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A panel of experts recently gathered at the University of Notre Dame to explore the university’s unique role in driving global change by integrating scientific knowledge with the wisdom of the Church. The event, Seeds of Compassion: Nurturing Early Childhood Development Globally in Catholic...

Kelly Barnhill’s The Ogress and the Orphans (2022), an engaging fantasy with familiar elements of a traditional fairy tale such as a dragon, an ogress, and magic, has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Alexandria Award by the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame. The...

Mike Macaluso , Senior Associate Director for Academic Advancement for Enrollment and Financial Aid, has been named senior editor of The ALAN Review , a peer-reviewed journal focused on the study, scholarship, research, and teaching of adolescent literature. Macaluso, along with his co-editors...

Neil Boothby —professor and director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) —recently joined the GC-DWC’s Communications Associate, Brooke Parker , for a conversation on creating pathways out of adversity for children living on the margins of society, with a specific...

Matthew Kloser , founding director of the Notre Dame Center for STEM Education and faculty for ACE Teaching Fellows, has been named Hackett Family Director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) effective October 1. Kloser succeeds Associate Professor of the Practice Christine...

Nicole McNeil has been appointed the inaugural Sweeney Family Director of the Institute for Educational Initiative’s new Center for Educational Research and Action (ERA), effective October 1. The new center, known as ERA, will be led by McNeil, who is the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE)...