particular honor for

Mr. O’Neill Jr., a 1937 Notre Dame

alumnus and a monogram winner in

football and baseball, who founded

O’Neill Properties. The elder O’Neill

also served as president of the Notre

Dame Alumni Association and as a

University Trustee.

In addition to the residence hall,

the O’Neills also have provided a gift

to Notre Dame for a longitudinal

sundial on the south side of Jordan

Hall of Science and are members of

the President’s Circle, Sorin Soci-

ety and Badin Guild.

O’Neill Hall will include two

2,200-square-foot halls for rehearsals

and concert performances, the library

for both the Department of Music

and Sacred Music program, a music

lab for studio production, a lecture

hall, classrooms and seminar rooms,

rehearsal rooms, numerous practice

rooms of varying sizes, four organ

practice rooms and faculty ofﬁces.

The 18,000-square-foot club on

the third level will provide hospital-

ity space on football weekends and

throughout the week. In addition,

the ﬁrst level of O’Neill Hall will

serve as a primary entrance to Notre

Dame Stadium through the Frank

Leahy Gate.

TURBOMACHINERY

LABORATORY ENTERS

$2.5M AGREEMENT

The Notre Dame Turbomachinery

Laboratory (NDTL) has entered

into a 19-month, $2.5-million dol-

lar agreement with Doosan Heavy

Industries & Construction Co.

Ltd. (DHI) to conduct compressor

research and testing to support the

development of a 300-megawatt class

power generation gas turbine.

Testing will occur at NDTL’s

10MW compressor test cell, which is

currently under construction with the

goal of becoming fully operational

this fall. Once the test cell is complet-

ed, NDTL will be home to one of

the largest compressor research facili-

Morris Inn receives

Historic Hotel of

America designation

ties at any university in the world.

The agreement is a milestone

for NDTL, which continues to ex-

pand its capabilities into the global

commercial power industry. The

compressor test will study aerody-

namic phenomena that even the most

powerful computers cannot simulate.

All design, analysis, fabrication and

assembly will take place at NDTL’s

facility located at Ignition Park in

South Bend, Indiana.

DHI, a major player in the power

industry based in South Korea, spe-

cializes in power generation equip-

ment and EPC (engineering, pro-

curement and construction). “We’re

excited to work with NDTL on this

project and would like to establish

a strong, long-term relationship

with NDTL for upcoming gas tur-

bine engine development programs,”

said Joohwan Kwak, head of com-

pressor development at DHI.

NDTL is focused on research,

testing and workforce development

for a wide range of applications that

involve turbomachinery technology.

NDTL’s new 28,000-square-foot,

world-class facility offers experimen-

tal and numerical capabilities for the

development of rotating machinery

that requires high power levels and

related specialized support. These

capabilities create a shorter devel-

opment path for new gas turbine

engine technologies within any in-

dustry. NDTL is currently involved

in research and product development

for a variety of sponsors and collab-

orators including Pratt & Whitney,

General Electric and Honeywell.

For more information, visit turbo.

nd.edu.

The Morris Inn has been selected for membership in the Historic Hotels of

America program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

To be selected for membership in Historic Hotels of America, a hotel must

be at least 50 years old, have been designated by the U.S. Secretary of the

Interior as a National Historic Landmark or listed in or eligible for listing in

the National Register of Historic Places and be recognized as having historic

signiﬁcance.

The gift to build the Morris Inn was donated by Notre Dame student

Ernest M. Morris. In 1902, Morris could not pay his tuition, so he asked the

school president for two favors: to let him continue enrollment on credit, and

to take care of

his horse Dexter.

The University

agreed and

Morris went

on to graduate,

eventually

founding his

own investment

ﬁrm. He

donated $1

million to aid

the University

in its postwar

expansion, and Morris Inn was constructed in his honor.

In 2012, Ernestine Morris Carmichael Raclin, daughter of Ernest and Ella

Morris, along with her family and the Carmichael Foundation, provided

a gift to the University for the purpose of funding a major renovation and

expansion of the Morris Inn.

On Oct. 21, 2012, the inn was closed for the ﬁrst time in 60 years and the

project began. Following a more than $30 million renovation, it reopened in

late August 2013 and now offers 132 guest rooms and 18 suites. The Morris

Inn’s AAA Four Diamond rating places it in the top 5 percent of hotels in the

United States.

The 28,000 sq. ft. Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory is located at Ignition Park in South Bend.

Vision and Action:

Pioneering Women Faculty at Notre Dame

Reflections on the early influences and experiences of pioneering

women faculty, and their aspirations for the future of the University

4 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, followed by a light reception

Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

The free event is non-ticketed and open to the public

For more information, visit provost.nd.edu

Call for Nominations:

2017 Presidential Awards

Help create a culture of appreciation and recognition on campus by

nominating a fellow Notre Dame staff member for one of three 2017

Presidential Awards:

Presidential Values Award

The Presidential Values Award recognizes a staff employee who lives

the University’s mission and is a role model exemplifying all of the

Core Values.

Presidential Achievement Award

The Presidential Achievement Award recognizes a regular staff

employee who has accomplished a signiﬁcant achievement during

the past calendar year or has measurably contributed on a regular

basis to the overall goals of the University.

Presidential Leadership Award

The Presidential Leadership Award recognizes a regular staff

supervisor who demonstrates and lives the principles of servant

leadership: building community; orienting goals and achievements

in line with the University mission; exhibiting strong stewardship

of institutional resources; and developing a shared vision of

institutional excellence.

Any member of the University community (faculty or staff) may

submit a nomination.

Nominees may be exempt or non-exempt staff. Please visit news.nd.edu/

news/67033 to see last year’s award winners.

To learn more and make nominations, please visit hr.nd.edu/awards-

recognition. Nominations should be submitted by Friday, February 24.

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION WINS GRAMMY

Third Coast Percussion, the University’s Ensemble-in-Residence, won its ﬁrst Grammy Award February 12 for their

Cedille Records release, Third Coast Percussion/Steve Reich. The Chicago-based ensemble won Best Chamber

Music/Small Ensemble Performance. The album was recorded in the Leighton Concert Hall.

