Media Mentions

February 19, 2026

Dennis Doordan, an architectural and design historian and professor emeritus of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, analyzes Los Angeles architecture through photographs Ansel Adams took on assignment there in the 1940s in a public lecture, “Looking at Ansel Adams Looking at LA.” 

February 19, 2026

For the third year in a row, the Theology department has hosted a one-credit ‘book club’ course, with this year’s class focusing on the 20th century English author, Graham Greene. The “theology book club” began three years ago after Fr. Kevin Grove, who is priest-in-residence at Dunne Hall, was asked by undergraduate hall residents to read St. Augustine’s “Confessions” with them. Friends were added until Fr. Grove decided it had grown so much that it could be a class. Thus, the one-credit theology book club was born.

February 17, 2026

Wolters Kluwer’s Legal & Regulatory U.S. business is pleased to announce a new webinar featuring Gary Born, one of the world’s foremost authorities on international law and international dispute resolution, on February 19, 2026. Born will be joined on the webinar by Roger Alford, Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and a leading U.S. scholar of international and constitutional law. Together, they will explore the status and role of both public and private international law in U.S. courts. 

February 11, 2026

David Lincicum, the director of the Master of Theological Studies Program and a scholar of Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, comments on the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, from the early Church to campus today: “It’s important to remember that Jesus lived and died a faithful Jew, and all of his first followers were Jewish. . . . In the language of both Romans 11 and Nostra Aetate, Judaism is the trunk from which Christianity takes its life.”

February 11, 2026

Father Gregory Haake, C.S.C., Coyle’s priest in residence and the presider of the outdoor Mass, recognized the unexpected attendance as “a lesson for all of us: people are attracted to beauty. Wesley and Martin gave it to them, and when they came, they found Jesus, too. It was a great moment of evangelization,” he told the Rover.

February 05, 2026

January 29, 2026

The new animated short Living with a Visionary won the top jury’s prize for an animated short at this year’s Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday. Directed by Stephen P. Neary (The Fungies!, Clarence) and produced by Mireia Vilanova, this gentle, lovingly crafted short is based on a memoir by poet and Notre Dame professor John Matthias, who wrote a long letter to his loved ones about his wife, Diana, whose health was declining due to Parkinson’s disease. Narrated by Oscar-nominated James Cromwell, this powerful short is one of the best new animated arrivals of 2026.

January 29, 2026

During 2024, the newly formed EQ25 Alliance planned and create a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake and its aftermath with a variety of events and symbolic activities. This year, Dennis Doordan, professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, was a recipient of the SBTHP 2026 Community Award for historic preservation.

January 29, 2026

Dan Lindley, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, discusses recent Iranian protests. 

“A successful uprising could set off a regional arms race,” Lindley said, as neighboring countries may attempt to exploit Iran’s perceived weakness. “People often do not realize how much they can hurt their own security by their own actions.”

January 28, 2026

Dr. Clemens Sedmak, the director and professor of social ethics at the Nanovic Institute, opened the Holocaust Remembrance Day lecture this year. He later described the Holocaust as “a sad, terrible milestone in the history of Europe.” Having grown up in post-war Austria, he said it was important to set up this lecture so Americans could learn about the event and ensure it’s not forgotten.

January 23, 2026

Susanne Wengle, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, discusses predicted reaction if the US were to occupy Denmark, saying all NATO members would object to an occupation effort, though some European powers may benefit. “The U.S., under Trump, would be handing Putin an absolute victory,” she said of the occupation. “It would also de facto legitimize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and in general align with the Russian approach to power politics,” Wengle wrote in a statement.

January 22, 2026

Duncan Stroik, professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame, comments on the newly restored facade of a Kentucky cathedral, saying, “This is a smaller version of that revival of French Gothic in America, done at a very high level in a little town at the time, of surprisingly high quality.”

January 14, 2026

Several Notre Dame Law School professors spoke at the 2026 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, which took place from January 6-9 in New Orleans. Participating Notre Dame Law faculty included Professors Roger P. Alford, Christian Burset, Richard W. Garnett, Jennifer Mason McAward, Haley N. Proctor, and Daniel Slate.

January 08, 2026

2025 was a landmark year for social media regulation, with the rapid rise of AI and growing concerns over harmful content leading to calls for greater transparency and online safety. Following Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s, protecting minors will continue to be a core legislative priority according to Paolo Carozza, member and co-chair of Meta’s independent Oversight Board.

January 06, 2026

Participants in October’s “Digital Rerum Novarum: Artificial Intelligence for Peace, Social Justice, and Integral Human Development,” co-sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS) and Notre Dame Law School, spent two days discussing topics that dominate every conversation about AI, secular or spiritual: its regulation, or lack thereof, and its effects on education, work, the environment. Paolo Carozza, a professor of law at Notre Dame and member of PASS, was a principal organizer of the seminar.

December 22, 2025

Professor Diane Desierto, faculty director of the LL.M. in International Human Rights Law program and director of the Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic, was awarded a faculty research grant from the Global Policy Impact Strategy of the Keough School of Global Affairs to lead the work of the Global Human Rights Clinic, alongside research associate Faisal Yamil, in partnership with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The project supports the development of policy briefs for the newly launched Knowledge Hub on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

December 15, 2025

Judge Diego Moreno Rodríguez provided guest lectures across several Notre Dame Law School courses, including Professor Paolo Carozza’s Introduction to International Human Rights, Professor Aníbal Pérez-Liñán’s Human Rights Reparations, and Dr. Diane Desierto’s Global Human Rights Clinic.

December 12, 2025

Paolo Carozza, Co-Chair of the Oversight Board and professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, writes alongside Suzanne Nossel, arguing for transparency and independent oversight of emerging AI technologies.