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Volume 53, Issue 76 | tuesday, january 29, 2019 | ndsmcobserver.com
Community honors professor University marketing department remembers life, impact of Timothy Gilbride
Each year, facult y members at Notre Dame are called to do three things: teach, research and ser ve. Timothy Gilbride distinguished himself in each of these tasks. “He’s one of the most well-rounded people that I’ve ever met,” John Sherr y, the Ray mond W. & Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Marketing, said. “In our field, we look at teaching, research and ser v ice as your principal contributions to the field and to the College, and he was just outstanding on all these dimensions.” Professor Gilbride, the
developing a new marketing course throughout the fall 2018 semester. Professor of Marketing
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Steve and Anne Odland Associate Professor of Marketing, died Jan. 12 after a seven-year battle w ith cancer. He was 52. Shankar Ganesan, the John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C., Professor of Business and chair of the marketing department, said Professor Gilbride was “a talented researcher, incredibly smart person, both hard-working and humble and w illing to give to Notre Dame [and] be an awesome mentor to students and facult y.” In the midst of chemotherapy treatments and shortly after surgeries, Ganesan said, Professor Gilbride remained committed to his work, even working on
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“He was basically good at almost ever y thing,” Ganesan said. “He was a great departmental citizen, and as a chair, I would go to him w ith requests and he would be w illing to do whatever it took to help the department.” Before coming to Notre Dame in 2004, Professor
Gilbride worked in marketing research and consulting at Goodyear, Booz A llen Hamilton and Aetna. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics from the Universit y of Day ton and his MBA from Ohio State Universit y, where he later returned to complete his Ph.D. in business administration. Professor Gilbride’s tenacit y after his 2011 diagnosis of stage IV cancer was inspiring to his colleagues, Sherr y said. “I think he was put here on Earth for a purpose, and he was just going to see it through,” he said. “We were see GILBRIDE PAGE 4
Magic act to be featured Observer Staff Report
Magician Michael Carbonaro, host of TV show “The Carbonaro Effect,” will perform April 9 at the Morris Performing Arts Center as part of IDEA Week, the University announced in a press release Monday. “IDEA Week is an innovation festival,” event director Nick Swisher said. “While worldrenowned speakers like Bill Nye and Kevin Kelly will represent the learning side of IDEA see MAGIC PAGE 3
College program Campuses to close due to to use tubing to dangerously cold weather build community By MIKE DUGAN
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By COLLEEN FISCHER News Writer
Saint Mar y’s students are sliding into St. Patrick’s Count y Park to celebrate communit y on Sunday. The day w ill consist of snow tubing, communit y engagement, fun and warming up by the fire, env ironmental studies professor Aaron Moe said in an email. The event was co-sponsored by the env ironmental studies (ENVS) program and the Office for Civ ic and Social Engagement. Moe commented on how the event contributes to both of the program and offices goals. “[The OCSE director Rebekah DeLine and I] started talking about a tubing trip to Saint Patrick’s Park,” Moe said. “She liked the idea that such an event would help students connect w ith the rich histor y of the early [Holy Cross] sisters who
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farmed on what is now St. Pat’s park. It could be one of many events that celebrates the 175 years of Saint Mar y’s. And from an ENVS perspective, it is a great way to get outside.” Both Moe and DeLine played pivotal roles in the planning of the event, Moe said. “I helped get the v ision of it established and then helped where I could to bring the v ision to fruition,” he said. “Rebekah DeLine covered all the logistics w ith St. Patrick’s Park. I helped by making the f lyer, the Google form, and things like that.” Moe said he hopes to raise awareness for available programs at the College and for the rich histor y that connects the College and the sisters to farming and St. Patrick’s Park. He sees the event connecting students w ith the sisters’s early farming practices, which w ill see TUBING PAGE 4
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Due to extreme weather conditions, Notre Dame will be closed 7 p.m. Tuesday through 1 p.m. Thursday, according to vice president for public affair and communications Paul Browne. Saint Mary’s will be closed 6 p.m. Tuesday and will resume with normal operating hours on Friday, according to an email from vice president for student affairs, Karen Johnson. Holy Cross will be closed Tuesday at 5 p.m. through Thursday, vice president for finance Monica Markovich said in an email. Browne said both dining halls and select campus buildings will remain open. At Saint Mary’s, Noble Family Dining Hall and Cyber Cafe will remain open, but Cushwa Leighton Library and Angela Athletic and Wellness Complex will be closed. Blinkie Service will not operate Tuesday through Thursday, and will resume Friday evening,
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Students brave the weather outside of the Science Hall on Monday afternoon. The College is closing beginning Tuesday evening.
according to the email. Saint Mary’s Campus Safety will also not offer any offcampus pickups. “We’re going to keep the
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student dining halls open for extended hours,” Brown said. “LaFortune and the see COLD PAGE 3
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