tag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:/news-and-events/newsJohn J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values | News2024-03-26T10:56:00-04:00tag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1607922024-03-26T10:56:00-04:002024-03-26T10:56:07-04:00A foundation in the liberal arts keeps technology consultant Dante Diamente ’93 at the forefront of his career<p><iframe width="1200" height="672" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1UFGflW6xXA" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p>The way Dante Diamente ’93 sees it, much of today’s technological knowledge won't be relevant in five years, but an <a href="https://al.nd.edu/">Arts & Letters </a>education…</p><p><iframe width="1200" height="672" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1UFGflW6xXA" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>The way Dante Diamente ’93 sees it, much of today’s technological knowledge won't be relevant in five years, but an <a href="https://al.nd.edu/">Arts & Letters </a>education will be forever current.</p>
<p>That’s because a grounding in the liberal arts helps people experience and question the world, said Diamente, who studied electrical engineering and <a href="https://english.nd.edu/undergraduate/">English</a> through the <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/undergraduate/dual-degree/">Reilly Dual Degree Program in Arts & Letters and Engineering.</a> And, Diamente’s experience shows the opportunity for interdisciplinary study allows people not to become entrenched in one way of thinking.</p>
<p>“The value of the liberal arts is being able to stitch the disparate decisions, or disparate points, together from different disciplines into a unique and cohesive whole,” he said.</p>
<p>That ability proves valuable for Diamente at Accenture, a Fortune Global 500 company that specializes in information technology services and consulting.</p>
<p>As a managing director, he coaches chief information and technology officers at businesses to think through their strategic technology needs for the future.</p>
<p>Diamente’s knowledge of technology may have gotten him a job in the field, but he said his Arts & Letters background — specifically writing, telling stories, envisioning, and understanding personalities — has kept him in the profession.</p>
<p>“I want people to understand technology is not about technology; it's about other things that are even bigger and greater than technology,” he said. “It always serves a purpose, but it's all to serve humanity.”</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Jon Hendricks</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/a-foundation-in-the-liberal-arts-keeps-technology-consultant-dante-diamente-93-at-the-forefront-of-his-career/">al.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">March 26, 2024</span>.</p>Jon Hendrickstag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1599392024-02-14T15:45:00-05:002024-02-14T15:45:23-05:00Philosopher Janet Kourany utilizes Fulbright to examine the importance of values in science<p>Philosophy can, and should, be of benefit during these extraordinary times, Kourany said. “There’s still so much to be done. And I want to help do it.”</p><p>University of Notre Dame <a href="https://philosophy.nd.edu/">philosophy</a> professor <a href="https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/janet-kourany/">Janet Kourany</a>, the 2023-24<a href="https://www.fulbright.ca/activities/orientation"> Fulbright</a> Canada Research Chair in Values and Science at the University of Calgary, is working on a book there this fall semester tentatively titled Bacon’s Promise.</p>
<p>Her book is about Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon, a chief architect of modern science, and the promise that he and centuries of successors have made: Science, if supported by society, will improve the lot of humanity and make the world a better place.</p>
<p>Society has supported science, Kourany said, and science has improved humanity and made the world a better place. But she said it has also harmed the humanity it was supposed to help, and harmed some humans while helping others.</p>
<p>“In fact, many of the most pressing problems we face today, such as environmental pollution and global warming, racial, ethnic, and other sources of social unrest, the ever-present threat of cyberattacks, and much, much more are, I would suggest, at least partially of these sorts,” Kourany said.</p>
<p>Science has also largely ignored the needs of most people, said Kourany, an affiliate of the <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/">Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values</a> and core faculty member in its <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/graduate/history-and-philosophy-of-science-hps/people/">history and philosophy of science</a> program.</p>
