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Paul Ocobock’s new book pores over history of Kenyan coffee

Paul Ocobock’s new book pores over history of Kenyan coffee

Jon Hendricks

“What I want from this book is for people to have a sense of, as the coffee machine is dripping the coffee into their pot … the long history of this beverage,” said the associate professor of history. After Kenya gained independence in 1963, Ocobock said farmers’ coffee production exploded. “We're so much more connected now to the people who...

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Notre Dame partners with Tennessee State and nine other HBCUs to grow the U.S. microelectronics workforce

Notre Dame partners with Tennessee State and nine other HBCUs to grow the U.S. microelectronics workforce

Brett Beasley

When it comes to making semiconductor chips in the United States, “we need all hands on deck,” says Matthew Morrison, associate teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Morrison recently joined Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative. The initiative provides $50 million to support science, technology, engineering, arts, and math opportunities...

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Keough School of Global Affairs awarded for Urban Poverty and Business Initiative

Keough School of Global Affairs awarded for Urban Poverty and Business Initiative

Kirianna West

The McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, received the 2023 Entrepreneurship Practice Award for its Urban Poverty and Business Initiative from the Academy of Management. The award recognizes research programs that are significantly advancing the practice of entrepreneurship.

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‘Powerful Conversations’ with TSU President Glenda Baskin Glover to explore race, gender and faith in leadership

‘Powerful Conversations’ with TSU President Glenda Baskin Glover to explore race, gender and faith in leadership

Jessica Sieff

“Powerful Conversations,” a series hosted by Angela Logan, the St. Andre Bessette Academic Director of the Master of Nonprofit Administration Program and associate teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, will explore the importance of race, gender and faith to the work of leadership. Logan’s first guest is Glenda Baskin Glover, president of Tennessee State...

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New research offers solutions to improve drinking water access in developing countries

New research offers solutions to improve drinking water access in developing countries

Shannon Roddel

New research from Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, the Greg and Patty Fox Collegiate Professor of IT, Analytics and Operations in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, examines the critical problem of drinking water access in rural areas of developing countries and recommends optimal locations to build new water projects.

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Shakespeare at Notre Dame to present ‘Hamlet 50/50,’ a new gender-balanced adaptation of the play

Shakespeare at Notre Dame to present ‘Hamlet 50/50,’ a new gender-balanced adaptation of the play

Carrie Gates

This week, the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival Professional Company will debut “Hamlet 50/50,” a world-premiere adaptation of the play focused on creating a more gender-balanced and equitable production model. “Hamlet 50/50” will be performed in the Patricia George Decio Theatre in the University’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center from Aug. 17 to 27.

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, professor of digital scholarship and English, explores ethical implications of technologies

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, professor of digital scholarship and English, explores ethical implications of technologies

Jon Hendricks

The concurrent assistant professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre also makes video games, including Frack! The Game, a strategy contest that takes prompts from real-world incidents to explore the ethical, socioeconomic, and environmental landscape of injecting liquid at high pressure into the earth to force open fissures and then remove oil or gas.

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Notre Dame panel to shine light on current and historical significance of HBCUs

Notre Dame panel to shine light on current and historical significance of HBCUs

Jessica Sieff

When the University of Notre Dame hosts Tennessee State University (TSU) this weekend (Sept. 2), it will be the first time in program history the Irish will take to the field with a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Several campus and community events are scheduled to commemorate the historic matchup — beginning with “The Historical and Current Significance of...

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Global works of art from Notre Dame Crucifix Initiative to be displayed at The History Museum

Global works of art from Notre Dame Crucifix Initiative to be displayed at The History Museum

Carrie Gates

Selected works of art from the Crucifix Initiative will be on display in an exhibit on view starting Thursday (Aug. 10) at The History Museum in South Bend, Indiana. Launched in 2019, the initiative seeks to highlight the globalism of Catholicism — and to represent the diversity and internationalism of the University and its community — by building and displaying...

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Political scientist Rachel Porter earns award for best doctoral dissertation about American government

Political scientist Rachel Porter earns award for best doctoral dissertation about American government

Beth Staples

The assistant professor analyzed text from more than 5,000 congressional candidates’ campaign websites in 2018 and 2020, and learned that while much of today’s politics is polarized and nationally oriented, theories of strategic candidate behavior also need to reflect locally oriented campaigning. “So, for instance, I find that candidates are a lot more likely to talk about local issues, district...

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Romance languages professor wins NEH grant for analysis and preservation of poet Rubén Darío’s influential work

Romance languages professor wins NEH grant for analysis and preservation of poet Rubén Darío’s influential work

Mary Kinney

María Rosa Olivera-Williams is leading a team of scholars from the U.S., England, and Argentina to analyze four volumes of Nicaraguan writer Rubén Darío lesser-known journalistic essays. She recently won an NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations grant, which will allow her to continue compiling, analyzing, and publicizing Darío’s work.

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Michiana Community Health Coalition addresses health disparities in South Bend-Elkhart

Michiana Community Health Coalition addresses health disparities in South Bend-Elkhart

Erin Blasko and Gwen O'Brien, Office of Public Affairs and Communications

Who has their finger on the pulse of public health? One could argue it’s community health workers (CHWs). Some CHWs work in clinics and others are mobile, moving through city neighborhoods and rural areas, sometimes going door to door or hosting resource tables at community events. The workers…

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Access to improved resources fails to impact economic outcomes for Black families across generations

Access to improved resources fails to impact economic outcomes for Black families across generations

Tracy DeStazio

“Any benefits accrued by growing up in more advantaged neighborhoods may be undercut by enhanced discrimination in the labor market and society at large,” wrote Notre Dame sociologist Steven Alvardo and his co-author. “Race, not class origins, is the dominant factor governing the economic mobility of Black individuals.”  

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