University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac, commonly known simply as Notre Dame, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, in the United States, founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross.湖畔圣母大学（University of Notre Dame du Lac），通称圣母大学，是美国印第安纳州圣母镇的一所私立天主教研究型大学，1842 年由圣十字会创办。

Its main campus covers 1,261 acres in a suburban setting near South Bend and is known for landmarks such as the Golden Dome Main Building, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and Notre Dame Stadium.其主校区位于南本德近郊，占地 1261 英亩，以金顶主楼、圣心大教堂与圣母体育场等地标闻名，是美国大学协会与大学研究协会成员。

It places 300th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and is organised into seven schools and colleges, with more than 50 master's, doctoral and professional degree programmes.学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 300，设有七个学院，研究生课程包括 50 多个硕士、博士与专业学位项目。

History

• Stephen Badin, the first priest ordained in the United States, came to northern Indiana after Potawatomi chief Leopold Pokagon invited him to minister to his tribe, and Badin bought the 524 acres that became the campus in 1830.斯蒂芬·巴丁是美国首位受祝圣的神父，在波塔瓦托米酋长利奥波德·波卡贡的邀请下前往印第安纳北部传教，并于 1830 年买下后来成为校址的 524 英亩土地。

• In 1842 bishop Célestin Guynemer de la Hailandière of the Diocese of Vincennes offered the land to Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross on the condition that he build a college within two years.1842 年，文森斯教区主教塞莱斯坦·德·拉艾朗迪埃把这片土地交给圣十字会的爱德华·索林，条件是须在两年内建成一所学院。

• Sorin arrived on the site with eight Holy Cross brothers from France and Ireland on 26 November 1842 and began the school using Badin's old log chapel.1842 年 11 月 26 日，索林携八名来自法国与爱尔兰的圣十字会修士抵达校址，借用巴丁的旧木造小教堂开办学校。

• After enrolling two students, Sorin erected more buildings, including the Old College, the first church and the first main building, and Notre Dame began as a primary and secondary school.在招收两名学生后，索林陆续建起旧学院楼、第一座教堂与第一座主楼，学校最初兼具小学与中学性质。

• In 1844 the institution received its official college charter from the Indiana General Assembly under the name University of Notre Dame du Lac, meaning University of Our Lady of the Lake.1844 年，学校从印第安纳州议会获得正式学院特许状，定名为「湖畔圣母大学」，意即「湖畔的圣母之大学」。

• The university was originally all-male, and the Sisters of the Holy Cross founded the women-only Saint Mary's College nearby in the same year of 1844.学校最初只招收男生，圣十字修女会于同一年即 1844 年在附近创办了只招收女生的圣玛丽学院。

• Notre Dame awarded its first degrees in 1849, and under Sorin and his successors new programmes were added and new buildings raised to accommodate the growing student and faculty population.圣母大学于 1849 年首次授予学位，此后在索林及其继任者主持下不断增设课程并兴建楼舍，以容纳增长中的师生。

• The brief presidency of Patrick Dillon from 1865 to 1866 saw the original main building replaced with a larger structure that housed the administration, classrooms and dormitories.帕特里克·狄龙在 1865 至 1866 年的短任期内，把初代主楼改建为一座更大的建筑，容纳行政机构、教室与宿舍。

• Under William Corby's first administration enrollment rose above 500, and he opened the law school in 1869 with a two-year course of study and began construction of Sacred Heart Church in 1871.在威廉·科比的首任期，在校生增至 500 人以上，他于 1869 年开办设两年学制的法学院，并于 1871 年动工兴建圣心教堂。

• Two years later president Auguste Lemonnier started a library in the Main Building that had grown to 10,000 volumes by 1879.两年后，校长奥古斯特·勒莫尼耶在主楼内设立图书馆，到 1879 年藏书已增至一万册。

• A fire destroyed the Main Building and the library collection in April 1879, the school closed immediately, rebuilding began on 17 May, and the third and current Main Building was completed before the autumn semester of 1879.1879 年 4 月的一场大火焚毁了主楼与图书馆藏书，学校随即停课，5 月 17 日动工重建，第三代亦即现今的主楼在 1879 年秋季学期前落成。

