tag:provost.nd.edu,2005:/newsOffice of the Provost | News2024-02-28T14:36:00-05:00tag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1602392024-02-28T14:36:00-05:002024-02-28T14:36:31-05:00Notre Dame makes $68 million commitment to fighting mental health crisis; scalable solutions could become national model <p>The University of Notre Dame is making a historic commitment to fighting the national mental health crisis by bringing together a coalition of benefactors, foundations and other funders who have committed more than $68 million over the past year to develop innovative solutions and expand access to…</p><p>The University of Notre Dame is making a historic commitment to fighting the national mental health crisis by bringing together a coalition of benefactors, foundations and other funders who have committed more than $68 million over the past year to develop innovative solutions and expand access to care.</p>
<p>That financial investment will:</p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<p>Fund the creation of the new <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/veldman-family-makes-gift-to-notre-dame-for-a-mental-health-research-and-services-clinic/">Veldman Family Psychology Clinic</a>, which will develop scalable, evidence-based solutions in childhood trauma, suicide prevention and substance use.</p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<p>Provide cutting-edge technology that will advance the University’s psychology and neuroscience research.</p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<p>Expand the number of faculty and triple the number of students conducting mental health-related research on campus.</p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<p>Increase mental health services for Notre Dame students through a unique campus partnership among academic and student affairs units.</p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<p>Grow the availability of mental health care in the South Bend region.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The scope of these solutions is expected to have an impact well beyond campus and the local community — University leaders anticipate outcomes from the multidisciplinary work will serve as a future scalable model for other academic and public institutions.</p>
<p>“As we face what some have called a mental health epidemic, Notre Dame is proud to undertake this ambitious initiative in comprehensive mental health care, research and services,” said <a href="https://president.nd.edu/about/">University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.</a> “Thanks to generous benefactors who have joined us in recognizing the need for increased support, we will confront this crisis which plagues students and our local and global communities. Together, we will seek evidence-based, effective and scalable solutions to address the overwhelming demand for mental health diagnoses and treatment, and help train the next generation of mental health professionals.”</p>
<p>Notre Dame identified mental health as one of several priorities in <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu">its strategic framework</a> for the next decade, and announced the Veldman Family Psychology Clinic in January as a first step in that commitment. Today’s announcement further builds on this strategy with details of how research and services will expand at the clinic and on campus.</p>
<p>Through the new clinic, faculty and graduate students from the <a href="https://psychology.nd.edu/">Department of Psychology</a> will increase mental health care capacity and access for community members, while also researching trauma, suicide prevention and substance abuse, three root causes of the mental health crisis. The goal is to develop innovative solutions that will become scalable treatment models across the country.</p>
<p>This investment is the start of the commitment that will enable Notre Dame to help mitigate the shortage of mental health professionals by increasing the number of senior psychology faculty, tripling the number of clinical psychology graduate students and enhancing the experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate psychology majors.</p>
<p>The treatment capacity of the Veldman Family Psychology Clinic on Hill Street will significantly grow in the coming years, eventually serving more than 1,500 people in the South Bend community annually through mental health assessment, intervention and prevention services. The growth will significantly reduce the current clinic’s wait list and eventually eliminate the wait list for care.</p>
<p>The funding will also provide world-class equipment not currently available to local researchers and providers.</p>
<p>One of the most notable advancements will be the implementation of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology. The equipment, which is atypical for universities without medical schools to own and operate, is a specialized form of MRI used to examine the brain’s functional anatomy.</p>
<p>“The addition of the fMRI machine to our clinical and research operations will greatly improve the speed and capabilities of our faculty to identify and help make an impact on the current mental health crisis,” said <a href="https://al.nd.edu/about/people/sarah-mustillo/">Sarah Mustillo</a>, the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the <a href="http://al.nd.edu">College of Arts and Letters</a>. “Now, instead of traveling out of the region to use this equipment elsewhere, our faculty will have access to the technology right here in South Bend. This level of access will be a game-changer for our research innovations and patient outcomes.”</p>
<p>The impact of the new clinic will be felt not only in the community and academic circles, but also on campus. With growing collaborations and partnerships among University faculty and administrators, the mental health initiatives are expected to have a significant effect on Notre Dame student mental health care.</p>
<p>On campus, the <a href="https://studentaffairs.nd.edu/">Division of Student Affairs</a>, under the direction of Vice President<a href="https://studentaffairs.nd.edu/about/division-leadership/gerald-olinger-cs-c/"> Rev. Gerard Olinger, C.S.C.</a>, will expand resources to meet the growing mental health care needs of students at an earlier stage, specifically at the University’s <a href="https://supportandcare.nd.edu/">Center for Student Support and Care</a>, the <a href="https://ucc.nd.edu/">University Counseling Center</a> and the <a href="https://mcwell.nd.edu/">McDonald Center for Student Well-Being</a>.</p>
<p>Measurable outcomes anticipated include a decrease in the number of students seeking care for acute or crisis-level needs over the next five years, a designated care and wellness consultant embedded in every college and an increase in the number of students working with care and wellness consultants.</p>
<p>“With mental health standing as one of the defining crises of our times, Notre Dame has a distinct opportunity to transform what holistic mental health care looks like and to serve as a beacon for others involved in this work,” Father Olinger said. “We continue to look for and implement innovative solutions to meet our students where they are in their mental health care journeys, ultimately seeking to implement care at an earlier stage of need.”</p>
<p>Notre Dame’s commitment to solving mental health care issues stems from the University’s identity as a Catholic research institution.</p>
<p>“By caring for the mental health needs of students on campus and advancing psychological training and research, Notre Dame can realize in practice what we are called to do in our mission — be a force for good and a place of service and community,” said <a href="https://provost.nd.edu/people/charles-and-jill-fischer-provost/">John T. McGreevy</a>, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost.</p>
<p>“This multidisciplinary focus on innovative research and advanced care is just the beginning of how Notre Dame will address the mental health crisis not only on our campus but also nationally.”</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Notre Dame News</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-makes-68-million-commitment-to-fighting-mental-health-crisis-scalable-solutions-could-become-national-model/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">February 28, 2024</span>.</p>Notre Dame Newstag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1601832024-02-26T14:02:00-05:002024-02-26T14:03:01-05:00Paul Bohn named director of the University of Notre Dame Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative<p><a href="https://chemistry.nd.edu/people/paul-bohn/">Paul Bohn</a>, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the inaugural director of the new <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/initiatives/health-and-well-being/bioengineering-and-life-sciences-bels/">Bioengineering</a>…</p><p><a href="https://chemistry.nd.edu/people/paul-bohn/">Paul Bohn</a>, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the inaugural director of the new <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/initiatives/health-and-well-being/bioengineering-and-life-sciences-bels/">Bioengineering & Life Sciences (BELS) Initiative</a>.</p>
<p>A joint initiative of the College of Engineering and College of Science and a key priority in the University’s <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/">strategic framework</a>, the BELS Initiative will advance human health and wellness through interdisciplinary biomedical research and training — from fundamental advances through detection, prevention and treatment of disease.</p>
<p>“Notre Dame is well-positioned to lead this transformative initiative and to spearhead discoveries that will directly improve human health, particularly for vulnerable and underserved populations,” said <a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/patricia-culligan/">Patricia J. Culligan, the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering</a>. “I can think of no better inaugural director than Paul Bohn, whose deep experience and expertise span across the life sciences and engineering.”</p>
<p>Bohn is an internationally known leader in the field of analytical chemistry. He has served as director of what is now the <a href="https://precisionhealth.nd.edu/">Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health</a> since 2008 and also directs the National Science Foundation-supported <a href="https://cbm.nd.edu/">Center for Bioanalytic Metrology</a>. His research focuses on molecular nanotechnology, personal health monitoring, and imaging of microbial communities. He is a fellow of the American Chemical Society, has authored or co-authored more than 300 publications and holds nine patents.</p>
<p>Bohn will work closely with an executive committee that includes Culligan; <a href="https://science.nd.edu/about/office-of-the-dean/santiago-schnell/">Santiago Schnell, the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science</a>; and <a href="https://research.nd.edu/people/jeffrey-rhoads/">Vice President of Research Jeffrey F. Rhoads</a> to direct significant new investments in infrastructure and instrumentation over the next decade; work with academic units across campus to recruit faculty scholars to advance research and training in bioengineering and life sciences disciplines; and implement cross-disciplinary graduate and postdoctoral training programs.</p>
<p>“I am excited about this initiative because we are going to be addressing problems that very few other academic institutions are trying to solve, including rare diseases and global health disparities, which align with our Catholic mission,” Schnell said. “We are trying to think strategically about how we can investigate biomedical problems by identifying the tools and technologies we can develop for better diagnostics and treatments anywhere around the world.”</p>
<p>More than 80 Notre Dame faculty and professionals are involved in bioengineering-related research and training in both of the colleges and in multiple dedicated institutes with thriving research portfolios. They study and build everything from engineering models of heart tissues to new drugs to treat cancer and diseases. The Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative will build on that strong foundation, facilitating the kind of collaborative, cutting-edge research that leads to impactful results.</p>
<p>“Instead of funding one idea from an individual researcher in a silo, now we are funding entire biomedical research projects as an enterprise,” Schnell said. “This kind of innovation doesn’t happen overnight. The work of the initiative — from identifying the specific research challenges to major breakthroughs — is a multiyear process. But over time, this University-wide effort will make Notre Dame a stronghold of world-changing biomedical research.”</p>
<p>Roughly <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/13-12-2017-world-bank-and-who-half-the-world-lacks-access-to-essential-health-services-100-million-still-pushed-into-extreme-poverty-because-of-health-expenses">half of the world’s population has limited access to essential health services</a>, because of distance, poverty or both. The BELS Initiative will pay particular attention to these marginalized groups, and undertake research that can have a broad impact outside of a traditional hospital or medical facility setting. Notre Dame researchers are uniquely positioned to work with medical professionals around the world to identify and tackle the challenges they face in the field.</p>
