Notre Dame Stories: The Future of Tech Ethics and Notre Dame's Technology Ethics Center
This season, Notre Dame Stories is sharing podcasts from around campus. First up is Tec Talks.
Hosted by Kirsten Martin, director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center, TEC Talks features conversations on a broad range of topics in technology ethics.
We sat down with professor Martin to learn about the center and how it’s helping to shape the future of our relationship with tech.
After our conversation, you can hear an episode from TEC Talks about social media addiction.
To learn more about the Technology Ethics Center, visit techethics.nd.edu.
Notre Dame Stories highlights the work and knowledge of the University's faculty and students. This podcast features interviews with Notre Dame faculty members who can lend insight into some of the major national and international stories of the day, as well as pieces that show the breadth of the life and research at the University.
Listen to more episodes here.
Latest Faculty & Staff
- Notre Dame theologian to receive 2024 Ratzinger Prize from VaticanCyril O’Regan, the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive the 2024 Ratzinger Prize in Theology, widely regarded as the most prestigious award in the field. Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, will present the award to O’Regan and to sculptor Etsurō Sotoo during a ceremony at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on Nov. 22. Both winners will also have an audience with Pope Francis earlier that day.
- Labor economist seeks to understand how society continues to innovate — and why relationships are key to progressKirk Doran, an associate professor of economics, has a research mission to identify where and how new knowledge is created. He is one of four finalists from leading global institutions for the 2024 Adam Smith Panmure House Prize.
- Virtual learning detrimental to school attendance, especially in districts with higher poverty rates, study findsSince the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of chronic absenteeism have nearly doubled across the nation for students in kindergarten through grade 12. This increase was tied to the mode of instruction during the early years of the pandemic. In particular, schools that employed virtual learning as the primary teaching mode during the 2020-21 school year experienced a greater increase in chronic absenteeism in the following year. That increase was significantly greater in school districts with higher levels of poverty, according to new research from William Evans, the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics and co-founder of Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities.
- In memoriam: E. Jane Doering, professor emeritaE. Jane Doering, professor emerita in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, died Aug. 23. She was 91.
- ND Expert Julia Adeney Thomas: The reality of the AnthropoceneFor the last seven decades, Earth has been operating in unprecedented ways, leading many researchers to argue that we have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. “While it may not have been formally accepted onto the geological time scale, the Anthropocene is real and its effects have drastically and irrevocably changed the living conditions on our planet,” said Julia Adeney Thomas, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. “It should therefore be treated as a de facto new epoch of Earth’s history.”
- In memoriam: William H. ‘Bill’ Leahy, professor emeritus of economicsWilliam H. “Bill” Leahy, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Notre Dame, died Sunday (Aug. 11). He was 89.