• The presidency of Thomas E. Walsh from 1881 to 1893 raised scholastic standards, built Washington Hall in 1881 as a theatre and the Science Hall in 1883, and oversaw Sorin Hall, the first freestanding residence hall on campus with private student rooms.托马斯·沃尔什在 1881 至 1893 年任内提高学术标准，1881 年建成作为剧院的华盛顿堂，1883 年建成科学馆，并主持建造设单人房的索林堂，这是校园首座独立宿舍楼。

• During Walsh's tenure Notre Dame started its football programme and awarded its first Laetare Medal, one of the earliest such honours bestowed by a Catholic university in the United States.沃尔什任内，圣母大学开办橄榄球项目并首次颁发莱塔雷奖章，这是美国天主教大学最早设立的此类荣誉之一。

• John Zahm, Holy Cross provincial for the United States from 1898 to 1906, sought to modernise and expand Notre Dame as a research university, amassing a famous Dante collection, though the congregation declined to renew his term over fears of debt.约翰·扎姆在 1898 至 1906 年任圣十字会美国省会长，力图把圣母大学扩建为研究型大学，搜集了著名的但丁藏书，但修会因担心负债而未续任其职。

• Andrew Morrissey, president from 1893 to 1905, kept the institution closer to a smaller boarding school and oversaw construction of the Grotto, additions to Sorin Hall and the first gymnasium, with enrollment passing 700 by 1900.安德鲁·莫里西在 1893 至 1905 年任校长，倾向维持较小的寄宿学校规模，主持建造圣母岩洞、扩建索林堂并兴建首座体育馆，至 1900 年在校生突破 700 人。

• John W. Cavanaugh modernised educational standards and attracted eminent scholars, established a chair in journalism and introduced chemical engineering, and in 1917 Notre Dame awarded its first degree to a woman and its first bachelor's degree in 1922.约翰·卡瓦诺提高教育标准、延揽知名学者，设立新闻学讲席并引入化学工程；1917 年学校首次向女性授予学位，1922 年首次授予学士学位。

• James A. Burns became president in 1919 and adopted the elective system, and by 1921, with the addition of the College of Commerce, Notre Dame had grown from a small college into a university with five colleges and a law school.詹姆斯·伯恩斯于 1919 年出任校长并推行选课制；到 1921 年，随着商业学院设立，圣母大学已由一所小型学院发展为拥有五个学院与一所法学院的大学。

• President Matthew Walsh, in office from 1922 to 1928, built the dormitory system with Freshman Hall in 1922 and Sophomore Hall in 1923, and by 1925 enrollment reached 2,500 with 1,471 residents on campus while faculty grew from 90 to 175.校长马修·沃尔什在 1922 至 1928 年任内建立宿舍体系，1922 年建成新生堂、1923 年建成二年级堂；到 1925 年在校生达 2500 人、其中 1471 人住校，教师由 90 人增至 175 人。

• Knute Rockne became head football coach in 1918 and under him the Irish won three national championships, had five undefeated seasons, won the Rose Bowl in 1925 and produced players such as George Gipp and the Four Horsemen, with Rockne posting the highest winning percentage in major college football history at .881.克努特·罗克尼于 1918 年出任橄榄球主教练，在其率领下球队三夺全国冠军、五个赛季保持不败，并于 1925 年赢得玫瑰碗，涌现出乔治·吉普与「四骑士」等球星，其 0.881 的胜率居美国大学橄榄球史首位。

• In 1924 a clash between Notre Dame students and the Ku Klux Klan, which had decided to hold a week-long gathering in South Bend, saw students block Klansmen from their trains and mass downtown in protest, and the hostility contributed to the Klan's decline in Indiana.1924 年，因三 K 党决定在南本德举行长达一周的集会，圣母大学学生与之发生冲突，他们阻止党徒下车并聚集市中心抗议，这一敌意助推了三 K 党在印第安纳的衰落。