<p>“What excites me most about the Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative is that it will be a great program in the spirit of Notre Dame’s mission to be a powerful means for doing good in the world,” said Bohn, who earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Notre Dame in 1977 and his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is an opportunity to work at the frontiers of biomedical research, and that’s exactly where Notre Dame should be.”</p>
<p>Speaking about Bohn’s service to the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, Rhoads said, “Paul has been one of our most effective institute directors. Through his directorship of the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, Paul used his exceptional, forward-looking leadership skills to grow the institute and help people produce their best work. Paul, thank you for your commitment to Notre Dame and its research mission. We cannot wait to see what you do next with BELS.”</p>
<p>An acting director of the Berthiaume Institute will be named in the coming weeks. To learn more, visit <a href="http://precisionhealth.nd.edu">precisionhealth.nd.edu</a>.</p>
<p>To learn more about the Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative, see <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/BELS">strategicframework.nd.edu/BELS</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Deanna Csomo Ferrell</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/paul-bohn-named-director-of-the-university-of-notre-dame-bioengineering-life-sciences-initiative/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">February 26, 2024</span>.</p>Deanna Csomo Ferrelltag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1600622024-02-21T13:58:00-05:002024-02-20T22:53:59-05:00Notre Dame Launches Strategic Framework Grants Program<p>The University of Notre Dame announced today a new internal funding opportunity: the <a href="https://research.nd.edu/our-services/funding-opportunities/faculty/internal-grants-programs/strategic-framework-internal-seed-grants/">Strategic Framework Grant (SFG) Program</a>. The program exists to create…</p><p>The University of Notre Dame announced today a new internal funding opportunity: the <a href="https://research.nd.edu/our-services/funding-opportunities/faculty/internal-grants-programs/strategic-framework-internal-seed-grants/">Strategic Framework Grant (SFG) Program</a>. The program exists to create opportunities for faculty to engage with the major University-wide priorities outlined in <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/notre-dame-2033-a-strategic-framework/">Notre Dame 2033: A Strategic Framework</a> and is open to all regular, full-time faculty.</p>
<p>"The Strategic Framework calls Notre Dame to be the leading global Catholic research university, on par with but distinct from the world’s best private universities," said <a href="https://provost.nd.edu/people/john-mcgreevy/">John T. McGreevy</a>, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost and Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at Notre Dame. "This University-wide grant program will accelerate progress toward this vision and enable even more faculty and students to engage in the key themes of the Strategic Framework."</p>
<p>The Strategic Framework's <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/initiatives/">themes</a> include arts, climate and sustainability, data and computational science, democracy, ethics, global Catholicism, health and well-being, and poverty.</p>
<p>Proposals are welcome on any themes identified in the framework, though particular themes of interest for 2024 are democracy, ethics, and poverty. Future iterations of this grant program may focus on other themes in the framework.</p>
<p>The program offers two types of grants—a research grant and a teaching grant.</p>
<p>Research grant awardees may receive up to $50,000 per year ($100,000 per year for multi-disciplinary collaborative grants) to pursue new research or produce new scholarship or creative endeavors.</p>
<p>Teaching grant awardees may receive up to $10,000 per year ($15,000 per year for collaborative grants) to create new courses or adapt existing courses. They will partner with <a href="https://learning.nd.edu">ND Learning</a> to enhance each new course's pedagogical approach, the design of digital teaching assets, and/or the course evaluation process.</p>
<p>Both the research and teaching grants will be for a duration of two years.</p>
<p>Vice President and Associate Provost for Academic Strategy <a href="https://provost.nd.edu/people/david-go/">David Go</a> said, “This new program is an exciting opportunity for faculty to enhance or evolve their research or teaching to align with University-wide priorities.” Go, who is also the Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering added, “It is a great way to answer the Strategic Framework’s call for Notre Dame to ‘think as an institution.’ I encourage all interested faculty members to apply.”</p>
<h2>Learn More and Apply</h2>
<p>Faculty members who would like to ask questions about this funding opportunity can contact the program at intprogs@nd.edu using the subject line "Strategic Framework Grant Opportunity Spring 2024." For more information and to apply, please visit <a href="https://research.nd.edu/our-services/funding-opportunities/faculty/internal-grants-programs/strategic-framework-internal-seed-grants/">https://research.nd.edu/our-services/funding-opportunities/faculty/internal-grants-programs/strategic-framework-internal-seed-grants/</a>.</p>
<p>All applications must be submitted on or before 5:00 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.</p>
<h2>Engage with the Strategic Framework</h2>
<p>In addition, the Office of the Provost has launched a series of events to introduce Notre Dame faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs to the Strategic Framework themes and their related Initiatives.</p>
<p><a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/initiatives/poverty-initiative/">The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative</a> will establish Notre Dame as a leading institution for poverty research, preparing students for careers and service in anti-poverty efforts, and turning evidence into action, illuminating proven pathways out of poverty for people around the world. To learn more, <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-launches-unprecedented-university-wide-effort-to-fight-poverty/">read</a> about the Initiative’s lead gift of $100 million—the largest single donation to an academic priority in the University’s history—or visit <a href="http://go.nd.edu/poverty">go.nd.edu/poverty</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/initiatives/ethics-initiative/">The Notre Dame Ethics Initiative</a> will establish Notre Dame as a premier global destination for the study of ethics, offering superb training for future generations of ethicists and moral leaders, a platform for engagement of the Catholic moral tradition with other modes of inquiry, and an opportunity to forge insights into some of the most significant ethical issues of our time. Learn more at <a href="http://go.nd.edu/ethics">go.nd.edu/ethics</a> or <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/planning-process/events/2024/03/05/connect-with-the-ethics-initiative/">connect with the Ethics Initiative</a> on Tuesday, March 5, 4:30–6 p.m.</p>
<p><a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/initiatives/democracy-initiative/">The Notre Dame Democracy Initiative</a> will establish Notre Dame as a leader in the study of democracy both in the U.S. and worldwide, as a convenor for conversations about and actions to preserve democracy, and as a model for the formation of civically engaged citizens and public servants. This University-wide initiative bridges research, education, and policy work across multiple units and will extend beyond campus to policymakers and federal agencies in Washington, D.C. Learn more at <a href="http://go.nd.edu/democracy">go.nd.edu/democracy</a> or <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/planning-process/events/2024/04/09/connect-with-the-democracy-initiative/">connect with the Democracy Initiative</a> on Tuesday, April 9, 4:30–6 p.m.</p>
<p><strong>Contact:</strong></p>
<p>Kate Garry, Executive Director of Academic Communication<br>Office of the Provost, University of Notre Dame<br>KateGarry@nd.edu</p>
<p> </p>Brett Beasleytag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1593502024-01-23T11:37:00-05:002024-01-23T12:04:29-05:00Notre Dame launches unprecedented University-wide effort to fight poverty<p>The University of Notre Dame is launching a bold new Poverty Initiative to develop and advance innovative solutions to help vulnerable populations and to train a new generation of leaders committed to the fight against poverty.</p><p>The University of Notre Dame is launching a bold new Poverty Initiative to develop and advance innovative solutions to help vulnerable populations and to train a new generation of leaders committed to the fight against poverty.</p>
<p>Every day, poverty stifles hope, opportunity, and dignity for 700 million people worldwide, including 37 million Americans. And despite well-intentioned policies and programs, too little is known about how to break poverty’s vicious generational cycle. The Poverty Initiative, part of Notre Dame’s new <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/">strategic framework</a>, is poised to change that.</p>
<p>“Notre Dame’s Catholic mission gives a distinctive orientation to all we do, including our research, and nothing reflects that mission more powerfully than the Poverty Initiative, which will study and combat the causes and consequences of poverty,” said University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. “I believe Notre Dame is uniquely positioned to make a meaningful difference in the lives of people burdened by poverty.”</p>
<p>The <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/initiatives/poverty-initiative/">Notre Dame Poverty Initiative</a> is supported by an alumni couple’s lead gift of $100 million — the largest single donation to an academic priority in the University’s history. “This extraordinary gift is a signal of the confidence our benefactors have in Notre Dame’s capacity to address the root causes of poverty and advance evidence-based, dignity-affirming solutions in partnership with service providers, policymakers, philanthropists, and practitioners,” said John T. McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost. “We are honored by their trust in us and excited about Notre Dame’s ability to transform lives through this important work.”</p>
<p>Led by economist <a href="https://economics.nd.edu/people/faculty/jim-sullivan/">Jim Sullivan</a>, the Notre Dame Poverty Initiative will establish the University as a leading institution for poverty research, prepare students for careers and service in antipoverty efforts, and turn evidence into action, illuminating proven pathways out of poverty for people around the world.</p>
<figure class="image image-left"><img src="https://news.nd.edu/assets/554742/leo_graduation_800.jpg" alt="A graduate of the Goodwill Excel Center wearing a green cap and grown holds a little girl." width="600" height="400">A graduate of the Goodwill Excel Center — a high school for adults that found proven results and ongoing success through their partnership with LEO.</figure>
<p>Through the work of the <a href="https://leo.nd.edu/">Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities</a> (LEO) in the College of Arts and Letters and the <a href="https://pulte.nd.edu/">Pulte Institute for Global Development</a> at the Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame has already established a record of success by combining world-class research expertise with deep local knowledge and insights. Over the past decade, LEO and Pulte have built a foundation of strong partnerships with service providers and practitioners around the world and across the country, including Goodwill Industries, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Relief Services, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).</p>
<p>The new Poverty Initiative will unify efforts across LEO and Pulte, fueling an innovative local-to-global approach. It will also establish stronger connections between the many departments, organizations, programs, faculty, and students across the University who are committed to alleviating poverty, including the <a href="https://socialconcerns.nd.edu/">Center for Social Concerns</a> and the <a href="https://biglab.nd.edu/">Building Inclusive Growth Lab</a>.</p>
<p>The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative will direct its work toward three areas:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>Research:</strong> By recruiting leading scholars and investing in innovative research programs, the Poverty Initiative will support research that responds to the most pressing issues confronting people in poverty and that holds promise to inform policy, philanthropy, and practice.</li>
<li>
