March 2005
Notre Dame artist designs new Stations of the Cross
By: Susan Guibert
A new artistic interpretation of Christ’s Way of the Cross has been designed by John Sherman of the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Art, Art History and Design. >
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Integrating Engineering and Biology: A Common Denominator
Adapted from SIGNATURES MAGAZINE
Although the future is never certain, what is sure, at least to faculty in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, other engineering educators, and corporations across the country, is that the way engineering is taught must change if today’s undergraduates are to become more than bystanders in the technological advances of the 21st century. If they are to be leaders in the development of emerging technologies in the 21st century, they must understand and be able to incorporate the life sciences into their engineering activities. >
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Philosopher’s book “Moral und Politik” translated into English
By: Dennis K. Brown
"Morals and Politics," the first English translation of University of Notre Dame philosopher Vittorio Hösle’s monumental work "Moral und Politik," has been published by Notre Dame Press. >
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A sleuthing Aristotle is a muse to a literary scholar
By: Gail Hinchion Mancini
The words of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle have been handed down through the generations. But to get a feel for what life was like then— in essentially the early days of academia—there are few better sources than the novels of Margaret Doody, John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor in Literature and director of the Ph.D. in Literature. >
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Researcher seeks to improve youth sports experiences
By: Dennis K. Brown
News from the world of sports can be downright depressing these days. >
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Faculty Findings
By: Mendoza College of Business Faculty
Among the unorthodox subjects faculty members in Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business have recently been thinking and writing about are judicial bias, envy in the workplace, behavioral finance and trust within organizations. Here is a sampling: >
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Historian profiles Indiana Amish community in new book
By: Kathleen Joyce
A new book by historian Dorothy O. Pratt, assistant dean in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, presents the history of an Amish community in northern Indiana and its survival as a cultural and ethnic entity over the past century. >
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Whitman wrangles students and community resources to fight autism
By: Judy Bradford
We all want to change the world. But sometimes the world changes us. >
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