Facilities and Technology

Sustainable

The Office of Sustainability at the University of Notre Dame has adopted a comprehensive strategy which has set ambitious goals for the next 20 years.  Students at Notre Dame are involved in a variety of projects designed to raise awareness and promote sustainability on campus.  Students can create a sustainable dorm room, use a reusable mug for discounts at eateries around campus, and even measure their carbon footprint with the carbon footprint calculator.  

Access

The University of Notre Dame combines timelessly designed buildings with the best of instantly changing technology. Every residence hall room is wired to support computers for the number of students living there. Many buildings on campus support wireless Internet access, while our largest classroom building, DeBartolo Hall, constructed in 1992, contains computer projection systems used to aid in classroom instruction. Students also have access to eleven computer clusters, five of which are usually open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Many students choose to purchase laptop or desktop computers, which are available at discounted rates through the University’s Office of Information Technologies.

Spacious

Students at Notre Dame attend lectures, converse in seminars, experiment in labs, and experience the arts in a variety of academic spaces, ranging from the cozy quarters of O’Shaughnessy to the expansive halls of DeBartolo. Currently the University is expanding and updating its many classroom buildings to include the $70 million Jordan Hall of Science, which now houses undergraduate laboratories, lecture halls, classrooms, faculty offices, offices for preprofessional studies advising, a greenhouse, observatory, and herbarium.

Creative

The Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts opened in September of 2004, and houses five uniquely designed spaces for the performing arts in addition to classrooms and faculty offices. With a schedule that includes performances by the New York Philharmonic, the Chieftains, and Wynton Marsalis, the new Performing Arts Center is brings an even greater level of artistic sophistication to the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

The University also prides itself on the collections housed in the Snite Museum of Art, which contains over 21,000 works, including a collection of Rembrandt etchings, a collection of Mestrovic sculpture, and a collection of Northern Native American Art.