News: February 2016

In spite of the frigid temperatures on campus, students overwhelmed the Sorin Room at LaFortune on the evening of January...

February 18, 2016

The Office of the Provost requests proposals from faculty seeking to enhance teaching and learning at Notre Dame through digital...

February 17, 2016

Student engagement remains at the center of the McCloskey Business Plan Competition. All McCloskey teams are now required to include...

February 17, 2016

Thirteen Notre Dame students were selected to conduct research projects in eleven different countries as part of the U.S. Agency for...

February 17, 2016

The Environmental Change Initiative is excited to announce the return of a pair of bald eagles at our research faculty...

February 16, 2016

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/190680/200x/michel_profile_full.jpg(Michel Hockx)! "Michel Hockx":http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31122.php has been appointed director of the University of Notre Dame’s "Liu Institute for Asia and...

February 16, 2016

Notre Dame Faculty from the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Biological Sciences have been awarded a grant from the...

February 15, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/190519/ctshf_rev.jpg(Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing logo)! Celia Deane-Drummond, professor of theology, and Agustín Fuentes, professor and chair...

February 12, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/190531/amy_nuttall_icon.jpg(Amy K. Nuttall)! While working at a childhood bereavement center after college, Amy K. Nuttall Ph.D. ’15 saw firsthand...

February 12, 2016

Ironically, my first attempted interview with Dr. Reginald Hill was postponed due to a mouse in his office. I arrived...

February 11, 2016

The Harper Cancer Research Institute is pleased to announce the availability of funds for new pilot projects to assist new...

February 11, 2016

Notre Dame’s Richard Taylor, Interim Director of the Warren Family Research Center for Drug Discovery and Development and Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry...

February 11, 2016

Professor Stephan Frauendorf has been named as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical…

February 11, 2016

Jennifer Callaghan is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Northwestern University. She received a 2015 Research Travel Grant from...

February 11, 2016

Where did wisdom come from and how did it begin? What evidence in the evolutionary record is there for the...

February 10, 2016

Wellbeing At Work Program Senior Researcher Deirdre Guthrie, Ph.D., has been working with Companeros en Salud, Parter In Health’s Mexican...

February 10, 2016

The Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory (NDTL) hosted a booth at the 2015 Power-Gen International Conference in Las Vegas this past...

February 09, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/190097/bob_schmuhl_icon.jpg(Robert Schmuhl)! Robert Schmuhl is the Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Professor of American Studies and Journalism at the University...

February 09, 2016

Luca Codignola-Bo has joined the University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism as its first...

February 09, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/189860/michael_hartney_icon.jpg(Michael Hartney)! Michael Hartney, who earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Notre Dame in 2014,...

February 09, 2016

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies has awarded the 2016 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies to Mark Thompson...

February 09, 2016

Construction crews worked tirelessly throughout the holidays toward completion of the new Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory in downtown South Bend,...

February 09, 2016

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/190072/200x/queens_ny_300.jpg(Queens, NY)! From paper towels to cups to plastic bottles, products made from recycled materials permeate our lives. One...

February 09, 2016

Paris Agreement reflects University of Notre Dame's climate research assets.  Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index is key to the success...

February 05, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/138917/neuroscience_brain_icon.jpg(Neuroscience and behavior major)! Notre Dame students in the College of Arts and Letters’ newest major see neuroscience and...

February 05, 2016

When Caleb Wenzel, a graduate student in Sacred Music, received a Graduate…

February 05, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/189388/548_kenya_icon.jpg(Kenya small business economics)! In a dense Nairobi slum best known for its toxic garbage dump, the crowded streets...

February 04, 2016

Thursday (Feb. 4) marks World Cancer Day. World Cancer Day was established by the Paris Charter adopted at the World...

February 04, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/187502/ian_kuijt_ireland_icon.jpg(Ian Kuijt in Ireland)! The abandoned island of Inishark off the coast of western Ireland is coming to life...

February 02, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/73149/desch_al_icon.jpg(Michael Desch)! Political Science Professor Michael Desch has been appointed director of the Notre Dame International Security Center. “This...

February 01, 2016