Research
For scholars who share a common passion for inquiry because of what it can reveal about our world and ourselves, there is opportunity here.
Faith & Service
Notre Dame is animated by a faith that inspires us to seek knowledge because of the powerful tool it can be to improve humankind.
Global
Notre Dame seeks to be in the world, and to bring the world to Notre Dame, because inquiry and scholarly exchange are enriched by the pursuit of cultural fluency.
Notre Dame At Work
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Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, offered his prayers for Pope Leo XIV, elected by the College of Cardinals today in Vatican City as the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church.
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A group of campus units led by Notre Dame Learning’s Office of Digital Learning are building a pathway to the University for students who might not otherwise envision themselves as candidates to attend. It is an initiative made possible through a collaboration with the National Education Equity Lab, which partners with top universities to deliver actual college credit-bearing courses and supports to scholars in low-income high school classrooms across the nation.
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Clare Cullinan of South Bend, Indiana, has been named valedictorian and Bennett Schmitt from Jasper, Indiana, has been selected as salutatorian of the 2025 University of Notre Dame graduating class. The 180th University Commencement Ceremony will be held May 18 (Sunday) in Notre Dame Stadium for graduates and guests. During the ceremony, Cullinan will present the valedictory address, and as salutatorian, Schmitt will offer the invocation.
Faculty and Staff
The United States Department of Defense honored the University of Notre Dame’s Army ROTC Fightin’ Irish Battalion as the nation’s top Army collegiate program for the 2023-24 academic year. This will be the first time the unit has received the department’s Educational Institution Partnership Excellence Award, which recognizes the program’s achievements in recruiting, educating, training and commissioning leaders of character to be the next generation of military officers.
Notre Dame In Focus
University
Hesburgh Libraries celebrates Notre Dame's Four Horsemen legacy 100 years later
Research
Scott Jackson’s Acting Shakespeare class is a transformative experience
University
How a relationship born out of the Cold War made the Hesburgh Libraries an essential destination for medieval research
“Notre Dame must be the leading global Catholic research university, on par with but distinct from the world's best private universities. This 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.”
— Notre Dame 2033: A Strategic Framework
Notre Dame In Motion