Morris Inn

MATT CASHORE

SAVERIO TRUGLIA

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VERONICA KOZELICHKI

Impact of grey wolves on

ecosystem

BY BRANDI KLINGERMAN,

OFFICE OF RESEARCH

Gary Belovsky, director

of the University of Notre

Dame Environmental Research

Center (UNDERC), and David

Flagel, assistant director

at UNDERC-West in Montana,

conducted several studies on the

cascade effects that grey wolves

at UNDERC-East, located within

Wisconsin and Michigan, would

have on the area’s ecosystem.

The researchers looked at how

both coyotes and whitetail deer

reacted to the wolves’ presence, as

well as how their food sources –

small animals and plants – might

beneﬁt. Whether it’s because of

folklore or wolf attack stories from

Asia or Europe, wolves get a bad rap.

However, the grey wolves found in

Canada and the United States are

relatively harmless to humans and

may even be considered beneﬁcial to

other animals in some ecosystems.

New Notre Dame research has

shown that wolves living in

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are

actually helping foxes, hares and

plants survive. This is because some

larger predators and herbivores live

in fear of being killed – but not

necessarily because they are being

killed – and change their behavior as

a result.

“What we are seeing is the concept

of ‘the enemy of my enemy is my

friend,’” says Flagel. “The coyotes

mostly hunt small animals like foxes,

rabbits, hares, and some deer. The

wolves that live within UNDERC-

East are territorial and attack the

coyotes to keep them away from deer,

the wolves’ main food, thus helping

the small animals that coyotes kill to

survive. Additionally, the deer that

are now being hunted by wolves are

living under a heightened sense of

fear and are therefore spending more

time scanning for wolves and less

time eating, helping tree saplings and

wildﬂowers grow faster.”

This was the ﬁrst study to

document this wolf-induced cascade

effect in an experimental way as the

researchers were able to implement

a controlled research design. For

the experiment, the researchers

separated UNDERC-East into

four areas: unfenced wolf territory,

unfenced non-wolf territory, fenced-

in wolf territory, and fenced-in

non-wolf territory. With these areas,

Belovsky and Flagel found that

both fenced-in spaces – which allow

neither the deer nor wolves to enter –

as well as the unfenced wolf territory

had comparable amounts of plant

growth, showing that the wolves

being near had a signiﬁcant impact

on how much the deer ate.

The research results showed effects

on sapling growth that were twice

as impactful as a similar study done

at Yellowstone National Park in

2001. In discussing why this is the

case, Belovsky says, “There could be

many reasons why our study presented a much larger

impact, one of which was most likely the more precise

measurements in an experiment. But another could be

that our research was done in a more forested area where

deer must constantly be on the lookout for an attack, as

they graze for food as individuals. This means the fear

that deer feel is likely greater in a forested area than an

open plain where deer graze in a group and are more

likely to see a predator coming.”

The next step in this research is to study how and

when deer become aware they are in a wolf territory.

This will encompass manipulating a variety of indicators

that are believed to inﬂuence deer when they are near the

wolf pack.

‘Fear ecology’ changes the survival of plants and animals

Graduate students utilize

ND-LEEF to research

an effective method for

measuring snowfall over

space and time

BY BRANDI KLINGERMAN,

OFFICE OF RESEARCH

Although it may seem simple

to calculate, snowfall cannot be

well measured by simply placing a

yardstick in the ground. In actuality,

snow measurement is much more

complicated and oftentimes the most

accurate snow measurement devices

are costly. However, two Notre

Dame graduate students are working

to improve the snow measurement

process in an effective and affordable

manner.

Bethany Blakely — a fourth-

year biological sciences graduate

student studying under both Jason

McLachlan, associate professor

of biological sciences, and Adrian

Rocha, assistant professor of

biological sciences — and Salvatore

Curasi — a second year biological

sciences graduate student also

studying under Rocha – have created

a model that captures the effects that

wind, temperature and vegetation

have on snow and how these factors

impact the measurement of snowfall

over space and time. The research

includes the use of temperature

sensors developed by Curasi as an

undergraduate student to gather the

necessary data.

When discussing the use of the

sensors, Curasi said, “Conventional

snow measurement devices cannot

capture the impact different factors

have on snowfall, especially over

different areas or varying lengths of

time. To account for this, we will

collect data from the temperature

sensors as well as other elements to

help us measure snowfall in a way

that includes space and time.”

To conduct their research,

Blakely and Curasi will utilize

the Environmental Change

Initiative’s (ECI) Notre Dame

Linked Experimental Ecosystem

Facility (ND-LEEF). The facility is

based in South Bend, Indiana’s St.

Patrick’s County Park and consists

of replicated watersheds, shallow

groundwater wells, and several acres

for terrestrial research. By using

ND-LEEF’s forested and grassier

areas, the students will be able to

gather snowfall data on a variety of

vegetation types.

“In the end, we would like to

see if we can discover a consistent

effect from each different kind of

vegetation,” said Blakely. “This could

be one of the ways our work could

beneﬁt other ecosystem models,

including those that are used for

climate change and hydrology

research.”

As an example, Rocha conducts

research on the Alaskan tundra and

studies everything from Arctic

climate change to land use change

ecology. Part of his work may be

Measuring snowfall

Anton Kozelichki, son of Veronica

Kozelichki, pre-award program manager

in the Ofﬁce of Research and Chris

Kozelichki, career development assistant

director in the Law School, celebrated

his eighth birthday in January. “For his

birthday, Anton wanted to meet a real

scientist and see a lab,” says Veronica.

Anton’s birthday wish came true when

(courtesy of director Sharon Stack and

biologist Reginald Hill in the Harper

Cancer Research Institute) he got to

tour the facility. “He learned how to

pipette, identify pancreatic cancer cells

using a microscope, watch someone grow

cancer cells for use in research, and use a

centrifuge to gather the cells,” Veronica

says.

Hill, Archibald Assistant Professor of

Cancer Biology, noted that, in another

10 years or so, Anton can return to work

in the center himself. The two share

a common bond, Veronica notes —

Anton and Hill both decided to become

scientists after watching the movie

“Jurassic Park.”

Anton with graduate student researcher Jenifer (Jeni) Gifford.

