I have two new articles in the Summer issue of Notre Dame Magazine, which is now on newsstands. Click here to see my piece about the Browning Cinema, one of a handful of THX-certified movie houses on college campuses, and how cinema manager Ted Barron sees the Browning’s role as both an education and entertainment venue at Notre Dame. Here’s a brief excerpt:

Since opening its doors in September 2004, the Browning Cinema has gone well beyond typical movie-house fare to become both an entertainment and educational hub for Notre Dame and the surrounding community. …  It hosts, on average each academic year, at least 15 distinct film series and 60 world or regional premieres. …  And it has hosted such notable filmmakers and actors as Tim Robbins, Phil Donahue ’57 and Sean Astin, to name a few.

Click here to see my piece about Notre Dame alumnus Gus Zuehlke who has founded the technology-based nonprofit BOSCO that is giving a voice to refugees in northern Uganda. Here’s a brief excerpt:

Zuehlke was struck by the unsanitary conditions, the isolation, and the stories of loss and survival. He also was awe-struck at the people of faith there. He met and befriended Gulu’s archbishop, John Baptist Odama, who would become a critical figure in negotiating a truce in July 2006, and he visited the scores of commuter children who left their villages each night to sleep in the city shelter so they wouldn’t be abducted or killed by the rebels.