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Notre Dame Leaders: Innovators in Medicine
Join YoungND for a virtual Notre Dame Leaders speaker series event, “Innovators in Medicine” on Wednesday, December...
Bill Mattison
Bill Mattison ’03 Th.D. is the Wilsey Professor of Theology at Notre Dame and author of Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on...
The Golden Age of Notre Dame Fencing
Don’t look now, but Notre Dame has become the fencing school. For the fourth time in the last five years—and the...
The Islamic Garden: Architecture, Nature, Landscape
Attilio Petruccioli, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, explores the profound connections...
The Cross as an Epiphany of God
How can the Crucifixion, an event of profound suffering, be the ultimate revelation of God’s glory? Father Thomas...
Notre Dame Leaders: Technology for Humanity
Join YoungND for “Technology for Humanity,” a dynamic Notre Dame Leaders conversation with 2025 Domer Dozen...
Looking Back to Look Forward
Priest, professor, historian, and… real estate guru? Get ready to be fascinated by the history of Notre Dame and...
The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life
Taking us beyond the confines of our own experiences, in their book, The Color of North, Shahir Rizk Ph.D., and Maggie...
Embodying Cultures of Life
What does it truly mean to build a culture of life? This panel moves from the intimacy of the female body to the...
From Hebrew Poetry to the Blues
Draw on centuries-old tradition of singing Psalms and Canticles in the Liturgy of the Hours to discover a conceptual...
The Fifty-Year Arc: A Practitioner’s Adventures with Peace Processes
Are we facing the dusk or the dawn of peace processes and global peacebuilding efforts? Renowned...
Fr. Lou DelFra: Education, Uplifted.
From Philly soft pretzels and New Year’s celebrations to the essential role of lay people as agents of spirituality...
Culture War: Soft Power, Memory, and Identity in the Fight for Ukraine
Ian Kujit, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame moderates a panel of speakers...
Finding Hope Amid Exile
For Maria Fernanda Zamora ’25 and Kellogg Institute visiting fellow Juan Sebastián Chamorro, free speech is both a...
Healing our National Dialogue and Political Life with Cardinal McElroy
In a political landscape where many Americans believe political discourse has become unproductive, stressful, and...
Bridging Traditions
Avraham Burg speaks with Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, where he focuses on the...
Learning About Medieval Women
Listen in to a conversation with Dr. Megan J. Hall, assistant director of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute, about her...
How Notre Dame is Shaping Catholic Education
For Matt Kloser, the Hackett Family Director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), Catholic...
Teaching Chemistry with Art
Science and art are the legacy of any culture, and there is renewed interest in integrating the arts and sciences in...
Tradition, Music, and the Communion of Memory
Draw on centuries-old tradition of singing Psalms and Canticles in the Liturgy of the Hours to discover a conceptual...
Tony and Phyllis Lauinger
Meet the 2025 recipients of the Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal, Anthony J. and Phyllis W. Lauinger of Tulsa,...
Recognizing Not All Brains Think Alike
Over the last couple of decades, we’ve seen an explosion of books and articles about what’s often called...
Notre Dame’s Global Leadership
Mary Gallagher, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs, recognized something distinctive about...
Everyday Holiness: Dr. Carol Latronica ’77
Listen as Dr. Carol Latronica ’77, Rector of Welsh Family Hall, provides insight into her life and work in student...
Art, Science, Passion, and Cake
Sinai Vespie’s desserts aren’t just delicious—they’re works of art. As the executive pastry chef at Notre Dame,...
Crossing Religious Borders
Listen in with Spencer Hunt, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute, about medieval...
A Conversation with Cardinal John Onaiyekan on the Catholic Church as Peacebuilder in Africa
In this episode, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies at the Kroc Institute, hosts a...
Bible Criticism
This month, Minding Scripture, which brings together the life the mind and the life of faith, asks guest speaker Nathan...
