Sylvia Puente, director of the Metropolitan Chicago Initiative for the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), is named among Hispanic Business magazine’s “100 Most Influential Hispanics” in the U.S.
Archbishop J. Michael Miller, secretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education, will present the 2005 Terrence Keeley Vatican Lecture at 8 p.m. Oct. 31…
Jackie Welsh, curator of education for public programs at the University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art, has received the Museum Art Educator Award from the Art Education Association of Indiana.
The immigrant clutches onto a speeding train, hanging on between two freight cars, exhausted and praying he doesn’t slip to his death, while his friend hugs the top of an adjoining car…
Examining the life and political theory of 18th-century Anglo-Irish feminist, writer, and intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft is the focus of a lecture series sponsored by the Program in in Gender Studies…
Two papers coauthored by Richard Jensen, professor and chairperson of the Department of Economics and Econometrics, have recently been cited in articles in several publications.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $1 million grant to the University of Notre Dame for a new program dedicated to examining the role of religion in American public life.
Five members of the University of Notre Dame faculty have been awarded endowed professorships, including Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Notre Dame Professor of English.
The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) will open its 2005-06 theater season with Arthur Kopit’s “Wings”…
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame is co-sponsoring the second gathering of a symposium titled “Catholic Universities of East-Central Europe and the University of Notre Dame”…
The Holy Cross Annex once housed a gymnasium, handball courts, and a few classrooms for seminarians. Today, the building is still being used by Holy Cross priests, but for a much different purpose: to create art.
Together with the Career Center, the College of Arts and Letters will host “Time, Talent & Treasure: The Contributions of the Arts & Letters Major to Society, Business & Global Relations” at 6:00 p.m. on Monday (October 3) in the McKenna Hall auditorium.
José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States, will be the keynote speaker at a conference examining democratic struggles in Latin America on Oct. 7 and 8 (Friday and Saturday) at the University of Notre Dame.
Louis Dupré, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor Emeritus in Yale University’s religious studies department, will give the first four of this year’s Erasmus Lectures during October at the University of Notre Dame.
“The Long Reach of African-American Poetics,” a mini-conference celebrating the influence of African-American cadences and verse, will be held Oct. 5 to 7 (Wednesday to Friday)…
Citing the wisdom of popes and priests, saints and scholars, and, of course, his mom, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., challenged the University community in his presidential inaugural address…
Jodi S. Cohen of the Chicago Tribune profiles the University’s new president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
A memorial Mass for John Riley-Schofield, visiting assistant professor of music, will be held Wednesday, September 21, at 4:00 p.m. in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the Notre Dame campus.
Steve Coll, recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes and former managing editor of the Washington Post, will present a lecture titled “Inside the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden” at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 (Thursday) in the Jordan Auditorium of the University of Notre Dame.
The recent discovery of changes in two genes thought to regulate brain growth has some scientists convinced that the human brain is still a work in progress, but a University of Notre Dame anthropologist says that these findings need to be interpreted in a cultural context…