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-7 posts tagged "academia"
Bella Laufenberg | Monday, February 27, 2023
Hugh Page, current vice president for institutional transformation and an advisor to the president, described his life as “a call to service” in an interview with The Observer. Page was raised as a member of the Baptist church while growing up in Baltimore. He went to a Presbyterian seminary first but ultimately discerned a call
Katelyn Waldschmidt | Friday, February 17, 2023
I’d like to preface this by saying I am not an expert on anything, least of all tenure. But I have been thinking and looking a lot into it lately. From what I understand: Why is tenure a thing? From my perspective, it seems like a way for colleges to push professors to do more
Kate Kirwan | Thursday, February 16, 2023
“Many thanks to all of you for joining us to talk about my book about gender-based violence on Valentine’s Day. I can’t think of anything more romantic than spending time together interrogating the ideological underpinnings of kinship,” Julia Kowalski, assistant professor of global affairs at Notre Dame, ironically remarked. Notre Dame celebrated the launch of
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, January 17, 2023
In a Tuesday news release, the University announced that mechanical engineering researcher Jeffrey “Jeff” Rhoads has been appointed vice president for research at the university. Rhoads, who will take over the role effective July 1, currently serves at Purdue University as a professor of mechanical engineering and the executive director of the Purdue Institute for
Elizabeth Prater | Tuesday, September 27, 2022
September 12 — an annual article is published by U.S. News & World Report: “Best National University Rankings.” There’s a buzz on Notre Dame’s campus. “Can you believe it,” a student whispers to a friend, as they scroll on their phone down to the bottom of the T20. “Notre Dame is tied with Columbia.” For
Jeremy Cappello Lee | Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Dr. Zofia Golab-Meyer, professor emerita of physics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, gave a historical account of Nazi and Soviet persecution of academics in Poland during World War II in a lecture entitled “Freedom, Tyranny and the Pursuit of Science: The Case of Poland 1918-1950.” Following the German occupation of Poland, Nazi forces
John Lee | Wednesday, November 19, 2014
In a panel hosted by the Kellogg Institute, Abraham F. Lowenthal, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California and adjunct professor at Brown University, discussed the launch of his new book on the waning relationship between scholars and policymakers today. Michael Desch, chair of the department of political science, and Viva Bartkus, associate professor of