• Charles L. O'Donnell, president from 1928 to 1934, and John Francis O'Hara, president from 1934 to 1939, drove material and academic expansion costing more than $2.8 million, largely financed by football revenues, and added Notre Dame Stadium and the Cushing Hall of Engineering.1928 至 1934 年在任的查尔斯·奥唐奈与 1934 至 1939 年在任的约翰·奥哈拉推动物质与学术双重扩张，耗资逾 280 万美元，主要靠橄榄球收入支撑，并建成圣母体育场与库欣工程馆。

• During the Second World War Notre Dame offered its facilities to the armed forces, the Navy installed a V-12 officer-training unit on campus, and afterwards president John J. Cavanaugh, in office from 1946 to 1952, established the Lobund Institute, the Medieval Institute and O'Shaughnessy Hall.第二次世界大战期间，圣母大学把设施提供给军方，海军在校内设立 V-12 军官训练单位；战后校长约翰·卡瓦诺在 1946 至 1952 年任内设立洛邦德研究所、中世纪研究所与奥肖内西堂。

• Theodore Hesburgh served as president for 35 years from 1952 to 1987, when the annual operating budget rose eighteenfold to 176.6 million, the endowment fortyfold to350 million and enrollment nearly doubled from 4,979 to 9,600.西奥多·赫斯堡在 1952 至 1987 年担任校长共 35 年，期间年度运营预算增至 18 倍达 1.766 亿美元，捐赠基金增至 40 倍达 3.5 亿美元，在校生由 4979 人近乎翻倍至 9600 人。

• Hesburgh also made Notre Dame coeducational, with Mary Ann Proctor becoming the first female undergraduate in 1971 and Mary Davey Bliley the first woman to earn a bachelor's degree in 1972.赫斯堡还推动男女同校，玛丽·安·普罗克特于 1971 年成为首位女本科生，玛丽·戴维·布莱利于 1972 年成为首位获学士学位的女性。

• Edward Malloy, president for eighteen years, added more than 500 professors and saw the average SAT score of the student body rise from 1240 to 1460, while the endowment grew from 350 million to over3 billion, and his 2014 capital campaign raised $2.014 billion.爱德华·马洛任校长 18 年，增聘 500 多名教授，学生平均 SAT 成绩由 1240 升至 1460，捐赠基金从 3.5 亿美元增长到逾 30 亿美元，其 2014 年募款活动筹得 20.14 亿美元。

Academics

• Notre Dame is organised into seven schools and colleges, namely the College of Arts and Letters, the College of Science, Notre Dame Law School, the School of Architecture, the College of Engineering, the Mendoza College of Business and the Keough School of Global Affairs.圣母大学由七个学院组成，即文学院、理学院、圣母法学院、建筑学院、工学院、门多萨商学院与基奥全球事务学院。

• The graduate programme offers more than 50 master's, doctoral and professional degrees across the seven schools, and the university offers over 50 years of study-abroad courses and more than 15 summer programmes.研究生项目通过七个学院提供 50 多个硕士、博士与专业学位，学校还开设延续 50 余年的海外学习课程与 15 个以上暑期项目。

• The College of Arts and Letters was established as the university's first college in 1842 and today includes 20 departments in the fine arts, humanities and social sciences, awarding degrees in nearly 70 majors and minors.文学院于 1842 年作为学校首个学院设立，今设有艺术、人文与社会科学领域 20 个系，可授予近 70 个主修与辅修学位。

• As of 2022 the College of Arts and Letters enrolled 2,000 undergraduates and graduates taught by 500 faculty members, making it the largest of the university's colleges.截至 2022 年，文学院有 2000 名本科生与研究生在读，由 500 名教师授课，是全校规模最大的学院。

• The College of Science was established in 1865 and today includes over 1,200 undergraduates in several departments, each awarding Bachelor of Science degrees, and its science pre-professional programme has one of the highest medical-school acceptance rates in the United States.理学院设立于 1865 年，今有 1200 多名本科生分布于各系，均授予理学士学位，其医学预科项目在美国医学院录取率中位居前列。

