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Robinson Community Learning Center to celebrate 11th anniversary
Brittany Collins Date: February 16, 2012
The Robinson Community Learning Center (RCLC) will celebrate its 11th anniversary from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17 (Friday).
Guest speakers at the celebration will be Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame; South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg; and Jill Donnelly, representing her husband, U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly.
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Nobel Prize winner in physics to speak at Notre Dame
Marissa Gebhard Date: February 16, 2012
Brian Schmidt, a winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, will deliver a public lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 (Monday) in Room 101 of the Jordan Hall of Science at the University of Notre Dame. The talk, titled “The Accelerating Universe,” is part of the John A. Lynch Lecture Series coordinated by the Department of Physics and is free and open to the public.
Schmidt was awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter for their research in the 1990s that revealed the expansion of the universe is accelerating. An accelerating expansion implies that most of the universe is made of a mysterious dark energy.
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Nanovic Institute awards $10,000 Laura Shannon Prize to 'The Hebrew Republic'
Jennifer Lechtanski Date: February 15, 2012
The University of Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies has awarded the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies to Eric Nelson for his book “The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought” (Harvard University Press).
The $10,000 Laura Shannon Prize is presented annually to the author of the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole, and rotates between the humanities and history and social sciences. This is the second award for the humanities, which judged nominated books published in 2009 and 2010.
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The Career Center hosted the 2012 Winter Career and Internship Fair and Diversity Reception on Wednesday, February 1. A total of 128 corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations attended this year’s fair, along with more than 1500 students from all colleges and class years.
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Political scientist Michael Zuckert wins lifetime achievement award
College of Arts and Letters
Notre Dame political scientist Michael Zuckert has been awarded the 2011 Jack Miller Center (JMC) Chairman’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Academic Excellence.
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Andrew Serazin, senior program officer for global health discovery at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business as part of the 2012 Ten Years Hence lecture series.
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