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Economist Paul Collier to Serve as Special Adviser to Ford Program

Published: October 01, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: Centers and Institutes and Faculty News

Paul Collier, professor of economics and director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, has accepted an invitation to serve as special adviser to the University of Notre Dame's Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity.

Rooney Center's Inaugural Conference to Examine 2008 Election

Published: September 30, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Centers and Institutes

Notre Dame's Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy will host its inaugural conference, "The Change Election? The 2008 Presidential Election and the Future of American Politics," on Oct. 5 and 6 (Monday and Tuesday) in the McKenna Hall auditorium.

Moreau Fellowship Program to Bolster Study of Diversity

Published: September 30, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Research

Notre Dame has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program that aims to attract scholars from underrepresented groups to the University for research and engagement of issues related to multiculturalism and diversity.

Call for Student Research for Human Development Conference

Published: September 29, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Undergraduate and graduate students alike are being invited to present papers at "People, Power, and Pragmatism: The Future of Development in Our Changing World," a conference on human development scheduled for February 26?27, 2010 on the Notre Dame campus.

Theater Season to Feature Work of Student Playwrights

Published: September 29, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Arts

Beginning this fall, plays created in the "New Playwrights Workshop" of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) will be part of the regular theater season.

Department of Education Grant to Fund Asian Studies at Notre Dame

Published: September 28, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Centers and Institutes

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies an Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages Program grant of approximately $180,000 to advance Asian language and area studies at the University.

Notre Dame to Mark 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall

Published: September 27, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Centers and Institutes

Notre Dame will host a panel discussion and lecture Oct. 12 (Monday) to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (Nov. 9), celebrate two decades of freedom for the people of East Germany and of united Germany, and discuss what the East German Revolution meant...

God and Moral Law the Topic of Annual Plantinga Lecture

Published: September 24, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News

The Center for Philosophy of Religion welcomes Mark C. Murphy, Fr. Joseph T. Durkin, S.J. Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, to deliver the University of Notre Dame's eighth annual Plantinga Lecture.

Pope Appoints ND Theologian Adviser to African Bishops in Vatican Meeting

Published: September 24, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News, Catholicism, and Faculty News

Rev. Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor, associate professor of theology, will be skipping class for a couple of weeks next month. If his students and colleagues all seem tolerant, even pleased, by his departure, it is likely because of its impressive excuse: Pope Benedict XVI is calling.

Notre Dame Sociologist Receives Funding to Continue Youth and Religion Research

Published: September 23, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Centers and Institutes

Sociologist Christian Smith of the University of Notre Dame Center for the Study of Religion and Society has received $1,228,000 to continue the National Study of Youth and Religion into a fourth wave of data collection.

Director of White House Faith-Based Initiatives to Speak at Notre Dame

Published: September 22, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: Centers and Institutes

Joshua DuBois, executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, will speak on "Hope in Action Through Faith-Based Initiatives" at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 (Monday) in the Andrews Auditorium of Geddes Hall.

Crowe to Receive Doggett Prize From American Astronomical Society

Published: September 21, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Michael J. Crowe, Reverend John J. Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre Dame, will receive the 2010 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society.

iNDustry Alliance Festival to Bring Alumni Filmmakers Back to Campus

Published: September 21, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Arts

Four Notre Dame alumni working in the film industry will return to campus to screen and discuss their work at the annual iNDustry Alliance Alumni Documentary Film Festival, to be held Oct. 1 to 3 in the Browning Cinema of the University's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Notre Dame to Host Catholic Culture Literature Series

Published: September 20, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News, Centers and Institutes, and Catholicism

Notre Dame will host its eighth annual Catholic Culture Literature Series beginning Tuesday (Sept. 22). The opening lecture, which will focus on poet and playwright T.S. Eliot, will be presented by Dominic Manganiello, professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

Bringing George Rickey Home

Published: September 17, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Arts

Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art will host a symposium Sept. 25 and 26 dedicated to George Rickey, a major modern artist who was a native of South Bend and whose estate has given a significant amount of his work and correspondence to the University.

ACE Leads in Service to Catholic Education

Published: September 17, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Catholicism

Since its inception, Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education program has grown from a service initiative composed of a handful of Catholic school educators to a movement that has commissioned 1,200 teachers and more than 125 administrators to serve Catholic education in the United States.

