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2024 Walk the Walk Week: Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2024 Walk the Walk Week by University of Notre Dame on on Exposure
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We Got Us Now: Walking with Children Impacted by Mass Incarceration
The Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) and the Center for Social Concerns (CSC) brought WE GOT US NOW to ND for Walk The Walk Week on January 18, 2024, Andrews...
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What’s Your Next Step?
2024 marked the ninth annual campus-wide observance of Walk the Walk Week, a week-long series of University, department, and student-sponsored events designed to help us consider...
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Annual Walk the Walk Week Candlelight Prayer Service
On January 17, 2024, the Notre Dame community gathered to reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and to pray for an end to racism, inequality, and injustice in our...
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Building a Legacy of Opportunity: A Conversation with Dr. Howard Adams
Throughout his career, Dr. Howard Adams has advised thousands of young adults from underrepresented backgrounds on how to navigate higher education and build careers in both...
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Photoessay: Walk the Walk Week 2023
2023 Walk the Walk Week by University of Notre Dame on on Exposure
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Hesburgh Library celebrates 60th anniversary
More than 60 years ago, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., dreamed of a new library building that would serve, along with the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and the Main Building,...
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Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room blessed, dedicated during weekend ceremony
The Beth and Lou Holtz Family Grand Reading Room, the newest Hesburgh Library space to undergo a dramatic redesign, is open for students and faculty thanks to a generous gift...
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Historic Urban Environments Lab
The Historic Urban Environments Lab (HUE) at Notre Dame is a new interdisciplinary team of architects, computer scientists, librarians, programmers, anthropologists and GIS...
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Navigating Change in Higher Education
During the 2023-2024 academic year, the Inspired Leadership Initiative is exploring the topic of Leadership in Public Conversation. We’ll from leaders across disciplines and...
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Leadership in College Athletics
During the 2023-2024 academic year, the Inspired Leadership Initiative is exploring the topic of Leadership in Public Conversation. We’ll from leaders across disciplines and...
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Black Domers: Black Spirituality
“Recent events in our nation have led to a national reckoning, to soul-searching and a demand for action with regard to racial and social injustice…There is a widespread sense...
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Black Domers: Black Well-being
“Recent events in our nation have led to a national reckoning, to soul-searching and a demand for action with regard to racial and social injustice…There is a widespread sense...
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Black Domers: Blazing Trails in 21st Century Business & Entrepreneurship
“Recent events in our nation have led to a national reckoning, to soul-searching and a demand for action with regard to racial and social injustice…There is a widespread sense...
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Black Domers: The Future of Social Justice
“Recent events in our nation have led to a national reckoning, to soul-searching and a demand for action with regard to racial and social injustice…There is a widespread sense...
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Safeguarding Democracy in an Era of AI and Digital Disinformation: A Conversation with Maria Ressa
In this lecture and the conversation that follows, Maria Ressa will explore key challenges facing international information ecosystems and global democracy. She will discuss the...
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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Join us for a dynamic conversation on challenges to U.S. democracy and strategies for reforming and strengthening our political systems. Featuring Steven Levitsky, David...
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Civility and Bipartisanship in a Time of Polarization and Gridlock
As part of the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum on the “Future of Democracy,” join University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., for a fireside chat with Senator Chris Coons...
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A Conversation with Justice Elena Kagan
As part of the 2023-24 Notre Dame Forum, the Notre Dame Law School will host a conversation between U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and G. Marcus Cole, Joseph A. Matson...
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Justice by Means of Democracy – A Lecture by Danielle Allen
On September 6, 2023 the CCCG hosted Harvard professor Danielle Allen for a Notre Dame Forum lecture on her new book, Justice By Means of Democracy. Dr. Allen is James Bryant...
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Forum 22-23: ND Perspectives: Pathways to Peace – Catholic Peacebuilding Around the World
What are the pathways to peace in a world that is fraught with conflict, violence and suffering? We look to Catholic peacebuilding efforts. 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the...
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How Cities Speak To Us
Professor Emily Talen joins the School of Architecture to share her work at The Urbanism Lab and its focal point at the University of Chicago for the study of the built...
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Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities Dual Book Launch
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in mainland China and a large, linguistically and culturally diverse Chinese diaspora, which encompasses more than a fifth of the...