<strong>Student formation:</strong> The Poverty Initiative will invest in programming focused on student formation, including curriculum development and new research and experiential learning opportunities for both undergraduates and graduate students. It is committed to forming graduates prepared to address the challenges of poverty in their professional and personal lives.</li>
<li>
<strong>Impact:</strong> Making measurable impact in alleviating poverty depends on translating research to action. The Poverty Initiative will engage with partners in government and the nonprofit and corporate sectors to replicate proven programs.</li>
</ul>
<p>“As both an alum and a Notre Dame faculty member for over two decades, I have never been more excited to be a part of this institution,” said Sullivan, a professor of economics who directs both the Poverty Initiative and LEO, which he co-founded.</p>
<p>“This gift will ensure that Notre Dame is the place where undergraduate and graduate students come to study poverty, where prominent faculty come to conduct poverty-related research, and where policymakers, philanthropists, practitioners, and providers look to discover new pathways to break the cycle of poverty. The Poverty Initiative exemplifies Notre Dame’s mission to be a force for good in a world deeply in need.”</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Kate Garry</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-launches-unprecedented-university-wide-effort-to-fight-poverty/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">January 23, 2024</span>.</p>Kate Garrytag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1592122024-01-16T17:27:00-05:002024-01-16T17:28:07-05:00Arts and Letters faculty continue record NEH success, winning three fellowships and a major grant<p>Three faculty members in the College of Arts and Letters have won National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowships, extending the University of Notre Dame’s record success with the federal agency committed to supporting original research and scholarship. </p><p>Three faculty members in the <a href="https://al.nd.edu/">College of Arts and Letters</a> at the University of Notre Dame have won <a href="https://www.neh.gov/">National Endowment for the Humanities</a> (NEH) fellowships, extending the University of Notre Dame’s record success with the federal agency committed to supporting original research and scholarship.</p>
<p><a href="https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/shane-duarte/">Shane Duarte</a>, an associate professor of the practice in the <a href="https://philosophy.nd.edu/">Department of Philosophy</a>; <a href="https://ftt.nd.edu/people/faculty/mary-celeste-kearney/">Mary Celeste Kearney</a>, an associate professor of <a href="https://ftt.nd.edu/">film, television and theater</a>; and <a href="https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/stephen-ogden/">Stephen Ogden</a>, the Tracey Family Associate Professor of Philosophy, are among the 82 scholars nationwide to be awarded the competitive fellowships, which were announced Tuesday.</p>
<p>Since 2000, Notre Dame faculty have won more NEH fellowships than any other university in the country.</p>
<p>Additionally, a pair of A&L scholars — <a href="https://pls.nd.edu/people/katie-bugyis/">Katie Bugyis</a>, the Rev. John A. O’Brien Associate Professor in the <a href="https://pls.nd.edu/">Program of Liberal Studies</a>, and <a href="https://sacredmusic.nd.edu/people/faculty/margot-e-fassler/">Margot Fassler</a>, the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy Emerita — have won a significant, three-year NEH Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities grant to develop a website and to teach medieval liturgy.</p>
<p>“I am delighted and proud that the NEH has again supported our faculty members’ relevant and interesting projects,” said Sarah Mustillo, the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the <a href="http://al.nd.edu/">College of Arts and Letters</a>. “These four awards highlight the quality of diverse academic research conducted by our experts in multiple fields as well as the excellent support provided by the <a href="https://isla.nd.edu/">Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts</a> throughout the application process.”</p>
<h3><strong>A first-ever translation</strong></h3>
<p>Duarte will spend his fellowship editing, translating and annotating Francisco Suárez’s “Metaphysical Disputation 30” (DM 30), which is a core part of “The Metaphysical Disputations (DM),” published in Latin in 1597.</p>
<p>Suárez, a philosopher and theologian, composed DM to provide a grounding in metaphysics — the study of reality and existence — that’s needed to study revelation-based theology.</p>
<figure class="image image-left"><img src="https://al.nd.edu/assets/553379/shane_duarte.jpg" alt="Shane Duarte" width="400" height="533">
<figcaption>Shane Duarte</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>DM 30, Duarte said, is devoted to the nature of God insofar as He can be known by reason unaided by revelation. It’s interesting, in part, Duarte said, because Suárez was a professor of theology and most of his works were informed by revelation.</p>
<p>Duarte will be the first person to translate the treatise. The volume he plans to publish will include a substantial introduction, and in his translation, he’ll strive for a balance of readability and fidelity to the original text.</p>
<p>“Translation work is often treated as secondary, or of lesser value, but at the same time everyone working in the history of philosophy wishes that more texts were translated into English,” he said.</p>
<p>The translation could provide valuable insights to people who work on better-known philosophers such as René Descartes, Duarte said. Suárez was an important thinker whose views influenced even philosophers who saw themselves as breaking from the Aristotelian tradition of which he was a part.</p>
<p>While Duarte’s prior work focused on later thinkers, he became convinced that a greater familiarity with Suárez’s work would provide a better understanding of 17th-century European philosophy, as well as of life today.</p>
<p>“I tend to think contemporary philosophy benefits from an understanding of its own history, though not everyone in the field agrees,” he said. “For society? Well, I think intellectual traditions inform our understanding of the present, though again, not everyone agrees.”</p>
<p>When Duarte learned he had won an NEH fellowship, his initial reaction was disbelief.</p>
<p>“For someone like me,” he said, “who is neither tenured nor on the tenure track, winning an award like this is tremendously validating.”</p>
<h3><strong>Filling a scholarly void</strong></h3>
<p>Kearney, who is also a concurrent faculty member in <a href="https://genderstudies.nd.edu/">gender studies</a> and <a href="https://americanstudies.nd.edu/">American studies</a>, will examine portrayals of American teenage girlhood from the 1930s to the 1950s in her book project, tentatively titled “Designing and Redesigning the Junior Miss: The First Wave of U.S. Teen-Girl Entertainment.”</p>
<figure class="image image-right"><img src="https://al.nd.edu/assets/553376/kearney_mary_celeste_2024.jpg" alt="Kearney Mary Celeste 2024" width="400" height="533">
<figcaption>Mary Celeste Kearney</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>The idea for the project sparked when she was penning an entry about teen-centered shows for “The Encyclopedia of Television” and came across what may be the first short stories written about teen girls. These narratives, written by women, resist some of the stereotypes of teenage girlhood and were an important deviation from previous literature about female adolescence, Kearney said.</p>
<p>“Because these stories are episodic and the protagonists don’t age, they allowed girls to be girls rather than showing them becoming women,” she said.</p>
<p>When men subsequently adapted some of the stories for stage, film, radio and television, Kearney said, teen girl characters were altered to be more domestic and superficial in part because of prevailing identity politics, but also because of conventions and trends in performance and visual storytelling. Kearney explores both the continuities and discontinuities from those early stories, as well as in subsequent adaptations, in today’s teen girl entertainment culture.</p>
<p>“We can’t really make sense of what’s happening on the Disney Channel teen shows without understanding this early period,” she said. “When you focus on the past, you can begin to connect some dots.”</p>
<p>Part of that dot-connecting is researching representations of people of color in teen girl stories across mediums.</p>
<p>“Unbelievably, the first film to feature a Black teenage girl was not until 1968; the next one wasn’t until 1992,” Kearney said. “That’s how long whiteness has dominated this figure within popular American culture.”</p>
<p>There’s still much to be learned about the history of teen girls in entertainment. Because teen girls have long been devalued in U.S. society, Kearney said, there’s a dearth of archival material and research on the topic.</p>
<p>“The history of girl-centered entertainment is currently inadequate,” she wrote in her NEH proposal, “not only for understanding how the original designs of teen girlhood were produced and what they meant during that period, but also for comprehending the paradox of why the figure of the teen girl has both transformed over time and remained much the same.”</p>
<h3><strong>A novel interpretation of a classical theory</strong></h3>
<p>Ogden, whose research focuses on classical Islamic philosophy, will write the first book specifically about 11th-century Muslim philosopher Avicenna’s theory of intellect.</p>
<p>Avicenna, who was also a physician, theorized that there were two types of intellect — the human intellect and the active intellect. Avicenna’s theory posited that active intellect was a single, eternal intellect ultimately responsible for all human understanding and for the major metaphysical components of the Earth.</p>
<figure class="image image-left"><img src="https://al.nd.edu/assets/553378/stephen_ogden.jpg" alt="Stephen Ogden" width="400" height="533">
<figcaption>Stephen Ogden</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>“Oftentimes when you explain it to nonexperts, they say, ‘That sounds like God,’” Ogden said. “It’s similar to God, but in Avicenna’s system, it’s a lower, semi-divine substance or intellect. It’s an intermediary between God and humanity.”</p>
<p>In his book — tentatively titled “Avicenna on Intellect”<em> </em>— Ogden will defend his novel interpretation of Avicenna’s theory as well as historically contextualize the theory with respect to Avicenna’s ancient predecessors and to later critiques.</p>
<p>The book will be a fitting companion piece to Ogden’s 2022 book, “Averroes on Intellect: From Aristotelian Origins to Aquinas’s Critique,” which recently won the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize.</p>
<p>Avicenna and Averroes, Ogden said, had two of the most important theories on intellect in classical Islamic philosophy, and they heavily influenced later Islamic, Christian and Jewish philosophical traditions.</p>
<p>Evaluating the philosophical and historical reasons that Avicenna and others held their views continues to be important, Ogden said, because it helps modern readers consider their own preconceptions and biases.</p>
<p>“I think there’s something valuable — I emphasize this with my students — in reading something that’s a thousand years old, 2,000 years old, or older,” he said. “A lot of things seem perfectly natural to our minds, given where we stand in history, but if read by an outsider a thousand years from now, they might not seem that obvious. We’ve gained much more empirical data, but philosophers and neuroscientists are still debating and exploring the nature of the human mind.”</p>
<h3><strong>Reinvigorating an underserved field</strong></h3>
<p>With support from their NEH grant, Fassler and Bugyis will develop a website to preserve knowledge about the ritual practices of the medieval Roman Catholic Church and to provide instruction on how to locate, read and interpret the relevant primary sources.</p>
<p>The pair are liturgical historians who “see our field as underserved,” Fassler said.</p>
<figure class="image image-right"><img src="https://al.nd.edu/assets/553390/fasslerbugyis.jpg" alt="Fasslerbugyis">
<figcaption>Margot Fassler, left, and Katie Bugyis</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>“More scholars need to know about the medieval Latin liturgy than ever before,” she said, “and the goal of the website is to offer instruction in a field that has rarely been well-served by the academy.”</p>
<p>Resources such as digital libraries, catalogs, databases and thousands of medieval manuscripts have now been made available online. Knowing how to use and navigate those resources, though, can be cumbersome and complicated.</p>
<p>“There’s all this material out there, but how do you use it?” Fassler asked. “Our whole enterprise is based on the solving of problems, and on utilizing the skills of our worldwide network of scholars to join in making tutorials.”</p>
<p>Bugyis and Fassler’s plan evolved into an ambitious project — “Medieval Liturgy: Tutorials for Students, Teachers, and Researchers,” initially supported with a <a href="https://research.nd.edu/our-services/funding-opportunities/faculty/internal-grants-programs/rsp-ig-past-recipients/">$100,000 seed grant</a> from Notre Dame Research — that is encyclopedic in its scope and pedagogical in its goals.</p>
