- Apr 2512:00 AMLeave No Trash Challenge WeekJoin Notre Dame to be the best university for this year's #LeaveNoTrash University Challenge! From April 19 through 25, Notre Dame will compete against Colorado State University and North Carolina State to pick up and record the most trash. The school with the most trash picked up will win prizes from Leave No Trace and All Trails! To partake in the project, the process is simple: Join the CitSci project by creating an account on Citsci.org or download the Leave No Trace app. Join the University of Notre Dame project.Pick up some trash as you walk around the campus or your neighborhood. Any amount of trash, whether it is a couple of pieces or a trash bag full, makes a difference and counts toward the total challenge.Record your cleanup using CitSci. No matter how big or small, tell us the amount of trash and type to help us understand how we can better minimize waste on campus. Win prizes!
- Apr 253:30 PMCEEES Challenges and Innovation Seminar: "Engineering Research Addressing the Climatic, Social, and Economic Challenges Facing the Nation’s Coasts and Estuaries" by Elizabeth Holzenthal '15Join the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences for its Spring 2024 Challenges and Innovation Seminar Series, featuring Elizabeth Holzenthal '15, Research Civil Engineer, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. Abstract More than 40% of the population of the United States lives in a coastal county, despite occupying only 10% of the nation’s land mass (coast.noaa.gov). Additionally, coastal recreation, fisheries, shipping, and other industries generate $9.5T annually. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is tasked with developing innovative and sustainable strategies to protect coastal communities, ecosystems, and their many services from climate change impacts. This talk will provide an overview of active research conducted by the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulic Laboratory (CHL) to support project-level decisions across the nation’s waterways. Two case studies will be presented demonstrating CHL research in navigation and flood risk management mission spaces. In the first, an estuarine scale numerical model is used to quantify how various channel dredging and deepening activities can impact water quality and sediment transport pathways. In the second focusing on coastal beach hazards, the tradeoffs in computational accuracy and speed of various numerical models are discussed.BiographyDr. Elizabeth Holzenthal is a research civil engineer at the USACE Engineer Research Center (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL) in Vicksburg, MS. At CHL, she works on the development of hydrodynamic models of coastal estuaries, inlets, and beaches, with a particular focus on processes that drive sediment transport. She earned her doctoral degree in civil engineering at Oregon State University in where she conducted research on eco-hydrodynamic feedback between waves, currents, and submerged aquatic vegetation in laboratory and numerical studies. Dr. Holzenthal is a graduate of the ND CEEES program (class of 2015) with a B.S. in civil engineering with an environmental concentration. Originally published at energy.nd.edu.
- Apr 254:00 PM"Prison Music, Then & Now": A Conversation with BL Shirelle of FREER RecordsMusician and activist BL Shirelle is the co-executive director of FREER Records, the first non-profit record label for prison-impacted musicians in the United States. In this presentation, Shirelle will discuss the richness of prison music, past and present. She will also share some of her music and discuss elements of her own life and career in a conversation moderated by Jon Bullock, assistant professor of ethnomusicology in the Department of Music. This event is free and not ticketed. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Apr 254:00 PM"Prison Music, Then & Now": A Conversation with BL Shirelle of FREER RecordsMusician and activist BL Shirelle is the co-executive director of FREER Records, the first non-profit record label for prison-impacted musicians in the United States. In this presentation, Shirelle will discuss the richness of prison music, past and present. She will also share some of her music and discuss elements of her own life and career in a conversation moderated by Jon Bullock, assistant professor of ethnomusicology in the Department of Music. This event is free and not ticketed. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Apr 254:00 PM"Prison Music, Then & Now": A Conversation with BL Shirelle of FREER RecordsMusician and activist BL Shirelle is the co-executive director of FREER Records, the first non-profit record label for prison-impacted musicians in the United States. In this presentation, Shirelle will discuss the richness of prison music, past and present. She will also share some of her music and discuss elements of her own life and career in a conversation moderated by Jon Bullock, assistant professor of ethnomusicology in the Department of Music. This event is free and not ticketed. Originally published at music.nd.edu.
- Apr 254:00 PMDiscussion — "Migration and Catholic Social Teaching: Welcome, Protect, Promote, and Integrate"How does the Catholic Church approach global migration? How should a Catholic university approach global migration? Join us for this session highlighting the Catholic Church's teaching on migration, the Church's pastoral concern for migrants, and the priorities of Pope Francis and the Dicastery for Integral Human Development. How should these values and priorities inform Notre Dame’s response to global migration? The University has committed to creating a new initiative on global migration to be housed at the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. This discussion is an important part of the planning process to ensure that Notre Dame will make a unique contribution to the study of migration focused on the dignity of the human person. Co-sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Fr. Fabio Baggio, Dicastery for Integral Human Development Father Baggio is a missionary priest of the Scalabrini Order. Since January 2017, he has served as co-under-secretary of the Migrants & Refugees Section of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD). In 2022, Father Baggio was appointed "Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development." He holds a license in Church history from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. During his early missionary work, Father Baggio worked as a consultant on migration with the Chilean Bishops Conference; he subsequently was director of the Buenos Aires Archdiocese’s Department of Migration. Bishop Mark Seitz, Catholic Diocese of El Paso As a prelate serving a borderland community whose sister city is Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Bishop Seitz has focused his work and heart on the poor and vulnerable, including migrant families and refugees who have made their home in this region or who choose the community as their point of passage. The bishop believes that migrants add inestimable value to the communities where they choose to live and that parishes and community members should welcome them with compassion, love and solidarity. Bishop Seitz he serves as chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration. Moderator: Rev. Daniel Groody, C.S.C., Vice President and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education Father Groody is an internationally recognized theologian with a focus on migration issues. He has authored or edited eight books on poverty, justice, and migration, including Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit and his most recent book, A Theology of Migration: The Bodies of Refugees and the Body of Christ (with a forward by Pope Francis). Groody has worked with U.S. Congress, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the World Council of Churches, the Vatican, and the United Nations on migration and justice issues.Photo: “Angels Unawares” sculpture commemorating migrants and refugees in St. Peter’s Square" by Catholic Church (England and Wales) is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Originally published at klau.nd.edu.