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Renamed Institute for Social Concerns reflects expanded research, teaching, and partnerships
The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns will now be called the Institute for Social Concerns.
‘Just Mercy’ author and exoneration attorney Bryan Stevenson to speak at Institute for Social Concerns event in downtown South Bend
Stevenson will deliver the 2024 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Distinguished Catholic Social Tradition Lecture on Oct. 15 at the Morris Performing Arts Center in downtown South Bend.
Research for the Common Good Symposium celebrates students’ summer research
Six students from the center’s two signature summer programs — NDBridge and Social Concerns Summer Fellowships — presented their research on September 19 at the Research for the Common Good Student Symposium and Andrews Family Reception.
Professor Ryan Juskus brings a spiritual dimension to studies of environmental justice
Over the past 20 years, Ryan Juskus has studied the social, religious, and moral dimensions of environmental justice from the Amazon to Appalachia.
Hacking Catholic social tradition to build a more virtuous internet
“Virtue in Virtual Spaces: Catholic Social Teaching and Technology” is the latest title in the Institute for Social Concerns’ Enacting Catholic Social Tradition series published by Liturgical Press. The book draws on virtue ethics and the Church’s teaching to demonstrate the potential goodness of technology.
Leveraging faculty research in partnership with South Bend
Regina Williams-Preston, community partnerships program director at the Institute for Social Concerns, is rolling out several initiatives with the goal of leveraging ND’s faculty research in collaboration with community partners to respond to local issues.
Research advancing the common good
Two new faculty members, a senior research associate, and a practitioner in residence are joining the Institute for Social Concerns at the start of the fall 2024 semester.
McNeill Common Good Fellows explore issues of justice through summer research
This summer, McNeill Common Good Fellows are researching issues of justice in a wide variety of fields — from book bans to lipid nanoparticles — throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Virtues & Vocations hosts 2024 conference on higher education and human flourishing
New York Times columnist David Brooks, Harvard’s Michael Sandel, and other speakers and panels explored the ways a just society requires moral formation, and how higher education can contribute to flourishing.
South Bend’s Clemente Course graduates reflect on ‘taking that first step’ into college
The Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center and the Institute for Social Concerns partnered to make the Clemente Course in the Humanities available locally.