A birthday with the scientists

impacted by snowfall on the tundra

and could therefore beneﬁt from

Blakely and Curasi’s work.

“Snow depth and cover plays

an important role in wintertime

biogeochemical processes that can

carry over into the summer months

— think increased water availability

in summer from snow, and soil

insulation during fall months,” said

Rocha. “Snow depth and cover can

vary widely across the landscape and

our inability to understand these

processes beyond the scale of a couple

tens of meters has been hindered by

measurement cost. These affordable

sensors allow us to develop a

landscape scale understanding of the

importance of snow depth and cover

on ecosystem biogeochemistry.”

With new intellectual resources,

novel infrastructure, and cutting

edge tools, ECI provides support

to spearhead innovative research.

ECI is exploring approaches to help

people and ecosystems adapt to

climate change, mitigate the effects

of land use change, predict species

occurrences in a shifting world and

improve water quality.

To learn more about ECI,

visit environmentalchange.nd.edu.

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Cover Story

Crystal owers, made with cancer patients in mind

3-D imaging project also

raises money for research

BY GENE STOWE, FOR NDWORKS

In the basement of Galvin Life

Sciences Center, Matthew Leevy’s

fabrication laboratory uses the latest

in 3-D printing and laser cutting

to help campus researchers in their

quest for scientiﬁc knowledge. Leevy

also uses the equipment to produce

beauty and goodness – crystal ﬂowers

that enshrine Notre Dame landmarks

and, now manufactured commer-

cially, raise money to beneﬁt cancer

research.

Leevy, who is also a research asso-

ciate professor and director of biolog-

ical imaging within the Notre Dame

Integrated Imaging Facility, started

Flourish3D to produce and market

the ﬂowers last year after students

gathered specimens near the “Word

of Life” mural (aka Touchdown

Jesus) and Notre Dame Stadium to

practice their CT scanning. While

the imaging technology is tradition-

ally used for noninvasive imaging of

lab mice, rats and rabbits, the digital

images of ﬂowers were so dazzling

that the group decided to 3-D en-

grave them into crystals.

One of the students mentioned

that cancer patients, who can’t enjoy

real ﬂowers because their immune

systems are compromised from che-

motherapy, would especially like the

replicas. The idea blossomed in the

startup company, a social entrepre-

neurship venture headquartered in

Innovation Park and led by Aislinn

Betts, an undergraduate who was part

of Leevy’s group.

Others involved in the original

project were Breelyn Betts, Aislinn’s

sister who was in high school; un-

dergraduate Christine Craig; Sarah

Chapman, assistant director of the

Integrated Imaging Facility; and

Tiffanie Stewart, a research scientist

at the Notre Dame Center for Nano

Science and Technology.

Handpicked ﬂowers are CT

scanned, 3-D rendered and laser

etched within ultra-pure glass. Variet-

ies so far are Cone Flowers for a Cure,

Love Thee Canna Lily, Our Lady

Geraniums, and the Onward to Vic-

tory Rose. Trademark rights to these

works are the subject of a license with

Notre Dame’s Ofﬁce of Technology

Transfer. They are manufactured by

a U.S. company and sold online and

in local ﬂoral and gift shops, with

proﬁts going to the Harper Cancer

Research Institute.

“These are products that we

make with cancer patients in mind,

although we think the general public

will also derive enjoyment from these

ﬂowers in crystal,” said Leevy, who

also works with Harper and the

ESTEEM program.

The company expects to expand

the selection when more ﬂowers

bloom in the spring and hopes to

reach a wider market, especially can-

cer hospitals in other cities.

“We intend to expand to have a

catalog of ﬂowers from landmark

sites across our campus,” Leevy says.

“We are a core of investigators spe-

cializing in scientiﬁc research and

image analysis technologies. We have

expanded our efforts in order to give

back to the research community and

serve the public at large. It truly

aligns with the Notre Dame mission

to be a force for good in the world.”

The fabrication laboratory, includ-

ing staff, postdoctoral associates and

undergraduates conducts research

at the interface of 3-D printing

technology and biomedical imaging,

creating anatomical models derived

from patient data and developing

animal anesthesia delivery devices.

Tony Van Avermaete, a design

and fabrication specialist, is opera-

tions manager of the facility, which

includes three CAD workstations, a

laser cutter and the most advanced

3-D printer on campus. It offers

fabrication of a ﬁnished design, con-

sultation on designs in process, and

comprehensive design and fabrica-

tion based on a back-of-the-napkin

sketches. The service is set up within

CORES for access to all faculty, staff

and students on campus.

Leevy’s lab has made more than

a dozen patent submissions in the

past three years that are the basis for

three startup companies. In Vivo

Concepts LLC develops novel anes-

thesia delivery products to enhance

small animal imaging in biomedical

research, designed to improve ani-

mal handling and technician safety;

Biomedical Constructs LLC, which

markets anatomical models; and

Benefactory Manufacturing and

Design, which produces exclusively

licensed collegiate goods used by

Notre Dame’s development ofﬁce

to thank donors, in addition to

Flourish3D.

Visit ﬂourish3d.com.

MATT CASHORE

A 3-D scanning project led research professor Matt Leevy to start a business.

BY MARISSA GEBHARD,

EVP COMMUNICATIONS

This spring, staff across the

University gathered for the biannual

Town Hall meetings, but this time

staff met in twelve smaller units

across campus to hear customized

presentations catered to their

divisions and to have greater

opportunity to participate in

discussion. Executive Vice President

John Afﬂeck-Graves led the sessions

and many division leaders joined

him to present to their respective

divisions.

“The smaller Town Halls gave

Notre Dame staff an opportunity

to ask more questions and for each

division to discuss their unique

ND Voice results compared to the

overall scores of the University,” said

Afﬂeck-Graves.

Campus parking remains an

important consideration for many

staff. The Parking Committee,

composed of 27 faculty, staff,

graduate and undergraduate students

from across the University, analyzed

key aspects of parking, and presented

their recommendations on January

19. Their full report is available on

the ndsp.nd.edu website under

parking and trafﬁc.

Afﬂeck-Graves supported the

committee’s recommendation that

the University consider adding

additional shuttle stops and invest

in a mobile app that could track

the location of the shuttle bus to

provide riders real-time shuttle

information. Transportation Services

is collaborating with the Ofﬁce of

Information Technology to pursue

the development of the app.