Inter-American Development Bank Official to Speak on Financial Crisis

Published: September 15, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: Centers and Institutes

Eduardo Lora, the chief economist and head of research for the Inter-American Development Bank, will present a lecture titled "The Impact of the Financial Crisis in Latin America" at 6 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 17) in the Hesburgh Center auditorium.

ND Theologian Father Gutierrez to Receive Niebuhr Medal From Elmhurst College

Published: September 14, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P., John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Theology at Notre Dame, will receive the Niebuhr Medal from Elmhurst College in a Sept. 20 ceremony. The highest honor given by the college, the Niebuhr Medal is presented in recognition of "extraordinary service to humanity"...

Institute for Latino Studies to Celebrate 10th Anniversary

Published: September 13, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: Centers and Institutes

The University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies will celebrate its 10th anniversary with several events, including an academic symposium titled "Latino Studies: Past, Present and Future" from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday (Sept. 16) in the McKenna Hall auditorium.

Newly Opened Geddes Hall Integrates Theology, Sustainability

Published: September 10, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: Centers and Institutes

Notre Dame's Geddes Hall is coming to life. The staff of the University's Center for Social Concerns moved into the newly constructed building this summer and will be joined by other units of the Institute for Church Life...

Kroc, Oxford University Press to Collaborate on Volumes on Peace

Published: September 08, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: Centers and Institutes

Oxford University Press has accepted proposals from Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies to publish a series of books on strategic peacebuilding, beginning this fall, and a handbook on religion, conflict and peacebuilding in 2011.

Cardinal Mahony to Speak Sept. 18 at Notre Dame

Published: September 07, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News, Centers and Institutes, and Catholicism

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles, will give a lecture titled "Fostering the Baptismal Priesthood in the 'Year for Priests'" at 4 p.m. Sept. 18 (Friday) in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies.

Scholars Counter Criticism of Hebrew God

Published: September 02, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News, Centers and Institutes, and Catholicism

Critics of Abrahamic religious traditions contend that the darker passages of the Hebrew Bible undermine the traditional Jewish and Christian understanding of God as perfectly loving and good. Scholars will address these contentions at the upcoming conference...

Actors From The London Stage to Present Shakespeare's King Lear

Published: September 01, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Arts

Actors From The London Stage, a self-directed ensemble of five professional British actors, will present William Shakespeare's King Lear from Sept. 9 to 11 (Wednesday to Friday) at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Notre Dame's Washington Hall.

Anthropologist Researches Evolution of Darwin's Theory

Published: September 01, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Research

New research by Notre Dame anthropologist Agustin Fuentes states that although Darwin's basic ideas still form the core of our understandings, recent innovations in evolutionary theory help expand the way we think about evolution.

Anthropologist Wins Award for Ethnohistory Paper

Published: August 31, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Faculty News

University of Notre Dame anthropologist Karen Richman has been awarded the Robert F. Heizer Article Award by the American Society for Ethnohistory. The award recognizes the best article in the field of ethnohistory this year.

Alumni Couple Creates Scholars Program With $35 Million Gift to Notre Dame

Published: August 26, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: Alumni

University of Notre Dame graduates Mark W. and Stacey Miller Yusko of Chapel Hill, N.C., have made a $35 million gift to their alma mater to establish a new undergraduate scholarship program.

New Biography Reappraises a "Boundary-Crosser"

Published: August 25, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: Alumni

Rev. David B. Burrell, C.S.C., Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Theology at Notre Dame, recently published When Faith and Reason Meet: The Legacy of John Zahm, C.S.C., a biography of a remarkable figure from the University's past.

Personality, Identity, and Character the Focus of New Book

Published: August 25, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Faculty News

For centuries scholars have emphasized moral judgment as central to moral behavior. Recently, the focus has turned to moral personality. In a new volume edited by two members of the Department of Psychology, scholars from a variety of disciplines address the issues of moral character and identity.

Renowned Astronomer to Speak About Extraterrestrials

Published: August 23, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Is anybody out there? Seth Shostak, lead astronomer at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) and host of the NPR science show Are We Alone?, will explore the human fascination with extraterrestrials in a lecture and panel discussion on Tuesday, September 8, 2009.