Growing public disenchantment with social media often highlights how it has poisoned political discourse. Critics say its business model leverages negative emotions to maximize user engagement, fueling mistrust and polarization. Keough School of Global Affairs scholar Lisa Schirch sees opportunity in a new class of deliberative technologies and their implications for democracy.

Beginning today (April 15), Notre Dame International will adopt a new name, Notre Dame Global, and will introduce itself on its new portal at global.nd.edu. The rebrand emphasizes the interconnectedness of the University of Notre Dame’s 12 locations around the world and reflects Notre Dame Global’s vital role in advancing Notre Dame as a leading global Catholic research university, on par with but distinct from the world’s best private universities.

Two University of Notre Dame professors were named fellows of the Simons Foundation for 2024, which will allow them the opportunity to intensely focus on their research for up to a year. Jonathan…

Barbara Montero, a professor of philosophy; Gretchen Reydams-Schils, a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies; and Roy Scranton, an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program and the Environmental Humanities Initiative, are among the 188 scholars, scientists and artists chosen from approximately 3,000 applicants for the fellowship. The Guggenheim Foundation awards these fellowships to outstanding scholars in order to add to the educational, literary, artistic and scientific power of the country.

In partnership with the MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab is pleased to announce…

“I want disabled people to know that they have a history in the nation’s founding period, even if this history is left out of most textbooks,” said Laurel Daen, Notre Dame assistant professor of American studies. “I think my research deepens, expands, and transforms our national story in critical ways and provides important context as we work towards greater access and equality in the present."

Understanding the data within human connections is one of the things that the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society does best. The…

Pinar Zorlutuna, Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Bioengineering Program at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 2024 College of Fellows.

The University of Notre Dame today announced the establishment of the Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Center for Virtue Ethics, a signature element of the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative emerging from the University’s strategic framework.

Students from almost every discipline at the University of Notre Dame spent several days preparing presentations on one of the world’s most pressing global health challenges: tuberculosis. …

The University of Notre Dame was the only university participant in a pivotal international seminar held in Accra, Ghana, addressing the theme “Conflicts in Africa in the Context of the Exploitation of Natural and Mining Resources." …

The mansions of the Studebaker and Oliver families that line West Washington Street in South Bend stand as a testament to the city’s history as a powerhouse of industrial innovation. Just a few blocks to the west, the University of Notre Dame…

The University of Notre Dame College of Arts & Letters and Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) has selected five research proposals that will foster innovation, encourage interdisciplinary research, and answer the world’s most crucial questions to comprise its inaugural group of Research Innovation Labs.

Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs has established a new doctoral program in sustainable development and a new track within its existing doctoral program in peace studies. The peace studies and sustainable development programs will enable doctoral students in the Keough School to examine from different perspectives the intersection of poverty, the environment, violent conflict and peace. Both programs will enroll students beginning in fall 2025.

The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) and Creative Writing Program will present a poetry reading and discussion on Wednesday (April 10) at 4:30 p.m. The event, which takes place in the Reyes Family Board Room in McKenna Hall, is free and open to the public.

The Neuroscience and Behavior Major at the University of Notre Dame, in partnership with Self-Healing Communities of Greater Michiana, will host a Brain Awareness Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday (April 6) at the Howard Park Event Center in South Bend.

Diarmuid Ó Giolláin has won the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize for his book that broadens the understanding of the origins…