Faculty Stories
Faculty at Notre Dame come from communities and cultures all over the world. They conduct research and scholarship on topics and issues that span numerous academic disciplines. They share with students not just their areas of expertise but also their questions and concerns about the enduring issues and latest developments that shape our times.
But their role in broadening and sharpening the lenses through which we understand ourselves and the world around us extend well beyond individual research projects, classroom lectures, course syllabi, or a list of academic programs.
The selection of stories below helps illustrate the many other ways Notre Dame faculty foster diversity, support inclusion, and enliven the entire Notre Dame community.
Notre Dame Ethics Week, held Feb. 16-19, features four events exploring the theme “Beginning with Empathy: Listening and Learning From Others.” The sessions explore a wide range of topics related to empathy, including the underlying science, diversity and inclusion, teaching empathy as part of problem solving and how medical professionals employ empathy.
Elizabeth M. Renieris appointed founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab
Elizabeth M. Renieris, currently a technology and human rights fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a practitioner fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab, has been appointed founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
Civil Rights Memoir Resonates with Today’s Call for Racial Justice
Taking the Fight South is available in paperback and digital editions from the University of Notre Dame Press.
Professor Veronica Root Martinez appointed to FINRA NAC
Veronica Root Martinez was appointed to the National Adjudicatory Council (NAC) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as of the start of 2021 for a four-year term.
Martinez is one of the nation’s foremost experts on corporate compliance and is the nation’s leading academic expert on the role of monitors and monitorships.
Blue and Gold and Black and White
From the health disparities that COVID-19 has exposed in communities of color, to the killing of George Floyd that sparked nationwide protests, it has been a tragic and tumultuous year, prompting a reckoning with racial issues across the country, including at Notre Dame.
ThinkND series to explore world religions
University of Notre Dame theologians from the World Religions World Church program will embark on a seven-session virtual teaching series examining the Catholic Church in a global religion context starting Jan. 26 (Tuesday) and running through October.
Aprahamian joins steering committee for Science Public Engagement Partnership
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
Excitement surrounding undergraduates’ return to in-person instruction the week of September 6 was complemented by the highly anticipated …
Social design professor receives grant to mitigate youth violence in South Bend through access to arts programming and community engagement
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...
Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett named adjunct fellow by Manhattan Institute
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,…
Implementation of ethnic provisions lags in 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement, report finds
The Peace Accords Matrix program (PAM), part of the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, has released its first report monitoring the implementation of 80 stipulations within the 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement related to ethnic communities across the country.
Morrell joins Center for Applied Linguistic's Board
Starting January 2021, Klau Center faculty fellow Dr. Ernest Morrell joins the Center for Applied Linguistics’s Board of Trustees for a 3-year term. A well-respected leader in the field of English education, the African Diaspora, and Media and Popular Culture, Dr. Morrell brings over a decade of research and writing experience to the board of 12.
Statement from Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., on the passing of baseball legend Hank Aaron
“When Notre Dame bestowed an honorary degree on Hank Aaron in 2005, our citation referenced his legendary baseball career and concluded that, most importantly, he had done it all ‘fair and square.’ His many records, particularly in the face of racial prejudice, make him one of the greats of the game.
Statement by Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., on presidential orders and actions
"We’re thankful that President Biden has taken immediate action through an executive order to preserve and fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and for his support for legislation to provide permanent status and a path to citizenship for Dreamers."
Notre Dame launches interdisciplinary Initiative on Race and Resilience
The University of Notre Dame has launched the Initiative on Race and Resilience, a new interdisciplinary program focused on the redress of systemic racism and the support of communities of color both within and beyond the Notre Dame campus. Led by the College of Arts & Letters with additional support from the Office of the Provost, the initiative will bring...
Two Notre Dame professors named to 2021 Edu-Scholar rankings
Ernest Morrell and Mark Berends are among the 200 scholars named to the 2021 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, an annual listing published by Education Week of academics who had the year’s biggest impact on educational practice and policy.
VIDEO: "Peace in Absentia" panel discussion
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,…
American studies professor wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize — the seventh book award for her research on slaves’ courtroom testimony
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...
Two Notre Dame professors listed as Highly Cited Researchers for 2020
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.
VIDEO: Sharon Yoon book launch event for "The Cost of Belonging"
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.
The Rome Gateway commemorates the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Rome Gateway has had a special connection to the historical heritage of the Jewish presence in Rome since the acquisition of the ND Villa, the living-learning community where the students of the University of Notre Dame in Rome live, located in Via Celimontana. The ND Villa housed a Jewish school in the two-year period from 1938 to 1940
Notre Dame, others join to fight rising local hunger
The Health Improvement Alliance of St. Joseph County, in partnership with Cultivate Food Rescue, established the Emergency Food Initiative in March as a way to support food security in South Bend and the surrounding area and negotiate the complexity of that task during the pandemic.
Emily Tsui Receives NSF CAREER Award
Emily Tsui, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, has been selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. This award is the NSF’s most prestigious award for junior faculty members and is given to recognize outstanding research and its integration with education.
NDIAS Fellow Hollie Nyseth Brehm Publishes Policy Brief on Rwandan Genocide
Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Fellow Hollie Nyseth Brehm recently completed a policy brief for the United States Institute of Peace on the research she is conducting at the NDIAS.
Books in Honor of MLK Jr. Day from Notre Dame Press
The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish two profoundly moving books this spring that look at the history of the civil rights movement and a great abolitionist and archivist of the Underground Railroad.
I am ND: Meet Jon Camden
Jon Camden first found his home at Notre Dame 25 years ago when he declared a chemistry major and signed up to take a credit course on playing the organ. The music study led to marching band, liturgical choir and a rich social life focused on Basilica music.
Engineering Professor Ahsan Kareem appointed to The Engineering Academy of Japan as a foreign associate
Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Ahsan Kareem, has recently been…
A conversation with Provost Marie Lynn Miranda
Marie Lynn Miranda has many insights…
Hildreth to serve as interim dean, McDowell as interim associate dean of research in the College of Science
Michael Hildreth, associate…
Faculty in science, engineering named AAAS fellows
Peter M. Kogge, Jeanne Romero-Severson and Jennifer L. Tank have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).