- 4:20How Notre Dame ecologists are matching NASA images with field data to measure forest healthNotre Dame researchers spent the summer trekking through the Wisconsin forest taking samples from hundreds of tagged trees. They're working to match what can be seen in a single pixel from the International Space Station with the actual measurements taken on the ground.Compared to hand-measuring each tree in a land plot, the resulting models will mark a major leap forward in predicting forest health and potential wildfires.Learn more: https://go.nd.edu/8491fb
- 2:05Gehrig Smalstig, Class of 2024Gehrig Smalstig knows he wants to be in the business side of the sports world. This led him to seek out an internship with a global brand in the world’s most popular sport: Chelsea FC of the Premier League. Gehrig is analyzing data to present a return-on-investment case for potential partnerships for the club while taking in the full Chelsea experience.
- 2:33Theo Rauch, Class of 2024Theo Rauch interned at Cleveland Clinic London, gaining a close-up view of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), a single-payer system that operates quite differently than the US model. As Brian Donley ’86, former Cleveland Clinic London CEO, says, the goal is to merge the best of the UK’s system with the best of the US structure. Theo is helping in that endeavor primarily by focusing on the financial aspects of the health care industry.
- 2:27Bupe Lughano Kabaghe, Class of 2024Bupe Lughano Kabaghe aspires to the top political job in her native Zambia. To gain experience in the parliamentary system, she interned at the House of Commons in the fall of 2022. What she couldn’t plan for was the up-and-down world of British politics during that time. The UK had three prime ministers in the course of about six weeks, which gave Bupe the opportunity to learn about the necessity of maintaining a functioning government even during times of massive change.
- 2:18MacKenzie Isaac, Rhodes ScholarMacKenzie Isaac '20 is Notre Dame’s most recent Rhodes Scholar. She’s studying the effects of the practice of redlining in the health care system. The term “redlining” is synonymous with any kind of racial discrimination, but stems from a period when government maps drew literal red lines around predominantly Black neighborhoods and deemed them risky investments. MacKenzie is focused especially on her hometown of Indianapolis and says that studying the topic in the UK is challenging her paradigm of what it means to be healthy in the American sense of the word.
- 17:49The United Way helps employees give backFaculty and staff of the University of Notre Dame are critical to the success of the United Way in our community. In fact, 15% of all United Way donations raised in St. Joseph County come from University colleagues by way of the employee campaign, running this year from Monday, October 9 through Friday, December 1.Gwen O’Brien, director of community relations for the University of Notre Dame, and Lauren Symth, vice president of mission advancement for the United Way of St. Joseph County, talk to Jenna Liberto about why giving is so important, who your donations benefit, and how both the United Way and the University are making it easy to make an impact.Visit unitedway.nd.edu (https://unitedway.nd.edu/) to learn more.
- 2:01Fighting for Breast Cancer PatientsThe breast cancer diagnosis was scary for Jennifer Ehren ‘99, but what was worse was the chemotherapy that rendered her sicker than doctors had ever seen.Because most chemotherapy patients don’t know until after their treatment if it was successful, her husband, Tom O’Sullivan, an associate professor of electrical engineering, wondered if there was a safe, easy, and inexpensive way to monitor the tumor during treatment. When one didn’t exist, he created it.The result is NearWave, a handheld device that uses light to monitor changes in a tumor. NearWave allows doctors to track whether a woman will respond to a chemotherapy regimen.Learn more: https://go.nd.edu/95757f
- 19:04The connection between dreams and work productivityWe know that a good night’s sleep can help you at work…but what role do dreams play in your 9-to-5? We sat down with Casher Belinda, assistant professor for management at the Mendoza College of Business, to discuss a new study (https://news.nd.edu/news/enter-sandman-study-shows-dreams-spill-over-into-the-workplace-and-can-be-channeled-for-productivity/) that shows how the emotions we experience at night can help us during the day.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (https://megaphone.fm/adchoices)
- 1:01Still fightingThe beloved What Would You Fight For series celebrates 100 episodes, and Notre Dame continues its fight to improve the lives of others
- 53:062023 Faculty AddressUniversity of Notre Dame president Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., delivers his annual address to the faculty on September 5, 2023.The address celebrated the University of Notre Dame’s admission into the Association of American Universities and marked the launch of a new strategic framework that will guide Notre Dame for the next decade.
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