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Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan named director of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Categories: Research, General News, Faculty News, and Centers and Institutes

As of July 1, Sullivan will oversee the Institute, including its flagship residential fellowship and graduate student fellowship programs. In conjunction with Sullivan’s directorship, the Institute has added a thematic option to its 2020-2021 call for fellowship applications — “the nature of trust.”

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Psychology professor to improve assessment testing for high school students

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Categories: Research, General News, Faculty News, and Centers and Institutes

Ying Alison Cheng, associate professor of psychology and fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, will lead a $1.4 million project funded by the Institute of Education Sciences to develop the intelligent diagnostic assessment program (i-DAP) for high school statistics education. 

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Theology professors archive the rise of the contemporary Latin American Catholic Church

To preserve and share the history of political upheaval that ultimately changed the Latin American Catholic Church, Notre Dame researchers are collecting a variety of audio recordings, handwritten documents, and texts to develop a digital library of critical events that took place throughout Latin America over more than 60 years and ultimately changed the Catholic Church.

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FTT faculty lead effort to restore a piece of 20th-century popular culture

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Categories: General News, Research, Arts, and Faculty News

One of the most innovative and new pieces of popular culture emerged in 1914 when Winsor McCay, a famous cartoonist and vaudeville performer, incorporated an animated cartoon called Gertie into his act. Despite its popularity at the time, the original film and the paper drawings for it have all but been forgotten over the past 100 years. But now, faculty members in Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre are working to change that by collaborating internationally to restore the film and to research the history surrounding its cultural impact.

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Notre Dame enhances data sciences infrastructure for social science research

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Categories: General News, Research, Centers and Institutes, and Faculty News

Notre Dame Research has embarked on an initiative this academic year to identify the infrastructure support needs for social scientists across campus and to find approaches to fill those needs. Information gathering has begun and Vice President for Research Robert Bernhard welcomes the thoughts of faculty and students about how the University can advance its social sciences programs of research and scholarship. 

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Notre Dame psychologist looks at the toll of daily stressors on long-term health

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

How people react to stress–both psychologically and physically–can have implications for a person’s health and well-being, including how well they age. Professor of Psychology and Associate Vice President for Research Cindy Bergeman is conducting a 10-year study based on how different people respond to stress, why they react the way they do, and the different ways people cope.

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Annual research funding at Notre Dame tops $128 million

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

Professor Amy Hixon works with an undergraduate researcher in her Stinson-Remick Lab, Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Earth Studies

The University of Notre Dame has received $128 million in research funding for fiscal year 2016 — the second highest in its history. In fiscal year 2015, the University’s research funding was its highest of all time, reaching $133 million.

“The research, scholarship and creativity of Notre Dame faculty continues to make a difference in multiple ways across our country and around the world,” said Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the University’s president. “The growth in external funding is a tangible testimony to the importance of their work.”

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Classics Scholar Traces History of Saint Augustine's Words

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/199128/hildegund_muller_icon.jpg(Hildegund Müller)! Augustine of Hippo is recognized as one of the most important church fathers and greatest thinkers of Christianity. While many theologians and philosophers study his work, Hildegund Müller, associate professor of classics and associate vice president for research at Notre Dame, takes a different approach to reading Augustine’s texts. Müller’s research is influenced by her philological background and study of literary detail in texts, especially in her current project, A Reading of Augustine’s Sermons, which includes an edition of a selection of his preaching on the Psalms.

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Arts and Letters Faculty Win Grants from Notre Dame Research

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Categories: General News, Research, Centers and Institutes, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/128899/85x/great_hall_windows_icon.jpg(Great Hall windows)! Notre Dame Research has provided awards to more than a dozen College of Arts and Letters faculty members from its Internal Grants Program for 2016. The grant awardees spanned the University in four program categories: Faculty Research Support (Initiation), Faculty Research Support (Regular), Equipment Restoration and Renewal, and Library Acquisitions.

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