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Sister Mary Aquinas, OSF

Notre Dame celebrates 40 years of coeducation this fall.  While the women who arrived in 1972 were the first class to matriculate in the regular academic year, women had been earning bachelors’, masters’, and doctorate degrees since 1917 through the … Continue reading

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Atom Smashers at Notre Dame

If you’ve been around campus lately, you may have noticed the construction around Nieuwland Science Hall.  Notre Dame is currently in the process of installing a new nuclear particle accelerator.  Such research has been a part of Notre Dame’s history … Continue reading

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The Issue of the Atomic Bomb

Since the development of the atomic bomb and for centuries yet to come, historians, philosophers, scientists, and everyone in between have and will debate the morality of the use of the atomic weapons.  Atomic bomb blast over Nagaski, Japan, 1945/0809 … Continue reading

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When It’s Time to Change, You’ve Got to Rearrange

The building now known as Crowley Hall originally housed the Institute of Technology, which comprised of the following departments:  Theoretical and Experimental Engineering, Practical Mechanics, and Machine Drawing and Design.  The University Architect’s Building Inventory lists Fr. John Zahm, CSC, … Continue reading

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Let There Be Light

“Sophocles by the electric light seems an anachronism” As part of the 1882 Commencement exercises, Washington Hall was formally dedicated with a theatrical performance of Œdipus Tyrannus, completely in Greek, under electrical lights.  This is one of the earliest references … Continue reading

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Wireless Transmission at Notre Dame

In April 1899, Professor Jerome Greene and his assistants were experimenting with wireless telegraphy.  Greene is thought to be the first to send wireless transmissions in America and the first to use homemade apparatuses, as opposed to using foreign-made equipment.  … Continue reading

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