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LIGHTS donates to high schools

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Used science equipment has found new life in needy high schools thanks to the year-old Notre Dame Laboratory Instrumentation Giving Hope to Students (ND LIGHTS) initiative.


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Banquet raises hunger awareness

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Students, faculty and staff took on new identities Tuesday night for the seventh annual Hunger Banquet, sponsored by Saint Mary's College Student Diversity Board (SDB).



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Prof. speaks at Chinese conference

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Nanoscience could revolutionize treatments of cancer and bacterial infections, a Notre Dame professor who traveled to China for a conference on the subject, said.







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Tournament, rally promote peace in South Sudan

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Playing for Peace continued its efforts to promote peace in South Sudan at the second annual basketball tournament and Peace & Pep Rally held before the men's basketball season opener against Mississippi Valley State on Saturday.




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Roll Call honors fallen heroes

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Notre Dame joined more than 170 colleges and universities nationwide on Friday to simultaneously take part in the National Roll Call, honoring servicemen and women who died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001.





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Woo delivers latest Last Lecture installment

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Dean Carolyn Woo's contribution to the Last Lecture Series — which asks faculty members to prepare a lecture as if it were their last — was especially timely Thursday night, as Woo enters the final months of her fourteen year career at the helm of the Mendoza College of Business. Woo will leave at the end of the Fall Semester to take over as CEO of Catholic Relief Services.


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Veteran faculty member recalls Vietnam era

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As the United States celebrates Veterans Day today, Peace Studies professor and 1968 alumnus David Cortright said he will remember his unique experience as a Vietnam-era soldier actively involved in the anti-war movement.