The committee also recommended

that the University consider the

construction of a paid parking

garage in the vicinity of Legends,

create a new, temporary surface

parking lot on the northeast side

of campus, and consider adding

additional, 90-minute parking spaces,

and with Afﬂeck-Graves’ support,

Parking Services has implemented

that recommendation. Based on

the committee’s recommendations,

Campus Services and Campus

Safety are exploring the feasibility

of a bike-sharing program, and

soon the committee will make their

ﬁnal recommendations on reserved

parking based on feedback from

faculty and staff.

This is a time of unprecedented,

strategic growth at Notre Dame.

Including all current and recent

campus construction, the University

is adding a total of 1.4 million square

feet. Jenkins Hall and Nanovic Hall

will be completed this summer with

a combined total of approximately

170,000 square feet. On the

north side of campus, there are

approximately 650 geothermal

wells being constructed under the

Ricci Athletic Fields, which will

decrease our carbon footprint by

eight percent. On the south edge

of campus, the 60,000-square-foot

Walsh Family Hall of Architecture

will open in fall 2018, and south

of campus on Angela Boulevard

the 40,000-square-foot, three-level

Quinn Hall of Innovation and

Change will open in the 2017-2018

academic year.The hospitality areas

of Duncan Student Center, Corbett

Family Hall, and O’Neill Hall will

also be completed for the 2017-2018

academic year and will include space

for special events and meetings.

The sales and reservations team

in the Ofﬁce of Event Management

will begin accepting reservations on

March 1, 2017 for events occurring

after October 1, 2017. The ofﬁce

already manages reservations for

Morris Inn and McKenna Hall.

Read more about VenueND on page

two, and visit venue.nd.edu.

Phase II of Eddy Street

Commons, located just south of the

current Eddy Street Commons, will

include a larger, new home for the

Robinson Community Learning

Center, a proposed neighborhood

market, space for retail on the

street level, and graduate student

apartments on the three ﬂoors

above it.

During each Town Hall,

divisions reviewed their ND Voice

results. Across the University, staff

rated strategic clarity, image, and

engagement as the highest categories.

The scores for respect and fairness,

diversity, and development and

training saw the most improvement

since the biannual survey began

in 2006 when those areas were

identiﬁed as having room for

improvement.

“What the data shows us is that

as a community, when we choose

an area on which to focus, we

make a difference. Units worked

very hard on crafting individual

plans, so it’s very gratifying to see

progress. However, we should not

be complacent because we still have

work to do,” said Afﬂeck-Graves.

Staff members who were unable to

attend their division’s Town Hall are

invited to view the session online in

early March at evp.nd.edu/

town-hall.

Spring Town Halls address parking, construction

and ND Voice results

John Afﬂeck-Graves

6 | NDWorks | March 2017

MATT CASHORE

BY EMILY BEAUDOIN,

KELLOGG INSTITUTE

Journalist Katherine Corcoran,

the former Associated Press bu-

reau chief for Mexico and Central

America, will spend the spring

semester at the Kellogg Institute

for International

Studies as the Hewl-

ett Fellow for Public

Policy. It is a return

to her alma mater

for Corcoran, who

majored in American

studies as an under-

graduate.

Her Kellogg project

examines violence

against the press in

Mexico, now one of

the most dangerous countries in

the world for journalists. Using

the murder of an investigative

journalist as a starting point for her

research, she is exploring the para-

dox of the dramatic decline in press

freedom in Mexico as the country

has become more democratic, with

the aim of producing a general-au-

dience book.

As a member of the institute’s

Visiting Fellows Program, Corcoran

joins ﬁve scholars who hold academ-

ic-year appointments. All are con-

ducting independent research related

to core Kellogg themes of democracy

and human development:

Hernán Flom, a political scientist

from the University of

California, Berkeley,

is working on a book

manuscript that exam-

ines why and how state

actors confront, negoti-

ate with or extract rents

from drug trafﬁckers in

Latin American cities.

Lauren Honig, also

a political scientist,

is investigating the

development in Africa

of plural property rights, critical to

governance, state building, economic

development and environmental

policy. She takes up a new position at

Boston College this fall.

Tina Lee, a sociologist from Princ-

eton University, is working on two

projects that explore the unintended

consequences of party building

among Chinese entrepreneurs and

the inﬂuence of global governance

structures on political institutions.

Amy Erica Smith, a political

scientist from Iowa State Univer-

sity, is examining why Brazilian

evangelicals and Catholics have

become highly active in recent Bra-

zilian elections, in ways distinctive

from evangelicals and Catholics in

the United States. She is also co-or-

ganizing a spring Kellogg confer-

ence on public opinion, democracy

and development in Brazil.

Margaret Triyana, an econo-

mist from Nanyang Technological

University in Singapore, is studying

mechanisms that affect health

investments, with a special focus

on how social policies affect health

outcomes for the poor in Southeast

Asia.

Also in residence this semester

are guest scholars Col. Jay Hop-

kins, a United States Army War

College fellow; Victor Maqque,

a recent Notre Dame Ph.D. who

was a Kellogg dissertation year

fellow; and George Tsebelis of the

University of Michigan, a former

Kellogg visiting fellow.

Kellogg welcomes journalist to

the Visiting Fellows program

Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellows, from left, Hernán Flom, Margaret Triyana, Katherine Corcoran, Amy Erica Smith,

Lauren Honig and Tina Lee

Corcoran

MATT CASHORE

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Humility. Determination. Fatigue. Faith. This is what I

encountered when walking the 320 miles of the Notre

Dame Trail last summer in preparation for August 2017.

As a Notre Dame alumna, employee and parent, I was

already a part of the family, but my appreciation and faith

in the University and Congregation of Holy Cross has

been deepened by this pilgrimage for Our Lady. I hope we

may share this experience, and invite you to register for the

Notre Dame Trail.

Serving as a unique way to embrace the University’s 175th

anniversary, this journey will retrace the steps of Rev.

