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  1. Photos: United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh speaks at Notre Dame on 9/11 anniversary

    September 14, 2026

    Vincent Phillip Muñoz, director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame, speaks before a Jeanie Poole O'Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture at DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at Notre Dame on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in South Bend. The lecture was held in remembrance on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

  2. Experts Predict No Fed Rate Cut Next Week: What It Means

    September 11, 2026

    Meanwhile, Jeffrey Campbell, a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and a former senior economist and research adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is more hawkish.

  3. Nutritional Cognitive Neuroscience – A Conversation With Dr. Aron Barbey

    September 10, 2026

    Today we get into the fascinating realm of nutritional cognitive neuroscience with Aron Barbey. Aron is a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame where he directs the Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision Neuroscience Lab.

  4. College-educated women are snapping up the highest-earning men without college degrees, leaving the rest further behind

    September 10, 2026

    Other research on the question points in different directions, he noted. Economist David Autor and his coauthors found that manufacturing decline during the China Shock reduced marriage rates in the hardest-hit communities. Economists Melissa Kearney and Riley Wilson, studying localized fracking booms that raised men’s earnings, found increases in both marital and nonmarital births—but no corresponding increase in marriage rates.

  5. How OxyContin and the Opioid Epidemic Reshaped American Communities

    September 10, 2026

    The opioid epidemic is usually studied as a mortality crisis, and for good reason: more than 800,000 Americans have died of overdoses since 1999. In a new paper with Victoria Barone and Stephen Claassen, we document a different and less examined consequence. The epidemic reshaped the demographic map of the country. 

  6. Tax breaks for charity donations are a poor way to do good

    August 28, 2026

    The key test is whether charities gain more in additional donations than governments lose in revenue. Academic estimates vary wildly. Although some are bullish and suggest that donations can exceed lost revenue, some recent studies are more equivocal. In 2024 Daniel Hungerman of the University of Notre Dame and his co-authors found that, if the government uses tax reliefs to make the cost of giving 10% cheaper, it incentivises donors to give only 6% more on average. The state gives up more than charities gain.

  7. These politicians love talking about religion. They're also Democrats

    August 25, 2026

    Democrats' coalition of voters tends to be the most religiously diverse, but also the most secular, said David Campbell, director of the University of Notre Dame Democracy Initiative.

  8. Kevin Warsh seeks to reassure investors as US economic strains worsen

    August 24, 2026

    “What is unsettling is Warsh’s unwillingness to provide a clear and open assessment of the current situation and the outlook for the US economy,” said Christiane Baumeister of the University of Notre Dame.

  9. Congress’ wide age gap comes into focus

    August 24, 2026

    “Voters have these attitudes that they don’t want older members. But then when these older members run, especially incumbents run, they tend to put them back in power,” said James M. Curry, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame. “Voters are the stopgap.”

  10. Notre Dame professor with focus on AI is 'guardedly optimistic' about it

    August 21, 2026

    Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, and founding director of the university's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, did not have much of a summer break.

  11. The Art of Choosing Your Wedding-Day Fragrance

    August 21, 2026

    “Scent can be a powerful trigger of certain memories,” says Matthew Robison, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. “We remember events with all their associated features, not only the sensory experience, but also the emotions we were experiencing at the time,” he explains, adding that memory is naturally associative, building connections between these sensory experiences and the people, places, and events surrounding them.

  12. Liberal Families Are Looking Pretty Traditional

    August 21, 2026

    What I see in my deep-blue D.C. neighborhood undermines the simplistic culture-war narrative

     

  13. Hormuz cannot be defeated by missiles... How did Iran create a weapon that confounded American power? (Arabic)

    August 17, 2026

    Eugene Goltz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, tells El-Watan that the current reality is that Iran cannot completely close the Strait, and the United States cannot completely open it using military force: “At least at the level of force that each side is currently willing to use.”

  14. Some Democrats trying to reclaim the issue of faith from the Republican Party

    August 17, 2026

    David Campbell, a professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame, told ABC News that Carter ran on describing himself "as a born-again or evangelical Christian, and no presidential candidate had ever done that before."

  15. Is There a ‘Religious Revival’ Happening Among Gen Z?

    August 14, 2026

    “I would not say that the evidence [of a revival] has been convincing, but there are hints in the data,” says David Campbell, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. “It’s entirely possible that the anecdotal reports are a leading indicator—so one possibility is three years from now, we’ll be having this conversation and say yeah, it turns out there really was a religious revival; it just takes a while to show up in the data.”

  16. Gilberto Cárdenas, Notre Dame academic who helped found the field of Latino studies, dies at 79

    August 13, 2026

    For decades, Gilberto Cárdenas worked at the intersection of Latino culture, scholarship and community engagement, and he sought to elevate the profiles of Latino artists through a variety of avenues, including creating a national gathering devoted to studying and advancing U.S. Latino visual art.

    Later in his career, Cárdenas taught Latino studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the founding director of the university’s Institute for Latino Studies. He was also assistant provost at Notre Dame, and he later served as the executive director of Notre Dame’s Center for Arts and Culture.

  17. Gilberto Cárdenas, Notre Dame academic who helped found the field of Latino studies, dies at 79

    August 13, 2026

    Later in his career, Gilberto Cárdenas taught Latino studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the founding director of the university’s Institute for Latino Studies. He was also assistant provost at Notre Dame, and he later served as the executive director of Notre Dame’s Center for Arts and Culture.

    Cárdenas, 79, died of complications from cancer on July 26 at his home in Austin, Texas, Díaz said. He previously had lived in South Bend, Indiana.

  18. How Did We Get To the Point the World’s Most Powerful and Expensive Military is Running Out of Ammo?

    August 12, 2026

    Then finally we assess how we got to the point where the world’s most powerful and expensive military is running out of ammo and speak with Eugene Gholz, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. His work focuses on the intersection of national security and economic policy, on subjects including innovation, defense management and U.S. grand strategy.

  19. Historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in ‘AI and moral agency’

    August 11, 2026

    “Almost everybody we’re talking with and working with in higher education is getting really serious about how issues involving artificial intelligence are shaping a lot of the ethical questions that we want to study and the formation work we need to do with our students,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher and director of the Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good.

  20. Michigan's Primary: What to Watch as Votes Roll In

    August 05, 2026

    Here to help us navigate today's election is political science professor Ken Kollman of the University of Notre Dame.