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Kristin Valentino—an IEI fellow, member of the IEI faculty committee, and Director of the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families at the University of Notre Dame—coauthored an op-ed in the Tuesday, June 23, 2020, edition of the South Bend Tribune about how the COVID-19 pandemic has...

As people who believe that we are all made in the image and likeness of God, we affirm the inherent dignity of all human life, and we stand—as disciples of Christ—against any form of bias, discrimination, hatred, and violence. The discriminatory and violent killings of George Floyd and so many...

This article first appeared on news.nd.edu. Read the original post. In designing a recent study, Notre Dame Professor of Psychology Darcia Narvaez wanted to test the possibility of promoting the sense of ecological attachment that was inherently part of many pre-industrialized societies and is still...

Patrick Graff, a fourth-year PhD student in the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and Burns Fellow in the Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER) , has been chosen as one of 12 students in the first cohort of the NDIAS-Graduate School Ph.D. Fellowship Program. The...

Dr. Katy Lichon , Dr. Monica Kowalski , and Fr. Joe Corpora, CSC, will explore how Catholic pastors have reacted to the clergy sexual abuse scandal with the support of a $35,000 grant. The grant is one of 11 awarded as part of the University’s response to the abuse scandal. Lichon, the director of...

A team led by Dr. Kristin Valentino has been awarded a $50,000 grant to study child-abuse prevention programs in Catholic elementary schools. The grant is one of 11 awarded as part of the University’s response to the clergy sexual abuse scandal. Valentino, the director of the Shaw Center for...