Edward Sorin, C.S.C., and seven Holy Cross brothers who

walked from Vincennes to South Bend in 1842 to found

the University of Notre Dame du Lac. The Notre Dame

Trail will be a bold opportunity to:

• Pause, reﬂect and embark on a spiritual journey

• Deepen your faith

• Challenge yourself physically

• Immerse yourself in the spirit of Notre Dame

• Celebrate the charism of the Holy Cross order

• Build lasting relationships with fellow pilgrims

Please choose from a 5-day, 3-day or 1-day pilgrimage. Note

that there is a 10 percent discount for all who register prior

to March 21.

I hope you will join us on the Notre Dame Trail!

In the name of Our Lady,

Katherine Lane MNA ’00

Sr. Director, Notre Dame Trail

Will be composing a song

cycle setting Iranian poems

to music

BY NOELLE ELLIOTT,

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

Assistant professor of music

composition and theory

John

Liberatore — who was recently

awarded a prestigious fellowship

from the MacDowell Colony — has

been awarded a second fellowship

from the

Millay Colony for the Arts.

Following his stay at the

Mac-

Dowell Colony

in March 2017,

Liberatore will travel to the Millay

Colony this summer as an art-

ist-in-residence. In both residencies,

he will spend the bulk of his time

composing a song cycle for soprano,

percussion and glass harmonica, set-

ting translations by Niloufar Talebi

of new poetry by expatriate Iranian

writers around the

world.

In proposing the

project to the Millay

Colony, Liberatore

wrote, “These poems

poignantly capture

themes of longing,

connection, loss and

hopefulness. Talebi’s

translations bridge

cultures across polit-

ical divides, pointing

toward a profound sense of shared

humanity.”

The ﬁnished piece will be pre-

miered by soprano Jamie Jordan,

a versatile and much sought-after

interpreter of new music, and Dan-

iel Druckman, associate principal

percussionist in the New York Phil-

harmonic and director of

percussion studies at the

Juilliard School. Libera-

tore will join Jordan and

Druckman on the glass

harmonica, a rare instru-

ment that he acquired last

year through a

Faculty

Research Support Program

Initiation Grant. When

completed, the work will

be recorded as part of

an album of Liberatore’s

works slated for release on Albany

Records in 2018.

At the Millay Colony, he will

also dedicate time to a commission

from Korean-American pianist Eu-

nmi Ko for a concert honoring the

100th birthday of composer Isang

Yun at the Seoul Arts Center in

September 2017.

Located near Austerlitz, New

York, at the former home of poet and

activist Edna St. Vincent Millay, the

Millay Colony was established by

her estate in 1973. The colony aims

to “nurture and promote the vitality

of the arts” by offering competitive

residencies to artists of all disciplines

from around the world.

Liberatore has taught at Notre

Dame since the fall of 2015.

Music professor John Liberatore is

composing a song cycle for soprano,

percussion and glass harmonica.

Pictured is an example of a glass

harmonica (courtesy Wikimedia

Commons) an instrument invented

by Benjamin Franklin in 1761.

Franklin named it the armonica, based on the Italian word “armonia,”

meaning harmony. The instrument comprises a series of glass bowls of

graduated sizes — rubbing the glass produces musical tones. The instrument

we call the harmonica, which is unrelated, wasn’t invented until 1821.

Liberatore receives second composer’s fellowship for 2017

Liberatore

March 2017 | NDWorks | 7

BY CIDNI SANDERS,

INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS

Most faculty and staff

football ticket prices will de-

crease for the 2017 season.

A recently announced

tiered pricing model is low-

ering the price most faculty

and staff pay for season

tickets. Faculty and staff

season tickets members typ-

ically sit in the end zones of

Notre Dame Stadium, where

season ticket prices will now

cost $400 in the upper level

and $550 in the lower level.

That’s down from $600 to sit

in either level in 2016.

“We now have a more eq-

uitable approach to ticket

pricing that is accessible, af-

fordable and fully consistent

with Notre Dame’s values,”

said Rob Kelly, assistant

athletic director of ticketing

and technology. “No longer

will the person who sits in the

end zone be asked to pay the

same amount as the person

who sits at the 50 yard line.”

As a part of the Universi-

ty’s benefits package, faculty

and staff have the opportu-

nity to purchase two season

tickets for home football

games in designated sec-

tions of Notre Dame Stadium

without paying the annual

gift that the public is charged

to gain access to season

tickets.

“The annual gift exemp-

tion is a substantial benefit

for faculty and staff. In the

2017 season, this is an ad-

ditional savings of $750 per

ticket for season ticket mem-

bers in the upper end zone

and $1,000 for those in the

lower end zone,” Kelly said.

Although faculty and staff

tickets are set aside in the

end zones and corners of the

stadium, it is possible to pur-

chase a seat in a higher-price

location. Interested persons

may request to change,

based on availability, but will

have to pay the higher ticket

price as well as the annual

gift per ticket, which is also

based on seat location.

Season tickets for 2017

include seven games (there

is no Shamrock Series game

this year) but will be priced

for six games. Season ticket

members will receive several

new benefits, including free

parking in White Field, free

entry to all general admission

sporting events and mer-

chandise discounts. Access

to purchase away, bowl and

Shamrock Series game tick-

ets will continue.

Payment plans will allow-

season ticket members to

spread their total cost over

three to five months, and

there will be no price in-

crease for the 2018 season.

About 3,000 faculty and

Football tickets to cost less

for most faculty and staff

staff were season ticket

members in 2016. The Ath-

letics Ticketing Office has

already provided information

to them regarding the cost

of their current seats going

forward and opportunities to

change seat location, if de-

sired.

“Season tickets are the

surest way to guarantee ac-

cess to every game, so we

are making additional season

tickets available for purchase

this year,” Kelly said. “I hope

the pricing and accessibility

changes result in more fac-

ulty and staff who are able

to attend the games with

their family and friends. The

Notre Dame community is

such a vital part of the No-

tre Dame football tradition.”

Faculty and staff who

wish to purchase new

season tickets will be con-

tacted via email with that

opportunity in April.

