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Volume 52, Issue 1 | Friday, august 18, 2017 | ndsmcobserver.com
Newly-constructed Jenkins Hall opens up a world of possibilities for R. Scott Appleby, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the new Keough School of Global Affairs. Jenkins Hall, which will be the home of the newly-opened school, provides opportunities for students to get further engaged in their study of international politics, thanks to a new “mediation room,” which will allow students and faculty to observe diplomacy in action, Appleby said. “It’s a terrific educational facility that can double as a traditional classroom,” he said. “We intend to make the mediation room available to diplomats and mediators who are engaged in negotiating a peace agreement or settlement to end a conflict.” The completion of Jenkins Hall and its attached sister hall, Nanovic Hall, along
Jenkins Hall and Nanovic Hall Perhaps the most iconic view of Notre Dame — more so than even those of Touchdown Jesus, the Grotto or Notre Dame Stadium — is the one visitors, students and faculty alike get of the Golden Dome when driving down Notre Dame Avenue. This year, when those taking in the view look to their right, they will get a glimpse of the University’s two newest academic halls, both housed in the same building: Nanovic and Jenkins Halls. Construction on this 185,000 square-foot building began June 1, 2015 and cost $72 million. Jenkins and Nanovic Hall will serve as a new focal point for
the humanities at Notre Dame, with Jenkins Hall hosting the Keough School for Global Affairs, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development, while Nanovic Hall will be home to the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the departments of Economics, Political Science and Sociology. Monica Caro, the director of operations at the Nanovic Institute, said the building will help bring together many of the disconnected segments of the humanities at Notre Dame. “It will bring in greater proximity to the arts corridor, which is developing with the Debartolo Center for the Performing Arts [and] the new architecture building,” she said. “Because much of our
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with the completion Campus Crossroads Project — both of which will open before or during the 2017-18 school year — represent two of the culmination of two of the biggest construction projects in the University’s history.
programming is incorporating the arts and humanities, so having those buildings in proximity and being closer to all of this activity is a wonderful activity for the institute and to be closer to the students at the core of the mission.” One of the central congregation points in the new building will be a forum, Appleby said. “[It’s] capable of seating 175 to 200 guests,” he said. “The forum is an elegant and welcoming space in which to host distinguished speakers and special events.” Appleby said one of the key aspects of the new building was the integration labs which will help students engage in “design thinking, creating solutions to real-world problems” for organizations like Catholic Relief Services and Partners in Health. “Students work with that client for a year, researching the topic, testing interdisciplinary solutions in the I-Lab and eventually going into the field
to engage the people on the ground,” Appleby said. “It’s an exciting venture into researchbased problem solving at a professional level.”
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Campus Crossroads When students walk into the first football game this year, they will notice quite a few changes to Notre Dame Stadium. In addition to a new video board, the stadium has a redesigned concourse with a new art-deco-inspired design and newly-installed benches. These additions to the stadium are part of the University’s larger Campus Crossroads project, meant to establish the stadium as the heart of campus by making it a space to congregate for students and faculty alike. The project — which broke ground on Nov. 19, 2014 and cost $750 million — is the largest building project in the University’s history and will contain 750,000 square feet of see BUILDINGS PAGE 9