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Bellah lectures on industry

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Bellah has compiled for his forthcoming book, "The Modern Project in the Light of Human Evolution," which engages the consequences of rapid industrialization, especially environmental degradation and the way the human is viewed as a person. Bellah described the startling impact of industrialization by tracking the growth of human expansion with a social development index. In 2000 BCE, human society earned an unimpressive rank of 4. By 100 CE the Roman Empire reached 43 on the index, a limit or "hard ceiling" which remained unbroken for centuries.

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Physicists study Higgs boson

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Researchers from a global collaboration, including Notre Dame faculty and students, presented findings further characterizing the recently-documented Higgs boson on Thursday in La Thuile, Italy.

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A revolutionary pope'

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The world knows him as Pope Francis, the newly elected leader of the Roman Catholic Church. To his fellow Latinos, he is Papa Francisco, and his cultural heritage reflects the new energy and broader scope of today's Church.

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SMC gift campaign begins

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Monday marked the beginning of Saint Mary's annual Tag Week, which aims to inform students about the costs of running the College and the importance of donations to the school.

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SMC gift campaign begins

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Class Gift Campaign (CGC), a student effort led in conjunction with the Office of Annual Giving, organized the Week. Shelby Herms, Class of 2013 CGC representative, said students' donations to the Annual Fund go to their class's CCG account and immediately impact the lives of Saint Mary's women.

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Seminar explores funding

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Twelve undergraduate and graduate students explored the ethics of scientific funding this spring break during a Center for Social Concerns (CSC) participated in an immersion experience in Washington, D.C.  

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Victim finds courage as leader

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Daisy Hernandez, author of "Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism," kicked off Saint Mary's Student Diversity Board's (SDB) 8th annual leadership conference "From Awareness to Action," on Tuesday, March 19 in Carroll Auditorium.

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Dean finds unique vision

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 19, 2013

To Roger Huang, the infrastructure of one of the nation's top business schools looks a lot like the global financial markets he has spent his career studying.  

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Students in Rome celebrate Francis

By The Observer · Monday, March 18, 2013

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio stepped onto the Vatican balcony to reveal himself as the new leader of the Catholic Church on Wednesday, several Saint Mary's students waiting in St. Peter's Square witnessed this historic moment.

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Finding Nemo at the Great Barrier Reef

By The Observer · Sunday, March 17, 2013

PERTH, Australia - What happens after the Notre Dame students in Perth have slammed shut their underused textbooks, ripped apart all paper evidence of the past semester and tossed away half their clothes to make room for cliché stuffed koalas and Australian bro tanks? The answer for most of us is travel.

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Faculty members reflect on new pontiff

By The Observer · Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, became known as Pope Francis when he made his first public appearance on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday, approximately an hour after his election by the College of Cardinals.

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Social media connects world to conclave

By The Observer · Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Although the College of Cardinals used a smoke signal Wednesday to signal its election of a new pope, the rest of the world relied on social media to stay updated on the conclave.

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Students abroad in Rome celebrate new pope

By The Observer · Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The eyes of the world turned to the Vatican to watch the white smoke billow out from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, but Notre Dame students studying abroad in Europe were able to stand in St. Peter's square below and witness the announcement of the new pope firsthand.

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University awards 2013 Laetare Medal

By The Observer · Saturday, March 9, 2013

Sr. Susanne Gallagher, Sr. Mary Therese Harrington and Rev. James H. McCarthy, founders of the Special Religious Education Development Network (SPRED), will receive the 2013 Laetare Medal during the Commencement ceremony May 19.

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ND celebrates Irish heritage

By The Observer · Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The Irish identity of Notre Dame inspires campus-wide St. Patrick's Day festivities each year, and preparations are already underway to pay tribute to the school's cultural connections March 17.

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Author explores Arab-Israeli ties

By The Observer · Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Israeli author SayedKashua spoke about the Arab-Israeli dynamic and his latest novel "Second Person Singular" in a presentation at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies on Wednesday.

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Seniors react to commencement speaker

By The Observer · Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Cardinal Timothy Dolan will deliver the Commencement address to the class of 2013, and the selection has prompted seniors to reflect on Dolan's relevance to the student body and his ability to successfully connect with them.

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Professor reflects on Chavez's death

By The Observer · Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The death of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday leaves a number of questions for the South American nation, which now adds a presidential election to the list of complex challenges it already faces.

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