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🌱 How is a Notre Dame-built AI tool reshaping homeschooling for families?

Notre Dame, Indiana Patch AM: a 5 min read

What's up Notre Dame! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How is a Notre Dame-built AI tool reshaping homeschooling for families?
  • Could your Notre Dame research team qualify for this new Kellogg‑Lucy lab?
  • Meet the new organist soon joining Notre Dame’s Basilica music team

Also on today's calendar: Wabash River Ride.

Today's riddle: Why did the football player hit the vending machine? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Nice with plenty of sun, with a high of 78 and low of 57 degrees.
  • Saturday: Sunshine and more humid, temps: high: 81, low: 68.
  • Sunday: Mostly sunny and humid, with a high of 89 and low of 69 degrees. 🌶 Hot!

📰 News we're reading

1. Notre Dame Researcher Shows How AI Can Personalize Learning for Homeschooling Families (biznewsdesk.com) — A University of Notre Dame researcher has helped design an AI-powered homeschooling platform that keeps parents firmly in control of their children’s learning. Tested with Muslim families in Toronto, the tool lets parents generate culturally grounded stories, customize curricula, and collaborate in small trusted groups. The work, rooted in Notre Dame’s Keough School and related institutes, explores how AI can respect community values while broadening kids’ horizons.
   

2. Kellogg-Lucy Policy and Practice Research Lab (nd.edu) — Notre Dame faculty and researchers are being invited to co-lead new Kellogg‑Lucy Policy and Practice Research Labs that must include at least two principal investigators and additional on‑campus collaborators. These labs are expected to produce policy-relevant research and secure external funding, with third-year support contingent on successful fundraising. The institutes emphasize cross-campus, cross-disciplinary partnerships that connect Notre Dame scholars with outside institutions and practitioners.
   

3. Organ Performance Graduate to Pursue Master of Sacred Music at Notre Dame (byui.edu) — A future graduate student is heading to the University of Notre Dame to join the Master of Sacred Music program and serve as a graduate assistant organist at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. His story highlights the rigorous organ training, strong faculty mentorship, and family and faith that prepared him for advanced study in Notre Dame’s renowned sacred music community.
   

4. Notre Dame staff fill Four Winds Field for sold-out South Bend Cubs game (abc57.com) — Notre Dame faculty and staff packed South Bend’s Four Winds Field last night for a sold-out South Bend Cubs game celebrating the university community. Irish green jerseys, a first pitch by receiver Jaden Greathouse, and a special prayer highlighted the strong town-and-gown connection, with the Cubs–Timber Rattlers series continuing through the weekend.
   

5. Seven Real Estate Undergrads Serve in Mission-Driven Internships (nd.edu) — Notre Dame real estate minors are spending the summer in mission-driven internships nationwide, from Los Angeles to Boston, applying classroom lessons to affordable housing and church property reuse. Their work ranges from repositioning excess church properties to structuring mortgages and supporting youth housing projects, showcasing how Notre Dame students are shaping faith-based development far beyond campus.
   

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Ok Notre Dame! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: He wanted his quarter back. (Thank you Pat S. for sending it in!)
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