Shop for unique pieces created by talented artists such as Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, Coleton Lunt, Hans Miles, Norah Amstutz, and many more. Payment options include cash, check, or credit card. Just so you know, the sale will take place in front of Riley Hall unless there is unfavorable weather; then, you can find the sale inside at 122 Riley Hall. Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.

"A Journey Towards Human-centered AI" is presented by Ahmed Abbasi, the Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at the Mendoza College of Business. Ahmed's lecture is part of the University Chair Public Lecture Series that was launched in fall 2023 to recognize the importance of the research contributions of Mendoza's faculty. The series features Mendoza faculty who have been designated as University chairs — Notre Dame’s highest recognition of the impact of a faculty member’s research. The event is an opportunity to hear about their work and career, and to celebrate together how we are growing the good in business to contribute to human flourishing. Ahmed is the co-director of the Human-centered Analytics Lab (HAL), which seeks to better understand the human condition in the context of digital lives. He also serves as the academic director of the Ph.D. Program in Analytics. His research interests are related to text and predictive analytics, and include subjects such as the ethical use of generative AI. A prolific researcher with more than 9,300 citations, he has published more than 100 articles in journals and conferences, including over 40 articles in top-tier outlets such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Ahmed’s research has received over a dozen individual and best paper awards. Recent research themes include analytics for social good, the role of AI in supporting public health, and the use of fair machine learning to better understand the human condition for enhanced decision making and policy outcomes. Ahmed also has generously served the profession in his roles as senior or associate editor for top journals such as INFORMS, ACM, IEEE, and AIS, having authored over 350 editorial reports and guest-edited special issues on various AI-related topics such as the role of the institutional press in the digital age, disaster response management, healthcare analytics, and trustworthy AI. His work has been funded by more than 15 grants from the National Science Foundation and industry partners such as Microsoft, eBay, Deloitte, and Oracle. Ahmed is a recipient of the IEEE Technical Achievement Award, INFORMS Design Science Award, and IBM Faculty Award. He also served as chair of the INFORMS College on AI. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public in Jordan Auditorium at the Mendoza College of Business. The event begins at 3pm. No registration required.

The intimate vocal ensemble, led by Dan Stowe, will perform an all-Bach program. This event is free and not ticketed.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in a decade is a hand-drawn, original story he wrote and directed that won him another Oscar for Best Animated Feature. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family's estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito's new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself. GET TICKETS  

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in a decade is a hand-drawn, original story he wrote and directed that won him another Oscar for Best Animated Feature. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family's estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito's new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself. GET TICKETS

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in a decade is a hand-drawn, original story he wrote and directed that won him another Oscar for Best Animated Feature. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family's estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito's new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself. GET TICKETS

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in a decade is a hand-drawn, original story he wrote and directed that won him another Oscar for Best Animated Feature. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family's estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito's new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself. GET TICKETS  

The Sunday Family Films series begins with a silent-era classic, set to be live-scored. Willie Canfield, Jr. (Buster Keaton) returns home from college, and reunites with his steamboat captain father, in a Mississippi River town. Apart for many years, Canfield père is shocked by his son's fancified appearance, which is suited for a library, not a steamboat. Still, the elder Canfield is happy to have found an ally to help him compete with fellow riverboat owner, John James King (Tom McGuire). Willie finds himself falling for King's daughter, Mary (Marion Byron), but he has more pressing concerns when the winds of fortune shift, and his father is arrested, leading to Keaton doing an array of Keaton-esque stunts. GET TICKETS

The annual Spelling Bee Explosion makes a big move to DPAC's big stage! Youths from South Bend-area middle schools compete for $2,500 in prizes and pride in the citywide academic event of the spring. The spelling bee, emceed by WNDU's Joshua Short, is designed to inspire a love for words, develop character, encourage lifelong learning, and celebrate academic achievement. Come to see community leaders as judges and cheer on the competitors while enjoying appearances by Roderick "Rhetorik" Parchman, Judah Explosion Dance Team, and Gentlemen & Scholars' Young Scholars. This event is from the hearts and minds behind the mentorship nonprofit Gentlemen & Scholars, Inc., the organization's scholarship awards to deserving South Bend students total over $25,000 since founding the event. GET TICKETS

Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film in a decade is a hand-drawn, original story he wrote and directed that won him another Oscar for Best Animated Feature. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family's estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito's new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself. GET TICKETS  

The half-day Midwest Imaging & Microanalysis Workshop will include lectures from leading microscopists, scientists, and university affiliates. New microscopy trends and analysis tools will be featured through various lectures provided by stakeholders of the NDIIF as well as a discussion of future directions of Imaging Capabilities at the University of Notre Dame. An Imaging Award session with cash prizes will be held as well. Participation is free, but a reservation is requested. Register to attend here. Download 2024 Midwest Microscopy and Microanalysis Workshop Agenda [PDF, 783k] Originally published at imaging.nd.edu.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Reilly Lectureship RecipientREILLY LECTURESHIP RECIPIENT Peptide surfactants (PEPS) for the Green Separation of Rare Earth Elements We have been developing functional peptide surfactant (PEPS) to meet an urgent societal need. Rare earth elements (REEs) are crucial to modern technologies. (Read more...)          

https://youtube.com/live/Pfb_Buf-kNg?feature=share Join the Notre Dame Children's Liturgical Choir for Vespers at Saint Mary's Church of Our Lady of Loretto in person or online.   Originally published at sma.nd.edu.