Single-game football

tickets will go on sale in

$200

$145

$125

$110

$95

$90

$75

$70

$45

SINGLE GAME TICKET PRICING |

Preferred

Lower Prime

Upper Prime

Lower Side

Upper Side

Lower Corner

Upper Corner

Lower End

Upper End

$300

$250

$225

$205

$185

$170

$145

$130

$95

$250

$160

$150

$135

$120

$110

$95

$85

$65

PRICE LEVEL

Georgia,

USC

NC State,

Navy

Temple, WF,

Miami (OH)

$1,500

$1,000

$900

$850

$750

$700

$600

$550

$400

SEASON MEMBERSHIP PRICING |

Preferred

Lower Prime

Upper Prime

Lower Side

Upper Side

Lower Corner

Upper Corner

Lower End

Upper End

$4,200

$3,500

$3,150

$2,850

$2,500

$2,200

$1,850

$1,550

$1,150

$2,700

$2,500

$2,250

$2,000

$1,750

$1,500

$1,250

$1,000

$750

PRICE LEVEL

Ticket and GiftAnnual GiftTicket

101

1010

1111

1212

171819

26 26

27 27

28 28

29 29

30 30

102

103

104

105

106

107

108

109

110

111

112

113

114

115

116

117

118

119

120

121

122

123

124

125

126

127

128

129

130

131

132

133

134

135

136

2017

2 018

2017

2 018

July, and availability will be

based on demand. These

tickets will be priced by op-

ponent, a practice that has

been in place since 2012.

The changes to the seating

and pricing as well as other

new amenities are separate

from the new premium seat-

ing that is available and the

construction of Duncan Stu-

dent Center, Corbett Family

Hall and O’Neill Hall, three

new buildings adjacent to

the stadium. Watch for more

information on the more

than 750,000 square feet

of teaching, research and

performance space these

new buildings are adding to

campus in future issues of

NDWorks.

If you have any questions

about the new tiered pricing

model or season tickets,

please contact the Notre

Dame Ticket Office at 631-

7356 or tick[email protected].

8 | NDWorks | March 2017

COURTESY OF CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS NETWORK

BY ANGELA KNOBLOCH,

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

On January 26 the achievements

of eight Green Belt project teams on

campus were celebrated during an

event hosted by the Ofﬁce of Contin-

uous Improvement.

Green Belt projects focus on “mak-

ing Notre Dame better every day” by

improving services, reducing rework,

mitigating risk, and giving back to

people the gift of time that can be

transferred from administrative tasks

to more value-added activities.

Eleven faculty/staff members

were honored with Green Belt cer-

tiﬁcation at this event, after having

ﬁnished both online and classroom

coursework and leading process

improvement projects to successful

completion. Those recognized in

January were:

Satish Adusumilli

Freimann Life Science Center

(ND Research): Animal Care and

Husbandry Tasks

Through process streamlining and

facility reconﬁguration, created

additional capacity to accommodate

new and growing research needs

with little to no additional expense

Dan Allen

Student Affairs:

Summer Housing Process

Thirteen weeks restored capacity;

rework decreased by 83 percent; im-

proved customer satisfaction

campus-wide

Maureen Collins

Graduate School: Transcript Process

Ensured 100 percent accurate cap-

ture of transcripts for current-year

incoming class; revised process to

align with electronic student ﬁles;

approximately 60 hours annual re-

stored capacity

Crystal DeJaegher and

Laurie Kirkner

Office of Digital Learning:

Course/Content Development

Process

Increased faculty satisfaction; en-

hanced the discipline around proj-

ect management and tracking steps

to ensure quality and timeliness;

clariﬁed roles and responsibilities

Jonathan Hall

OIT: Campus Workstation Program

Reduced non-value added time in

annual CWP allocation process by

85 percent; annual restored capacity

of 821 hours projected in the order-

ing and installation process

Denise Moser,

Chelsea Noble

OIT: Knowledge Centered Support

Restored annual capacity of approx-

imately 1133 hours or 28.3 FTE

weeks; improved service to OIT

Help Desk customers

Laura Picking

(Human Resources),

Phyllis Campbell

(Building Services):

Unplanned Reporting Process

Increased absence documentation

to 100 percent; reduced missing

information to 0 percent; improved

communication cycle time between

employee and supervisor regarding

absence within one day to 100 per-

cent; 154.4 hours restored capacity

Green Belt project teams celebrated

The newly-certiﬁed Green Belts include (L-R): Front Row—Chelsea Noble, Denise Moser, Maureen Collins, Laura

Picking; Middle Row—Phyllis Campbell, Crystal DeJaegher, Laurie Kirkner; Back Row—Jonathan Hall, Dan Allen,

Andy Wendelborn, Satish Adusumilli.

during control phase with projected

annual savings of approximately 600

hours.

Andy Wendelborn

Graduate Business Programs

(Mendoza College of Business):

Internal Student Communications

Improved quality via content, style

and branding standards; reduced

email volume via internal consolida-

tion and planning efforts; approxi-

mately 84 hours of restored capacity

due to process streamlining.

While these individuals led the

project work, they were supported by

engaged sponsors and team members

who were critical to project success.

If you would like more informa-

tion about the Ofﬁce of Continuous

Improvement or the Notre Dame

Green Belt program, please visit

continuousimprovement.nd.edu or

call Carol Mullaney at 631-1293.

BY THEO HELM, ACE

The University’s Alliance for

Catholic Education (ACE) has

embarked upon a new partnership

with the American Indian Catholic

Schools Network (AICSN).

The collaboration allows ACE to

work with the staffs of ﬁve Catholic

mission schools and help the 1,300

students and their families along their

educational journeys.

“This is an opportunity that

ﬁts beautifully our mission of

transforming Catholic schools,

particularly for underrepresented

students,” said Rev. Timothy R.

Scully, C.S.C., the Hackett Family

Director of Notre Dame’s Institute

for Educational Initiatives. “We are

working with AICSN to strengthen

and sustain schools that offer the best

educational opportunities for the

children they serve.”

The partnership started Jan. 1 and

is funded by a grant from the Better

Way Foundation. ACE is working

with AICSN to provide professional

development, build governance

structures for the network and grow

the enrollments of the schools.

“We will be able to bring the

tremendous expertise of ACE to a

new audience that in most cases is

remote,” said Brian Collier, the

coordinator of supervision for ACE

Teaching Fellows and the director of

the collaboration with AICSN. “This

effort is led and overseen by Native

peoples from the mission schools

themselves, and those of us at Notre

Dame will serve as resources for the

schools.”

