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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.

Notre Dame’s Class of 2008 voted to make the inaugural gift to the EcoFund, a new fund established to advance environmentally responsible and sustainable practices at Notre Dame.

The University-National Park Energy Partnership Program (UNPEPP) has funded a joint project between the Notre Dame Energy Center and the National Park Service at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore to provide energy related consulting services to the park during this coming summer.

On October 17, 2007, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., announced that Energy would be the topic of the 2008 Notre Dame Forum.