• Notre Dame Law School was established in 1869 and is the oldest law programme at a Catholic university in the United States, ranking 20th among American law schools in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report list.圣母法学院设立于 1869 年，是美国天主教大学中历史最悠久的法学院，在 2024 年 US News 美国法学院排名中位列第 20。

• The School of Architecture was established in 1899 and today offers a five-year undergraduate programme in traditional and classical architecture and urban planning, with all undergraduates spending their third year in Rome and the school awarding the annual Driehaus Architecture Prize.建筑学院设立于 1899 年，今开设五年制本科项目，教授传统与古典建筑及城市规划，全体本科生第三年在罗马学习，学院每年颁发德里豪斯建筑奖。

• The College of Engineering was established in 1920 although civil and mechanical engineering had been taught since the 1870s, and it now includes five departments of study with eight Bachelor of Science degrees plus five-year dual-degree programmes.工学院设立于 1920 年，但土木与机械工程课程早在 1870 年代即已开设；该院现有 5 个系、8 个理学士学位，并提供五年制双学位项目。

• The Mendoza College of Business was established in 1921 by John Francis O'Hara, enrolls over 1,600 students and offers degrees in accountancy, finance, management and marketing, and its undergraduate programme was ranked second in the country by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2016.门多萨商学院由约翰·奥哈拉于 1921 年设立，现有 1600 多名学生，授予会计、金融、管理与市场营销学位，其本科项目在 2016 年被《彭博商业周刊》评为全美第二。

• The Keough School of Global Affairs, the university's first new school in nearly a century, was established in 2014 with a $50 million gift from former Coca-Cola executive Donald Keough and his wife Marilyn, and opened officially in August 2017.基奥全球事务学院是学校近百年来设立的首个新学院，2014 年借助前可口可乐高管唐纳德·基奥及其妻子玛丽莲的 5000 万美元捐赠而成立，并于 2017 年 8 月正式启用。

• Every Notre Dame undergraduate belongs to one of the five undergraduate colleges or enters the First Year of Studies programme, established in 1962 to guide freshmen before they declare a major.每名本科生都隶属于五个本科学院之一，或先参加 1962 年设立的第一年修业项目，在申报主修之前先接受引导。

• Each admissions cycle the university selects a small number of students for the Glynn Family Honors Program, which provides smaller classes taught by distinguished faculty, endowed funding for independent research and dedicated advising.每一招生季，学校会选拔少数学生进入格林家族荣誉项目，该项目提供由名师执教的小班课程、独立研究的专项资金以及专属导师辅导。

• Notre Dame first offered graduate degrees, in the form of a Master of Arts, in the 1854-1855 academic year, and formal requirements for graduate degrees including doctorates were developed in 1924.圣母大学于 1854 至 1855 学年首次授予研究生学位，形式为文学硕士；包括博士学位在内的研究生学位正式要求则于 1924 年确立。

• Although it has no medical school of its own, the university offers a combined MD-PhD through the regional campus of the Indiana University School of Medicine, where students may spend their first two years before transferring to Indianapolis.学校虽无自有医学院，却通过印第安纳大学医学院的区域校区提供医学博士与哲学博士联合学位，学生可先在当地读两年，再转往印第安纳波利斯。

• The library system is centred on the fourteen-storey Theodore M. Hesburgh Library, completed in 1963 and carrying the Word of Life mural by Millard Sheets, and it holds more than three million volumes across its branch libraries for architecture, engineering, law and other fields.图书馆体系以 1963 年建成的 14 层西奥多·赫斯堡图书馆为核心，其正面饰有米勒德·希茨的《生命之言》壁画，连同建筑、工程、法律等分馆在内藏书逾 300 万册。

• The university hosts research institutes including the Medieval Institute, described as the largest centre for medieval studies in North America, as well as the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, founded in 1986, and the McGrath Institute for Church Life.学校设有多个研究所，包括被称为北美最大中世纪研究中心的圣母中世纪研究所，以及凯洛格国际研究所、1986 年创立的克罗克国际和平研究所与麦格拉思教会生活研究所。