<p>Their new website, hosted by the <a href="https://medieval.nd.edu/">Medieval Institute</a>, will feature peer-reviewed teaching videos that will systematically walk people through how to access and work with sought-after information. Fassler and Bugyis are inviting interdisciplinary liturgical scholars from Notre Dame and around the world to share their expertise, which will make their website a dynamic and evolving resource.</p>
<p>Main website sections will include resources on the fundamental components of medieval liturgy — the arrangement of the Church year in its annual cycle; the performance of the hours of prayer that constituted the Divine Office in every monastic church and cathedral; and the celebration of Mass. Additional units will feature other liturgical rites, women’s rites and liturgical music.</p>
<p>Understanding the liturgy is essential to understanding the Middle Ages, Bugyis said, but fewer and fewer graduate programs are training students in the liturgy.</p>
<p>“Notre Dame is one of the last places doing it. There is an abundance of resources here,” she said. “We saw a real opportunity, given the strengths that we have, to draw on the expertise of faculty and graduate students to create something new and important.”</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Beth Staples</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/arts-letters-faculty-continue-record-neh-success-winning-three-fellowships-and-a-major-grant/">al.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">Jan. 10</span>.</p>Beth Staplestag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1592112024-01-11T17:28:00-05:002024-01-16T17:29:05-05:00Nitesh Chawla elected 2024 AAAI Fellow for outstanding contributions to AI<p>The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has elected <strong><a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/nitesh-chawla/">Nitesh Chawla</a>,</strong> Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, as one of its 2024 fellows.</p><p>The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has elected <strong><a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/nitesh-chawla/">Nitesh Chawla</a>,</strong> Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, as one of its 2024 fellows.</p>
<p>Chawla, who directs Notre Dame’s <a href="https://lucyinstitute.nd.edu/">Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society</a>, joins a cohort of 11 new fellows selected for their “outstanding contributions to the theory or practice of AI.”</p>
<p>Specifically, he was recognized for his foundational and significant advancements in learning from imbalanced data, learning on graphs, and interdisciplinary applications of AI.</p>
<p>An expert in data science and artificial intelligence, Chawla also holds concurrent faculty appointments in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Science and the Department of Information, Technology, Analytics and Operations in the College of Business. He is a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).</p>
<p>AAAI is a nonprofit, scientific society dedicated to promoting the research and responsible use of AI technology. Fellows are individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions — usually over at least a ten-year period — to the field of artificial intelligence.</p>
<p>Chawla will be formally honored at the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Vancouver, Canada, in February.</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Karla Cruise</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/nitesh-chawla-elected-2024-aaai-fellow-in-recognition-of-outstanding-contributions-to-artificial-intelligence/">research.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">January 05, 2024</span>.</p>Karla Cruisetag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1590492023-12-20T16:44:00-05:002024-01-05T16:45:01-05:00Notre Dame to confer honorary degrees at academic convocation to be held at Rome Global Gateway<p>At an academic convocation on Jan. 29 at its <a href="https://rome.nd.edu/">Rome Global Gateway</a>, the University of Notre Dame will bestow honorary degrees on three individuals who have dedicated their careers to nurturing ecumenical dialogue, promoting the preservation and accessibility of art and cultural artifacts and bringing powerful stories to life in the international film and entertainment industry.</p><p>At an academic convocation on Jan. 29 at its <a href="https://rome.nd.edu/">Rome Global Gateway</a>, the University of Notre Dame will bestow honorary degrees on three distinguished leaders: <strong>Barbara Jatta</strong>, director of the Vatican Museums; <strong>Bishop Brian Farrell, L.C.</strong>, secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity; and <strong>Roberto Benigni</strong>, an internationally acclaimed actor, director and poet.</p>
<p>“The University is honored to recognize these three outstanding leaders in their respective fields,” said <a href="https://president.nd.edu/about/">University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.</a> “By virtue of her faithful and trailblazing leadership, Barbara Jatta has made lasting contributions to the Church and to the world of art conservation. Bishop Farrell’s tireless work to build ecumenical relationships has enriched the Church’s expressions of faith and compassionate love. And Roberto Benigni, through his groundbreaking and candid storytelling, has invited all who experience his art into a deeper relationship with humanity and the divine.”</p>
<p>“All three serve as inspiring role models for the global Notre Dame community.”</p>
<figure class="image image-right"><strong><img src="https://news.nd.edu/assets/551790/jatta_300.jpg" alt="Jatta 300" width="300" height="400"></strong></figure>
<p><strong>Barbara Jatta (doctor of fine arts)<br></strong>Jatta broke new ground in 2016 when Pope Francis appointed her as vice-director and, in January 2017, as the first female director of the Vatican Museums — the second-most visited museum in the world behind only the Louvre in Paris. As one of the most prominent female Vatican administrators, she is responsible for an immense and invaluable collection of artwork that includes the iconic Sistine Chapel ceiling.</p>
<p>Jatta has participated in prominent diplomatic and interreligious exchanges, including an art exchange with China and a joint exhibit with the Jewish Museum of Rome. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led a transition to offering digital experiences, including seven new virtual museum tours and a video series that brought the Vatican’s collections to new audiences.</p>
<p>Prior to her Vatican Museums position, she was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to roles at the Vatican Apostolic Library. Jatta holds a degree from Sapienza University of Rome and also completed a three-year specialist course there. She received her archivist diploma from the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomacy and Archives, and has studied conservation. She has been awarded the Order of the Star of Italy, an honor that recognizes national prestige abroad and the promotion of friendly relations and cooperation between Italy and other countries, and was named to Forbes’ 50 over 50 list in 2022.</p>
<figure class="image image-left"><strong><img src="https://news.nd.edu/assets/551787/bishop_farrell.jpg" alt="Bishop Farrell" width="600" height="418"></strong></figure>
<p><strong>Bishop Brian Farrell, L.C. (doctor of laws)<br></strong>Born in Dublin and ordained bishop by Pope St. John Paul II in St. Peter’s Basilica in 2003, Bishop Farrell is a distinguished leader in promoting ecumenical and interreligious engagement within the Catholic Church. Through his scholarship and advocacy work, he has served as an outspoken voice condemning antisemitism and emphasizing the need for interfaith dialogue among Jews, Christians and Muslims.</p>
<p>After his ordination to priesthood, Bishop Farrell worked to establish the Legionaries of Christ in the United States, a congregation driven to lead others to “transform their hearts, their families and their world” with the love of Christ. He completed a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and, afterward, entered the Secretariat of State. In the 1990s, as department head of its English language section, he accompanied Pope St. John Paul II on many apostolic journeys to various parts of the world. He is the brother of Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life.</p>
<figure class="image image-right"><strong><img src="https://news.nd.edu/assets/551791/benigni_300.jpg" alt="Benigni 300" width="300" height="415"></strong></figure>
<p><strong>Roberto Benigni (doctor of fine arts)<br></strong>An Italian actor and director lauded for his comedic work, Benigni is widely known for the film “Life is Beautiful,” which he directed and starred in. Inspired by his father’s experiences in a World War II labor camp, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and awarded the Oscar for best foreign language film, best original dramatic score, and best actor for Benigni — the first win for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role.</p>
<p>In 2014, Benigni achieved great public acclaim with “The Ten Commandments,” a TV program quoted in the “Te deum,” Pope Francis’ last homily for 2014. Benigni also contributed his work to support the 2016 launch of Pope Francis’ book “The Name of God is Mercy.”</p>
<p>He has appeared publicly and met privately with Pope Francis for multiple projects. An improvisatory poet, he is renowned for his insights on and recitations of Dante’s “Divina Commedia” from memory. Benigni is the recipient of 10 honorary degrees from universities around the world. In 2021, he was given the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award, an honor for those who have made important contributions to cinema.</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Notre Dame News</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/distinguished-leaders-to-receive-honorary-degrees/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">December 19, 2023</span>.</p>Notre Dame Newstag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1588292023-12-18T13:50:00-05:002023-12-18T13:51:10-05:00Notre Dame’s Edward Maginn Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors<p><strong><a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/edward-maginn/">Edward Maginn</a>,</strong> Keough-Hesburgh Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) — the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.</p><p><strong><a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/edward-maginn/">Edward Maginn</a>,</strong> Keough-Hesburgh Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) — the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.</p>
<p>This year’s class of 162 <a href="https://academyofinventors.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-NAI-Fellows-List.pdf"><strong>NAI Fellows</strong></a> from around the world includes two Nobel Laureates, three National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees, and 22 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.</p>
<p>Maginn is a globally recognized leader in research linking the physical properties of materials to their chemical composition. Much of his work has been directed toward greenhouse gas capture and reduction, electrolytes for energy storage, and materials for more efficient cooling and refrigeration.</p>
<p>His work in algorithmic and computational research led to the development of the open-source Monte Carlo package Cassandra, most commonly used to compute the thermodynamic properties of fluids.</p>
<p>Maginn has been granted ten United States patents, primarily focusing on the use of ionic liquids for refrigeration and for electroplating.</p>
<p>Maginn has published more than 230 peer-reviewed papers with more than 27,000 citations. He has written 10 book chapters and authored 202 contributions to conference proceedings.</p>
<p>Maginn and the other 2023 fellows will be presented with medals at the group’s 13th annual meeting on June 18, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina.</p>
<p>Other recent NAI Fellows at Notre Dame include <strong><a href="https://research.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/notre-dames-nosang-myung-elected-an-nai-fellow-the-highest-professional-distinction-awarded-to-academic-inventors/">Nosang Myung</a> </strong>(2022), <a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/news/engineers-bernstein-and-chang-elected-fellows-of-the-national-academy-of-inventors/"><strong>Gary Bernstein and Hsueh-Chia Chang</strong></a> (2020), and <a href="https://wireless.nd.edu/news/hochwald-named-2019-national-academy-of-inventors-fellow/"><strong>Bert Hochwald</strong></a> (2019).</p>Karla Cruisetag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1575272023-10-26T10:30:00-04:002023-10-26T10:30:47-04:00Strategic Framework student town halls announced<figure class="image image-right"><img src="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/assets/529186/200x/straegic_framework_cover_.jpg" alt="Straegic Framework Cover" width="200" height="259"></figure> <p>The University has organized three town hall sessions this fall for students to learn more about the recently…</p><figure class="image image-right"><img src="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/assets/529186/200x/straegic_framework_cover_.jpg" alt="Straegic Framework Cover" width="200" height="259"></figure>
