Awards and Prizes

SOUTH BEND — Saint Mary’s College has been awarded $840,000 in grants to provide scholarships to students in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. A total of $600,000 will come from the National Science...

PLYMOUTH – She came up just short of winning an Olympic medal in London, but to many, Plymouth native Morgan Uceny is still a hero. She returned to her hometown Saturday, making a special appearance at the Blueberry Festival. The community is...

Years and years of work for a four minute race. Plymouth's Morgan Uceny ran the biggest race of her life Friday afternoon in the 1500 meter finals at the London Olympics. She tripped and fell at the beginning of the final lap. She did not finish the...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A potential exodus of star athletes. No hope of playing in the postseason. More than a decade of accomplishments erased from the record books. And Joe Paterno's legacy in shreds. Penn State football, a longtime...

Former University of Notre Dame fencer, Mariel Zagunis will be the flag bearer for the United States Olympic Team at the Opening Ceremony on Friday night in London, England.   “I’m extremely humbled by this incredible privilege,”...

SOUTH BEND -- There were touches of unpredictability scattered throughout Wednesday's Notre Dame football practice, its fifth of fall training camp overall but first in full pads. The musical backdrop during stretching and early drills took a hairpin...

It took Morgan Uceny 27 years to get to this point. Funny, then, that it will all be over in about four minutes. The intense training, the sacrifices, the career plans put on hold, it all comes to a head at 3:55 p.m. this afternoon when the self-...

Days after Michael Deeb received his official written scholarship offer from Notre Dame, the Irish linebacker commitment made plans to preserve the evidence for the foreseeable future. Notre Dame recruiting coordinator Tony Alford gave Deeb the idea to...

It's been a busy summer for South Bend's Brett Banasiewicz. The Washington High teenager celebrates the one-year anniversary of his West-side skate park on Sunday -- with free admission, by the way. But Saturday, Banasiewicz was in Los Angeles,...

Notre Dame has accounted for a series of firsts in the recruitment of junior wide receiver Justin Brent. The Irish coaching staff was the first to show up at Speedway High School just outside of Indianapolis and show interest in Brent. A trip to South...

MISHAWAKA - Penn senior Gabe Miller realized a life-long dream a few weeks back, when he received and accepted a scholarship offer to play colleeg foobtall at Nebraska. "For the longest time my dream was to play college football as a lineman", Miller...

ELKHART – Despite Indiana's 7.9% unemployment rate, manufacturers are having trouble filling job vacancies. And it's not just Indiana. A survey of manufacturing executives across the country found 67% of companies had a moderate to severe...