ND PIER Burns Fellow Sofia Duenas represented the graduate students at Fr. Dowd's Convocation and Inauguration Ceremony on Thursday, September 12, 2024. She spoke on behalf of the ND graduate students to offer a greeting to Fr. Robert Dowd in his role as President of the University.

ND PIER Burns Fellow Sofia Duenas represented the graduate students at Fr. Dowd's Convocation and Inauguration Ceremony on Thursday, September 12, 2024. She spoke on behalf of the ND graduate students to offer a greeting to Fr. Robert Dowd in his role as President of the University.

Ernest Morrell, the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers.

My 7-year-old son, Hugh, is a voracious reader who fully immerses himself in a state of absorbed reading.  His teachers have had difficulty keeping up with his demand for reading more books, and the school library is, without question, his happy place where he is transported to many worlds–from Chad

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.

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. 

CREO Postdoctoral Research Associate Meaghan Mingo's article "Stay in a Child's Place: Adult Authority in Schooling in the Louisiana Delta" is now published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity of Sage Journals.