Peace Policy Spotlight: Nuclear War and Climate Change
This episode of Peace Policy, focuses on the co-mingling of two existential crises of our time: the threat of nuclear...
A Walk Through South Bend
How can urban landscapes improve air and water quality, cool neighborhoods on a hot day, and support biodiversity?...
Everyday Holiness: Bishop Bob Lombardo, CFR, ’79
Listen to Bishop Bob Lombardo, CFR, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, as he shares his path towards religious life and...
Encountering the World
The Pod Quad goes global! Notre Dame’s chief international officer, vice president Michael Pippenger, gives a fresh...
Making the Space to Reimagine Teaching
When you become a teacher, you commit to a life of learning—not just for your students, but for yourself. You can...
Making Waves in the Medieval Mediterranean Sea
Listen in to a conversation with Dr. Thomas Burman, director of Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame,...
Sickness and Healing
In light of the global Coronavirus pandemic, this month’s episode of Minding Scripture reflects on sickness, healing,...
Eclipses in Outer Space
Lauren Weiss Ph.D., assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will explore how astrophysicists use eclipses of...
Be Someone’s Miracle Today
What does it take to lead one of the top law schools in the nation? Learn that and so much more from G. Marcus Cole,...
Leaving the Beaten Path
Listen in to a conversation with Dr. Andrea Robiglio, professor of History of Philosophy at KU Leuven, about the wide...
Teaching Students When (Not) to Use AI
When satellite maps became available on our phones, some wondered what we would lose by becoming less oriented to the...
Everyday Holiness: Nan Tulchinsky
Sit courtside with Nan Tulchinsky, a longtime scorekeeper for Notre Dame Women’s and Men’s Basketball, as she...
Qur’an Criticism
What importance do developments in critical scholarship on the Qur’an have for the life of faith? How have Muslims...
When Numbers Lie: Algorithms and AI
Data is the new gold, mined and used (for better or worse) every single day. Algorithms and artificial intelligence...
Going on a Medieval Vision Quest
Listen in to a conversation with Dr. Ryan Szpiech, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Center for Middle...
Everyday Holiness: Sister Mary Lynch, S.S.J.
Listen to Sister Mary Lynch, S.S.J., the longtime rector of McGlinn Hall, and she shares her calling to religious life...
SheLeads4Peace Summer School
Every year, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) hosts the SheLeads4Peace Summer School, a...
The Jewishness of the New Testament
This episode we welcome a distinguished New Testament scholar, Amy Jill Levine, who is the world expert on the...
Building Rapport in Online Courses
With Notre Dame’s Summer Online courses set to get underway in June, we turn our attention to teaching...
The Secret Social Life of Bacteria
Have you ever wondered how bacteria communicate, cooperate, and even compete in ways that impact our health,...
Filming the Birth of the Spanish Language
Listen in to part two of conversation with Dr. Ryan Szpiech, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Center...
Everyday Holiness: Tami Schmitz
Listen as Tami Schmitz, Associate Director of Pastoral Care in Campus Ministry, tells about her strong foundation of...
Religious Pluralism
Under the conditions of globalization, more religious people than ever find themselves in close contact with members of...
Behind the Folds: The Mathematics of Origami
Origami combines art and science to transform a flat sheet of paper into a 3-dimensional sculpture. This presentation...
Everyday Holiness: Sr. Gregory Healy, OSB, ’10 M.Div.
Journey with Sr. Gregory Healy, OSB, a Benedictine nun who has discovered God’s calling in life through the beauty of...
Discussing Donkeys in Lion-suits
Listen in to a chat with Dr. Emily Mahan, who recently received her Ph.D. from Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute, about...
Everyday Holiness: Dr. Jim O’Connell ’70
Walk the streets of Boston with Dr. Jim O’Connell as he describes his long path to a medical career and the...
Touring Through Centuries of Philosophy
Listen in to a chat with Dr. Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy in Late Antiquity and in the Islamic World at the...