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Theater Season to Feature Work of Student Playwrights

Published: September 29, 2009

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.

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.

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.

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.

Working in the White House: An Alumnus Inside the "Bubble"

Published: September 16, 2009

Author: Josh Stowe

Categories: General News and Alumni

In 1988, Kevin Dunay left Notre Dame with a doctoral degree in psychology. This year, he returned to campus with a presidential motorcade.

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"...

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...

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.

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 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.

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.

Saturday Scholar Series: A Different Game Plan for Football Weekends

Published: August 23, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Arts

The 2009 Saturday Scholar Series promises an intriguing lineup of lectures by some of the College of Arts and Letters' most engaging faculty.

Douthwaite Article Reveals Existence of French Frankenstein

Published: August 20, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Julia Douthwaite, professor of French, recently published an article that reveals the existence of a French "Frankenstein" 28 years before the publication of Mary Shelley's masterpiece.

Catholic Universities to Gather at Notre Dame to Address Sustainability

Published: August 19, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News, Centers and Institutes, and Catholicism

The University of Notre Dame this fall will host "Renewing the Campus: Sustainability and the Catholic University," the first national conference dedicated to advancing the engagement of Catholic universities with the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.

Education, Schooling, and Society Minor Surges in Popularity

Published: August 17, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News

About a dozen students were enrolled in the University of Notre Dame's interdisciplinary minor Education, Schooling and Society when it was established seven years ago. Today, the program is one of the largest minors in the College of Arts and Letters.

Students Spend Summer Immersed in Chinese Business, Culture

Published: August 16, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Internationalism

The University of Notre Dame's newest summer program "is a beautiful example of interdisciplinarity, Notre Dame's commitment to Asia initiatives and the transformative role of study abroad," said Vice President and Associate Provost Dennis Jacobs.

A Poet in the Rustbelt

Published: August 04, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Down to Earth is a Midwestern book, according to its author, British poet John Wilkinson, who has been a research professor in the Department of English since 2005.

Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival to Present Twelfth Night

Published: August 03, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Arts

As the capstone of its 10th anniversary season, the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival will present William Shakespeare's romantic comedy Twelfth Night Aug. 18 to 30 at the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

New Study Examines How Cost Affects Decisions to Marry

Published: August 02, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

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

"Money can't buy me love," the Beatles famously sang. And now a new paper by University of Notre Dame economist Kasey S. Buckles and colleagues suggests money, or more precisely the price of marriage, can significantly affect the decision to marry.

Psychology Professor Receives AERA Book Award

Published: July 20, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Darcia Narvaez, associate professor of psychology, was awarded the 2009 Moral Development and Education Book Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for her 2008 work, Handbook of Moral and Character Education.

ND Faculty Joins Bureau of Medieval Institutes Federation

Published: July 19, 2009

Author: Arts and Letters

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Olivia Remie Constable, professor of history and Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute, was elected to the bureau of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales (FIDEM) for a five-year term.

ND Economists Earn NIH Grants for Research

Published: June 21, 2009

Author: Josh Stowe

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

Notre Dame economists Kasey Buckles and Dan Hungerman have received funding from the National Institutes of Health to continue research on the well-being of children and families.

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Theater Season to Feature Work of Student Playwrights

Department of Education Grant to Fund Asian Studies at Notre Dame

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

God and Moral Law the Topic of Annual Plantinga Lecture

Pope Appoints ND Theologian Adviser to African Bishops in Vatican Meeting

Notre Dame Sociologist Receives Funding to Continue Youth and Religion Research

iNDustry Alliance Festival to Bring Alumni Filmmakers Back to Campus

Crowe to Receive Doggett Prize From American Astronomical Society

Notre Dame to Host Catholic Culture Literature Series

Bringing George Rickey Home

ACE Leads in Service to Catholic Education

Working in the White House: An Alumnus Inside the "Bubble"

ND Theologian Father Gutierrez to Receive Niebuhr Medal From Elmhurst College

Cardinal Mahony to Speak Sept. 18 at Notre Dame

Scholars Counter Criticism of Hebrew God

Anthropologist Researches Evolution of Darwin's Theory

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

Anthropologist Wins Award for Ethnohistory Paper

Personality, Identity, and Character the Focus of New Book

Saturday Scholar Series: A Different Game Plan for Football Weekends

Douthwaite Article Reveals Existence of French Frankenstein

Catholic Universities to Gather at Notre Dame to Address Sustainability

Education, Schooling, and Society Minor Surges in Popularity

Students Spend Summer Immersed in Chinese Business, Culture

A Poet in the Rustbelt

Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival to Present Twelfth Night

New Study Examines How Cost Affects Decisions to Marry

Psychology Professor Receives AERA Book Award

ND Faculty Joins Bureau of Medieval Institutes Federation

ND Economists Earn NIH Grants for Research

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