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The 22nd Annual Mellon Colloquium
Join the Medieval Institute for its twenty-second annual Mellon Colloquium. The colloquium is a half-day public seminar discussion with the institute’s 2023–24 Mellon Fellow,...
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Tradition and Contemporaneity: Learning from the Past
Architect and 2017 Rafael Manzano Laureate José Baganha will present the delicate balance between innovation and tradition, one of his areas of expertise. He is committed to...
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OVI Seminar Series 2024, IV
Investigating the phenomenon of the so-called ‘rhythmic figures’ in Dante through a new database and query platform for the Commedia, which aims at setting up a new, wide...
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OVI Seminar Series 2024, III
Drawing on a research tradition that goes back to the origins of electronic lexicography, the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano has developed, during its activity, models and tools...
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AI Ethics: Past, Present, and Future
Join us for a thought-provoking virtual event, “AI Ethics: Past, Present, and Future,” featuring Nicholas Berente, Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza...
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Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models
Join us for a captivating virtual event, “Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models,” featuring distinguished speaker Zico Kolter, Associate Professor of Computer Science...
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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Join us for a compelling virtual event, “Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology,” featuring Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Distinguished Professor of Law and...
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Symbiotic Human-AI Interaction: Examples of AI in Robots and AI in Finance
Join us for an enlightening virtual event, “Symbiotic Human-AI Interaction: Examples of AI in Robots and AI in Finance,” featuring esteemed speaker Manuela M. Veloso, Herbert...
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Autonomous Vehicles for Micro-Mobility
Join us for an insightful virtual event, “Autonomous Vehicles for Micro-Mobility,” featuring renowned speaker Henrik I. Christensen, Qualcomm Chancellor’s Professor of...
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AI for Social Good: How Do We Get There?
Join us for an inspiring virtual event, “AI for Social Good: How Do We Get There?” featuring distinguished speaker Ahmed Abbasi, Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of IT,...
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The Role of Motivation and Engagement in Digital Learning: Toward a Learning Experience Design Model
A large body of research clearly indicates that when learners believe that information is interesting, valuable and intrinsically meaningful, they are more likely to learn the...
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Visual Storytelling: Using Graphics to Maximize Vocabulary Acquisition
This presentation examined the use of images, sound, text and video using tools like Thinglink, Adobe Spark, and Panopto to have students learn and enhance language skills through...
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Reimagining Fulfillment During Midlife And Beyond
Join us for a conversation with Bernie Borges, host of the Midlife Fulfilled Podcast, who has made it his mission to help others find fulfillment in what he refers to as various...
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Alumni Career Panel: Women in Sports Tech, Youth Sports, and Sports Media
Join a panel of industry leaders and Notre Dame alumnae to learn about the work they do in the sports tech, youth sports, and sports communication worlds, how they got there, and...
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Success Stories of Hispanic Alumni of ND
As part of its Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 series of events, the Institute for Latino Studies will host a virtual panel with members of the Hispanic Alumni of Notre Dame (HAND)....
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On Being a Real Estate Entrepreneur
Pat Connaughton ’15 is the Co-Founder and CEO of Three Leaf Development. With a focus on development and property management, Three Leaf has projects in Milwaukee, Portland, and...
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Climate Change and The Limits of Narrative
Join the Kellogg Institute for the introductory session of a workshop refining Kellogg Faculty Fellow Roy Scranton’s draft book project “Ethical Pessimism: Climate Change and...
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The Biggest Show on Earth: A Guide to South Asia Elections
The year 2024 is a big one for elections globally, but perhaps nowhere more so than South Asia, home to approximately ¼ of the world’s population. Bhutan and Bangladesh...
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Clingen Conversations: The Irish Language in the USA
Clingen Conversations is sponsored by the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs...
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Lessons for the West from a Small African Country
Alexander Chula is a Thai-British medical doctor and writer, living and working in London. He studied Classics at Oxford then medicine at the University of London. His first book,...
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Legacy Project Lecture Featuring Cécile Mouly: “A network analysis of the work of the Colombian Truth Commission on exile”
The Colombian Truth Commission resulted from the 2016 Colombian Peace Accord and was innovative in various respects. It worked with victims of the country’s protracted civil...
