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Nicole McNeil, a professor of psychology, the Alliance for Catholic Education College Professor, and director of the Education, Schooling, Society (ESS) minor in the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been awarded the 2021 Faculty Award by the University of Notre Dame. The Faculty Award...

Dr. Andrea Christensen—a Fellow within the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the director of undergraduate studies for Education, Schooling, and Society—has received a Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Dr. Christensen is one of just twenty-one...

The University of Notre Dame’s Academic Council voted unanimously this week to make Education, Schooling, and Society (ESS) a supplementary major, allowing students to take ESS courses and complement their primary major in a more intensive way. ESS had previously been a 15-credit minor exploring the...

Mark Berends , a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame who currently directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and serves as an associate vice president for research, has been appointed director of the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives...

On Friday, March 5, the Center for Research on Education Opportunity (CREO) and the Notre Dame Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER) hosted "Scholarship and the Press: How We Disseminate Research"—a research panel featuring members of the press and the academy. The panel...

The project’s next phase aims to bring fortified salt to 3 million Haitians. For almost a decade, Cargill has partnered with the University of Notre Dame’s Haiti Salt Project to improve the health and nutrition of Haitians affected by iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) and lymphatic filariasis (LF)...