In the summer of 2021, Mary Biese ’22, a major in the Program of Liberal Studies with minors in theology and liturgical music ministry, and Maria Keller ’22, a major in the Program of Liberal Studies with a minor in medieval studies, received research and travel grants from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies…

Rubén Darío (1867-1916) was one of the most important Spanish-language writers in history. Sometimes called the “poet of the Americas,” Darío has been widely celebrated throughout Latin America and the United States as a writer whose influence reached across national borders. Scholars regard him as the “father of modernismo…

Data storage, processing, and sharing are ongoing challenges, especially for research facilities. For National Science Foundation-funded (NSF) Major Facilities, processing data captured “at the edge,” sometimes in very remote locations, and disseminating it to their communities can be costly and difficult to maintain. Additionally, each Major Facility (MF) is in a unique environment with different structural and data needs.…

Zoltán Toroczkai and collaborators won the BMW quantum computing challenge, which called for a method to optimize millions of combinations of test processes that prototype vehicles use before the cars hit the road.  

The animal kingdom has long been a source of inspiration for the design of robots, which use legs to walk, run, jump, and climb. Now researchers are pioneering a new class of soft robots inspired by the plant kingdom — especially vines, which use growth as a way to move around, over, and through the environment.

Ten Years Hence, an annual lecture series sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business, will present a fascinating look at the dangers, opportunities and mysteries of outer space.

Image of Jerusalem from Notre Dame's Tantur Global Gateway Purity and its antithesis, pollution, were dominant cultural themes in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim societies from Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages (circa 4th–13th centuries). They were essential elements in issues of moral conduct, law, theology, liturgy, statecraft, and environment; moreover, they were ways of articulating reality, expressing religious and social aspirations, and of drawing increasingly more subtle conceptual borders between social categories and groups.…

Wed Jan 26, 2022, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Life in Pixels hosts an ongoing series of transdisciplinary conversations thinking about how we can make sense of, and live with, our computational social condition today. Considering sociocultural, aesthetic, politicoeconomic, environmental, racial, and historical registers of technology together, the series will bring together people who think and do technology beyond disciplinary boundaries. The events are all designed as an ongoing series of conversations between scholars and practitioners in Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Critical Digital Studies, and Literary Cultural Studies.…

Bernadine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning novelist, essayist, literary critic and advocate and activist for inclusion in the arts, will deliver the 2022 Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy…