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Twenty-five panels. Forty-nine tiles each. A total of 1,225 student-made tiles come together to form one 105” x 105” artwork to show Notre Dame.In this collaborative project at the University of Notre Dame, the Sister Thea Bowman Center partnered with the Moreau First-year Seminar invited students to work alongside a visiting artist to create individual panels that reflect who they are in this moment of their lives. Using carbon paper to trace a shared design, each student added personal symbols of identity, culture, faith, home, and memory.Learn more about the Sr. Thea Bowman Center: https://bowmancenter.nd.edu/ Learn more about the Moreau Seminar: https://moreaufirstyear.nd.edu/ Learn more about Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman: https://youtu.be/6QO6NHF-L2k

What can extreme cold teach us about the human body—and ourselves?In this episode, Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory and anthropologist Cara Ocobock takes listeners inside her research on human adaptation, from subzero fieldwork in Finland with reindeer herders to lab studies on metabolism, cold exposure, and hunting unicorns.She also unpacks popular cold-plunge trends, what science actually says about them, and how lessons from our ancestors can help us understand resilience, wellness, and the remarkable ways humans have survived across time.Show links: • Episode page (https://fightingfor.nd.edu/podcast/cold-plunges-and-unicorns/) • The Winter Olympics, equality in sports, and exercising in the cold (https://fightingfor.nd.edu/podcast/the-winter-olympics-equality-in-sports-and-exercising-in-the-cold/) • ‘Woman the hunter’: Studies aim to correct history (https://news.nd.edu/news/woman-the-hunter-studies-aim-to-correct-history/) • Women’s higher resting metabolic rates in cold environments could be thyroid requirements for pregnancy, researcher says (https://news.nd.edu/news/womens-higher-resting-metabolic-rates-in-cold-environments-could-be-thyroid-requirements-for-pregnancy-researcher-says/)

Gary, Indiana, is a city with deep roots and a powerful story of resilience. Once a thriving steel town, Gary has faced decades of economic decline—but today, community leaders and the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture are working together to rebuild its downtown and restore opportunity.Through Notre Dame’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative, the city is developing a plan to revive its downtown, honor its history, and create a stronger future for residents. With community input and thoughtful urban design, Gary is charting a path toward social and economic renewal.

When Notre Dame student-athlete Daniel Boateng ’26 showed exceptional promise on the soccer field, his mother and grandmother reminded him to never lose sight of the power of education. Now a midfielder for the Fighting Irish, Daniel is helping children in his native Ghana access the same opportunities that changed his life.Through his nonprofit Changing Lives GH, founded with two Notre Dame teammates, Daniel is sponsoring 100 students who might otherwise never attend school and dreaming of a future where every child in Ghana can learn for free.Learn more: https://go.nd.edu/fighting-to-educate-children-in-ghana