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Rev. John I Jenkins C.S.C.(Photo by Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame) Commonweal, the oldest independent, lay-led, Catholic journal of opinion in the United States, created the award in 2024 in recognition of the journal’s 100th anniversary. Father Jenkins will be presented with the award, which is given biennially, at the Commonweal Benefit Dinner on Oct. 5 in New York City.

In recognition of its unique place in Notre Dame history and its contributions to the University over five decades, the Notre Dame Class of 1976 was honored with the 2026 Rev. Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C., Award on June 6 at the Alumni Association’s annual reunion celebration.

Millions of children under age five worldwide suffer from childhood stunting. A critical marker of chronic undernutrition, stunting represents a lifelong constraint on human potential, carrying a heightened risk of mortality, chronic disease, impaired cognitive development and reduced economic opportunity. A new Notre Dame study reveals that human-caused climate change is actively worsening this …

When the FIFA World Cup 2026 games kick off this week, bringing global attention to cities across North America, communities from Boston and Miami to Toronto, Dallas and Los Angeles will come together for one of the world’s largest sporting events. In these same cities, the University of Notre Dame’s Urban Poverty and Business Initiative (UPBI), a program aimed at helping underrepresented populat…

New research published in Nature Sustainability and led by Notre Dame has explored how rice-fish coculturing — an intervention technique that introduces fish into the rice fields — could help reduce disease incidence and poverty along the northern Senegal River basin, a hot spot for schistosomiasis.

University of Notre Dame rising senior Katharine Steffes has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship worth $35,000 in support of her graduate education. She is Notre Dame’s 11th Beinecke Scholar overall and third since 2023.

In 1970, nearly half of all Black individuals in the U.S. resided in a large city. Over the past 50 years, that number has fallen to merely 25 percent, while the share living in the suburbs of large cities rose from 16 to 36 percent. This demographic shift is as large as the post-World War II wave of the Great Migration, according to Notre Dame economist Evan Mast, who set out to study whether su…

Rev. David Theodore Tyson, C.S.C. — a longtime Trustee and alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, president emeritus of Holy Cross College and former president of the University of Portland — died Saturday (May 30) after a short illness. He was 78.

The University of Notre Dame today released the findings of an external investigation conducted by Helen Cantwell, a partner at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and a former prosecutor in a district attorney’s sex crimes unit, into allegations of sexual abuse against Rev. Thomas King, C.S.C., a former rector of Zahm Hall.

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have published the first known detailed study of breast cancer tissue from Native American women. The study, published in npj Precision Oncology, reveals important molecular differences that may impact the efficacy of therapies for female, Native American breast cancer patients.

On Monday (May 25), Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas (Magnificent humanity), which provides moral guidance to bishops, clergy and the faithful on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence (AI). Below, University of Notre Dame faculty experts from the College of Arts and Letters, College of Engineering, Keough School of Global Affairs and L…

“At Notre Dame, our mission as a global Catholic research university compels us to advance Pope Leo XIV’s historic contribution to Catholic social tradition through our research, our teaching, and all of our work in service of the common good. The Holy Father has highlighted the critical role that Catholic scholars and researchers — and all those of goodwill — must play in raising moral questions…

Douglas and Diana Berthiaume have made a transformational gift to the University of Notre Dame to advance biomedical research through strategic investments in critical infrastructure. The gift, totaling $35 million, establishes the Center for Biomedical Discovery. It includes $5 million in seed funding for multidisciplinary research teams, promoting new collaborations among biomedical researchers…

More than 1 million people in the U.S. live with multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that damages the brain, optic nerves and spinal cord by attacking myelin, the protective coating around nerve cells. Katrina Adams and her research team at the University of Notre Dame are studying how myelin loss and regeneration contribute to MS progression. Their new study, published in Nature Communications, c…

The University of Notre Dame celebrated its 181st Commencement Ceremony on Sunday (May 17) at Notre Dame Stadium. An audience of more than 20,000 family members, friends, faculty and graduates were in attendance as 2,120 degrees were conferred on undergraduate students.

(Remarks as prepared) Let us pause and place ourselves in the presence of God. Lord…

(Remarks as prepared) Graduates, there is one more group we must recognize today, without…

(Remarks as prepared) Sir, From your earliest days, you have embodied what it means…

(Remarks as prepared) Board Chair Veihmeyer, Father Dowd, Faculty, Members of the Board,…

(Remarks as prepared) First, I would like to thank Father Robert A. Dowd, the President…