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GreeND and the Student Forum Committee for the 2008 Notre Dame Forum will host the Symposium of Undergraduate Research on Green Energy (SURGE) on Wednesday, October 1 at 6 pm in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. Expanding on this year’s Forum topic of Charting a Sustainable Energy Future, SURGE…

By: William G. Gilroy and Nina Welding Office of News and Information In support of its mission to pursue the development of abundant and inexpensive energy sources that do not harm the environment, the University of Notre Dame’s Energy Center has announced that three projects pursuing novel concepts in clean…

By Mary Kaminski, NDAA Staff Writer Whether it’s because they truly believe in bettering the environment, or because being “green” is the newest trend, many of today’s ND students are dedicating themselves to environmental issues. ND Senior Lourdes Long, president of GreeND, hopes the popularity of the issues—as well as…

Joan F. Brennecke, Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of the University of Notre Dame’s Energy Center, has been named the 2008 Julius Stieglitz Lecturer by the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the University of Chicago.

The University of Notre Dame will host the first annual, single day festival devoted to showcasing the best and brightest short films that engage the topic of the Presidential Forum. The 2008 topic is ENERGY: Charting a Sustainable Future. This year’s awards include: * A $1400 MacBook with Final Cut…

“This infusion of internal funds, combined with significant gains in external support, allows our scholars to significantly advance their contributions to the most pressing issues of our times,” said Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s president.

James M. Mazurek, most recently a partner in the Chicago office of the international consulting firm Accenture, has been appointed the first director of the University of Notre Dame’s new Office of Sustainability. He will join the University May 1.

On the surface, high performance computing and greenhouses appear to have little in common. But the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research Computing and the City of South Bend have wedded them in a marriage that is environmentally friendly, economically beneficial and worthy of celebration on Earth Day.

The centerpiece of Earth Week events is the Earth Day festival, which will be held on Tuesday, April 22 at Fieldhouse Mall.

The 2008 Notre Dame Forum, which will focus on sustainable energy, will be held on Wednesday, September 24 in the Joyce Center Arena from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. To date, we have confirmed the participation of the Forum moderator and several panelists.