Since its earliest days, the University has been guided by a bold vision for scholarship and discovery.
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Notre Dame's Catholic identity is one of its greatest assets, thanks in no small part to the dialogue it inspires.
Dedication to the undergraduate student is and always will be at the core of Notre Dame’s academic mission.
The University thrives as a scholarly community precisely because it embraces the individual perspectives of faculty and students.
Duda Family Professor of Engineering
At every home football game, the provost recognized a different member of the 2018 Notre Dame All-Faculty Team. The honoree for the Nov. 17 Shamrock Series game in New York vs. Syracuse was Pat Flynn from the College of Engineering.
William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English
At every home football game, the provost recognized a different member of the 2018 Notre Dame All-Faculty Team. The honoree for the Nov. 10 game vs. Florida State was Laura Walls from the College of Arts and Letters.
Associate Professor of Architecture
At every home football game, the provost recognized a different member of the 2018 Notre Dame All-Faculty Team. The honoree for the Oct. 13 game vs. Pittsburgh was Krupali Krusche from the School of Architecture.
Professor of Law
At every home football game, the provost recognized a different member of the 2018 Notre Dame All-Faculty Team. The honoree for the Sept. 29 game vs. Stanford was Lloyd Mayer from the Law School.
Frank M. Freimann Professor of Physics
At every home football game, the provost recognized a different member of the 2018 Notre Dame All-Faculty Team. The honoree for the Sept. 15 game vs. Vanderbilt was Michael Wiescher from the College of Science.
Professor of History
At every home football game, the provost recognized a different member of the 2018 Notre Dame All-Faculty Team. The honoree for the Sept. 8 game vs. Ball State was Ted Beatty from the College of Arts and Letters and the Keough School of Global Affairs.
William and Cassie Daley Professor of Finance
At every home football game, the provost recognized a different member of the 2018 Notre Dame All-Faculty Team. The honoree for the Sept. 1 game vs. Michigan was Rick Mendenhall from the Mendoza College of Business.
Twenty Notre Dame faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and three have been honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The awards are presented by the Office of the Provost, and the recipients are selected through a process that includes peer and student nominations.
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The oldest and largest college at Notre Dame, Arts and Letters is home to 20 departments that span three divisions—the arts, humanities, and social sciences—and include the University’s flagship programs in theology and philosophy.
Highly visible both nationally and internationally, Mendoza is particularly noted for its commitment to ethics, challenging students in accountancy, finance, management, and marketing to “Ask more of business.”
When Notre Dame founded an engineering college in 1873, it became the first American Catholic university to do so. In addition to its educational mission, the College pursues transformational research in areas such as energy, bioengineering, environmental science, and national security.
Scholarship in the University’s College of Science is devoted to fostering advancements that address the world’s most enduring problems, giving rise to everything from institutes for global health and cancer research to an environmental change initiative.
The Notre Dame Law School opened its doors in 1869, making it the oldest Catholic law school in the country. Its work bridges centuries of Catholic intellectual and moral tradition, the historic methods and principles of the common law, and the realities of the contemporary legal environment.
As it did in law and engineering, Notre Dame became the nation’s first Catholic university to establish an architecture program (1898). Today’s School of Architecture, which emphasizes traditional and classical design, is a leader in the modern green movement.
Opening its doors to students in August 2017, the Keough School of Global Affairs will prepare them for effective and ethically grounded leadership in government, the private sector, and global civil society.
While advanced degrees in architecture, business, and law are administered separately by their respective units, The Graduate School articulates broad policies and procedures for the post-baccalaureate programs in engineering, the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences.
In addition to eight colleges and schools and 35 academic departments, Notre Dame faculty animate the activities of approximately 50 University institutes and centers.
Most of the major libraries and collections on campus fall under the auspices of the Hesburgh Libraries system, which contains more than 3.3 million volumes and some 3 million microform units.
Consonant with the vision that Notre Dame be a preeminent research university distinguished by its Catholic character, significant resources have been dedicated to advancing faculty research, scholarship, and creative expression.
A commercial accelerator, Innovation Park at Notre Dame supports the University’s research mission by helping transform innovations into ventures ready to enter the marketplace.
Notre Dame can be considered a truly international university thanks to the composition of its faculty and student body, the scope of its research agenda, and its commitment to study abroad, which consistently yields one of the highest undergraduate participation rates among peer institutions.
