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A&L alumnus and former U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly ’77 nominated as ambassador to the Holy See

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News and Alumni

Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., extended his congratulations to Notre Dame alumnus Joe Donnelly on his nomination today as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. “Joe has been an exemplary public servant in Congress, an invaluable friend of Notre Dame and of me personally, and he is an ideal choice to represent the United States at the Vatican,” Father Jenkins said. “He will bring to this role a deep understanding of the issues currently facing our nation and the world, a genuine Catholic faith and an understanding of the role the Church can play in our world. On behalf of the Notre Dame family, I offer my congratulations and prayers as he prepares for this new responsibility.”

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Elizabeth M. Renieris appointed founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News

Elizabeth M. Renieris, a technology and human rights fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a practitioner fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab, has been appointed founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame. Launched in 2020, the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab aims to address ethical questions associated with the development and use of emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning.

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How the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities is fighting to prevent homelessness

Author: Notre Dame News

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

The Homeless Prevention Call Center for the City of Chicago, currently run by Catholic Charities of Chicago, has helped thousands of families stay off the streets. Knowing funding for public programs is never guaranteed, it wanted to prove its method was cost effective and impactful. In 2012, it approached Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) for assistance. Could LEO researchers measure the call center’s effectiveness rather than volume?

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11 Arts and Letters faculty receive undergraduate teaching and advising awards

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Nine Arts and Letters faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and two have been honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The awards are presented by the Office of the Provost, and the recipients are selected through a process that includes peer and student nominations.

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New York Times editor Richard G. Jones named Annenberg Director of the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Richard G. Jones, an associate editor at The New York Times and a veteran journalism educator, is joining the University of Notre Dame this fall as the Annenberg Director of the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy in the Department of American Studies. Jones leads the Times’ newsroom summer internship program and The New York Times Student Journalism Institute, a two-week professional development program for collegiate members of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

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Video: Political Science Major and Glynn Scholar Delivers 2016 Valedictory Address

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News and Undergraduate News

p(image-right). !/assets/198209/abby_davis_icon.jpg(Abby Davis)! Abby Davis, a political science major from Avon Lake, Ohio, was named valedictorian of the 2016 University of Notre Dame graduating class and gave the valedictory address during the 171st University Commencement Ceremony on May 15 at Notre Dame Stadium. See the video or read the transcript of her speech here.

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Economist's Research Shows Fluidity of U.S. Labor Market Declining for Three Decades

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/106924/abigail_wozniak_2013_newest_icon.jpg(Abigail Wozniak)! The decline in the fluidity, or dynamism, of the U.S. labor market has been occurring along a number of dimensions — including the rate of job-to-job transition, hires and separations, and geographic movement across labor markets — since at least the 1980s, and these declines are all related, according to a new paper to be presented next week at the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity. The research by three members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Abigail Wozniak, Notre Dame associate professor of economics, examines declines in fluidity across eight measures of labor market transitions.

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Shakespeare at Notre Dame Launches Yearlong Celebration of Shakespeare's Legacy

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News and Arts

p(image-right). !/assets/185299/shakespeare400icon.jpg(Shakespeare: 1616-2016)! In January, Shakespeare at Notre Dame will kick off “Shakespeare: 1616-2016,” a yearlong series of performances, conferences, and special events commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and his legacy. “Act One” of the celebration includes events slated during the University of Notre Dame’s spring semester, which runs January through April, and features "First Folio! The Book that Gave us Shakespeare," a national exhibition and tour curated by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Psychologists Find Parent Interaction Vital to Child's Well-being as Adult

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/171630/darcia_narvaez_icon.jpg(Darcia Narvaez)! Did you receive affection, play freely, and feel supported in childhood? Childhood experiences like these appear to have a lot to do with well-being and moral capacities in adulthood. In a forthcoming article in the journal _Applied Developmental Science_, University of Notre Dame professor of psychology Darcia Narvaez and colleagues Lijuan Wang and Ying Cheng, associate professors of psychology, show that childhood experiences that match with evolved needs lead to better outcomes in adulthood.

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How Researchers Are Turning ‘Star Wars’ Droids into Reality

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/184534/r2d2_and_c3po_icon.jpg(R2-D2, left, and C-3PO droids from "Star Wars")! After nearly 40 years of pop culture relevancy, the _Star Wars_ saga is continuing this month with the December 18 release of _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_. Fans are lining up to see beloved characters return to the screen, including Han Solo and General Leia, and to welcome several new ones, including a variety of droids. The enduring popularity of and interest in C-3PO and R2-D2 speaks to the fascination many people have with robotics and artificial intelligence. Although no one will have their own C-3PO soon, a number of University of Notre Dame researchers are working to make droids more science fact than science fiction.