<p>The University has organized three town hall sessions this fall for students to learn more about the recently launched <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/">Strategic Framework</a> that will guide the University for the next decade. At each session, Provost John McGreevy will give an overview of the Framework and invite student questions.</p>
<p><strong>Undergraduate student sessions:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<p>Thursday, Nov. 9, 3:15–4:15 p.m. at Carey Auditorium in Hesburgh Library</p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<p>Monday, Nov. 13, 4–5 p.m. at Carey Auditorium in Hesburgh Library</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Graduate and professional student session:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<p>Monday, Nov. 20, from 4–5 p.m. at Carey Auditorium in Hesburgh Library.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Students who would like to submit a question may do so using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecBw5jZ8_imwZe-D59akw8Cd4wdYM8YSH8jN042hav5zDPcw/viewform?usp=sf_link">this form</a>. While there might not be time to address every question at the event, student questions and comments will provide valuable insight as University administrators, faculty, staff, and students work together to enact the Framework.</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Kate Garry</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/news/strategic-framework-student-town-halls-announced/">strategicframework.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">October 26, 2023</span>.</p>Kate Garrytag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1566902023-09-25T09:33:00-04:002024-03-28T12:53:27-04:00Notre Dame prepares for comprehensive evaluation of accreditation status<p>The University of Notre Dame will undergo its 10-year comprehensive evaluation for reaffirmation of accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in April 2024.</p>
<p>Combining a comprehensive self-study, student survey, and in-person site visit, the HLC reaffirmation procedures present participating colleges and universities with the opportunity to articulate how their academic programs, student and faculty services, and assessment and planning infrastructure attend to the HLC quality-assurance criteria.</p><p>The University of Notre Dame will undergo its 10-year comprehensive evaluation for reaffirmation of accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in April 2024.</p>
<p>Combining a comprehensive self-study, student survey, and in-person site visit, the HLC reaffirmation procedures present participating colleges and universities with the opportunity to articulate how their academic programs, student and faculty services, and assessment and planning infrastructure attend to the HLC quality-assurance criteria:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.hlcommission.org/Policies/criteria-and-core-components.html#1">Criterion 1. Mission</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hlcommission.org/Policies/criteria-and-core-components.html#2">Criterion 2. Integrity: Ethical and Responsible Conduct</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hlcommission.org/Policies/criteria-and-core-components.html#3">Criterion 3. Teaching and Learning: Quality, Resources, and Support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hlcommission.org/Policies/criteria-and-core-components.html#4">Criterion 4. Teaching and Learning: Evaluation and Improvement</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hlcommission.org/Policies/criteria-and-core-components.html#5">Criterion 5. Institutional Effectiveness, Resources, and Planning</a></li>
</ul>
<p>“Accreditation serves as an important link between institutions of higher learning and the public,” said Maura Ryan, Vice President and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Notre Dame’s Accreditation Liaison Officer. “The HLC and other accreditors are responsible for assuring the quality of U.S. colleges and universities. The opportunity to examine our institutional practices and programs as they relate to the University’s mission is something we deeply value.”</p>
<p>The HLC site visit team will conduct drop-in sessions for the campus community.</p>
<ul>
<li>Monday, April 8: 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. in 312 Main Building</li>
<li>Tuesday, April 9: 10:15 to 11:00 a.m. in 312 Main Building</li>
</ul>
<p>On Tuesday, April 9, the HLC site visit team will conduct three concurrent open sessions from 9–10 a.m. in DeBartolo Hall addressing the accreditation criteria. These concurrent sessions will address:</p>
<ul>
<li>Criterion 1 (Mission) and Criterion 2 (Integrity): DeBartolo Hall 117</li>
<li>Criterion 3 and Criterion 4 (Teaching and Learning): DeBartolo Hall 118</li>
<li>Criterion 5 (Institutional Effectiveness, Resources, and Planning): DeBartolo Hall 213</li>
</ul>
<p>More information is available online at <a href="https://provost.nd.edu/accreditation-and-state-authorization/">provost.nd.edu/accreditation-and-state-authorization.</a></p>
<p> </p>Office of the Provosttag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1559822023-09-07T17:47:00-04:002023-09-11T14:08:13-04:00Notre Dame announces leadership for new strategic initiatives on democracy, ethics, and poverty<p>Following the recent launch of the <a href="http://strategicframework.nd.edu">University of Notre Dame’s Strategic Framework</a>, Provost <a href="http://provost.nd.edu">John T. McGreevy</a> this week announced the first three strategic initiatives emerging from that plan: Democracy, Ethics, and Poverty.…</p><p>Following the recent launch of the <a href="http://strategicframework.nd.edu">University of Notre Dame’s Strategic Framework</a>, Provost <a href="http://provost.nd.edu">John T. McGreevy</a> this week announced the first three strategic initiatives emerging from that plan: Democracy, Ethics, and Poverty.</p>
<p>“Now the work begins to realize our ambitious vision for Notre Dame, said McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost. “These three University-led initiatives will be campuswide, building on existing strengths and encouraging the kind of institutional collaboration Notre Dame needs to reach its full potential and respond to some of the most complex challenges facing society today.”</p>
<p>Each initiative will be led by a faculty director, who will work closely with <a href="https://provost.nd.edu/about/associate-provosts-vice-presidents/vice-president-and-associate-provost-for-academic-strategy/">David Go</a>, vice president and associate provost for academic strategy, and an executive committee that will include deans, center and institute directors, department chairs, and faculty experts. The faculty serving as strategic iniatitive directors were appointed to five-year terms beginning Sept. 1, 2023.</p>
<figure class="image-right"><img src="https://provost.nd.edu/assets/536071/150x/david_campbell_square.jpeg" alt="David Campbell Square" width="150" height="150"></figure>
<p><a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/david-campbell/">David Campbell</a>, the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, will lead the new <strong>Notre Dame Democracy Initiative</strong>, a project to establish Notre Dame as a global leader in the study of democracy, a convenor for conversation about and actions to preserve democracy, and a model for the formation of civically engaged citizens and public servants. This initiative will connect research, education, and policy work across multiple units, including (but not limited to) the Department of Political Science, the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, which has long been a leader in scholarship on democracy in Latin America. It will also extend beyond Notre Dame’s campus to Washington, D.C., closely connecting Notre Dame’s voice and work to policymakers and federal agencies.</p>
<figure class="image-right"><img src="https://provost.nd.edu/assets/536069/150x/meghan_sullivan_square.jpg" alt="Meghan Sullivan Square" width="150" height="150"></figure>
<p><a href="https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/meghan-sullivan/">Meghan Sullivan</a>, the Wilsey Family Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS), will direct the <strong>Notre Dame Ethics Initiative</strong>. The goal of the initiative is to make Notre Dame a preeminent global destination for the study of ethics, offering rigorous training for future generations of ethicists and moral leaders, a platform for engagement of the Catholic moral tradition with other modes of inquiry, and an opportunity to forge insights into some of the most significant ethical issues of our time. This initiative will connect and amplify the work of many units, including NDIAS, the Departments of Theology and Philosophy, and ethics centers across the campus focusing on different areas, including applied subjects such as business, environmental, and technology ethics and the ethics of development.</p>
<figure class="image-right"><img src="https://provost.nd.edu/assets/536070/150x/james_sullivan.jpg" alt="James Sullivan" width="150" height="150"></figure>
<p><a href="https://economics.nd.edu/faculty/james-sullivan/">James Sullivan</a>, professor of economics and director of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, will direct the <strong>Notre Dame Poverty Initiative</strong>. The initiative will establish Notre Dame as a premier university for poverty-related research, student formation, and policy and program impact. This University-wide effort will bring together academic units that focus on poverty-related activities, including the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, the Pulte Institute for Global Development, and several departments, as well as students, faculty, and programs across campus that are involved in the fight against poverty.</p>
<p>These initiatives all emerged from the most faculty-led <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/notre-dame-2033-a-strategic-framework/the-process/">strategic planning process</a> in Notre Dame’s history. This process included the 107 proposals involving more than 700 unique faculty that were developed as part of the Moment to See, Courage to Act initiative, as well as discussions among the deans, members of the President’s Leadership Council, and executive officers. Democracy came directly out of Moment to See, Courage to Act. Poverty became the focus of one of the University-wide <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/notre-dame-2033-a-strategic-framework/the-process/">theme advisory committees</a> that informed the Strategic Framework. Ethics was identified as an important priority by the Opportunities for Excellence theme advisory committee.</p>
<p>“These three initiatives are only a first step,” McGreevy said in a Sept. 6 message to campus. “As the Strategic Framework implementation gets underway, faculty, staff, and students will have opportunities to engage with multiple college and school initiatives linked to the framework, as well as initiatives begun at the University level. I am grateful to the deans of the colleges and schools for their participation in and leadership of this effort, to David Go for guiding this first phase, and to Dave, Meghan, and Jim for taking on the particular challenge of launching new initiatives. </p>
<p>“I hope you will join me in congratulating these colleagues on their new roles and for their willingness to advance our shared vision as the world’s leading global Catholic research university.”</p>Kate Garrytag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1559792023-09-07T13:16:00-04:002023-09-07T13:16:13-04:00‘This is a moment for Notre Dame’: University celebrates historic accomplishments<p>On Tuesday (Sept. 5), in front of a crowd of 450 faculty and academic staff members gathered in<a href="https://performingarts.nd.edu/?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3JanBhCPARIsAJpXTx7KScVOoIcM9BpBl8imXlvaexQvapVEqMjdqEPfMlc3ZuhM_wynPQQaAqb-EALw_wcB"> DeBartolo Performing Arts Center</a>’s Leighton Concert Hall, University of Notre Dame President<a href="https://president.nd.edu/about/"> Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C</a>., dedicated his annual faculty address</p><figure class="image-right"><img src="https://news.nd.edu/assets/535856/mc_9.5.23_president_faculty_address_04.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="338">
<figcaption>University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., (from right), Peter Lange, former provost and professor emeritus of political science and public policy at Duke University, Barbara Snyder, president of the Association of American Universities, and John McGreevy, Notre Dame’s provost, discuss the University’s new strategic framework during the President’s Faculty Address on Sept. 5.</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>On Tuesday (Sept. 5), in front of a crowd of 450 faculty and academic staff members gathered in<a href="https://performingarts.nd.edu/?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3JanBhCPARIsAJpXTx7KScVOoIcM9BpBl8imXlvaexQvapVEqMjdqEPfMlc3ZuhM_wynPQQaAqb-EALw_wcB"> DeBartolo Performing Arts Center</a>’s Leighton Concert Hall, University of Notre Dame President<a href="https://president.nd.edu/about/"> Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C</a>., dedicated his annual faculty address to celebrating the University’s admission into the Association of American Universities (AAU) and marking the launch of a new<a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/"> strategic framework</a> that will guide Notre Dame over the next decade.</p>
