Prof. James Frabutt, director of the Teaching Exceptional Children program in the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) and a faculty fellow in the Institute for Educational Initaitives, will become the University's director of academic community engagement.

People and organizations of the University of Notre Dame, including the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), were honored with special awards from Catholic Charities USA at an Oct. 19 presentation ceremony in the press box of Notre Dame Stadium.

Play Like a Champion Today ®, the unit of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives generating scholarship and services to support character education through sports, will host a symposium on protecting children from the tragedy of abuse.

Early-career middle school teachers of STEM disciplines are invited to apply for a new, fully funded professional development program offered through the Notre Dame Center for STEM Education.

A Notre Dame biology professor who champions undergraduate research and catalyzes scientific learning among high school students in the local community has been honored as the 2014 Indiana Professor of the Year.

Julie Turner, associate professor of psychology and Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been named the new lead editor of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) American Educational Research Journal. 

  Reading for Life, an innovative literature-based mentoring program that provides an alternative to prosecution for low-risk juvenile offenders, was recently awarded County funding to sustain its operation in St.

R. Joseph Waddington, an IEI Postdoctoral Research Associate, has received his Ph.D. in Educational Studies from the University of Michigan.

Institute for Educational Initiatives fellow Darcia Narvaez has authored a new book whose insights will interest scholars in psychology and other disciplines, as well as many others in and out of academia. Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom is published

A research collaboration including two fellows of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives will seek to combat student inattentiveness in STEM learning.