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New Sleep-enhancing App, Tools Based on Notre Dame Psychologist’s Research

Author: Gene Stowe

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, Research, Alumni, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/64770/payne_jessica_icon.jpg(Jessica Payne)! A team of Notre Dame entrepreneurs has developed a sleep-enhancing kit and app designed to boost college students’ healthy rest, memory, learning, and mental health. The approach is based on the research of Associate Professor Jessica Payne, the Nancy O'Neill Collegiate Chair in Psychology and director of the Sleep, Stress, and Memory Lab.

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Philosopher's Software Program Mines, Analyzes Digitized Documents

Author: Gene Stowe

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/145026/ramsey_icon.jpg(Grant Ramsey)! Notre Dame Philosopher Grant Ramsey’s laboratory has produced a Big Data search-and-analysis tool to explore questions of definition, revolution, and trending in science. The application, evoText, already has access to a half-million articles, and pending agreements will add millions more. Ramsey, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and a fellow at the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, came to Notre Dame in 2007.

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Arts and Letters Faculty Help Bring Ecuadorian Masterpiece to Campus

Author: Gene Stowe

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

p(image-right). !/assets/136736/oswaldo_icon.jpg(Oswaldo Guayasamín)! The “_Ecuador_ Unframed: the Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín” project will bring the five-panel centerpiece of the acclaimed artist’s masterwork to the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture (NDCAC) August 18-October 23, with a grand opening event on September 3. The mural, depicting hardship, poverty, violence, hunger, and social injustice, is the centerpiece of another 103 pieces that Guayasamín created depicting Ecuador’s landscapes and people.

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ND Philosopher Illuminates 80 Years of Department History

Author: Gene Stowe

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

Ken Sayre’s _Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame_, a narrative history of nearly 80 years, divides the decades into three distinct periods: textbook Thomism, pluralism, and professionalism. Sayre, who came to Notre Dame in 1958 with a Ph.D. from Harvard, has witnessed them all. “I’ve been at Notre Dame continuously for 55 years,” he says, “except for visiting appointments at Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge. This is one thing that qualifies me to take on the project.

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ICeNSA Network Opens Flow of Ideas, Collaboration

Author: Gene Stowe

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

The University of Notre Dame's Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA), is a connector and a hub whose interdisciplinary work and faculty affiliates span computing, science, engineering, mathematics, social science, and humanities. Nitesh Chawla of computer science and engineering is director of the center, with co-directors Michael Ferdig of biological sciences, David Hachen of sociology and Zoltán Toroczkai of physics. The multidisciplinary approach, reaching into education and service as well as research and science, puts iCeNSA on the leading edge of an accelerating trend in universities and other enterprises.

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Faculty Members Mentor South Bend Students

Author: Gene Stowe

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Two years ago, Julia Douthwaite, a professor in Notre Dame's Department Romance Languages and Literatures, adapted her altered-book assignment for undergraduates so that the South Bend schoolgirl she mentors every week could create her own hardback book. “I’m basically the production assistant and the illustrator,” explains Douthwaite, who also writes promotional blurbs for the back cover. “She’s the author. She’s so thrilled that she’s now the author of two books,” both treasured Christmas gifts for the girl’s mother.

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Workshop Focuses on Philosophy of Astronomy

Author: Gene Stowe

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Matt Dowd missed the first Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop, organized in 1993 by Michael J. Crowe, but he has the group photo to prove he was part of the second event in 1995. Crowe, the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus in Humanities in the Program of Liberal Studies, was Dowd’s dissertation adviser for the Ph.D. he received in 2003 in the history and philosophy of science.

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Graduate Students to Host Leading Ethnography Conference

Author: Gene Stowe

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

Next spring, graduate students in Notre Dame’s Sociology Department will host the 13th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference, a yearly event organized by a team of students from major Midwestern universities, including the University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and DePaul University. Notre Dame became an affiliate member of the group last year and is playing host to the conference for the first time.…

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A Bridge Between Scholars Present and Future

Author: Gene Stowe

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

The Department of Sociology’s Center for the Study of Social Movements has adopted a strategy that brings together young scholars and seasoned professionals to help the flow of ideas flourish across academic generations. It’s an approach that’s also enriching the experience of Notre Dame graduate students while bearing witness to that old adage about imitation and flattery.

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