To help identify — and ultimately mitigate — heat islands in South Bend, a team of University of Notre Dame researchers has partnered with the city to collect data using a novel method: garbage trucks. Ming Hu, the associate dean for research, scholarship and creative work in Notre Dame’s School of Architecture; Jason Carley, an assistant professor of industrial design; and Siavash Ghorbany, a doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering, have designed and deployed sensors on...| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities’ DC-based summer intern shares how he’s connecting Notre Dame research to real-world policy with LEO and the Student Policy Network.| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support high-impact, poverty-related research projects l...| College of Arts & Letters
Rebecca Maloy is the J.W. van Gorkom Professor of Music and director of the Sacred…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
Tarryn Chun backstage at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
Each election cycle, thousands of candidates vie for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Until now, there has been no comprehensive, publicly available resource cataloging what those candidates say about who they are or what they stand for. A new open-access database called CampaignView, created by researchers at the University of Notre Dame, offers researchers, journalists and educators a powerful tool to understand congressional elections.| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
Three University of Notre Dame researchers have been awarded significant three-year grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of work related to the archeological aspects of Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, contextualizing Catholic resistance in…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
Twenty-two University of Notre Dame students have been named finalists for the 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Student Program, with another seven singled out as alternates for the award. The finalists include 18 undergraduate students and four graduate students.| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
Kathryn Turner ’95 spent her childhood roaming the acres of her family’s ranch inside Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. First, she rode on the same horse as her mom, Mary Kay Brady SMC ’64, as the family worked around the ranch, and then, by the time she was three, she was riding…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
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Psychologist Kaylin Hill studied the impact of a parent’s first impression of their baby during an ultrasound exam. The words used by the medical professional to describe the baby (positive or negative) influence how the parents perceive their baby, relate to them after they're born and even how that child behaves as a toddler. The research has broad implications for how we train medical professionals to interact with expectant parents, as well as how we care for parents during the perinata...| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
Gabriel Reynolds is the Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology at the University…| College of Arts & Letters
For CJ Jones, the joy of research is not the answers but the journey. And the next step on that journey is a fellowship with the National Humanities Center. …| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Sean Griffin realized his second book needed a new title. Griffin, an associate professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
The College of Arts & Letters Office of the Dean has appointed several new leaders across its departments, centers, and institutes. Their terms begin July 1, 2025, unless otherwise noted. …| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
After earning a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Anne Crafton undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in the Hesburgh Libraries’ Rare Books and Special Collections.| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
Lee Gettler is a professor and chair of the Department of…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
Robert M. Conway Director…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
The University of Notre Dame Academic Council voted on April 23 in support of a structural change to the research and teaching of the Irish language in the College of Arts & Letters. Effective July 1, 2025, the Department of Irish Language and Literature and its undergraduate…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
The Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, formerly the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, continues its support of innovative research in the College of Arts & Letters with a new name and expanded mission. Seventeen faculty…| College of Arts & Letters | Latest News
For Charlotte Cardarella, a…| College of Arts & Letters
Lane Poche meets Pope Francis while…| College of Arts & Letters
Nicholas J. Teh, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, along with London School of Economics colleague Bryan W. Robert...| College of Arts & Letters
Four faculty members were offered support for projects that will examine the history of Kurdish music and media, rethink Thomas Aquinas’ philosoph...| College of Arts & Letters
Fifteen teams of undergraduate students participated in the Hesburgh Libraries annual Hackathon.| College of Arts & Letters
The academic journal American Quarterly will call the University of Notre Dame home, starting this summer. The journal, which has been at the forefront ...| College of Arts & Letters
Three faculty members in the College of Arts & Letters have won National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowships, extending the University of...| College of Arts & Letters