ENGLISH PROFESSOR ELECTED TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Gerald Bruns, who retired in May and is now William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English emeritus, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation's leading learned society. An internationally renowned scholar, Bruns' interests are in modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, 20th-century experimental fiction, and the various European and American avant-garde movements that emerged after World War II. >MORE
THEOLOGIAN STERLING APPOINTED DEAN OF GRADUATE SCHOOL
Greg Sterling, professor of theology, has been appointed dean of Notre Dame's Graduate School, a newly created position resulting from the administrative restructuring of graduate education and research at the University.
Sterling served in the Arts and Letters Dean's Office for seven years, first as associate dean, then as senior associate dean, and, from 2006 until he assumed his duties in the Graduate School, as executive associate dean. >MORE
CORNELIUS EADY HONORED FOR SERVICE TO POETRY
A former Pulitzer Prize finalist, Cornelius Eady was a co-recipient of the 2008 Elizabeth Kray Award for service to the field of poetry. The biennial prize is presented by Poets House, a national poetry library and literary center. Eady, associate professor of English, was recognized with Toi Derricotte, with whom he founded Cave Canem,
a non-profit organization committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African-American poetry. >MORE
MCKENNA WINS 2008 SHEEDY AWARD
In May, the College announced James McKenna, Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology, as the winner of the 2008 Charles E. Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching. The plaque that displays the names of all the Sheedy winners reads in part: "An excellent teacher is one who is enthusiastic and dedicated, who can stimulate intellectual curiosity ... Such a person can teach students what is truly important and enduring, and why this is so." >MORE
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MAKING A ROBOT THAT MAKES UP ITS MIND
Kathleen Eberhard, associate professor of psychology, has long studied spoken language production and comprehension, including how people consider one another's perspectives during conversation. But it wasn't until last year that she began applying her research to conversations of the non-human variety. >MORE
FATHER SCULLY SPEAKS AT WHITE HOUSE
On April 24, Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C., professor of political science and director of the University's Institute for Educational Initiatives, presented a speech titled "Higher Education: Signs of Hope" at the White House Summit on Inner-City Children and Faith-Based Schools. >MORE
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ART HISTORIAN'S BODY OF WORK IS HIS TEMPLE
After years of extensive research and fieldwork, Robin Rhodes, associate professor of art history, has managed to reconstruct Greece's first truly monumental temple, which was built in Corinth around 675 B.C. His project ultimately will yield a history of Greek architecture in Corinth as well as an understanding of the origins of temple-building in ancient Greece. >MORE
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
John Griffin (Assistant Professor of Political Science): Minority Report: Evaluating Political Equality in America >MORE
From biotechnology to global climate change to homeland security, the number of issues at the juncture of ethical and scientific/technological concerns continues to grow rapidly. As a contribution to the humanistic understanding of these issues, Notre Dame's John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values has established a new online journal called Reilly Center Reports. 
About 95 percent of the 1,980 undergraduates who enrolled at Notre Dame in Fall 2004 received a diploma May 18 at the University's commencement ceremony, a graduation rate exceeded only by Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities. But it's usually the stories of individual students that make a graduating class truly distinctive, and this year was no different. 
RUSSIAN STUDENTS DELVE INTO SLAVIC FOLKLORE 