Fighting for our Veterans
At a young age, it was ingrained into Brady Quinn ’07 that it was important to respect and support the military. His father was a marine in Vietnam. His grandfathers had both served. The lineage ensured he and his sisters never took for granted the sacrifices soldiers made for the good of the country.Because of that “strong appreciation for those who have risked their lives to protect liberties and freedoms for us,” he says, he was motivated to create a foundation dedicated to giving back to the armed forces. In 2011, Quinn formed 3rd & Goal – Veterans Home Aid to make homes handicap accessible for wounded veterans. It also expanded to help provide housing for homeless veterans, whose numbers top 107,000 in the United States.As the foundation progressed, Quinn wanted to be able to adapt to the needs of veterans. He noticed that poor financial management was a problem that kept reappearing.Quinn called his former Notre Dame professor Carl Ackermann to address the issue and the two created a four-session course on personal finance to include budgeting, saving and investing, to take place at the South Bend Center for the Homeless in June 2016.The two hope to execute this program on a larger scale in order to help more people, Ackermann says. Moving locations has been discussed, as has a video series which veterans could access online.
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- 2:01Fighting For Our Cultural HeritageWhen Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the world watched in disbelief and horror as one sovereign nation invaded another.The University of Notre Dame has had a long relationship with the Ukrainian Catholic University, the first Catholic university in the post-Soviet world. When our colleagues, our partners and our friends were in danger, we asked how we could help.Professors Bill Donaruma and Ian Kuijt traveled to Ukraine to teach students on the ground the tenets of archeology and film so they could begin to document their important cultural sites, which are under constant threat.Learn more: https://go.nd.edu/0a0a45
- 2:01Fighting For Those With Cystic FibrosisIreland has the highest rates of cystic fibrosis in the world. One in every 19 people carries the gene for the genetic condition that damages the lungs and other organs through repeated infections.Together with partners at Trinity College Dublin, two Notre Dame professors, Al Cerrone ‘09 and Rob Nerenberg, are considering new ways to treat the disease. Because cystic fibrosis patients often take antibiotics, resistance and toxicity are chronic fears. Finding ways to make the antibiotics more effective, even reducing dosage amounts, could prevent side effects.The multidisciplinary team is looking at unusual combination treatments involving antibiotics and ultrasound, which have shown remarkable effectiveness.Learn more: https://go.nd.edu/7d31ab
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- 2:01Fighting to Grow the Good in BusinessVictoria Nyanjura ’20 MGA survived a harrowing capture by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Her story of sorrow and distress eventually brought her to hope. That hope came from education, and she’s committed to providing it to other women at Saint Bakhita’s Vocational School where she is now the head of school.Saint Bakhita’s opened to serve LRA kidnapping survivors like Victoria, but for many years, the school teetered on the brink of closure. Then Notre Dame Professor Wendy Angst stepped in to help. She and the students in her Innovation and Design Thinking class in the Mendoza College of Business are working alongside the students at Saint Bakhita’s to develop creative ways for the school to become self-sufficient and profitable.Learn more: https://go.nd.edu/FightingtoGrowGoodinBusiness
- 2:01Fighting to End CorruptionWhen undergraduate students decide to study in Notre Dame’s Washington Program, they often hope for exposure to politics and policy, for an internship at the Capitol, for an urban living experience. But for Greg Miller ’22 and his classmates, their time and work in D.C. brought them to the very thick of U.S. State Department decisions against corrupt Maltese officials.Greg took Professor Tom Kellenberg’s class on the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and learned how to assemble formal dossiers on corrupt government officials. The students were so inspired by the work that they returned to campus and created the Student Policy Network, a club dedicated to public policy projects, like the one they completed under the Magnitsky Act. The club members created a dossier on Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the former Angolan prime minister, and Africa’s richest woman. She is accused of siphoning public funds to build her personal wealth to $3.5 billion while the average person in her country lives on less than $2 per day. Shortly after the students’ dossier was submitted to the State Department, dos Santos was officially sanctioned by the U.S. government.Learn more: https://go.nd.edu/FightingtoEndCorruption