Consider This - Simplifying the COVID-19 Conversation, Part 6: Wastewater Testing

12/14/20 • 58 min

Some are purporting that sewage surveillance is the secret weapon to keeping college campuses open. This session will unpack what wastewater water testing is, what it detects, how it works, and what it can tell us. Plus, what is happening regarding sewage surveillance on the Notre Dame campus will be highlighted.

Featured Speakers:

Heidi Beidinger-Burnett, Director, Eck Institute for Global Health Masters Program; Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame; President of the St. Joseph County Board of Health
Mary Ann McDowell, PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame
Kyle Bibby, Associate Professor and Wanzek Collegiate Chair, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame

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Episode Topic: Wastewater Testing

Featured Speakers:

Heidi Beidinger-Burnett, Director, Eck Institute for Global Health Masters Program; Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame; President of the St. Joseph County Board of Health
Mary Ann McDowell, PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame
Kyle Bibby, Associate Professor and Wanzek Collegiate Chair, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/a8757b.

This podcast is a part of the Consider This! ThinkND Series titled “Consider This! Simplifying the COVID-19 Conversation”.

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Leading People in an Ever-Changing World, Part 3: Building a Winning Team

Episode Topic: Building a Winning Team

During the third session of “Inspiring Conversations,” we will focus on the topic “Building a Winning Team” through a conversation with Muffet McGraw, former Karen & Kevin Keyes Family Notre Dame women’s basketball head coach. Over 33 seasons in South Bend, she hoisted the NCAA national championship trophy twice in 2001 and 2018 - becoming the sixth different women’s basketball head coach to win multiple NCAA titles. The conversation will explore topics such as team building, women in leadership, and life transitions. It will also allow the audience to engage in a meaningful question and answer session directly with Muffet McGraw.

Featured Speakers:

Muffet McGraw, Former Karen & Kevin Keyes Family Notre Dame Women’s Basketball Head Coach, University of Notre Dame
Chris Stevens, Co-Founding Director, Inspired Leadership Initiative; Professor, University of Notre Dame

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An Irish Christmas at Kylemore, Part 3: Sacred Music for Advent and Christmas: From Gregorian Chant to Jazz Improvisation

Episode Topic: Week 3: Sacred Music for Advent and Christmas: From Gregorian Chant to Jazz Improvisation

Join Professor Mark Doerries, Director of the Notre Dame Children's Choir and Director of Graduate Studies for Sacred Music at Notre Dame, a graduate degree program that trains tomorrow's vocalists, organists, and conductors to reinvigorate music in the church, concert hall, and stage. In 2015, Doerries commissioned Grammy award-winning jazz pianist J.J. Wright ’14 M.S.M., ’17 D.M.A. to compose a work for Advent for children's voices, graduate vocal soloists, orchestra, and jazz trio. The resulting work, "O Emmanuel," fuses historic genres of Catholic sacred music, chant, carols, and classical music with jazz improvisation. Ten-time Grammy winner and jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval joined the choirs and vocalists of Sacred Music at Notre Dame in 2018 for a new album of classic Christmas carols with a jazz twist.

Featured Speakers:

Mark Doerries, Director of the Notre Dame Children's Choir and Director of Graduate Studies for Sacred Music, University of Notre Dame
J.J. Wright, Jazz Pianist and the Director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir, University of Notre Dame
Lisa Caulfield, Director of the Notre Dame Global Center at Kylemore Abbey, University of Notre Dame

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This podcast is a part of the Kylemore Book Club ThinkND Series titled “An Irish Christmas at Kylemore”.

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