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January 18, 2021

Notre Dame launches interdisciplinary Initiative on Race and Resilience

The University of Notre Dame has launched the Initiative on Race and Resilience, a new interdisciplinary program focused on the...

January 15, 2021

Sustainability Career Series Opens Virtual Doors for Students

With a record number of students enrolled in the Sustainability Minor and an increasing interest in careers incorporating sustainability, there...

January 12, 2021

ND panel puts Capitol unrest in perspective

What just happened? That’s what Notre Dame’s Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights and Rooney Center for the Study of...

January 11, 2021

Alan Page to speak at MLK Day event

Retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page, a 1967 University of Notre Dame graduate and the first African American justice...

January 11, 2021

Assault on the Capitol: What Just Happened?

Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy If you were unable to...

January 08, 2021

"Assault on Congress" -- Statement by Fr. Jenkins

Today's assault on Congress was unworthy of our democracy. We pray for the nation and call on everyone, regardless of...

December 14, 2020

The Review of Politics is pleased to introduce Melody Grubaugh as one of our 2021 editorial interns.

Melody Grubaugh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, concentrating in...

December 14, 2020

Wall Street Journal: Professor Carter Snead’s ‘What It Means to Be Human’ is one of the year’s best books

The Wall Street journal listed Professor O. Carter Snead’s new book, What It Means to Be Human: The Case for...

December 10, 2020

None of the Above Podcast: Militarizing Public Health? (ft. Eugene Gholz)

Multiple promising vaccines for the coronavirus are nearing FDA approval, and the United States is gearing up for widespread vaccination....

December 09, 2020

dCEC Director Carter Snead Reflects on 2020

Dear Friends of the de Nicola Center, What a difference a year makes. When last I wrote a year-end reflection, back...

December 09, 2020

How Will The Biden White House Tackle Foreign Policy, Diplomacy In The Wake Of Trump's 'America First' Agenda?

George A. Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, was interviewed in the Texas Public Radio...

December 04, 2020

A Bold Peace Offensive to Engage North Korea

George A. Lopez, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace studies, and Frank Aum, senior expert on North...

December 04, 2020

What can a chicken nugget from Russia tell us about technology, agriculture and human development?

This article is part of a series of blog posts published by the Keough School of Global Affairs. Dignity and...

November 19, 2020

Having Coffee with Dianne Pinderhughes

Dianne Pinderhughes has been observing protests and marches for racial and social justice since her childhood in segregated Washington, D.C....

November 19, 2020

Liu Institute welcomes seven new faculty fellows in fall 2020

The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies approved seven new faculty fellows during the fall 2020 semester. The scholars...

November 18, 2020

Inclusion and Participation are Not Enough: Reshaping Institutions Through WPS

This year is the 20th anniversary of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Not nearly at its midpoint, 2020 has...

November 16, 2020

Kroc Institute staff member designs solidarity stickers

This summer, as a renewed wave of protests for racial justice spread across the United States following the murder of...

November 06, 2020

SCOTUS foster agency case presents important questions on balance between religious freedom and antidiscrimination laws, experts say

Notre Dame Law School professors Stephanie Barclay and Richard Garnett comment on Supreme Court case Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.

October 29, 2020

American Democracy at Risk

A team of past and present Notre Dame students released a report on perceived threats to American democracy at this...

October 27, 2020

Statement from Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., on Justice Amy Coney Barrett

On behalf of the University of Notre Dame, I congratulate Amy Coney Barrett on her confirmation today by the United States Senate as a justice of...