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Chinese department celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival

By Caroline Collins · Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022

The Chinese department and the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, in the LaFortune ballroom Sunday, Sept. 26. The celebration featured student performances, traditional decorations and Chinese food. 

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Sr. Helen Prejean discusses wrongful convictions, death penalty

By Gracie Eppler · Monday, Sept. 26, 2022

On Friday, Sr. Helen Prejean participated in a fireside chat hosted by the Notre Dame Law School Exoneration Justice Clinic and the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. The fireside chat was moderated by dean and professor of law G. Marcus Cole in the Eck Visitors’ Center. 

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'Afro-Latinx Poetry Now' to feature six visiting poets

By Liam Price · Monday, Sept. 26, 2022

Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) and the Initiative on Race and Resilience will present "Afro-Latinx Poetry Now" on Tuesday and Wednesday, featuring six Afro-Latino visiting poets who will appear both publicly for talks in McKenna Hall and privately in selected Notre Dame classrooms.

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NDPD announces use of bodycams, new ND Safe app

By Isa Sheikh · Friday, Sept. 23, 2022

The Notre Dame Police Department (NDPD) announced this month that its sworn officers are now wearing body cameras. The department also released the ND Safe app with multiple resources, including one-touch calls to Notre Dame police, St. Joseph County’s 911 center and non-emergency assistance, as well as resources to share location with NDPD or one’s friends.

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SOTERIA Flooring startup wants to make falling safer

By Kate Naessens · Friday, Sept. 23, 2022

A Notre Dame graduate entrepreneurship program alumna is working towards longer, safer lives for people with a fall risk — not with grasp bars or fall buttons, but with a patented flooring system designed to “restore the right to fall.”

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Senate discusses ND Safe app, dorm gyms

By Kathryn Muchnick · Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022

The Notre Dame student senate passed resolutions regarding first-year class council elections and received nominations for Judicial Council’s Committee on the Constitution in its meeting Wednesday evening.

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Jenkins addresses faculty, outlines goals for University

By Liam Kelly · Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022

Notre Dame will launch efforts to more effectively communicate its achievements in research, global engagement and diversity and inclusion, University President Fr. John Jenkins said in his annual address to the faculty Tuesday evening.

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