<p>In his opening remarks, Father Jenkins described May 25 — the day he received a call from AAU President Barbara Snyder extending an invitation to Notre Dame to join the prestigious organization — as one of the “most memorable days” in his 19-year tenure as president.</p>
<p>“I was as stunned as I was joyful,” Father Jenkins said.</p>
<p>Father Jenkins described the many practical benefits of joining the AAU, which marks Notre Dame as one of the 71 top research universities in the U.S. Those benefits include attendance at meetings with other AAU institutions and access to valuable data and studies conducted by the AAU that can help inform University decision-making.</p>
<p>“But aside from these practical benefits, the AAU’s invitation is a recognition by the world’s most distinguished association of research universities of the progress Notre Dame has made in recent decades,” Father Jenkins said. “Notre Dame’s academic reputation has long been associated with its superb undergraduate education, but in recent decades a great deal of time, effort and resources have gone into enhancing our research. The AAU’s invitation is a recognition of the progress we have made.”</p>
<p>Having<a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-tops-200-million-in-annual-research-funding-for-third-straight-year/"> just announced</a> the University’s third straight year of more than $200 million in research funding, Father Jenkins cited this growth as a key factor in Notre Dame’s invitation to join the AAU. He thanked the faculty for their invaluable contributions to this achievement: “There is no group on whom it reflects more brilliantly than on you, the faculty of Notre Dame. You generated the ideas, you conducted the experiments, you led the research teams and you wrote the books and articles that earned this recognition. Our celebration of Notre Dame’s membership in the AAU is above all a celebration of you and your accomplishments.”</p>
<p>Even while celebrating the many achievements and milestones of the last 15 years, Father Jenkins cautioned against the temptation to grow complacent.</p>
<p>“An institution recognized for the steep upward line tracking its research will look far less impressive if the line plateaus or declines. We must sustain and even enhance the work of recent years,” he said.</p>
<p>Father Jenkins also noted that Notre Dame has an opportunity to make a particular contribution to the world of university research as the only explicitly religious institution in the AAU.</p>
<p>“Notre Dame’s distinctive mission and special contribution is to bring faith into dialogue with inquiries across the disciplines in order to engage the great questions and challenges of our time,” he stated.</p>
<p>Turning to “Notre Dame 2033: A Strategic Framework,” released last week, Father Jenkins noted that it “sets the course for Notre Dame’s continued progress in the next decade. We hope and believe that it will usher in a decade of progress every bit as impressive as recent decades.” He thanked the many faculty and leaders across campus who contributed to the formulation of the framework over a two-year planning process.</p>
<p>At the conclusion of his remarks, Father Jenkins invited<a href="https://www.nd.edu/about/leadership/council/john-t-mcgreevy/"> John T. McGreevy</a>, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, to facilitate a roundtable conversation with Snyder and Peter Lange, provost emeritus and professor emeritus of political science and public policy at Duke University, about the strategic framework as well as the challenges and opportunities facing higher education. Among the topics Snyder and Lange touched on were the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion; how to build a strong faculty now and in the future; and the centrality of the University’s Catholic mission.</p>
<p>Regarding the newly launched strategic framework, Snyder commented, “Notre Dame had the courage to make distinctive choices. I think the candor with which you address the current state of affairs is pretty rare in a strategic framework document.”</p>
<p>McGreevy asked the panelists for advice on how Notre Dame can successfully implement the framework.</p>
<p>“It starts with being redundant,” Lange explained. “It has to be a team effort where everyone gets on board. There has to be a lot of transparency for building a shared understanding for what you’re trying to accomplish. It must be a combination of central framing, but the initiatives have to come from faculty, students and staff because that’s where the real vitality and energy come from. And lastly, there must be a strategic understanding of resources — financial, leadership, ideas and people. You have to bring it all together for the plan to succeed.”</p>
<p>McGreevy also asked both guests for a brief assessment of the University’s risks and opportunities.</p>
<p>“Complacency,” Lange said when addressing the risks. “If you just sit where you are and bask in the incredible accomplishments you’ve had, you’re actually going to go backwards. As for an opportunity, Notre Dame has the chance to blend its broad Catholic values with the principles of the strategic plan to make yourself both distinguished and distinctive.”</p>
<p>Snyder noted that Notre Dame is at a critical juncture.</p>
<p>“This is a moment for Notre Dame. Inflection points (in the history of a university) come along very rarely,” Snyder said. “You have one in front of you right now. I hope that everyone sees that as both the biggest risk — not seizing this remarkable opportunity — and the greatest opportunity for Notre Dame. I think the University is in a position to really make a difference.”</p>
<p>A recording of the event is available<a href="https://youtu.be/O4agpmMfy5o"> here</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Notre Dame News</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/this-is-a-moment-for-notre-dame-university-celebrates-historic-accomplishments/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">September 07, 2023</span>.</p>Notre Dame Newstag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1554682023-08-30T14:37:00-04:002023-08-31T13:37:46-04:00University of Notre Dame releases new strategic framework<p>The University of Notre Dame on Wednesday (Aug. 30) announced a new strategic framework to guide the University over the next decade.</p> <p>“The strategic framework’s release is an exciting moment when we at Notre Dame turn our collective gaze to the future,” said Notre Dame President <a href="https://president.nd.edu/">Rev.</a>…</p><p>The University of Notre Dame on Wednesday (Aug. 30) announced a new strategic framework to guide the University over the next decade.</p>
<p>“The strategic framework’s release is an exciting moment when we at Notre Dame turn our collective gaze to the future,” said Notre Dame President <a href="https://president.nd.edu/">Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.</a> “The University has critical contributions to make to our students, the nation, the Church and the world, and we are eager to begin work on realizing the vision outlined in the framework.”</p>
<p>“<a href="http://strategicframework.nd.edu/">Notre Dame 2033: A Strategic Framework</a>” is the result of more than two years of <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/planning-process/">planning</a> involving contributions from more than 700 faculty, staff and leaders from across the University.</p>
<p>“We are deeply grateful to everyone who participated in this planning process,” said <a href="https://provost.nd.edu/">John T. McGreevy</a>, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, who led the development of the document. “Our effort to educate students and conduct research at the highest level animated by a distinctive Catholic mission is one of the most exciting and consequential experiments in global higher education.”</p>
<p>In identifying where Notre Dame should go in the next decade, the framework focuses on three themes — Strengthening Foundations, Global Catholicism, and Science and Engineering for a World in Need. Together these themes advance the <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/university-goals/">University goals</a>.</p>
<p>More than any previous planning effort, the framework emphasizes Notre Dame thinking and acting as an institution to make the most meaningful contributions to questions of national and international concern. Several of the strategic initiatives will be coordinated efforts drawing on expertise in multiple schools, colleges, centers and institutes. Other initiatives from all levels of the University will continue to emerge in the coming years.</p>
<p>The document also reinforces a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion as an integral part of the University’s Catholic mission and highlights the importance of engagement with South Bend and the region.</p>
<p>“On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I want to express our profound thanks to Father Jenkins and to all who have worked so hard to formulate such a thoughtful, challenging and focused framework for the future of Our Lady’s University,” Board Chairman John J. Brennan said. “We look forward to the realization of the aspirations outlined in this document and to reaching new heights as the premier Catholic research university in the world.”</p>
<p>“Notre Dame 2033: A Strategic Framework” is available online at <a href="http://strategicframework.nd.edu/">strategicframework.nd.edu</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Kate Garry</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/university-of-notre-dame-releases-new-strategic-framework/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">August 30, 2023</span>.</p>Kate Garrytag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1552632023-08-23T11:27:00-04:002023-08-23T11:27:27-04:00President’s faculty address to focus on admission into AAU, new strategic framework<p>University of Notre Dame President <a href="https://president.nd.edu/about/">Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C</a>., plans to use his annual address to the faculty to celebrate the University of Notre Dame’s admission into the Association of American Universities and mark the launch of a new strategic framework that will guide Notre Dame for the next decade.</p><p>University President <a href="https://president.nd.edu/about/">Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C</a>., plans to use his annual address to the faculty to celebrate the University of Notre Dame’s admission into the Association of American Universities and mark the launch of a new strategic framework that will guide Notre Dame for the next decade.</p>
<p>“The President’s Faculty Address: A Roundtable on the Strategic Framework” will take place at 4 p.m. Sept. 5 (Tuesday) at the <a href="https://performingarts.nd.edu/?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3JanBhCPARIsAJpXTx7KScVOoIcM9BpBl8imXlvaexQvapVEqMjdqEPfMlc3ZuhM_wynPQQaAqb-EALw_wcB">DeBartolo Performing Arts Center</a>’s Leighton Concert Hall. A celebratory reception will follow.</p>
<p>Father Jenkins will offer opening remarks, to be followed by a roundtable discussion moderated by <a href="https://www.nd.edu/about/leadership/council/john-t-mcgreevy/">John T. McGreevy</a>, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, featuring Barbara R. Snyder, president of the AAU and president emerita of Case Western Reserve University, and Peter Lange, provost emeritus and professor emeritus of political science and public policy at Duke University.</p>
<p>The strategic framework, a product of more than two years of planning involving contributions from more than 700 faculty, staff, and leaders from across the University, will be released to the campus community in advance of the faculty address.</p>
<p>In addition to the Sept. 5 address, Notre Dame’s membership in the AAU and the launch of the new strategic framework will also be discussed at town halls for University staff on Sept. 19 (Tuesday).</p>
<p>“Both the recognition by AAU and the formulation of the strategic framework are the result of extensive and excellent work by scholars and leaders across Notre Dame,” Father Jenkins said. “I am grateful to Dr. Snyder and Dr. Lange for their willingness to engage with us at this pivotal moment in our institutional history, as we reflect on the opportunities the current moment provides for Notre Dame as well as any challenges we should consider.”</p>
<p>Prior to serving as AAU president, Snyder was president of Case Western Reserve University from 2007 to 2020, where she encouraged interdisciplinary excellence, catalyzed institutional collaboration and reinvigorated alumni engagement and fundraising.</p>
<p>In addition to being provost emeritus, Lange holds roles as the Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke and as vice president at executive search firm Isaacson, Miller, where he leads the higher education strategy practice.</p>