AICSN started in 2013 with the

help of the Better Way Foundation

and Creighton University in an

effort to bring shared success in

professional development, school

communications and ﬁnancial

sustainability.

Member schools in the network

are St. Charles Mission School,

San Carlos, Arizona; St. Michael

Indian School, St. Michaels,

Arizona; De La Salle Blackfeet

School, Browning, Montana; St.

Augustine Indian Mission School,

Winnebago, Nebraska; and Red

Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge,

South Dakota.

The schools serve students

representing the Apache, Navajo,

Blackfeet, Winnebago, Omaha and

Lakota peoples.

ACE Partners with the American Indian Catholic Schools Network

MATT CASHORE

March 2017 | NDWorks | 9

SERVICE ANNIVERSARIES

The University congratulates those employees celebrating signiﬁcant

service anniversaries in March:

35 Years

Tamara R. Springer,

Mendoza College of Business

30 Years

Keith A. Bruce, Ofﬁce of

Director, Maintenance

Kathy L. Gallay,

General Services

Ana Laskowski and Sandra K.

Tompkins, Custodial Services

25 Years

Claude J. Devaney, Teaching

and Learning Technologies

Brenda L. Young,

Custodial Services

20 Years

Annie K. Geary, Development

Wade E. Stoller, Service Center

15 Years

Monica Crabtree,

Hesburgh Libraries

John A. Foster,

Golf Course Administration

Eileen Williams,

North Dining Hall

Angela Yugo, Pre-College

Programs

10 Years

Matthew Brazo,

Landscape Services

Angelica M. Cowan and

Darrell Rowell, Custodial Services

Michael J. Cramer, UNDERC

Patrick J. Gaska,

Food Services–Corby

Aaron M. Kelly, General Services

Ellen G. Kyes, Robinson

Community Learning Center

Cheryl M. O’Brien,

Athletics Ticketing

Natalie Stahl, Innovation Park

NEW EMPLOYEES

The University welcomes the following employees

who began work in January:

DelVaughn Alexander, Matthew

D. Balis, David M. Ballou,

Charles A. Long and Thomas K.

Rees, Football

Ian T. Alford, Hesburgh Libraries

Erica L. Arevalo and James N.

Bell, Morris Inn

Matthew D. Atherton, Center

for Culinary Excellence

Kyle M. Brey and Angelina A.

Torain, Athletics

Thomas E. Burman, History

Leah J. Campbell and

Anthony Van Avermaete,

Biological Sciences

Kerri A. Casper, Student

Development and Welfare

Joseph R. Caudle, Customer IT

Solutions

Thomas A. Cumbow, User Services

Sharon S. Decker, Elizabeth

Heintzkill and Cassandra M.

Kline, Executive Education

Eric M. Felde and Maria K.

Harding, Notre Dame Research

Aaron C. Greene,

Marketing Communications

April S. Harmon,

St. Michael’s Laundry

Cassandra R. Hobday,

South Dining Hall

Aaron J. Hunter, Chemical and

Biomolecular Engineering

Vicente Jerez Fidalgo,

Turbomachinery Facility

Ryan Kaspitzke,

Landscape Services

Christopher A. Kozelichki,

Law School

Jessica M. Likens, Psychology

Anna Martinez-Montavon,

Hesburgh Libraries

Amanda M. McKee,

Alumni Association

Ronald L. Mudica and Floyd A.

Sam’pl IV, Custodial Services

Nathan J. Norman,

Women’s Soccer

Joseph M. Parent,

Political Science

Tom J. Purekal, Institute for

Global Development

Jennifer L. Rajchel,

Ofﬁce of Digital Learning

Arthur J. Resil, Food Services,

Holy Cross House

Brady C. Rufﬁng,

Electrical Engineering

Robert A. Troup, McDonald

Center for Well-Being

Joshua S. Tullis, Development

April VanDenDriessche and

Tina M. Vernon, Physics

Thomas J. Waldschmidt, Risk

Management and Safety

Elliot J. Wiley, Shared Services

IN MEMORY

The University extends sympathy to the families and friends of these

recently deceased employees and retirees:

Carmen Colón (Retiree, Food Services) Dec. 29

Ruth Wiltrout (Retiree, Radiation Laboratory) Jan. 19

Katherine Blasko (Retiree) Jan. 22

Shohn Turner (Ofﬁce of Research) Jan. 24

Joan Van Acker (Retiree, Housekeeping) Jan. 28

Flora Riddle (Retiree, Hesburgh Library) Feb. 3

Family Connections

CAROL C. BRADLEY, NDWORKS

After his daughter Marisa was ac-

cepted as an undergraduate student

at Notre Dame, Michael Villano

brought her to his alma mater to

show her around. That included

a stop to visit his favorite teacher,

Charles Crowell, a professor in the

Department of Psychology.

During their talk, Villano men-

tioned that he might one day like to

move from private industry in Col-

orado back into academia. Crowell

suggested an open position.

“Suddenly,” Villano’s wife, Suze,

recalls, “we were back in Indiana.”

Michael, class of 1983, is now a

research assistant professor in the

psychology department’s Cognitive,

Brain and Behavior program. He’s

currently studying the moral deci-

sion making of drone pilots with

data he collects at the U.S. Air Force

Academy. He personally developed a

performance assessment tool for pi-

lots, as well. Using two separate video

games, the tool compares baseline

results to outcomes after pilots have

been subjected to oxygen depletion

and G-force.

Michael returned to Notre Dame

a month before Marisa began her

freshman classes 10 years ago.

“I was happy for my dad, of

course,” Marisa remembers, but as

a high school student anticipating

going off on her own to college, the

family’s move to South Bend, “wasn’t

exactly what I’d been hoping for.”

Today, she embraces the turn of

events. Every member of the family

has worked at Notre Dame and has

been otherwise engaged in campus

activities. They all “get” the passion,

she says, for the University that she

and her brother share with their fa-

ther as alumni.

Marisa graduated from Notre

Dame in 2010 and is currently

assistant director of undergraduate

admissions.