<p>“Medical research, for example, has devoted more than 90% of its resources into problems that affect only 10% of the world’s population,” she said.</p>
<p>A big part of the problem has to do with values — corporate values, fundamentalist Christian values, right-wing political values, and racist and sexist values — that have shaped so much of science, said Kourany, who is also a concurrent professor of <a href="https://genderstudies.nd.edu/">gender studies</a>.</p>
<p>And while scientists, science journalists, policymakers, historians, and philosophers of science have, at times, critiqued these values, Kourany said they haven’t identified and provided an effective rationale for alternative ones.</p>
<p>So, the problem continues.</p>
<p>This issue of identifying science’s values is called the new demarcation problem, and it’s a central question in philosophy of science.</p>
<p>The original demarcation problem — how to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate science — has been one of the most important questions in philosophy of science for centuries.</p>
<p>The new demarcation problem is far more modest but proves to be just as challenging, Kourany said. It seeks to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate value influences in science.</p>
<p>Bacon’s legacy might prove especially helpful here, Kourany said, because he provided an enduring framework for science. The framework included a vision of the benefits that science would produce, the way they would be produced, and a timeline of achievement — given that the enterprise was supported.</p>
<p>Most importantly, she said, Bacon's framework incorporated central tenets of Renaissance humanism — the idea of self-reliance and civic virtue, and a belief in the uniqueness, dignity, and value of human life — as an ultimate moral justification.</p>
<p>It also points the way to a more promising political philosophy of science and rationale for the social benefits of science. And over time, Kourany said the framework been corrected, updated, and shorn of its theological elements.</p>
<p>And while his moral vision — his ethics of science — also has needed further refinement, she said, thus far it has not received the attention it deserves.</p>
<p>That’s what she seeks to accomplish in <em>Bacon’s Promise</em>.</p>
<p>Her Fulbright-supported research builds on her prior work, including the essay collection she co-edited, <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262538213/science-and-the-production-of-ignorance/"><em>Science and the Production of Ignorance: When the Quest for Knowledge Is Thwarted</em></a>; her monograph,<a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/7443"> <em>Philosophy of Science after Feminism</em></a>; and recent journal articles “<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780367823436-5/bacon-promise-janet-kourany">Bacon’s Promise</a>,” “<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy/article/abs/new-worries-about-science/627EE4DC3897A9A7BE325673C7CFEBCA">The New Worries about Science</a>,” and “The Present Plight of Science, and Our Plight,” which is forthcoming in Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good.</p>
<p>Kourany’s book research also builds on her regular courses, including Forbidden Knowledge, as well as Science and Social Values, and The Science-Gender Connection. In her classes, she and advanced science and philosophy students explore resonant and cutting-edge issues in science studies.</p>
<p>Kourany has been recognized for her excellence in the classroom twice in her Notre Dame career — she received the Gender Studies Program’s <a href="https://genderstudies.nd.edu/faculty-resources/teaching-award/">Marian Mullin Hancock Teaching Award </a>and the University’s Kaneb Teaching Award (now the<a href="https://provost.nd.edu/faculty-recognitions/faculty-awards/joyce-award/"> Joyce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching</a>).</p>
<p>Philosophy can, and should, be of benefit during these extraordinary times, Kourany said.</p>
<p>“There’s still so much to be done,” she said. “And I want to help do it.”<strong id="docs-internal-guid-6b99f1fc-7fff-c400-5fb1-f5ec346146f1"></strong></p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Beth Staples</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/philosopher-janet-kourany-utilizes-fulbright-to-examine-the-importance-of-values-in-science/">al.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">November 14, 2023</span>.