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Commemorating 10 Years since the Annexation of Crimea: How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies will be hosting a virtual flash panel to commemorate 10 years since the annexation of Crimea by Russia, exploring both the history and...
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The Black National Anthem & Parent’s Signing Off On Children Reading Black Books
In this week’s episode, Isaiah and Tykiera talk about some tweets about Black people that took Twitter by storm. They also talk about The Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice...
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Fighting to Protect Our Community
In the wake of a hurricane or storm, engineering professor Tracy Kijewski-Correa is often running towards the destruction. She’s called in to assess damage to buildings and to...
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Picturing a World on the Move
Eva Dziadula and Paul Brenner, co-authored an article titled “Modeling economic migration on a global scale,” published in the Journal of Computational Social Science. Their...
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Families Engage in Engineering!
This Research Review showcases digestible findings from faculty and staff in the Center for STEM Education and their partner organizations about how families engage in...
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What is the Power of a Story?
This Research Review highlights research findings from faculty and staff in the Center for STEM Education about how narratives can contribute to students’ interest, engagement,...
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Recommended Resources from the Excellence in Teaching Conference and the Center for STEM Education
These documents provide an overview of the equity and social justice principles of the STEM Center as well as two resources on Catholic Social Teaching. For more information about...
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Trump’s Legal Battles
John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a...
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Stereotypes, Representation, and Real Talk: Black Law Students Speak Out
In this episode, Aisha Bah ’25 J.D., Joshua Mannery ’24 J.D., and Ayanna Murphy ’25 J.D., from the Notre Dame Black Law Students Association, join Max for a lively...
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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
In his best-selling book, The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that Black and White Americans live separately by choice, providing the most...
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Stop Making the Business Case for Diversity
In recent years, the business case for diversity has emerged as the go-to argument for why organizations should prioritize diversity in their recruiting efforts. Though most...
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New York Times v. Sullivan and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment
Carson Holloway is Ralph Wardle Diamond Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a Washington Fellow in the...
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Women in Leadership: A Conversation with Arlene Foster, Former First Minister of Northern Ireland
Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and its Clingen Center for the Study of Modern Ireland for the first in a new series of public conversations titled...
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Eucharistic Abundance and Social Regeneration
In 2022, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced that the Church in this country would undertake a Eucharistic Revival, as a way to bolster Catholics’...
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The Eucharist and Human Dignity
In 2022, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced that the Church in this country would undertake a Eucharistic Revival, as a way to bolster Catholics’...
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The Astounding Reversal
Fr. Kevin Grove C.S.C. ’09 M.Div., Holy Cross priest, assistant professor in the Department of Theology, priest in residence at Dunne Hall here at the University of Notre Dame...
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Finality of the Crucifixion
Robin Jensen, Patrick O’Brien Professor of Theology, director of Notre Dame’s Master of Theological Studies, and teacher of the history of Christian art, contemplates...
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Gaze of Dignity
Noah Furneri ’21, a current Master of Theological Studies student at the University of Notre Dame, contemplates the sculpture Bound Christ by Giacomo Manzù, which stands...
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Incense and Prayer
Mae Harkins ’24, an art undergraduate major at the University of Notre Dame shares a captivating work is entitled Ash Banquet by Zhang Huan. Based in Shanghai, China, Zhang Huan...
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A Brave New World of AI Governance
Explore the connection between data, geopolitics and governance, regulation, self-regulation while discovering examples of good and bad practices in various sectors, such as...
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Algorethics: potentiality and challenges in the age of AI
Explore the possibilities and challenges in ethical governance of AI through algorethics. Algorethics is a term that has been developed since 2018 to denote the need for a study...
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Technology and Democracy
U.S. society is in the throes of deep societal polarization that not only leads to political paralysis, but also threatens the very foundations of democracy. The phrase “The...
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Driving Social Impact in public health and conservation
For more than 15 years, Milind Tambe’s team has been focused on AI for social impact, deploying end-to-end systems in areas of public health, conservation and public safety. In...
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AI and the very old world order
Over the last few years, a growing number of scholars have argued that the impact of AI is repeating the patterns of colonial history. If European colonialism was characterized by...
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Trusted AI Needs Trusted Data
In the buzz around AI, let’s not ignore the role of data for developing AI we can trust, says one Notre Dame computational scientist. Two years ago, Notre Dame launched the...
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