Suze is administrative director of

ND’s Sacred Music Academy.

The Villanos have three sons:

Mike, a graduate of Indiana Univer-

sity, Bloomington, who is an assis-

tant middle- and high school band

director in Anderson, Indiana; Tony,

who graduated from Notre Dame in

2015 with an electrical engineering

degree; and Rocky, a sophomore

studying computer science at Purdue

University.

The family also shares a love of

music. Michael plays jazz organ. For

the last four or ﬁve years, Suze and

Marisa have sung in two campus

choirs, the Basilica Scola and the Col-

legium Musicum. Rocky plays in the

Purdue band, and Tony, who per-

formed in the concert and marching

bands and symphony at Notre Dame,

continues to play at church.

“Being part of the University of

Notre Dame has been a blessing,”

says Suze. “Besides having two chil-

dren attending, we have hosted grad

students for dinner and choir mem-

bers, before and after tours. Our son

was in band, so we also have hosted

band students at our home.”

Though ﬁrst and foremost Michael

e Villanos

identiﬁes as a Notre Dame alumnus,

he values the perspective he’s gained

as a Notre Dame parent and faculty

member. Too, he says, his family’s

involvement in the Notre Dame

community has given him a “strong

sense of pride.”

Notre Dame family Marisa, Suze, Michael and Rocky Villano

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faculty/staff discounted ticket prices, or contact the ticket office, 631-2800. Ticket prices listed are the faculty/staff rate.

MUSIC

South Bend Youth Symphony

Concert and Gala

4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26; $17

Leighton Concert Hall

The South Bend Youth Symphony Or-

chestras (SBYSO) will present its third

annual gala concert. This performance

will feature both the Concert Orchestra

and Symphony Orchestra ensembles.

The Concert Orchestra will begin with

music from “The Hobbit”; Symphony

Orchestra was given special permis-

sion by Howard Shore to be the ﬁrst

youth symphony ever permitted to per-

form music from “Lord of the Rings:

The Fellowship of the Ring.” This will

also involve a collaboration with the

Penn High School choir.

Vignoles and Ainsley

Department of Music

7 p.m., Saturday, March 4; $6

Leighton Concert Hall

The great British lyric tenor John Mark

Ainsley and world-renowned pianist

Roger Vignoles will perform a recital

of classical songs by Charles Gounod,

Francis Poulenc and Benjamin Britten,

culminating with Robert Schumann’s

masterpiece Dichterliebe (“Poet’s

Love”). Ainsley is renowned for his

interpretations of Baroque music

(Monterverdi, Purcell, Bach); of

Mozart’s operas and 20

-century

dramatic works by Britten, Janacek

and Henze; and of the song repertory.

Roger Vignoles regularly accompanies

the world’s greatest singers (Kiri Te

Kanawa, Susan Graham, Bernarda

Fink, Anne Soﬁe von Otter and many

more) and instrumentalists. With his

many recordings and engagements

at the world’s best concert halls, he

is acknowledged as one of the world’s

greatest accompanists.

Philharmonia Quartett Berlin

Presenting Series

2 p.m., Sunday, March 5; $32

Leighton Concert Hall

Since their foundation in 1985, the

Philharmonia Quartett Berlin has been

a world-renowned quartet, especially

known for their interpretations of Bee-

thoven and Shostakovich. The quartet

has an extensive repertoire that spans

from the Classical Era to contem-

porary works. In our ﬁnal Beethoven

program, return to Beethoven’s late

period for a performance of one of his

Op. 132 quartets.

Haydn’s “London” Symphony

South Bend Symphony Orchestra

2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 19; $25

Leighton Concert Hall

This performance in the June H.

Edwards Chamber Series features

the South Bend Symphony Orchestra,

conducted by Carmen-Helena Tellez of

Sacred Music at Notre Dame.

Kronos Quartet with Wu Man

Presenting Series

7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 25; $32

Leighton Concert Hall

Teddy Ebersol Endowment for Excel-

lence in the Performing Arts

Inspired by an 18th-century Anhui

province house, the 50-minute work

is a travelogue of Chinese history,

complete with costume changes,

visual projections, props and heavy

metal shredding on an electric pipa.

Beginning with 19th-century moun-

tain dances, the high concept and

cross-cultural piece advances to jazzy

1930s Shanghai and the horrors of

the Sino-Japanese war to Chairman

Mao and then contemporary China.

Evenings of moments like this are

signature Kronos Quartet. That they

also contain humor is all the better.

THEATER

I and You

Department of Film, Television and

Theatre

7:30 p.m., Wednesday–Friday, March

1-3; $12

2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Saturday,

March 4

2:30 p.m., Sunday, March 5

Decio Theatre

Written by Lauren Gunderson. Drawn

together by a poetry assignment, two

high school classmates spark an

unexpected connection.

Junie B.’s Essential Survival

Guide

Presenting Series

Family Show Series

11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Saturday, March

11; $10

Decio Theatre

Now that Junie B. Jones is an expert

ﬁrst-grader, who better to write

the book on everything you need to

know? From bus rules to backpacks,

carpools to cookies, Juniper Beatrice

and friends deliver big laughs along

with the ﬁnal silly word on surviving

school in style. Funny, strong-willed

and prone to mishaps, Junie B. shows

us all how school is sometimes scary,

sometimes super-fun and always

something to sing out loud about!

CINEMA

Black Girl (La noire de ... )

(1966)/Borom Sarret (1963)

Classics at the Browning

8 p.m., Wednesday, March 1

Ousmane Sembène, made his feature

debut in 1966 with the brilliant and

stirring Black Girl (La noire de ... ).

Sembène transforms a deceptively

simple plot—about a young Senega-

lese woman who moves to France to

work for a wealthy white couple and

ﬁnds that her life becomes a ﬁgurative

and literal prison—into a complex,

layered critique on the lingering

colonialist mindset of a supposedly

postcolonial world. Featuring a moving

central performance by Mbissine

Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing

human drama as well as a radical

political statement—and one of the

essential ﬁlms of the ‘60s. Black

Girl will be preceded by Sembène’s

ﬁrst ﬁlm, Borom Sarret, a short piece

focusing on the life of a cart driver in

Dakar. Free for Notre Dame students.