News: November 2016

African American Catholics are the focus of Black Catholic History Month, celebrated every November. This year’s focus has been extended...

November 30, 2016

The James A. Burns, C.S.C. Award is given annually to a faculty member for distinction in graduate teaching or another...

November 30, 2016

Meghan Sullivan, the Rev. John A. O'Brien Collegiate Associate Professor of Philosophy, discusses her current research on the philosophy of time—especially time...

November 30, 2016

A new book by Notre Dame Sociologist Terence McDonnell examines why expensive media campaigns that try to harness the power of culture...

November 30, 2016

Before the Irish and Hokies took the field Saturday, Virginia Tech researchers took the stage to give Notre Dame an...

November 30, 2016

COP22 was the conference of action. It’s time to implement the Paris Agreement. Amidst the first week of this international meeting...

November 30, 2016

PAD project REU’er Muriel McClendon was recognized for her work in the summer of 2016. On November 11, 2016, in...

November 30, 2016

The Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE) at the University of Notre Dame promotes the intellectual development of…

November 30, 2016

The University of Notre Dame Research Administration Training Program has trained more than 80 people on campus since it was...

November 30, 2016

How do we form abstract concepts—like “dog”—given that we only experience concrete, particular objects—like “Fido”? Therese Scarpelli Cory, a Notre...

November 30, 2016

Sergei Starchenko, professor of mathematics, was recently named a fellow in the American Mathematical Society for 2017.

November 30, 2016

Joe Kaboski Joseph Kaboski’s work in Armenia started with an email from the developing country, one of those you might...

November 30, 2016

Assistant Professor Frank Germann was recently selected as one of the Marketing Science Institute’s 2017 Young Scholars, which recognizes some of...

November 30, 2016

Offenheiser is a widely known nonprofit leader and innovator with a broad range of international development experience in Asia, Africa...

November 22, 2016

THRIVE! officers Eric Love is encouraging the campus community to take advantage of some new resources to aid in the...

November 22, 2016

Through intensive language coursework and daily interaction with native speakers, the Summer Language Abroad experience allows students to rapidly enhance their...

November 22, 2016

As the centenary year of the Easter Rising of 1916 draws to a close, the landmark documentary, 1916 The Irish...

November 21, 2016

Watkins, a native of Blacksburg, Virginia, and Doyle, of Los Altos, California, are two of 32 Rhodes Scholars selected from...

November 21, 2016

Private Catholic or non-religious private school? Public school or homeschooled? With a variety of schooling options available, how do parents...

November 21, 2016

As part of the launch of a new research program in Health-Related Behavioral Sciences, the University of Notre Dame’s Advanced...

November 21, 2016

Kevin J. Christiano, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, is the recipient of the 2016 Prix-du-Québec,...

November 21, 2016

The venture aims to enhance the skills and employability of technically qualified and professionally capable Afghan women and men in...

November 21, 2016

Each year, FURF allows undergraduate students to showcase the work they have done thus far in their academic careers. 

November 21, 2016

Notre Dame senior Sienna Wdowik knows exactly the type of job she wants after graduation. Her two majors in the...

November 21, 2016

Notre Dame researchers suggest that the origin of both colic and SIDS may be related to the gradual emergence of...

November 17, 2016

Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body has an inability to produce enough insulin. In the United States...

November 17, 2016

In July, 2014, Mike Patterson received some news that changed his life forever. He was diagnosed with stage four colon...

November 16, 2016

The Medieval Institute gladly welcomed invited speaker Nicola Polloni, M.A., Ph.D, a Junior Research Fellow (COFUND) in the Department of...

November 16, 2016

One in 77 women will develop ovarian cancer in her lifetime.  Because ovarian cancer has no defined symptoms, most women...

November 16, 2016

The public has lots of questions about refugees, and William Evans and Danny Fitzgerald have come up with some answers....

November 14, 2016