• Notre Dame received an all-time high research funding of 180.6 million in fiscal 2019, up100 million from 2009, and it has earned 65 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, more than any other American university.圣母大学在 2019 财年获得 1.806 亿美元的历史最高科研经费，比 2009 年增加 1 亿美元；学校累计获得 65 项美国国家人文基金会奖学金，为美国高校之最。

• Specialised science research centres include the Harper Cancer Research Institute, the Boler-Parseghian Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, the Eck Institute for Global Health and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics.专业科研中心包括哈珀癌症研究所、博勒—帕塞吉安罕见病与忽视疾病研究中心、埃克全球健康研究所以及核天体物理联合研究所。

• In the 2025-2026 academic year 13,042 students attended Notre Dame, making it the eighth largest Catholic university by enrollment in the United States, with 8,880 undergraduates and 4,162 graduate and professional students reported in the fall of 2024.2025 至 2026 学年有 13,042 名学生就读于圣母大学，按入学人数计为美国第八大天主教大学；2024 年秋季统计显示其中本科生 8880 人、研究生与专业学位学生 4162 人。

Campus

• Notre Dame's campus lies in Notre Dame, Indiana, within the Michiana area of northern Indiana, and covers 1,250 acres south of the Indiana Toll Road with around 170 buildings and athletic fields arranged around two lakes and seven quadrangles.圣母大学的校园位于印第安纳州北部密歇根纳地区的圣母镇，占地 1250 英亩，位于印第安纳收费公路以南，约 170 座建筑与运动场地分布于两个湖泊与七座方庭之间。

• The campus is noted for landmarks that include the Golden Dome of the Main Building, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart with its stained glass, the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Word of Life mosaic mural and Notre Dame Stadium.校园以多处地标著称，包括主楼金顶、饰有彩窗的圣心大教堂、卢尔德圣母岩洞、《生命之言》镶嵌壁画与圣母体育场。

• A 116-acre historic district of 21 contributing buildings, listed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places as the Main and South Quadrangles, forms the core of the original campus.一处占地 116 英亩、含 21 座登录建筑的史迹区于 1978 年以「主方庭与南方庭」之名列入美国国家史迹名录，构成旧校园的核心。

• The Main Building houses the university's administrative offices, including the Office of the President, and its golden dome topped by a statue of Mary stands on Main Quad, also known as God Quad, the oldest and most central part of campus.主楼设有学校行政机构，包括校长办公室；其顶端立有圣母像的金顶位于主方庭、即俗称的「上帝方庭」，这是校园中最古老、最核心的区域。

• The Basilica of the Sacred Heart, built in French Revival style on the site of Sorin's original church, has stained glass imported from France, an interior painted by Luigi Gregori, sculptures by Ivan Meštrović and a bell tower with a carillon, while the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes was built in 1896.圣心大教堂建于索林原教堂的旧址上，采用法式复兴风格，拥有自法国运来的彩窗、由路易吉·格雷戈里绘制的内部装饰、伊万·梅什特罗维奇创作的雕塑以及带编钟的钟楼；卢尔德圣母岩洞则建于 1896 年。

• There are 33 single-sex undergraduate residence halls, a new men's hall, Baumer Hall, was built in 2019, Johnson Family Hall for women opened the same semester, most graduate students live in one of four graduate housing complexes, and the South and North Dining Halls serve the student body.校内有 33 栋单一性别的本科宿舍楼，男子宿舍鲍默楼于 2019 年建成，女生宿舍约翰逊家族楼于同一学期启用，多数研究生住在四个研究生公寓区之一，南、北两座餐厅为学生供餐。

• Athletic buildings are concentrated in the southern and eastern parts of campus, led by Notre Dame Stadium, which seats more than 80,000, along with the Edmund P. Joyce Center, the Compton Family Ice Arena and the Frank Eck Stadium for baseball.体育建筑集中于校园南部与东部，以可容纳 8 万余人、作为爱尔兰战士橄榄球队主场的圣母体育场为首，另有埃德蒙·乔伊斯中心、康普顿家族冰上运动馆与棒球场弗兰克·埃克体育场。

