Jane Livingston, University of Notre Dame vice president for information technology and chief information officer, has appointed Katie Rose as assistant vice president for IT strategic excellence and engagement and Tracy Weber as assistant vice president for community technology experience.

Two campus leaders will take on new leadership roles at the University of Notre Dame as vice presidents, effective July 1, in appointments made by Executive Vice President Shannon Cullinan. Heather Christophersen will serve as vice president for human resources and Anne Griffith has been named vice president for University Enterprises and Events (UEE). 

As she plans for her retirement in June 2022, her passion for everything — from advising, to preaching, to championing women and diversity — shines as brightly as her faith.

Thomas Fuja, professor of electrical engineering and faculty director of iNDustry Labs at Notre Dame, has been appointed interim vice president and associate provost for graduate studies and the interim dean of the Graduate School, effective June 1.

Paolo G. Carozza, professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, has been added as a member of the Oversight Board for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, among the most valuable firms in the world with the social media and messaging apps Instagram and WhatsApp among its properties.

Twenty University of Notre Dame faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and three have been honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers have experienced a number of product shortages, but none as critical as baby formula, according to Kaitlin Wowak, associate professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

Edward Maginn, the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been appointed associate vice president for research, effective July 1. 

The April 14 webinar, sponsored by the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, was centered on outcomes resulting from current child welfare and justice systems.