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Buddhist monk muses on true nature of compassion

Growing up in a Tibetan monastery, ArjiaRinpoche lived through the political oppression and forced labor camps of the Cultural Revolution, escaped to the United States in 1998 and now works as the director of Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Ind.   

In the Company of the Poor launches at ND

Priest discusses free will and neuroscience

Cultural event celebrates world art, languages

University experiments with online classes

National agency funds ND foreign aid in Ghana

Uruguayan poet's campus visit includes reading

Senate discusses parking regulations

Former SEC lawyer discusses ethics

Gary  Aguirre, the lawyer who "blew the whistle" on Pequot Capital's illegal insider trading activity and catalyzed a 2007 investigation on the hedge fund, delivered a lecture Monday night as the final installment of Mendoza's John A. Berges Lecture Series in Business Ethics.

SMC hosts foreign language celebration

 Saint Mary's students shared in the native languages of six women from five different countries Monday through "Writing Across the World," an event sponsored by the Saint Mary's English Language School.

ND ranks fifth in study abroad participation

The opportunity to spend a semester of college taking classes in a foreign country, visiting new places and forming strong relationships with other students to many seems too good to pass up, and Notre Dame students are taking advantage of study abroad opportunities at higher rates than ever before.

Tibetan Buddhist monks create mandala

A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks will spend the week in Jordan Hall of Science constructing a peace sand mandala, a sacred part of ancient Buddhist tradition.

Gary's first female mayor delivers leadership lecture

Karen Freeman-Wilson, the first female mayor of Gary, Ind., and the first African American mayor in Indiana spoke about her leadership experience in a lecture at Saint Mary's Monday evening.

Department of Education workshops inspire creativity

Saint Mary's students embraced their inner creativity during Saturday's "Get Inked" conference through a series of workshops that were open to both men and women.

Festival marks Indian holiday

The Indian Association of Notre Dame (IAND) delivered a sense of traditional Indian culture to the ballroom in the LaFortune Student Center with a Diwali Celebration on Sunday night.

FASO leads typhoon relief effort

Despite the miles that separate Notre Dame from the Philippines - the site of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan that hit in early November - relief efforts are underway on campus to bring help to the region.

Professor defends Thoreau's view of Irish

Notre Dame English professor Laura Dassow Walls delivered a lecture Friday afternoon exploring new ideas about American writer Henry David Thoreau's relationship with Irish immigrants in his hometown and their effect on his writing.

SMC memorializes anniversary of student death

Saint Mary's College held a special ceremony Friday to dedicate a tree on campus in memory of Ziqi Zhang, the international student who was killed travelling between Saint Mary's and Notre Dame last year.

Inspiration for 'Freedom Writers' speaks at College

Erin Gruwell, author of "The Freedom Writers Diary" and founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation, spoke on encouraging diversity and understanding in a lecture titled "Teaching Tolerance" in Moreau Hall's Little Theater on Friday.

Saint Mary's students support local schools

For more than seven years, the College Academy of Tutoring (CAT) Program at Saint Mary's has helped students at Title I schools in South Bend to succeed.