Notre Dame uses the Canvas learning management system (LMS) as its online platform for instructors to provide learning materials and activities that supplement face-to-face, blended, or fully online academic courses. That means when Notre D…
A man in maroon sweater gestures, speaking to a smiling blonde woman in a brown blazer and a smiling man in a blue quarter-zip. The phrase of the day was “thought experiment.” What kind of objectification might be considered moral? How woul…
Author: Josh Weinhold and Adah McMillan Two University of Notre Dame faculty members have been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, continuing the University’s record success in winning support for humanities
The University of Notre Dame has been awarded nearly $4 million in a four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to fund a new initiative that will incorporate tools and strategies for teaching critical thinking into college…
Ty Harrington pictured with his friend Mohan, a monk at GEV, whom he visited during his return to India. When a place welcomes you once, it has a way of calling you back. For Ty Harrington '26—a program of liberal studies (PLS), philosophy,…
Alasdair MacIntyre, the Rev. John A. O’Brien senior research professor of philosophy emeritus and a permanent senior distinguished research fellow at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, died on May 21, 2025. He was 96. Widely regar…
A smiling young man wearing a light blue, long-sleeved shirt and a cross necklace stands in front of the Grotto at the University of Notre Dame. When thinking about his future, Lane Poche turns to the teachings of Pope Francis. Dilexit nos,…
Karl Ameriks, the McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, died on April 28 from pancreatic cancer. He was 77. Born in post-World War II Germany, Ameriks’ family emigrated to the United States when he w…
W. David Solomon, a man in a suit, teaching before a large tiered classroom full of students The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture mourns the passing of its founding director, W. David Solomon, associate professor of philosophy emerit…
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture hosted Notre Dame philosopher Therese Cory, director of the Jacques Maritain Center and member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, for a lecture on Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis o…
Four individuals stand with their hands clasped in front of them. They are posed in front of stained-glass windows inside a building, possibly a chapel or church, at the University of Notre Dame. Four faculty members in the College of Arts
For centuries, the work of St. Thomas Aquinas has informed academic inquiry into issues of human dignity, freedom, economic development, work, poverty, the environment, and other matters of global significance. To commemorate the 800th anni…