Want to learn more about recovery? The McDonald Center for Student Well-Being and UCC are hosting "Resources for Recovery: Planting Hope." Drop a marble to help us create a community art piece, plant your own wildflower seeds to take home, and grab some free wellness resources and goody bags. Originally published at mcwell.nd.edu.

Join Notre Dame Sustainability for a walk around campus to experience the beauty of Notre Dame. Participants will learn about some of the sustainability initiatives and investments happening at the University that may otherwise go unseen! Only 20 spots are available, so don't wait to sign up! This event is open to the public and will be weather permitting. Please be prepared to wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather. Register today

As part of its Democracy Talks series, the Notre Dame Democracy Initiative will host a fireside chat with Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D- NM) and Governor Spencer Cox (R-UT), moderated by John McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost. The governors will discuss their experiences as Western state governors working together on policy issues like water, housing, and energy, focusing on how Western state pragmatism can serve as a model for the country to overcome toxic polarization. Introductory remarks will be provided by University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. The event is free and open to the public on a first-come basis. About the speakersGovernor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D- NM) is the 32nd governor of the state of New Mexico, and the first Democratic Latina elected governor in U.S. history. She has also served as a county commissioner, state cabinet secretary, and member of Congress. A 12th-generation New Mexican, she is a former chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Western Governors Association.  Governor Spencer Cox (R-UT) is the 18th governor of Utah, a fourth-generation Utahn who has served as a mayor, county commissioner, state legislator, and lieutenant governor. He is the current chair of the Western Governors’ Association and served as chair of the National Governors Association from 2023 to 2024. Originally published at strategicframework.nd.edu.

This workshop will cover the basics of using one citation manager, RefWorks. Citation managers help you keep track of the literature you have found for that research report, paper, or essay. They also help you accurately create endnotes for any report - no more remembering whether it's a comma or a semicolon. This workshop will go over the basics of citation managers, identify some of the more common citation managers focusing on RefWorks, practice importing citations from a few databases, such as Google Scholar and Web of Science and any other database, how to identify when you have missing data in your citation, and how to create endnotes. Before the session — Create a RefWorks account and set up a Google Docs extension. Directions can be found here. Bring your laptop to the session. The session will be interactive. Open toGraduate Students, Undergraduates, Faculty, Staff, Postdocs https://www.library.nd.edu/event/refworks-managing-citations-for-research-2025-09-19/

Get a one-hour sampling of the power of a Notre Dame liberal arts education with the College of Arts & Letters' Crash Course series on home football Fridays! Each event features an A&L professor leading a class session pulled directly from some of the most popular and riveting courses on campus."Writing in the Age of AI" with Nathaniel MyersUniverity Writing Program  Would you use ChatGPT to complete a report for work? Would you use it to write an apology letter to a loved one? What about drafting a toast for a wedding reception? Generative artificial intelligence technologies can produce text that sounds convincingly human, and they hold the promise to make us more efficient and effective writers. But they're also prone to fabricating information — and besides, what do we owe our (human) readers? In this session, attendees will get a glimpse into how this course examines what it means to write with AI across many different situations, provides strategies for incorporating it into the writing process, and encourages us to reflect on why we might choose to use AI (or not) in the first place.  Alumni, friends, prospective students and their parents, and anyone else on campus are welcome.   Visit Crash Course for a complete listing of courses this season.Originally published at al.nd.edu.

Join the Institute for Social Concerns on Friday afternoons on select home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Each lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Geddes Hall Andrews Auditorium. For the weekend of the Purdue game, join us for "POV: Writing as Other" with Viet Thanh Nguyen. Introduction by Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, the Dorothy G. Griffin College Professor of English. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Department of American Studies, the Initiative on Race and Resilience, and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a professor of English, American studies and ethnicity, and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Most recently he has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and le Prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book in France), for The Sympathizer.