What Would You Fight For?
The University of Notre Dame’s award-winning What Would You Fight For? series showcases the work, scholarly achievements, and global impact of Notre Dame faculty, students, and alumni.
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Fighting for Freedom of Thought
In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine declared itself an independent state. But political independence didn’t rid the country of Soviet or communist influence....
Fighting to Protect Our Country
Since 1993, the International Atomic Energy Agency has tracked 2,500 trafficking cases of nuclear material. While there has yet to be a detonation of a dirty bomb, the threat...
Fighting Mosquito-borne Diseases
Leading up to the 2016 summer Olympics in Brazil, Zika virus ravaged South America, and photos and videos of patients haunted the news worldwide. A year later, Zika has fallen out...
Fighting to End Poverty
In Dandora, Kenya, a sprawling neighborhood in Nairobi, housing for 250,000 people is built around the city’s largest dumpsite. Life near a large trash heap exposes the...
Fighting for the Lives of Children
When your child is diagnosed with a rare, genetic disease, it feels like you’re rolling down a mountain, just waiting to hit rock bottom, says Doug Berns. When his daughter,...
Fighting to Walk Again
March 8, 2014 was a Saturday near the end of a long, cold winter in Ohio. The high temperature that day was a brisk 46 degrees. The low, 30. The details of the weather are now...
Fighting for Shakespeare for All
When Christy Burgess started the Robinson Shakespeare Company in 2008, the idea of the youth acting troupe one day performing in England would have been laughed off as an...
Fighting for Our Veterans
At a young age, it was ingrained into Brady Quinn ’07 that it was important to respect and support the military. His father was a marine in Vietnam. His grandfathers had both...
Fighting for Better Cancer Detection
It seems black and white: Either you have cancer or you don’t. But for many women the answer is gray. Hazy mammogram gray. In the United States alone, there are nearly 240,000...
Fighting to Protect the Innocent
“We have found you and we have given you time to enter the [gang]. You have had two opportunities to join and we will kill you if you don’t,” the note said. It was addressed...
Fighting to Explore the Moon
It was the middle of the night when Clive Neal was shaken awake by his father so they could watch the first man walk on the Moon. That night, the world watched in awe as a...
Fighting for Lasting Peace
Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the country’s principal guerrillas had come to a standstill yet again. One of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in...