Join the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering for the Reilly Award Seminar Lecture, featuring Kathleen J. Stebe, the Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. AbstractNematic liquid crystals (NLCs) are highly non-linear fluids that have elastic responses that resist nematogen rearrangement and high-energy defect sites at which nematogen order is lost. Generally, the field of nematic colloids seeks to develop control over these elastic responses and defect structures to tailor colloidal interactions. We have been studying ferromagnetic disk colloids rotated by an in-plane magnetic field in nematic liquid crystals. The disk diameter and rotation rate are sufficiently slow that colloid inertia is negligible. In Newtonian fluids, these colloids rotate without translation. However, in NLC, the colloids’ anisotropic defect structure and the NLC’s elastic response generate broken symmetries that propel colloid translation. For patchy, rough colloids, a defect loop which forms on the disk undergoes periodic defect pinning, release, and contraction.This periodic defect motion generates a swim stroke that powers colloidal swimming. Changes in defect configuration with rotation rate provide a steering mechanism. In addition to this swimming motion, colloid shape and surface chemistry generate long-ranged emergent interactions with neighboring passive colloids in quasi-static settings. Furthermore, the non-linear response of the nematic fluid host allows pair interactions among rotating disks that differ strikingly in range and form from their static counterparts. These interactions provide a rich toolkit for reconfigurable materials assembly and open important fundamental questions regarding swimming at low Reynolds number in NLC. Biography Kathleen J. Stebe is the Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at the City College of New York, she received a B.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the Levich Institute advised by Charles Maldarelli. After a post-doctoral year in Compiegne, France under the guidance of Dominique Barthes-Biesel, she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where she became professor and served as the department chair. Thereafter, she joined the University of Pennsylvania, where she served in various administrative capacities including department chair and deputy dean. She has been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, and as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Radcliffe Institute. Kathleen is active in APS Division of Soft Matter Physics, and the ACS Division of Colloids and Surfaces, as well as the AIChE. Her research focuses on directed assembly in soft matter and at fluid interfaces, with an emphasis on confinement, geometry, and emergent structures in far from equilibrium settings for novel functional materials.   Originally published at energy.nd.edu.

Register to attend via Zoom The Kroc Institute’s eighth comprehensive report, covering the period from December 2022 through November 2023, provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the status of peace accord implementation; presents an international comparative analysis to enrich dialogue around this process; highlights milestones achieved and obstacles faced during the seventh year of implementation; and identifies key opportunities for continuing to advance toward comprehensive peace accord implementation. The Colombian Peace Accord gives the Kroc Institute primary responsibility for technical support and monitoring of accord implementation through the Peace Accords Matrix’s (PAM) Barometer Initiative. Understanding the Accord as an integral and comprehensive text, the Kroc Institute has monitored the implementation of 578 stipulations since 2016, with special attention to the implementation of intersectional approaches. Get a first look at the latest report and its independent, impartial, and academically-rigorous information by joining us for an interactive launch event highlighting the findings from this latest report. Register to attend via Zoom Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

Three extraordinary sopranos — Aleksandra Kurzak, Eleonora Buratto, and Asmik Grigorian (in her highly anticipated Met debut) — tackle the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini's devastating tragedy. Tenors Matthew Polenzani and Jonathan Tetelman co-star as the callous American naval officer Pinkerton, whose betrayal destroys her. Mezzo-sopranos Elizabeth DeShong and Eve Gigliotti share the role of the steadfast maid Suzuki, and baritone Davide Luciano and Lucas Meachem are the American consul Sharpless. Acclaimed maestro Xian Zhang makes her Met debut conducting Anthony Minghella's vivid production. GET TICKETS  

The annual Fischoff Chamber Music Competition is the largest and longest-running chamber music competition in the nation. The finest and most talented young musicians from around the globe gather each year on the campus of the University of Notre Dame for a weekend full of truly breathtaking performances culminating in a Gold Medal Concert. Come and enjoy world-class music for an hour or the entire weekend. This event is free and open to the public. Saturday and Sunday will be livestreamed on www.fischoff.org. NOT TICKETED Quarterfinals: Friday, May 10, 2024: 8am - 8:30pmSemifinals: Saturday, May 11, 2024: 8:30am - 7:30pmFinals & Gold Medal Concert: Sunday, May 12, 2024: 10am - 5pmThe Gold Medal Concert is on Sunday from 4pm - 5pm.

Register here Greg Jones, president of Belmont University, and Clayton Spencer, former president of Bates College, will discuss the ways higher education can promote purpose. Jones and Spencer each wrote articles on purpose for the Spring 2024 issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing. They will reflect on their own roles and articles as well as other pieces from this issue. There will be time for audience questions. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum housed at the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Learn more: virtuesvocations.org

Evoking the golden era of the Borscht Belt, this affectionate and nostalgic homage vibrantly showcases the humor, heritage, and spirit of the Jewish-American saga at the iconic Catskills summer resorts. Over the 20th century, the mountains north of New York City became lively havens for Jewish families, both working-class and affluent, famed for lavish buffets and nightclubs that fostered rising comic and musical talent. Entertaining anecdotes from performers, waiters, and resort guests, plus a wealth of archival material, evoke the vintage spirit of these iconic retreats, symbols of Yiddishkeit heritage and refuges from antisemitism. This delightful time capsule highlights the Catskills as a cultural touchstone and a crucible of the Jewish-American saga. GET TICKETS  

This provocative, richly staged period drama set in 19th-century Italy, and based on true events, recounts the abduction and forced Christian conversion of a Jewish boy by Papal decree, igniting global outrage. In 1858 Bologna, young Edgardo is taken from his family and sent to Rome to become Catholic. Despite his parents' desperate pleas and public furor, Pope Pius IX stands firm. The struggle to reclaim their son echoes Italy's burgeoning nationalism and challenges the Vatican's power. Directed by the legendary Marco Bellocchio, this epic artfully contrasts clashes of faith with a nation teetering on revolution. GET TICKETS