• The university owns five Global Gateways, in London since 1968 and based in Fischer Hall at Trafalgar Square since 1998, Beijing, Dublin with the O'Connell House in Merrion Square, Jerusalem and Rome, plus Global Centers in Santiago, São Paulo, Mexico City, Hong Kong and Mumbai.学校设有五个全球门户中心，分别位于伦敦（1968 年起设点，1998 年起入驻特拉法加广场的费舍尔楼）、北京、都柏林（梅里恩广场的奥康奈尔楼）、耶路撒冷与罗马，另在圣地亚哥、圣保罗、墨西哥城、香港与孟买设有全球中心。

• LaFortune Student Center, a four-storey building dating from 1883, serves as the student union, while Duncan Student Center was added onto Notre Dame Stadium as part of the $400 million Campus Crossroads project that began in November 2014.建成于 1883 年的四层拉福琼学生中心充当学生会堂；邓肯学生中心则作为 2014 年 11 月动工的校园十字路口项目的一部分，加建于圣母体育场之上。

Reputation

• Notre Dame places 300th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.圣母大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 300。

• It is placed at 191st in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，学校位列第 191。

• The 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking places it 378th in the world.2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名将其列为世界第 378。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, or ARWU, places Notre Dame in the 301-400 band.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把圣母大学列入 301 至 400 区间。

• In U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Colleges list it was tied for 20th among national universities in the United States, ranked 10th for best undergraduate teaching and 20th for best value.在 US News 2026 年最佳大学榜单中，学校与美国全国性大学并列第 20，并在最佳本科教学项位列第 10、最佳价值项位列第 20。

• At subject level its law school ranked 20th among American law schools in 2024, its Mendoza undergraduate business programme ranked 2nd nationally in 2016 and its graduate business school was ranked 25th in 2023.在学科层面，其法学院于 2024 年位列全美法学院第 20，门多萨商学院本科项目于 2016 年位列全美第 2，研究生商学院于 2023 年位列第 25。

• According to OpenAlex, Notre Dame has produced 100,374 research works that have attracted 8,485,319 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，圣母大学已产出 100,374 项研究成果，累计被引用 8,485,319 次。

• Eric Wieschaus, an alumnus, shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and James E. Muller, a physician trained at Notre Dame, was a co-founder of the organisation that shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.校友埃里克·威斯乔斯分享 1995 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖；在圣母大学接受医学训练的詹姆斯·穆勒则是分享 1985 年诺贝尔和平奖的组织创始人之一。

• For the 2023 fiscal year the university reported total endowment assets of $16.62 billion, one of the largest endowments of any university in the United States without a medical school.2023 财年，学校报告的捐赠基金总额为 166.2 亿美元，在美国没有医学院的大学中属规模最大者之一。

Student life

• The university's motto is the Latin phrase Vita, Dulcedo, Spes, rendered into English as Life, Sweetness and Hope, a Marian invocation that shapes its Catholic identity.学校校训为拉丁文「Vita、Dulcedo、Spes」，译为「生命、甘饴、希望」，是一句圣母祷词，塑造着其天主教身份。

• Over 93 percent of students identify as Christian, more than 80 percent of them Catholic, and the campus has 57 chapels, including one in every residence hall, with Catholic Mass celebrated more than 100 times a week.超过 93% 的学生自认基督徒，其中八成以上为天主教徒；校园内有 57 座小教堂，每栋宿舍楼各设一座，每周举行天主教弥撒逾 100 场。

• Residence halls, each led by a live-in rector and home to its own chapel dedicated to a patron saint, form the focus of social and intramural life, and fraternities and sororities are not allowed on campus.每栋宿舍楼由一名住校院长主持，并设有供奉主保圣人的小教堂，构成社交与校内体育活动的生活中心；校园内不允许设立兄弟会与姐妹会。

• Most intramural sports are organised into residence-hall teams, and the university runs the only non-military programme of full-contact intramural American football, whose championship game is played in Notre Dame Stadium.多数校内体育以宿舍楼为单位组队，学校还举办全美唯一的非军校式全接触校内美式橄榄球赛，其冠军赛在圣母体育场举行。

