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Aprahamian joins steering committee for Science Public Engagement Partnership

Published: December 21, 2020

Freimann Professor Ani Aprahamian has been invited to join the steering committee for a Department of Energy Office of Science and Kavli Foundation partnership, SciPEP (Science Public Engagement Partnership.

2020 Architecture Research Forum Focuses on Equity

Published: December 14, 2020

Evan Vandermeer

Excitement surrounding undergraduates’ return to in-person instruction the week of September 6 was complemented by the highly anticipated …

American studies professor wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize — the seventh book award for her research on slaves’ courtroom testimony

Published: December 10, 2020

Carrie Gates

Sophie White, a professor in the Department of American Studies, has won the prestigious 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her work, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. The prize, sponsored by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, recognizes the best...

Social design professor receives grant to mitigate youth violence in South Bend through access to arts programming and community engagement

Published: December 03, 2020

Carrie Gates

Neeta Verma’s teaching and research examines a range of social inequities facing the local community — including homelessness, poverty, and the digital divide. But the issue she finds most pressing is youth violence — and she believes that art and design can play a key role in breaking its vicious cycle. With a grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, she is launching a...

Two Notre Dame professors listed as Highly Cited Researchers for 2020

Published: December 02, 2020

Deanna Csomo McCool

Stuart Jones and Prashant Kamat, both professors in the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, have been named Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Web of Science.

Peace Studies student works alongside first-of-its-kind organization addressing police torture in Chicago

Published: November 30, 2020

Hannah Heinzekehr

When searching for an organization to work with during her second year of studies at the University of Notre Dame, Helina Haile knew that she wanted to work alongside an organization focused on systemic racism in the United States. Her search led her to the Chicago Torture Justice Center (CTJC), a first-of-its-kind organization dedicated to supporting survivors of police violence.

United Way in need of support, now more than ever

Published: November 24, 2020

Gwen O'Brien, NDWorks

The COVID-19 pandemic has made 2020 a rough year for everybody. For some of our Michiana neighbors, it’s been unbearable. …

IDEA Center Student Intern Stories: Isel Otero Torres (ND '21) will join Accenture as a Consultant

Published: November 23, 2020

Emily Tyson

Isel Otero Torres is a senior at Notre Dame, majoring in management consulting and French. She grew up in South…

Shaping History: The sculptor who turned the social movement of his time into art

Published: November 19, 2020

Notre Dame Magazine

Frank Hayden’s art was of its time and timeless, attuned to current events and to eternity. Closely associated with the civil rights movement, he created sculptures in honor of those who bore the crosses of that struggle, as well as actual Church-commissioned crucifixes — an American Black Catholic artist in a time of civil and spiritual unrest.

Notre Dame ranks top 10 in nation for study abroad participation

Published: November 18, 2020

Colleen Wilcox

The Institute of International Education ranks Notre Dame seventh among doctorate-granting universities for undergraduate study abroad participation during the 2018-19 academic year.

VIDEO: "Peace in Absentia" panel discussion

Published: December 18, 2020

Christine Cox

The Liu Institute cosponsored the panel discussion "Peace in Absentia: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Voices on Arab-Israeli Normalization" on December 1, 2020. Presented by the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, the event featured panelists Laila El-Haddad, the Rev. Mitri Raheb,…

Wrongful Convictions: Notre Dame law students pursue exoneration cases in nearby Elkhart

Published: December 14, 2020

Brendan O'Shaughnessy

Elliot Slosar was in a Zoom meeting in April with Notre Dame law students working on a wrongful conviction case when he got a call asking him to pick up Andy Royer, whom a judge had just freed after 16 years in prison.

Niele Ivey speaks up about speaking out

Published: December 09, 2020

USA Today

USA Today article highlights how Notre Dame's women's basketball coach balances sports with social justice

Alumni Spotlight: Janaeé Wallace '16 is Investing in STEM Founders

Published: December 03, 2020

Gene Stowe

Janaeé Wallace knew she wanted to help finance STEM-based businesses so they could grow the economy in The Bahama Islands and across the Caribbean before she knew what incubators and venture capitalists…

Hildreth to serve as interim dean, McDowell as interim associate dean of research in the College of Science

Published: December 02, 2020

Deanna Csomo McCool

Michael Hildreth, associate…

VIDEO: Sharon Yoon book launch event for "The Cost of Belonging"

Published: November 30, 2020

Christine Cox

Yoon's book analyzes how the rise of transnationalism has affected the social and economic lives of Korean migrants searching for wealth and stability in Beijing’s Korean enclave.

