In a recent review in the Chicago Tribune, three books were singled out for their astute cultural criticism, including “In So Many Words: Arguments and Adventures” by Robert Schmuhl, Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Professor of American Studies and Journalism…
Theater in China has a long history, beginning, according to some estimates, somewhere between 722 and 484 B.C. A new chapter was added to that rich history on Dec. 14 when the…
Two Notre Dame scholars, Thomas F.X. Noble, director of the University’s Medieval Institute, and Paul Cobb, associate professor of history, will be featured in a documentary film on the Holy Lance Thursday (Dec. 21) at 9 p.m. EST on the History Channel.
A new book by Robert Schmuhl, Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Professor of American Studies and Journalism, was recently reviewed in the Chicago Tribune.
Megan Towle, the University of Notre Dame senior recently selected as a 2007 Marshall Scholarship winner, also has been chosen for the scholarship’s highest honor and was awarded the British Schools and Universities Foundation (BSUF) Marshall Scholarship.
Notre Dame offensive lineman Dan Santucci would like to play professional football after this season with the Fighting Irish. But if the football thing doesn’t work out, Santucci…
“Dying to Live: A Migrant’s Journey,” a 33-minute film written and directed by University of Notre Dame theologian Rev. Daniel Groody, C.S.C., received the best documentary award Nov. 30 at the New Way Media Film Festival in Berkeley, Calif.
Hybrids and blends had defined Dianne Pinderhughes’ destiny long before an academic career that bridges two departments?long before she was born, in fact. In 1902, her great-grandmother…
Megan Towle, a University of Notre Dame senior from Leawood, Kan., has been selected as one of 43 Marshall Scholarship winners for 2007. She was chosen from a pool of some 800 candidates nationwide to receive one of the most competitive and prestigious merit scholarships…
“Saint Nicholas in America: Christmas Holy Day and Holiday,” by Rev. Nicholas Ayo, C.S.C., professor emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies…
Christian Moevs, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the Modern Language Association (MLA) for his recent book “The Metaphysics of Dante’s ‘Comedy’”…
The University of Notre Dame’s philosophy department has been placed 13th in the rankings of the Philosophical Gourmet, a biennial on-line peer review of graduate departments in philosophy.
A cake with candles might seem the natural complement to the celebration marking the 20th anniversary of Notre Dame’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. But for Scott Appleby, the Regan Director of the institute…
The celebrated days of summer camp?swimming, hiking, arts and crafts, and campfires?run through the memories of our youth. But often times, we might take these simple…
Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, is visiting the University of Notre Dame this week as the Keifer Visitor in Journalism.
“Pope Benedict’s trip to Turkey this week is something of a calculated risk,” according to Rev. Joseph Amar, professor of classics and concurrent professor of theology…
What appear to be growing anti-Muslim feelings in some European countries must be considered within the larger context of immigration in general in order to be fully understood, according to Anthony Messina, a University of Notre Dame political scientist…
“What clearly stands behind the modern era’s demand for freedom is the promise: You will be like God,” wrote theologian Joseph Ratzinger a few years before he became Pope Benedict XVI.
Charles Bernstein, a renowned figure in innovative American poetics, will deliver a lecture series titled “The Attack of the Difficult Poems: Poetics, Technology, Invention” from Nov. 27 to 29 (Monday to Wednesday)…
The University of Notre Dame has the sixth-highest percentage of students participating in study abroad programs among American research universities, according to a recently released report from the Institute of International Education (IIE).
On April 23, 1945, 11 days after the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his successor, Harry S. Truman, met with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, the foreign minister…
The recent release of the new video game “Bully” has rallied troops from both sides of the fence, with critics labeling it a “Columbine simulator” and proponents calling it “just political gamesmanship” that is “imaginative and funny.”
Two faculty members in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television and Theatre (FTT) have recently published books highlighting the diverse topics of German women’s writing and Hollywood opinion polls.
Sabine G. MacCormack, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, has published a new book that challenges long-held assumptions…
Faculty members R. Scott Appleby, John Paul Lederach, and A. Rashied Omar delivered the most recent lecture in the University of Notre Dame’s Saturday Scholar Series, “The Role of Religion in Peacebuilding,” on November 4.
Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Jack J. Samar Jr. will receive the Rev. William Corby, C.S.C., Award during a ceremony at the Notre Dame-Army football game Saturday (Nov. 18). Samar, who majored in government and international studies, graduated from Notre Dame in 1971.
The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir will perform its 13th annual Concert for the Holy Cross Missions titled “The Faces of Mary” at 9 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 18) in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The University of Notre Dame will host a conference titled “Faith and Health: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Dynamics of Religious Coping” from Dec. 3 to 5…
Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, received the National Humanities Medal today in an Oval Office ceremony hosted by President Bush and first lady Laura Bush.
Because graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Notre Dame hail from more than 100 countries worldwide, and the University offers international study programs…