Margaret Fosmoe

This is a photo of an electrostatic particle accelerator in use in the 1940s in the basement of Notre Dame's Science Hall -- which today is LaFortune Student Center.

Bernie, Oppie and the Atom Bomb | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame “Are we saying that there’s a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world?” asks General Leslie Groves, the officer in charge of the Manhattan Project, in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuste...

Longtime Notre Dame physicist Bernard Waldman worked on the Manhattan Project. On Aug. 6, 1945, when Little Boy, a uranium bomb, was dropped on Hiroshima, Waldman was there, observing the blast from a plane called Necessary Evil.

By Brett Beasley ’22MTS:

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As a boy, Professor Eugene Henry ’54, ’55M.S., learned to take apart and reassemble radios and clocks, a gift he parlayed into part-time work repairing electronics for neighbors and later a career in electrical engineering and computer science.

Deaths in the Family:
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A Momentous Rush to Judgment | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame How a neophyte President, isolated from dissenters, decided just to nuke ’em and get it over with.

In a handwritten journal of the time, Truman expressed far more concern about the impact of his decision than he ever disclosed elsewhere. ‘‘We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world,” he wrote in July 1945.

A magazine classic from 1985:

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The Third Nuclear Age | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame Could a new arms race reverse the reduction in weapons? A group of Kroc graduates is among those working to defuse the threat.

We are in what is often referred to as “the third nuclear age,” following the Cold War & relaxed tensions and arms reduction in the post-Soviet period.
A group of Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies graduates is among those working to defuse the threat.

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On War and Peace: The Role of a University in the 21st Century Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C. acts as the executive head of the University and is responsible for the general direction of its affairs.

Full text of Fr. Dowd's remarks:

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U. of Notre Dame President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, CSC, traveled to Japan this week as part of a “Pilgrimage of Peace,” to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Dowd's state on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima:
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Floating Museum's 'For Mecca' Honors Iconic Bronzeville Housing Complex Mecca Flats, once home to Black luminaries like Muddy Waters and Katherine Dunham, is the subject of a traveling exhibit opening Friday at Illinois Tech's Crown Hall.

One of the two architects who designed Mecca Flats, a lost architectural masterpiece in Chicago, was Willoughby J. Edbrooke -- who also designed the University of Notre Dame's Main Building.

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Here's a direct link to the database:

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Drawing on the Past | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame Cutting-edge technology and time-tested techniques inform historic preservation and instruct students in building anew.

The Sweet Auburn neighborhood's storied Odd Fellows Building has weathered fires, tornadoes, Jim Crow — even the highway that split Atlanta in two. Now, a Notre Dame-trained architectural preservationist is helping chart its next chapter.

By John Nagy ’00M.A.:

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The CampaignView database was built by collecting campaign materials in real time, just before each state’s primary election, to ensure that the messages of candidates were accurately captured as they were delivered to voters during each election cycle.

A new open-access database called CampaignView, created by researchers at the University of Notre Dame, offers a powerful tool to understand congressional elections:

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Notre Dame Magazine is accepting entries for its 13th annual Young Alumni Essay Contest.
The contest is open to alumni who earned an ND bachelor’s degree in the years 2016 through 2025.
Deadline for submissions is midnight September 8.

Get writing!
Full details here:
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Professor John Poirier '54 was founder and director of Gamma Ray Astrophysics at Notre Dame (Project GRAND), a cosmic ray observatory created on the north edge of campus in the late 1980s.
He died April 7 at age 92.

Deaths in the Family:
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Today's view

It's only August 4!

#NotreDame #Yikes

Ernie Pyle at Indiana University: College helped prepare storyteller for career as war correspondent - Ernie Pyle Bloomington will be the site of a special National Ernie Pyle Day celebration on Aug. 3. A number of speakers will focus on Pyle’s service reporting the lives of U.S. troops during World War II. What ...

During his time @IUBloomington, Ernie Pyle was a campus leader, a student manager of the football team, member of the Board of Aeons and editor of @idsnews. His nickname was Red, a nod to his hair color. Aug. 3 marks the 125th anniversary of his birthday.
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Here's Lundberg's new piece about how the rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century created the first true attention economy -- an endless churn of spectacle and sensation that continues in new media today. (paywall):

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Jake Lundberg --formerly a teaching professor and director of the undergraduate history program at Notre Dame -- has been hired by The Atlantic as a staff writer, first in-house historian and archivist:

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@theatlantic.com

Photo of the Week: Getting the Scoop

By Matt Cashore '94

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ND grads:
Reminder that TODAY (Aug. 1) IS THE DEADLINE to submit your memories, stories, confessions, etc. about your college gameday experiences!
Details below.

For Notre Dame political science professor Peter Walshe -- born in South Africa -- working to end apartheid in his home country was for years a central focus of his life.
He died March 9 at age 91.

Deaths in the Family:

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Noreen Deane-Moran ’64MAT, ’68M.A., ’82Ph.D. was a triple Domer who taught at Notre Dame for 40 years.
She died February 11 at age 83.

Deaths in the Family:

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Today’s view

— on St. Joseph Lake 🐢

Notre Dame in 2025-26 will celebrate 50 years of women's varsity athletics.
A highlighted celebration will take place on campus the weekend of September 19-21.

Notre Dame Athletics Launches Yearlong Celebration of Women's Sports:

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#CheerHerName

Moreau Seminary at Notre Dame: Then and Now

A Discerning Renewal:
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To prevent deliveries from disappearing from porches, Napoleon Suarez ’04 thinks outside the box.

Stoops to Conquer
By Abigail Pesta '91:

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The statute of limitations has long expired, so these ND alums didn't hesitate to spill their stories.
From the Notre Dame Magazine summer issue:

Tales Out of School . . . Campus Pranks

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Hey, Domers: Do you have fond memories of Notre Dame gamedays or campus snowball fights?
Tell us about it!

Deadline for gameday reflections is Aug. 1.

Deadline for snowball fight essays is Nov. 3.

Details here:

Twenty-two Notre Dame students selected for 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Student Program:

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