Campus Dining prepares holiday meals for local centers

Published: November 23, 2020

NDWorks

Campus Dining continues its tradition of preparing turkey and/or side dishes to three South Bend organizations hosting Thanksgiving meals. - the Center for the Homeless, St. Margaret’s House Day Center for Women and Children, and Hope Ministries.

Assistant dean's family has welcomed dozens for Thanksgiving each year

Published: November 23, 2020

New York Times

Dr. Jan Sanders was the first Black pediatrician to have her own practice here. Her husband, Leo McWilliams, is an assistant dean in the University of Notre Dame engineering department and a “quadruple Domer.” For decades, the couple have been the unofficial parents for many Black students at Notre Dame. This year, that family is scattered, reflecting on the year’s crises.

Having Coffee with Dianne Pinderhughes

Published: November 19, 2020

Notre Dame Magazine

Dianne Pinderhughes has been observing protests and marches for racial and social justice since her childhood in segregated Washington, D.C. In 2020, after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, things seem different.

Liu Institute welcomes seven new faculty fellows in fall 2020

Published: November 18, 2020

Christine Cox

The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies approved seven new faculty fellows during the fall 2020 semester. The scholars examine Asia and Asia-related topics from a range of colleges, schools, and departments at Notre Dame.

Engineering Professor Ahsan Kareem appointed to The Engineering Academy of Japan as a foreign associate

Published: December 14, 2020

Laurel Clements

Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Ahsan Kareem, has recently been…

Athletics staff, student-athletes provide gifts to local families amid pandemic

Published: December 10, 2020

Erin Blasko

Notre Dame Athletics, in partnership with the South Bend Community School Corp. (SBCSC), hosted a drive-thru version of its annual gift-giving event, “A Brighter Christmas,” on Sunday (Dec. 6) at the Compton Family Ice Arena.

A conversation with Provost Marie Lynn Miranda

Published: December 09, 2020

Cidni Sanders

Marie Lynn Miranda has many insights…

Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal advice for students: “You can be an entrepreneur and an executive”

Published: December 03, 2020

Carol Elliott

Jayshree Ullal was interviewed by Tom Mendoza (ND ’73), former president and vice chairman of the pioneering data management company NetApp, for Notre Dame’s new webinar series, Tom Mendoza Presents.

Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett named adjunct fellow by Manhattan Institute

Published: December 01, 2020

Notre Dame Law School

John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law Nicole Stelle Garnett has joined the Manhattan Institute as an adjunct fellow. Garnett's research focuses on property,…

Faculty in science, engineering named AAAS fellows

Published: November 24, 2020

Notre Dame News

Peter M. Kogge, Jeanne Romero-Severson and Jennifer L. Tank have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

In Memoriam: Thomas F. Broden, emeritus professor of law

Published: November 23, 2020

Kevin Allen

University of Notre Dame Law Professor Emeritus Thomas F. Broden Jr. — a pioneer in clinical legal education and a skilled advocate for civil rights and the indigent — died Nov. 20 at his home in South Bend. He was 96.

Religious Liberty Initiative represents Muslim voices defending Jewish groups subject to discriminatory COVID-19 closures

Published: November 20, 2020

Denise Wager

Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative has filed three amicus briefs, including one at the U.S. Supreme Court. The briefs provide historical context for ways in which the government has scapegoated religious minorities during times of uncertainty or crisis.

‘I didn't know economics could be used like this’: How LEO research assistants make an impact

Published: November 19, 2020

Erin Swope

Each summer and school year, a dimly lit computer lab in the basement of Jenkins-Nanovic Hall on Notre Dame’s campus hums with the activity of undergraduate interns working to find solutions to complex, poverty-related issues. As an intern for the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, Emily Merola ’20 helped collect data for the Catholic Charities Fort Worth's Stay the Course project and Padua...

FTT professor wins theatre society prize for essay on adaptations of The Wiz and is appointed associate editor of prestigious journal

Published: November 18, 2020

Arts and Letters

La Donna Forsgren, an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, has won the American Society for Theatre Research's Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize. The award, given annually to the best essay of theatre research in a scholarly English-language publication, honored Forsgren’s “The Wiz Redux; or Why Queer Black Feminist Spectatorship and Politically Engaged Popular Entertainment Continue...