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Magician wows at Smick @ Nite show Daniel Martin performs a Friday night show on SMC campus before heading to Los Angeles By SYDNEY EIDELBES News Writer
Described as mind-blowing, amazing, funny and delightful, magician Daniel Martin performed in the Little Theatre in Moreau Hall Friday for the Smick @ Nite series. However, those glowing terms were not crafted by Martin’s public relations representatives. They were used by the St. Mary’s students who packed the theatre to describe Martin’s act. “I am kind of skeptical of magic shows,” senior Opus Hall resident assistant Katie Theriault said. “This one was a different magic show I had never seen before. It was crazy.” Theriault emceed the event.
“I got to meet Daniel before the show, and he was really, really nice, and then he blew our minds away,” she added. Saint Mary’s College Residence Life, McCandless Hall and Opus Hall hosted Martin as a part of the new Smick @ Nite series, which aims to provide more weekend activities for Saint Mary’s students. Martin, a Chicago native, used the appearance as a final rehearsal before his upcoming Netflix special, which he filmed in Los Angeles on Sunday. “People … are gonna laugh, they’re gonna cry, they’re gonna get their minds blown,” Martin explained. “It’s stuff that no one sees anywhere else in the world.” Martin, who has been featured
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Magician Daniel Martin takes the stage of the Little Theatre in Moreau Hall on Friday night with open arms. Martin’s performance combined magic, illusions and improv along with comedy across interactive tricks. see MAGICIAN PAGE 3
College of Science launches connecting research pilot By SOPHIA TRAN and HENRY JAGODZINSKI News Writers
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Lewis Hall residents smile in front of a stack of $15 pale pink shirts commemorating the dorm’s Lewis Hall of Pancakes annual event. By JULIET MULLALLY News Writer
From 9 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, over 1,000 people flooded the floors of Lewis Hall to attend the dorm’s signature event, Lewis House of Pancakes (LHOP). Aptly named, the event offered attendees pancakes and other breakfast foods for $5 a plate. The event’s proceeds support the Northern
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Food Bank of Indiana. Prior to the event, Lewis Hall set a goal to raise $5,000. “The event is so special because everyone comes together and is just so dedicated to the cause,” sophomore Lewis Hall vice president Mary Novy said. People showed up in droves to support the cause and fill their see LEWIS HALL PAGE 3
In August, the College of Science launched a unified platform to connect students with research positions across its dozens of labs. Named Student Research at Notre Dame (STR AND), the pilot program aims to promote more structured and equitable access to research opportunities. STR AND is based on a similar program created by Duke University, called Muser. Conversations between the College of Science, the Office of the Provost and the Flatley Center for Scholarly Engagement about creating STR AND began this past spring. The program is a pilot, with its results compared to the similar pilot research database the College of Engineering launched a year earlier, called EduSourced. Dr. Daniel Gezelter, the senior associate dean for education and undergraduate programs in the College
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of Science and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, played a key role in the formation of STR AND. According to Gezelter, during years past, there was not a formal system for applying to research positions. Instead, students would find research positions by contacting faculty directly. However, Gezelter noted there were shortcomings with this method. “Students … tend to go to the people that they know,” Gezelter said. As a result, some faculty members were overwhelmed with requests to join their labs. “[Faculty] were getting hundreds of emails every semester about joining their groups, and they just don’t have the capacity,” Gezelter said. He noted that Notre Dame has particularly had an imbalance between the number of students in its health sciences programs, such as preprofessional studies and neuroscience and behavior, and the number of research
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positions available in those areas. Gezelter hopes that allowing students to easily view a wide array of research areas will inspire them to think more broadly about how they can find a good match. The first round of applications and matching for STR AND have been completed. Applications were open from Aug. 27-31, with all matches completed in early September. Students who received a match will conduct their research over the course of the fall semester. Students submitted 138 applications for 23 posted projects, with many projects having more than one position available. According to Gezelter, around 600 students from the College of Science, roughly 1/3 of students, participate in research each year. Gezelter hopes to increase the number of positions posted for the spring 2025 round of research to around 300. The next round of the
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