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and remains in critical condition as of sunday afternoon.

Fr. Pete mccormick, director of campus ministry, began the prayer service by addressing the tragic nature of espinel and rojas’ deaths.

“There is not a single one of us who planned to be here this night with heavy hearts,” he said. “There’s not a single one of us that could have anticipated what this day and how this day was to unfold.” mccormick thanked attendees for coming to the prayer service.

“When a situation with such

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The third victim, sophomore in critical condition. University President Fr. John Jenkins was at the location of the accident.

The crash involving the University students occurred around 4 a.m. a Toyota sienna minivan struck the three students, and continued down the road after hitting the pedestrians before crashing into a house

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conTinUed From PaGe 1 view of the chemical processes that happen inside of cells.

“all good science kind of starts with some need or challenge that you’re thinking we started with kind of the fundamental science and physics and derivations and theory and developed, this little missing picture about how it is supposed to work if we were to use tragedy arises, this is how the notre dame family responds,” he said. “We come together with heavy hearts … with a belief that a God who transforms all things will transform even this.”

University President Fr. John Jenkins then offered the opening prayer to the service. Jenkins said the deaths of espinel and rojas leave many people reeling for answers and that faith can provide some comfort in this time.

“We don’t come for answers,” Jenkins said. “We come simply to let God’s grace begin to work in our hearts. The first installment of that grace is that we’re here together.” of ironwood. There are no sidewalks in the area.

The driver was identified tained minor injuries, remained on the scene and cooperated with the police. The passenger in ind. Tannir was uninjured in the crash.

Following the initial crash, a these techniques.” ways to create 3-d super resolution images using normal microscopes people have in their labs, he said. Then he started applying physics, he said.

“We kept looking at how you can use this simple approach, one that anyone can use with said. “and if you tweak it a little bit, you can actually extract out some really quantitative chemical information in addition to just the pictures.”

Fr. Joe corpora, who serves as the chaplain for Latino students at the University, began his message in spanish.

“aunque todos nuestros hermanos y hermanas de américa Latina hablan inglés perfectamente bien, quiero decir una palabra de español ahora.”

“Though all of our brothers and sisters from Latin america speak english perfectly well, i want to say a few words in spanish now,” he said. corpora said the deaths of espinel and rojas bring a kind of pain that words cannot describe.

“our minds can begin to understand what happened, but our hearts and our spirits cannot take and remained at the scene. University would host a prayer cession to the Grotto. The service was also streamed online.

“Please wear a mask and practice physical distancing as we ilies and all who loved them,” she said in the email. community offering support to the University.

They ended up developing a technique called desos, which is a combination of two techniques called blind deconvolution and stepwise optical saturation. desos can produce highresolution images of cellular processes inside the cells of living organisms – not just cells in to create videos of those processes, also called 4-d images.

“We found that there was a whole direction of experiments and things that people really it in,” he said. “it is too much too sad, too tragic, too big for us to accept and understand what has happened. i wish that i could say some words to you that would make everything better. but there are not.

“There is only one thing that i can say that can make some sense to the mind and to the heart,” corpora said, as he began to lead the community in a recitation of the nicene creed. vice president for student affairs erin hoffmann harding delivered the Prayers of the Faithful.

“our friends, olivia and valeria reflected the light of christ,” hoffmann harding said. “may God lead them gently through the waters of death into new life.” out today to the entire notre of the tragic accident that resulted in death and injury early this morning,” she said. “saint and staff are here to support our other as we grieve together. our dents. We stand ready to offer any of our resources to members of the tri-campus community as we join together in sorrow and solidarity.”

University President Fr. John haven’t been exploring yet,” he said. “and the consequences of these ideas were that you can get really high-resolution images, without requiring a lot of expensive components other people were using – and it was compatible with a lot of existing microscopes.” before desos, most people were using a technique called fluorescent lifetime imaging microscopy (FLim), graduate student Xiaotong Yuan said. capture images of cells inside a

mccormick then returned to offer the closing prayer to instruct the community on how to exit to the Grotto.

“This is the beginning of our time together as a community of faith, praying for our friends,” he said. attendees then processed to the Grotto to pay their respects and pray for espinel, rojas and calderon, who is still in critical condition. hundreds of candles illuminated the Grotto amid the cold october air, mourning the loss of two students, sisters, daughters and friends.

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eduardo Jose elias calderon, was sent to memorial hospital

in south bend in the 54000 block

as Justin cavallo, 25, of south bend, ind., according to a press release by the st. Joseph county Prosecutor’s office. cavallo suscavallo’s care was identified as rafik Tannir, 24, of south bend,

second vehicle driven by darlene holden, 54, of south bend, ind., struck espinel lying in the roadway. holden was uninjured hoffmann harding said the service at 8 p.m. saturday in front of bond hall, followed by a pro-

pray for valeria, olivia, their famsaint mary’s President Katie conboy sent an email the college

“our hearts and prayers go dame community as we learn mary’s college students, faculty notre dame family and each health and counseling, campus ministry and residence Life staff are here for saint mary’s stu-

crafford@nd.edu

Jenkins expressed his condolences in a saturday press release.

“on behalf of the entire notre dame community, i express our deepest condolences and pray that our students’ families and friends may find God’s grace and solace after so shattering a loss,” Jenkins said. “We also pray for a full recovery of our student who remains hospitalized as a result of the accident.” according to the press release, the st. Joseph county Fatal crash Team (FacT) is handling the investigation. Toxicology results

about,” howard said. “and so howard started by looking at

just a microscope,” howard

petri dishes. it can even be used

Paid adverTisemenT but FLim cannot effectively are pending. living organism. desos, on the other hand, can, so it has the potential to greatly impact biology research, Yuan said. since developing this technique, howard has collaborated with the harper cancer research institute and the indiana University medical school to use desos in various research projects, including biochemistry and kidney research.

“a nice technology isn’t as important or impactful if you don’t had collaborators,” he said.

Yuan said she was drawn to howard’s research because of its potential to help disease research, which she is considering pursuing once she graduates.

“For example, i just read yesterday that zebrafish have an extremely unique heart regeneration ability. if we can capture 3-d and 4-d images of that, it could be a great way to figure out how to treat cardiovascular disease in humans,” she said.

People have never been able to make 4-d images quite like the ones desos can produce, howard said. he gave credit to his team, especially Yide Zhang, currently a postdoc fellow at california institute of Technology.

“We’re combining all of this understanding of devices and light, what goes on in the nanoscale and the quantum world to these medically relevant questions,” howard said. “We can do a lot of things people haven’t done.”