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About a year and a half ago, a conversation started. Not in a conference room or on a formal agenda, but the way most academic partnerships often begin— over dinner, between researchers, comparing notes, wondering out loud about their agendas. The question at the center of the conversation was simple: what could artificial intelligence (AI) become if the people building it were asking the right questions?

Join us as we welcome the South Bend and Notre Dame communitites into our new home. Enjoy guided tours of the Veldman Family Psychology Clinic, meet our faculty and staff, learn more about our innovative research and community impact, and celebrate this exciting new chapter with us. Light refreshments will be served. Originally published at veldmanclinic.nd.edu.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 The sixth annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit culminated on Wednesday, July 8 with its Religious Liberty Gala and Awards Dinner at Offshore Rooftop in Chicago. Dean G. Marcus Cole Dean G. Marcus Cole delivered the opening remarks for the 2026 Religious Liberty Summit Gala and Awards Dinner.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Wednesday morning of the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Summit began with a keynote address from Rabbi Meir Soloveichik of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Soloveichik serves as the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States, and as the director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University.

Your laptop might politely sip electricity at your desk, but it has already feasted on a banquet of fossil fuels—through extraction, refining, shipping and assembly—before you even took it out of the box. Recent global surveys show that 70% of consumers are willing to pay more for environmentally friendly electronic devices, but they lack the data necessary to make an informed choice.

From partnering with United States embassies and representing Notre Dame at international gatherings to performing music on a different continent, diving into local traditions, deepening academic partnerships, and exploring some of the world’s most iconic destinations, June was filled with experiences that brought learning to life.

TUESDAY, JULY 7 Dean G. Marcus Cole On Tuesday morning, Dean G. Marcus Cole delivered the opening remarks at the 2026 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit.

Metropolitan Serapion (left), the first hierarch and bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California, and Hawaii, walks with Fr. Khaled Anatolios, the John A. O’Brien Professor in the Department of Theology, down a Morris Inn hallway. Metropolitan Serapion and 11 other Coptic bishops came to the University of Notre Dame to have their annual theological consultation.

Good morning, and welcome to the sixth annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit. I am Marcus Cole, Dean of Notre Dame Law School, and I want to welcome you to Chicago for what I hope will be a fruitful series of discussions.

The 2025-2026 Fulbright-Nehru IEA cohort with seminar leaders Dhiraj Mehra and Maggie Dankert (front center). This spring, the University of Notre Dame hosted the Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators (IEA) Seminar for the third consecutive year. The seminar brought in senior administrative leadership from universities and institutions across India.