• Signature student events include the annual Bookstore Basketball tournament with over 700 teams, the Bengal Bouts men's boxing tournament supporting Holy Cross missions in Bangladesh and the Baraka Bouts women's tournament for missions in Uganda.标志性学生活动包括每年有 700 多支队伍参加的「书店篮球赛」、为孟加拉国圣十字会传教事业筹款的男子拳击赛「孟加拉之战」，以及为乌干达传教事业筹款的女子拳击赛「巴拉卡之战」。

• Students run nine media outlets, among them The Scholastic, begun as a one-page journal in 1876 and described as the oldest continuous collegiate publication in the United States, the daily Observer, the Dome yearbook, WSND-FM and the NDtv television station.学生运营九个媒体平台，其中包括 1876 年以单页刊物起步、号称全美历史最悠久的连续出版学生刊物的《学鉴》，每日出版的《观察家报》、《圆顶》年刊、WSND 调频电台与 NDtv 电视台。

• There are more than 400 active student clubs under the oversight of a student-run Club Coordination Council, with the university subsidising clubs by nearly 15 percent of their collective projected expenditure of $2.2 million in 2018-2019.校内活跃社团超过 400 个，由学生自组的社团协调委员会监管；2018 至 2019 学年，学校为社团提供补贴，约占其 220 万美元总预算的 15%。

• Admission is highly selective, and for the fall of 2026 the university received 36,102 applications and admitted about 9 percent into the Class of 2030, with a 65 percent yield rate across 183 represented countries.入学竞争激烈，2026 年秋季学校收到 36,102 份申请，向 2030 届录取约 9%，新生入学率达 65%，申请者来自 183 个国家。

Notable people

• Edward Sorin, a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, founded the university in 1842 and served as its first president.圣十字会神父爱德华·索林于 1842 年创办本校并担任首任校长。

• Theodore Hesburgh served as president from 1952 to 1987 and is credited with transforming Notre Dame from a school known mainly for football into a leading Catholic research university.西奥多·赫斯堡自 1952 至 1987 年任校长，被视为把圣母大学从以橄榄球闻名的学校转变为顶尖天主教研究型大学的功臣。

• Knute Rockne, head football coach from 1918 until 1931, led the Fighting Irish to three national championships and holds the highest winning percentage in major college football history.克努特·罗克尼自 1918 至 1931 年任橄榄球主教练，率爱尔兰战士队三夺全国冠军，并保持美国大学橄榄球史最高的胜率。

• Eric Wieschaus, a developmental biologist and alumnus of the university's graduate programme, shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.发育生物学家、学校研究生项目校友埃里克·威斯乔斯分享了 1995 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Condoleezza Rice, who served as United States Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009, earned a master's degree at Notre Dame and later returned as a faculty member.2005 至 2009 年任美国国务卿的康多莉扎·赖斯在圣母大学获硕士学位，后又回校担任教职。

• James E. Muller, a cardiologist and alumnus, was a co-founder of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.心脏病学家、校友詹姆斯·穆勒是国际防止核战争医生组织的创始人之一，该组织分享了 1985 年诺贝尔和平奖。

• Amy Coney Barrett, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2020, earned her law degree from Notre Dame Law School and taught there.自 2020 年起任美国最高法院大法官的艾米·康尼·巴雷特毕业于圣母法学院并在校任教，是首位在校友身份上进入最高法院的女性。

• Nicholas Sparks, a novelist known for works such as The Notebook, graduated from Notre Dame in 1988.以《恋恋笔记本》等作品闻名的畅销小说家尼古拉斯·斯帕克斯于 1988 年毕业于圣母大学。

• Joe Montana, a quarterback who won three Super Bowl most valuable player awards, played college football at Notre Dame before his professional career.三度获超级碗最有价值球员的四分卫乔·蒙塔纳在进入职业联盟之前就读于圣母大学并参加校队。

• Shi Changxu, a Chinese authority on materials science and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was an alumnus and received the 2010 State Preeminent Science and Technology Award.中国材料科学权威、中国科学院与中国工程院院士师昌绪为本校校友，并于 2010 年获国家最高科学技术奖。