(2:41) The fifth annual Walk the Walk Week began with the candlelight prayer service in the Main Building rotunda on January 19, 2020. The event kicked off Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on campus while kicking off a week of events designed to foster dialogue and reflection on making Notre Dame a more inclusive community.

(1:07:13) The fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Luncheon is sponsored by the Office of the President and the Oversight Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. Diane Nash will be the keynote speaker at this luncheon. Nash became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in 1959 while a student at Fisk University. By the time she was 22, Nash was a Freedom Rider and had co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She worked closely with Dr. King and played a pivotal role in the Selma Voting Rights Movement.

(2:44) The University of Notre Dame's Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility (ND-LEEF) is part of the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative and is located in St. Patrick’s County Park in South Bend, Indiana. Led by Diogo Bolster, this globally-unique facility provides a space for environmental research teams to work at an intermediate scale, offering an opportunity to take accurate measurements in a field-like environment that mimics the complexities of the real world.To learn more about the Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility, visit https://environmentalchange.nd.edu/resources/nd-leef.To learn more about research, scholarship, and creative endeavor at the University of Notre Dame, visit https://research.nd.edu.

(2:22) Our Christmas wish is that in every heart there will be a rekindling of wonder, a renewal of hope and a deepening of a love that gives generously. God bless you all this Christmas!

(2:28) When Fr. Joe Carey moved to Ryan Hall as the priest-in-residence, the move came with a kitchen. Eager to find ways to engage in the community he decided to learn how to bake. Now, residents of Ryan Hall gather in Fr. Joe's kitchen to bake cookies, brownies and other treats, and enjoy time together.

(0:47) Notre Dame students studying abroad in Jerusalem have a chance to explore the caves underneath the Church of St. Catherine in Bethlehem. The location is very near the spot where Jesus was born and students in July 2019 sang "Silent Night" to honor their visit.

(2:04) During her life, St. Katharine Drexel founded 63 schools, 50 missions and a college, Xavier University of Louisiana.Today, only one of the 63 schools remains in operation: Saint Michael Indian School on the Navajo Nation. But the school’s president, Dot Teso, hopes to resume what St. Katharine began.Learn more about how Saint Michael Indian School is partnering with the Notre Dame School of Architecture: https://go.nd.edu/BuildOnTradition

(2:01) When Dot Teso, the president of St. Michael Indian School on the Navajo Nation, wanted to expand her campus, she turned to Notre Dame’s School of Architecture. After years of partnering with Notre Dame’s ACE program and American Indian Catholic Schools Network, she had witnessed Notre Dame’s commitment to Catholic education, and she was confident the architecture faculty and students would bring the same commitment to design.She, along with Deswood Etsitty ’93, invited a group of undergraduates to the campus in Arizona to learn about Navajo culture, to meet the community members, and to start designing the campus’ first new building, a gym where the community can congregate.The students are trained in Classicism and were eager to incorporate Navajo art, culture and values into their designs. Several of those designs will serve as the basis of the school’s upcoming construction.Read more: https://go.nd.edu/BuildOnTradition

(1:34:32) “‘Rebuild My Church:’ Crisis and Response,” will examine the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.Since its establishment in 2005, the Notre Dame Forum has featured major talks by leading authorities on issues of importance to the University, the nation, and the larger world, including the challenges and opportunities of globalization, the role of presidential debates, immigration, sustainability and the place of faith in a pluralistic society.

(2:01) In 1882, Notre Dame student Albert Zahm built a rudimentary wind tunnel to study wing and propeller shapes. He went on to launch glider experiments from the roof of LaFortune and to write influential aeronautics papers in the early days of human flight.In 2018, Notre Dame continued its commitment to aeronautics by building the country’s largest quiet Mach 6 wind tunnel. The tunnel, designed by engineering professor Thomas Juliano, will allow researchers to perform experiments on temperature distribution, aerodynamic designs and propulsion systems for hypersonic aircraft. Information gathered could influence everything from faster airplanes to outer space reconnaissance.Read more: https://go.nd.edu/FasterandFarther

(2:30) The University of Notre Dame at Tantur includes the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, a center for Christian and interfaith dialogue founded in 1972, and the Jerusalem Global Gateway, which engages Notre Dame students and faculty with other scholars in the region.Read more: https://go.nd.edu/hillintheHolyLand

(2:22) Notre Dame theology masters students spend the summer in the Holy Land, joining professional archaeologists to dig at key sites including Tel Azekah, referenced in the Bible as the place where David fought Goliath.Read more: https://go.nd.edu/UnearthingThePast

(2:58) Students studying at the University of Notre Dame at Tantur in Jerusalem experience the holy pilgrimage sites but also find so much more. The curriculum is designed to allow students to engage with the people in the region who are living amid religious and political tension and conflict.Read more: https://go.nd.edu/LivingStones

(2:40) The University of Notre Dame's Environmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI), under the direction of Jennifer Tank, brings together faculty from across all seven colleges and schools. ND-ECI fosters globally significant, multidisciplinary research in collaboration with community, government, and private sector partners to produce scholarship that translates to win-win solutions for emerging environmental challenges.To learn more about the Environmental Change Initiative, visit https://environmentalchange.nd.edu.To learn more about research, scholarship, and creative endeavor at the University of Notre Dame, visit https://research.nd.edu.

(2:01) On a dusty plain in Amboseli National Park in Kenya, Notre Dame professor Beth Archie stands watching baboons and taking notes. The data she collects is part of one of the world’s longest-running primate studies in existence.The study has followed the same community of baboons since 1971, and its data can reveal important information about human health. Because studies of this tenure are nearly impossible in humans, the baboons, who share a 94 percent genetic similarity with us, can tell us a lot about ourselves. These days, Archie’s lab seeks to answer questions about how being part of a community impacts health. The results point to improved immune responses, resilience to trauma, and longer lifespans.Read more:

(2:53) Charles and Jill Fischer Provost Thomas G. Burish discusses Notre Dame's partnerships in China as he continued his trip to the country by meeting with business leaders in Hong Kong.

(3:03) Originally installed in 1943, the water fountain at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at Notre Dame received an upgrade in Summer 2019 when the University also replaced the pavers and stair rail around the sacred space.Miklos Simon '91 M.F.A. recreated the fountain out of bronze to replace the original terrazzo concrete that had worn down after almost eight decades of use.Hear more about the restoration of the fountain on the Notre Dame Stories podcast (beginning at 17:47): https://go.nd.edu/NDStoriesS2Ep4

(2:26) Charles and Jill Fischer Provost Thomas G. Burish continued his trip in China by meeting with leaders at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as well as Peking University.

(2:51) On October 21, Notre Dame Charles and Jill Fischer Provost Thomas Burish spoke on the progress he's seen in Notre Dame's partnerships in China over the past 40 years during a visit with the Notre Dame Club of Shanghai.

(7:46) On Friday, October 11, University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., announces Notre Dame as the host of the first U.S. presidential debate in the 2020 election series: https://go.nd.edu/71102c