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  1. Positive Parenting Shapes the Adolescent Brain’s Response to Joy, 15-Year Study Finds

    October 09, 2026

    The research was led by Kaylin Hill, an assistant professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology and a clinical psychologist who directs the university’s Psychophysiology of Affect across the Lifespan, or PAL, Lab.

  2. Midterms could mark start of a generational shift in Congress

    October 08, 2026

    “We seem to be reaching an inflection point,” says Jim Curry, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame who co-authored a study on lawmaker age and representation in Congress.

  3. OPINION | Rising prices may be here to stay, but poverty doesn’t have to be

    October 08, 2026

    Patrick Turner is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and a researcher with the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities.

  4. University of Notre Dame’s ethics center gives 2027 pro-life award to Dominican sisters

    October 05, 2026

    The University of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture on Oct. 4 announced that its 2027 Evangelium Vitae Medal would be awarded to the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne for what the center described as more than a century of “truth and love” serving poor and dying people.

  5. Why Philosophers Are Worried About AI

    October 04, 2026

    University of Notre Dame philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan takes that question beyond the classroom, examining the ethical responsibility of the companies building AI and the role individuals have in deciding how the technology enters their everyday lives.

  6. Tennessee Catholic bishops join call for clemency for inmate who survived execution attempt

    October 03, 2026

    Following a failed lethal injection attempt on death row inmate Christa Gail Pike, Tennessee’s Catholic bishops and faith leaders urged Governor Bill Lee to commute her sentence to life in prison. Joining the response, CCCG Affiliate Richard Garnett criticized the attempt, stating it exposes the "delusion" that medicalized procedures change the fundamental reality of state-sanctioned killings. In response to the failed execution, Governor Lee suspended all remaining executions in Tennessee for the rest of the year pending an investigation.

     

  7. Trump wants Ireland to reunify. He risks reopening old wounds

    October 01, 2026

    “With his remarks about Irish unity, he distracted Americans and others into thinking he was conducting high-level international business,” Prof Robert Schmuhl, of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said.

  8. Psychedelics have brought mysticism into modern medicine. Researchers are listening.

    September 30, 2026

    Notre Dame medical anthropologist Aidan Seale-Feldman studies such questions. She’s spent the past couple years interviewing people who took psychedelics for improved mental health in settings ranging from underground churches to clinical trials, and, in many cases, emerged with a reshaped worldview.The Well spoke with Seale-Feldman about the possibilities and risks of psychedelic medicine, the rise of what she calls “secular mysticism,” and what these experiences reveal about the search for meaning today.

  9. Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Spiritual Quest

    September 29, 2026

    “Imagine if you knew that about your financial adviser,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame who attended one of the sessions. “Like, your financial adviser was most of the time super smart and helpful, but one day out of the year had this kind of break with reality.”

  10. Mideast Oil Exports Rebound Even as Prices Remain Elevated

    September 29, 2026

    “They are getting a substantial amount of oil out, and it is increasing over time as shippers’ confidence goes up,” said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on conflict in the strait.

  11. What makes the Democratic Socialist Party attractive to college-educated voters?

    September 29, 2026

    A recent poll conducted shows a national shift in college-educated Democrat voters leaning more toward Democratic Socialism. Is that the case in Utah as well? Notre Dame political science professor Jim Curry joins ARC Salt Lake to discuss what makes people lean more left toward candidates that are embracing some parts of socialism.

  12. Why American Looks the Way It Does

    September 28, 2026

    A lively new book by the historian Joshua Specht, “Property Values” (Princeton), considers land ownership from the country’s founding to now. It’s been two hundred and fifty years of tumult. Nineteenth-century settlers saw themselves as pioneers, breaking new ground, but, Specht notes, so did twentieth-century suburbanites. Understandably so. His book describes campaign after campaign to remake the land.

  13. Could Homeownership Reverse the Decline in Birthrates?

    September 28, 2026

    But Melissa S. Kearney, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Lisa J. Dettling, an economist at the Federal Reserve Board, found an economic connection that was less about price and more about ownership.

  14. Paleo games at Notre Dame lets student, staff try ancient skills

    September 28, 2026

    “This is hands-on learning as I've been asking some students as they use the spears and the dunk tank how hard is it do you think you'd be able to hunt down your dinner in the Paleolithic and they're like no we'd die,” said Cara Ocobock, associate professor of anthropology. “So, I think it helps students really get some idea of what our life was like you know 100,000 years ago 300,000 years ago and the kind of very necessary and difficult skills you'd have to cultivate to survive."

  15. Pope Leo Praises Europe's Democracy, diverging once again from Trump

    September 28, 2026

    “He always frames his messages universally,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a historian at the University of Notre Dame. He is not seeking “to correct or condemn."

  16. Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Tours Secular France

    September 25, 2026

    Francis focused on what he called “the peripheries” of the church, but John McGreevy, a historian at the University of Notre Dame, said Leo was “more concerned about unity of the church, about pulling Catholics from all various backgrounds together.”

  17. The Dad Bod Theory

    September 24, 2026

    The father's body transforms when he takes on caregiving roles. Lee Gettler, an anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame, reveals how active fatherhood transforms men's bodies and behavior, and why this matters for public policy.

  18. Reading like a citizen

    September 24, 2026

    Civic education is resurgent in America, but why are the language arts missing from the curriculum? Piece by Gregory Laski, associate professor of American studies and director of the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy

  19. Lessons for the 21st century from a 200‑year‑old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley

    September 23, 2026

    By Eileen Hunt, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame.

  20. A Closer Look: Justice Kavanaugh and 9/11

    September 22, 2026

    On the anniversary of 9/11, Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared on a Notre Dame panel marking 25 years since that day’s horrific terrorist attacks. In remarks that have since been extensively covered, Kavanaugh reflected alongside other panelists on his experience the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and how the nation changed in its aftermath.