<p>“We are looking forward to an enlightening conversation with these two distinguished leaders on Sept. 5 and to working together as an institution to implement the ideas put forth in the framework,” McGreevy said. “Notre Dame’s effort to educate students and conduct research at the highest level animated by a distinctive Catholic mission is one of the most exciting and consequential experiments in global higher education.”</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Media Relations</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/presidents-faculty-address-to-focus-on-admission-into-aau-new-strategic-framework/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">August 23, 2023</span>.</p>Media Relationstag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1551622023-08-18T11:45:00-04:002023-08-18T11:45:44-04:00Scott Appleby to step down as founding dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs after a decade of service<p>Scott Appleby, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, has announced that he will not seek reappointment when his second five-year term ends on June 30. The University is launching an international search to identify a successor.</p><p><a href="https://keough.nd.edu/people/r-scott-appleby/">Scott Appleby</a>, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the <a href="https://keough.nd.edu/">Keough School of Global Affairs</a> at the University of Notre Dame, has announced that he will not seek reappointment when his second five-year term ends on June 30. The University is launching an international search to identify a successor.</p>
<p>“Scott’s leadership as founding dean of the Keough School has been simply extraordinary,” said <a href="https://provost.nd.edu/about/charles-and-jill-fischer-provost/">John T. McGreevy</a>, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost. “Beginning the first new college or school at Notre Dame in almost 100 years is no simple task. Faculty must be appointed, students recruited, degree programs established and a mission for the school developed. In all of this Scott has excelled. His vision, tenacity and commitment to building a more global Notre Dame and a more just world have enriched us all.”</p>
<p>Appleby is a leading scholar of global religious movements and a professor of history who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1994 as director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. He went on to serve as director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies for 14 years before his appointment as founding dean of the Keough School in 2014.</p>
<p>In this role, Appleby led the development of a mission and strategic plan for the Keough School, which seeks to advance integral human development, a holistic model of human flourishing grounded in the God-given dignity of each and every person.</p>
<p>During his tenure as dean, Appleby oversaw the appointments of more than 60 new faculty, including research, teaching, policy and professional practice scholars; opened a global policy office in Washington, D.C.; and launched two degree programs that complement the teaching and research of the nine interdisciplinary institutes housed within the Keough School. The public policy-oriented <a href="https://keough.nd.edu/master-of-global-affairs/">Master of Global Affairs</a> program annually attracts and enrolls highly qualified students from approximately 40 countries around the world. An undergraduate major in global affairs launched in spring 2022.</p>
<p>“It’s been an honor to work alongside the talented and dedicated faculty, staff and students in the Keough School. With an ambitious new strategic plan to guide the school, and a new and exciting strategic framework for Notre Dame, the future is bright,” Appleby said. “I look forward in my final year as dean to working vigorously with my Keough colleagues to implement our plan, and with University leadership to ensure a smooth transition.”</p>
<p>At the conclusion of his time as Keough School dean, Appleby plans to continue his research and teaching as a faculty member at Notre Dame.</p>
<p>“The issues Scott has worked on throughout his career remain pressing,” McGreevy said. “I know he will make a meaningful contribution to those topics through his research and teaching in the years ahead.”</p>
<p>The author or editor of 15 books, Appleby’s publications include “The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation,” “The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding,” and the five volumes of “The Fundamentalism Project” (University of Chicago Press), which he edited with Martin E. Marty. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and is the recipient of five honorary degrees.</p>
<p>The University has hired executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to lead an international search for a new dean and will soon convene a search committee as outlined in the Academic Articles.</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Kate Garry</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/scott-appleby-to-step-down-as-founding-dean-of-the-keough-school-of-global-affairs-after-a-decade-of-service/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">August 17, 2023</span>.</p>Kate Garrytag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1540992023-06-16T10:48:00-04:002023-06-16T11:48:48-04:00Margaret Meserve named vice president and associate provost for academic space and support<div style="border-bottom:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in 0in 12.0pt 0in"> <span style="background:white"></span> <p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white"><span style="background:white"><a href="https://history.nd.edu/people/margaret-meserve/">Margaret Meserve</a>, the Glynn</span></span></p>
…</div><div style="border-bottom:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in 0in 12.0pt 0in">
<span style="background:white"></span>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white"><span style="background:white"><a href="https://history.nd.edu/people/margaret-meserve/">Margaret Meserve</a>, the Glynn Family Collegiate Professor of History and co-director of the <a href="https://glynnhonors.nd.edu/">Glynn Family Honors Program</a> at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed vice president and associate provost for academic space and support, effective July 1.</span></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white"><span style="background:white"></span></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white"><span style="background:white">In this role, Meserve will work with the University Architect’s office to help manage major new projects for academic units, including new buildings, renovations and moves. In addition, she will manage plans for backfill, swing space and efficient use of existing space on campus and set priorities for the upgrade and repair process. </span></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white"><span style="background:white"></span></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white"><span style="background:white">Meserve will also develop a long-term strategic plan for existing and projected academic space and help to determine standards for utilization of academic space in consultation with Vice President and Associate Provost for Academic Strategy David Go.</span></span><span style="background:white"></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white">“Space is a crucial resource for everyone at Notre Dame, and learning how to do more with the space we have is central to our aspirations in teaching, learning and research,” said John T. McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost. “Margaret is already a trusted partner of the Facilities Design and Operations team and she has helped us tremendously over the past few months as we consider our academic space needs and how to responsibly steward our resources. I look forward to working with her in this expanded role.”</span><span style="background:white"></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white">Meserve previously served as associate dean for the humanities and faculty affairs and director of space planning in the College of Arts and Letters, where she provided strategic leadership for 24 renovation projects for humanities departments and programs in Decio and O’Shaughnessy Halls. In January, she was named senior director of academic space for the Provost’s Office. </span><span style="background:white"></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white">In her new expanded role, she will split her time equally between the Provost’s Office and her scholarly work, which includes teaching, research and leadership of the Glynn Family Honors Program.</span><span style="background:white"></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white">Meserve studies the Italian Renaissance and the histories of printing and book production, history writing, humanist culture and the papacy in the 15th and 16th centuries. Her most recent book, “Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome,” <a href="https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/papal-bull-earns-notre-dame-historian-margaret-meserve-her-second-marraro-prize/">won the American Catholic Historical Association’s Helen & Howard Marraro Prize</a> for the most distinguished work in Italian history published in 2021.</span><span style="background:white"></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white">Meserve received her bachelor’s degree in classics from Harvard and her master’s and doctorate in Renaissance history from the University of London. She taught at Princeton for two years before coming to Notre Dame in 2003. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies and she is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. </span><span style="background:white"></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white">She is currently working on a translation of the “Commentaries” of Pope Pius II, a Renaissance pope known for his urban planning projects and the only pope ever to compose an autobiography while in office. </span><span style="background:white"></span></p>
<p style="border:none; padding:0in"><span style="background:white">“I’m thrilled to take on this important role working with partners across campus to make the best use of our academic buildings,” Meserve said. “Notre Dame enjoys an extraordinary architectural heritage and I hope our spaces can promote excellent teaching and research and a stronger sense of academic community among faculty, students and staff.”</span></p>
</div>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Kate Garry</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/margaret-meserve-named-vice-president-and-associate-provost-for-academic-space-and-support/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">June 15, 2023</span>.</p>Kate Garrytag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1540462023-06-14T11:10:00-04:002023-06-14T11:10:31-04:00Ronald Metoyer named vice president and associate provost for teaching and learning<p><a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/ronald-metoyer/">Ronald Metoyer</a>, a professor of computer science and engineering and associate dean for diversity and faculty development in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering, has been appointed vice president and associate provost for teaching and learning, effective July 1.</p><p class="BasicParagraph"><a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/ronald-metoyer/">Ronald Metoyer</a>, a professor of computer science and engineering and associate dean for diversity and faculty development in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering, has been appointed vice president and associate provost for teaching and learning, effective July 1.</p>
<p class="BasicParagraph">In this role, Metoyer will oversee Notre Dame Learning, which includes the Office of Digital Learning, the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Learning Analytics. He will lead the University’s approach to innovative pedagogical and learning strategies, including online/digital learning, inter-institutional collaboration and experimental models for the future of education. Metoyer will chair the New Instructional Initiatives Committee and work closely with Rev. Dan Groody, C.S.C., vice president and associate provost for undergraduate education, on policies to support effective teaching and learning. He will also serve as a member of the President’s Leadership Council, the Provost’s Cabinet and the Core Curriculum Committee.</p>
<p class="BasicParagraph">Metoyer is replacing Elliott Visconsi, who is leaving Notre Dame this month <a href="https://provost.nd.edu/news/elliott-visconsi-named-provost-and-dean-of-the-college-of-the-holy-cross-in-worcester-mass/">to become provost and dean of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts</a>.</p>
<p class="BasicParagraph">“Teaching and learning is at the heart of everything we do at Notre Dame, and Ron is an ideal choice for this important role,” said John T. McGreevy, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost. “Human-centered strategies are central to his scholarly work, so he is exceptionally well-positioned to help our faculty use technology and new pedagogical techniques to enhance teaching and learning across the University. Ron is also an outstanding teacher in his own right, experienced in working with undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. I look forward to working with him.”</p>