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Record Fulbright Award Year Led by 15 Arts and Letters Students

p(image-right). !/assets/68955/seal_85_x_111.jpg(Notre Dame seal)! Fifteen Notre Dame students who studied in the College of Arts and Letters have received grants from the Fulbright program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. A total of 18 students were named Fulbright finalists—the most grantees the University has ever had in the program.

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Notre Dame to Host 2016 Exhibition of William Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News

p(image-right). !/assets/35662/william_shakespeare_hpcrop.jpg(shakespeare icon)! The University of Notre Dame will host an exhibition of William Shakespeare’s First Folio next January. One of the world’s rarest and most treasured books, the First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. It will be displayed in the Hesburgh Library at Notre Dame Jan. 4-29 during a nationwide traveling exhibition titled “First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,” sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association and hosted by Shakespeare at Notre Dame.

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Cushwa Center to host meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association

Author: Notre Dame News

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

p(image-right). !/assets/160241/acha_logo_icon.jpg(American Catholic Historical Association)! The University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism will host the spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) from Thursday, March 26 through Saturday, March 28 at the Notre Dame Conference Center in McKenna Hall.

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Theodore J. Cachey Jr. Named Director of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News, Internationalism, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/135095/theodorecachey6_icon.jpg(Theodore Cachey)! Theodore J. Cachey Jr., the Albert J. and Helen M. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the inaugural director of the University’s Global Gateway in Rome. The appointment, effective July 1, was announced by J. Nicholas Entrikin, vice president and associate provost for internationalization.

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National Poetry Series 'Latino/a Poetry Now' to Conclude at Notre Dame

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News and Centers and Institutes

Letras Latinas, the literary program of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, in partnership with the Poetry Society of America, will be hosting the conclusion of “Latino/a Poetry Now,” a multiyear, multi-author initiative that has traveled to various college campuses around the United States. The series launched at Harvard University in November 2011 and winds down at the University of Notre Dame on October 29–30.

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Senior Andrew Owens Wins 2013 Baker Award

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News and Undergraduate News

For the third time in the past four years, a student enrolled in the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy at the University of Notre Dame is the recipient of the Brook Baker Collegiate Journalist of the Year Award. Andrew Owens, a graduating senior in the Gallivan Program, was named the 2013 Baker Award winner at a recent ceremony of the Indiana Collegiate Press Association on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.

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Columnist Kathleen Parker to Deliver Red Smith Lecture

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News

Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, will discuss “Journalism in the Age of Twitteracy” in a lecture at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday, October 4. Parker’s talk, which is free and open to the public, is the 2012 Red Smith Lecture in Journalism and will take place in the auditorium of the Eck Visitors Center, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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Notre Dame Design Students Bring South Africa together+ to Fight Xenophobia

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, Internationalism, Arts, and Faculty News

In the spirit of _ubuntu_, or “togetherness,” University of Notre Dame faculty, students, and alumni, Kgosi Neighbourhood Foundation, and Pellegrino Collaborative have joined forces to develop *together+*, a multifaceted campaign designed to unite a South African community divided by xenophobia, and to inform, inspire, and empower its most marginalized citizens.

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Award-Winning Short Documentary 'Okuyamba' to Screen at Hesburgh Center

Author: Notre Dame News

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

_Okuyamba_, a locally produced award-winning short documentary about palliative care in Uganda, will be shown in the auditorium of the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Center for International Studies at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21. The film is directed by Ted Mandell, a faculty member in Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT), and Mike Wargo of the Hospice Foundation.

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Notre Dame Research Team Featured in Launch of Latin American/Latino Digital Archive Project

A research team based at the Julian Samora Library in the College of Arts and Letters’ Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) is one of three hemispheric teams to have its work featured in the launch of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s (MFAH) digital archive, which was formally released to the public during an international symposium held January 19–20 in Houston.

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23rd Annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival to Screen Jan. 19 to 21

Author: Notre Dame News

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, and Arts

The Notre Dame Student Film Festival returns to campus January 19 to 21 (Thursday to Saturday) at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. in the Browning Cinema at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Tickets can be purchased at the ticket office, 574-631-2800 or online at "performingarts.nd.edu":http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=2118.

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New Documentary Explores “Compassion in Global Health”

Author: Notre Dame News

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

University of Notre Dame faculty and students recently joined colleagues at an inaugural symposium on Compassion in Global Health, which featured the premiere of a new documentary on the subject. Highlighting the experiences of notable participants as shared in a meeting last year at the Carter Center in Atlanta, the film includes perspectives from President Jimmy Carter, global health champion Paul Farmer, smallpox eradication hero Bill Forge, Earth Institute founder Jeffrey Sachs, former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, and Notre Dame theology professor Lawrence Sullivan, as well as other physicians, experts and patients from around the globe.

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