<p class="BasicParagraph">Metoyer will remain an active researcher following his appointment, dividing his time between the Office of the Provost and his <a href="http://sites.nd.edu/ronald-metoyer/">research laboratory</a>, which specializes in human-computer interaction with an emphasis on information visualization. His research focuses on the design and use of visual representations in real-world applications where people must carry out complex tasks or make difficult decisions. His current projects include a <a href="https://www.nd.edu/stories/oasis-in-the-desert/">cross-disciplinary research initiative</a> funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture that aims to develop data-driven supports for food access in neighborhoods with limited options for fresh, healthy food.</p>
<p class="BasicParagraph">Metoyer received his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and his doctorate in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of a 2002 NSF CAREER Award for his work in exploring usability issues around the generation of animated character content for training scenarios. He has published a book, “<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-02606-5">Diversity in Visualization</a>,” and more than 75 papers in top conferences and journals in human-computer interaction and computer graphics. Metoyer is also a leader in the National Science Foundation’s <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/cise/bpc/">Broadening Participation in Computing</a> community.</p>
<p class="BasicParagraph">“I couldn’t be more excited about this opportunity,” Metoyer said. “I’m looking forward to working with the ND Learning team to support student learning and faculty teaching to ensure that all students in our programs have an ‘unsurpassed’ educational experience.”</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Kate Garry</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/ronald-metoyer-named-vice-president-and-associate-provost-for-teaching-and-learning/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">June 14, 2023</span>.</p>Kate Garrytag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1538082023-06-05T06:30:00-04:002023-06-05T00:12:53-04:00A leap of faith<h4>How two Christian and two Muslim young women went from Nigeria to Notre Dame, overcoming tragedy and trauma to show the world-changing power of knowledge</h4> <p> </p> <p>Maijidda Haruna didn't have the words to explain how cold it was.</p> <p>On the day she stepped outside of O'Hare International…</p><h4>How two Christian and two Muslim young women went from Nigeria to Notre Dame, overcoming tragedy and trauma to show the world-changing power of knowledge</h4>
<p> </p>
<p>Maijidda Haruna didn't have the words to explain how cold it was.</p>
<p>On the day she stepped outside of O'Hare International Airport — her first time on American soil, her first time outside Nigeria, her first time being more than a few dozen miles away from her village — it was zero degrees Fahrenheit.</p>
<p>As each breath of Midwestern winter air froze her lungs, the 18-year-old didn't feel like she was half a world away from home. She felt like she was on a different planet. </p>
<p>“I called my mom, and I was just trying to describe to her how cold it was, and I didn't know how to,” she said. “I was so scared — I didn't know how I would be able to manage, and I couldn't even describe the environment to them.”</p>
<p>Five years later, every step of the journey that began that day for Maijidda and three other Nigerian women is nearly indescribable. They came to Notre Dame that arctic morning in early 2018 after being carefully selected by their government, shepherded by senior leaders from the United Nations and the Catholic Church, and anxiously but quietly awaited by a tight circle of supporters at Notre Dame.</p>
<p>For a country torn apart by religious violence — with Boko Haram waging a brutal insurgency in the northeast and a communal conflict in the country's middle region that cost even more lives — and where the value of educating girls was constantly questioned, sending four young women to a Catholic university on an unfamiliar continent was a gamble, but a risk many felt was worth taking.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nd.edu/stories/a-leap-of-faith/">Read the story.</a></p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Office of Strategic Content</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/a-leap-of-faith/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">May 30, 2023</span>.</p>Office of Brand Contenttag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1537692023-06-01T14:21:00-04:002023-06-02T13:28:24-04:00Notre Dame selected to join Association of American Universities<p>The University of Notre Dame has been selected for inclusion in the Association of American Universities (AAU), a consortium of the nation’s leading public and private research universities, Notre Dame’s president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., announced today.</p><figure class="image-default"><img alt="Nd Grad Student Research 1200" height="800" src="https://news.nd.edu/assets/518605/fullsize/nd_grad_student_research_1200.jpg" width="1200"></figure>
<p>The University of Notre Dame has been selected for inclusion in the <a href="https://www.aau.edu/">Association of American Universities</a> (AAU), a consortium of the nation’s leading public and private research universities, Notre Dame’s president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., announced today.</p>
<p>“While Notre Dame has long been known for its undergraduate education, we have striven to be a preeminent research institution with superb graduate education, all informed by our Catholic mission,” Father Jenkins said. “We are honored to be invited to join the AAU and heartened by the AAU Board’s recognition of our progress as a research university, and we look forward to participating in this august organization.”</p>
<p>“This is a major milestone in the history of Notre Dame,” said John J. Brennan, chair of the University’s Board of Trustees. “Much credit goes to Father Jenkins, his administration and, especially, to the University’s superb and dedicated faculty who engage in teaching and research that make a difference in our world.”</p>
<figure class="image-right"><img alt="Aau Logo" height="233" src="https://news.nd.edu/assets/518603/aau_logo.jpg" width="600"></figure>
<p>Founded in 1900, the AAU seeks, according to its mission statement, to “collectively help shape policy for higher education, science and innovation; promote best practices in undergraduate and graduate education; and strengthen the contributions of leading research universities to American society.” Membership is by invitation only and based on an extensive set of quantitative indicators and qualitative judgments that assess the breadth and quality of a university’s research and graduate and undergraduate programs.</p>
<p>Five other universities — Arizona State University; George Washington University; the University of California, Riverside; the University of Miami; and the University of South Florida — also were added to the AAU membership roll today, joining the association’s previous 65 U.S. and Canadian members. </p>
<p>“We are very proud to have these six distinguished universities from across the United States join AAU,” AAU President Barbara R. Snyder said. “We are particularly proud that two of our new members — Arizona State and UC Riverside — are designated as Hispanic-serving institutions because significant shares of their student bodies are composed of individuals from Hispanic backgrounds. We look forward to working with all of these universities to continue advancing higher education and laying the scientific foundation that helps keep our economy strong and our nation healthy and safe.”<br>
<br>
“I’m excited to invite these six diverse institutions to AAU,” AAU Board Chair and University of Southern California President Carol L. Folt said. “AAU members are distinguished by the quality of their education and research. It is a testament to our higher education system that we have this many leading research universities in every corner of our country. Congratulations to the faculty, staff and students for this recognition of their hard work and their leadership in research and education. We look forward to our joint efforts to continue to transform lives through higher education.” </p>
<p>Long recognized as one of the nation’s leading undergraduate universities, Notre Dame has made significant strides in recent years as a research institution. Since 2007, research awards received by Notre Dame have grown 194 percent. Among the awards were:</p>
<p>● <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-awarded-transformational-lilly-endowment-grant-to-accelerate-regional-innovation-and-workforce-and-economic-development/">$42.4 million from Lilly Endowment Inc.</a> to form the Labs for Industry Futures and Transformation (LIFT) Network with industry, community and education partners throughout the region. The program links and enhances cutting-edge expertise, technologies and workforce development programs with local manufacturing and advanced technology sectors</p>
<p>● <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-receives-its-largest-research-award-to-study-spatial-repellents-against-mosquito-borne-diseases/">$33.7 million from Unitaid</a> to study new approaches to preventing mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and Chikungunya</p>
<p>● <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-receives-40-million-federal-award-to-improve-global-education-outcomes/">$40 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development</a> to improve global education outcomes</p>
<p>● <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-to-lead-25-million-spectrumx-project-first-nsf-spectrum-innovation-initiative-center/">$25 million to the Wireless Institute from the National Science Foundation</a> to establish SpectrumX, a wireless spectrum innovation center</p>
<p>Additionally, Notre Dame has served as the home to several national centers supported by the Semiconductor Research Corporation, been the recipient of over $10 million in Department of Defense support for hypersonic research facilities, and over the past 20 years, has been awarded more National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships than any other private university. Other areas of research excellence include theology, philosophy, chemical engineering, astro and nuclear physics, and sacred music.</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Dennis Brown</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-selected-to-join-association-of-american-universities/">news.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">June 01, 2023</span>.</p>Dennis Browntag:provost.nd.edu,2005:News/1536642023-05-26T09:34:00-04:002023-12-10T19:56:21-05:00Natalie Sargent named faculty awards and recognition program director<figure class="image-right"><img src="https://provost.nd.edu/assets/518049/400x/nsarg_headshot_1_.jpg" alt="Natalie Sargent" width="400" height="400"></figure> <p>Natalie Sargent has been appointed to the newly created role of faculty awards and recognition program director at the University of Notre Dame, effective June…</p><figure class="image-right"><img src="https://provost.nd.edu/assets/518049/400x/nsarg_headshot_1_.jpg" alt="Natalie Sargent" width="400" height="400"></figure>
<p>Natalie Sargent has been appointed to the newly created role of faculty awards and recognition program director at the University of Notre Dame, effective June 1. </p>
<p>Sargent will develop a comprehensive strategy to position Notre Dame faculty for awards in every academic discipline; provide workshops, training, and advising to faculty; and manage the awards process from pipeline development to submission. </p>
<p>“We have superb faculty at Notre Dame, and we want to be more intentional about putting them forward for them for preeminent awards and fellowships that will honor their work and advance our reputation and influence as a global research university,” said Charles and Jill Fischer Provost John T. McGreevy. “Natalie’s work in his new role will do just that. I am also grateful to Associate Provost Maura Ryan for leading the successful search.”</p>
<p>Sargent will work with the provost, the provost's office team, and senior leaders across the academy — including deans, associate deans, chairs, and the vice president for research — to lead strategy, facilitate collaboration, and build a stronger culture of faculty recognition. This includes identifying opportunities, reducing barriers to award application, and emphasizing a pipeline of award development across the faculty career progression. </p>
<p>Most recently, Sargent was academic advancement director for the Mendoza College of Business, where she engaged academic leaders and internal and external stakeholders and facilitated record success in major gifts to the college. Prior to that, she served as fellowships consultant and interim assistant program director for the Graduate School’s Office of Grants and Fellowships. </p>
<p>A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and an alumna of Smith College, Sargent holds an M.A. in Early Christian Studies and a Ph.D. in History from Notre Dame. <br> </p>Kate Garry