</p>Beth Staplestag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1584352023-12-01T13:40:00-05:002023-12-01T13:42:43-05:00Fukushima Firsthand: Multidisciplinary team of Liu faculty fellows and students examine resilience<p>In examining resiliency after the 2011 Fukushima triple disaster, a team of students and professors sponsored by the Liu Institute encountered hope, innovation, and even fields of roses. Anna Geltzer, Director of the Science, Technology, & Values minor, joined the team of professors on the trip. …</p><p>In examining resiliency after the 2011 Fukushima triple disaster, a team of students and professors sponsored by the Liu Institute encountered hope, innovation, and even fields of roses. Anna Geltzer, Director of the Science, Technology, & Values minor, joined the team of professors on the trip. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.nd.edu/stories/fukushima-firsthand/">Read the story on the University website.</a></p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Christine Cox</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://asia.nd.edu/news/fukushima-firsthand-multidisciplinary-team-of-liu-faculty-fellows-and-students-examine-resilience/">asia.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">November 14, 2023</span>.</p>Christine Coxtag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1571032023-10-09T13:47:00-04:002023-10-09T13:47:35-04:00HPS Students Receive ISLA Fellowship <figure class="image image-left"><img src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/505821/holmes_abigail.jpg" alt="Holmes Abigail" width="258" height="258"> <figcaption>Abigail Holmes</figcaption> </figure> <p>Congratulations to HPS Graduate Students Abigail Holmes and Joshua Tonkel for receiving the ISLA Dissertation Fellowship!…</p><figure class="image image-left"><img src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/505821/holmes_abigail.jpg" alt="Holmes Abigail" width="258" height="258">
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<p>Congratulations to HPS Graduate Students Abigail Holmes and Joshua Tonkel for receiving the ISLA Dissertation Fellowship!</p>
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<p> </p>MacKenzie Rizzotag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1552422023-08-22T12:42:00-04:002023-11-02T15:24:14-04:00Former Reilly Postdocs thrive in new positions at colleges and universities across country <p>Congratulations to former Reilly Postdoctoral Associates Ira Halpern, Ijeoma Kola, and Kate McCabe for acquiring positions at esteemed institutions across the country! We wish them success in all their future endeavors. </p> <figure class="image-left"><img src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/478606/halpern.jpg" alt="Halpern">…</figure><p>Congratulations to former Reilly Postdoctoral Associates Ira Halpern, Ijeoma Kola, and Kate McCabe for acquiring positions at esteemed institutions across the country! We wish them success in all their future endeavors. </p>
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<p>Ira Halpern - Visiting Assitant Professor in English & Medical Humanities, College of New Jersey</p>
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<p> </p>MacKenzie Rizzotag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1550812023-08-15T12:12:00-04:002023-11-02T15:32:03-04:00HHS Faculty Members facilitate interdisciplinary project funded by Humanities without Walls<figure class="image-left"><img src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/425537/vaniaheadshot_tenure.jpg" alt="Vaniaheadshot Tenure" width="600" height="750"> <figcaption>Vania Smith-Oka</figcaption> </figure> <p> </p> <figure class="image-left"><img src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/488570/miseres_vanesa_square.jpg" alt="Miseres Vanesa Square" width="600">…</figure><figure class="image-left"><img src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/425537/vaniaheadshot_tenure.jpg" alt="Vaniaheadshot Tenure" width="600" height="750">
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<p>Vania Smith-Oka (Full-tim Professor, Anthropology) and HHS Affiliate Faculty Member Vanesa Miseres (Associated Professor, Romance Lanugages & Literature) facilitated an interdisciplinary project to work with <a href="https://www.lacasadeamistad.org/">La Casa de Amistad</a><strong> </strong>organization in South Bend, IN. </p>
<p>The project included an event "Herbs and Motherhood Memories," that was hosted by "The Latinx Obstetric Violence Project: Art & Literature as Tools of Reciprocal & Redistributive Knowledge." This project, funded by <a href="https://www.humanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.edu/">Humanities Without Walls</a><strong>, </strong>a <a href="https://www.humanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.edu/grand-research-challenge/current-projects">Grand Researc</a><a href="https://www.humanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.edu/grand-research-challenge/current-projects">h Challenge-funded project</a><strong> </strong>and supported by the <a href="https://www.mellon.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjwxOymBhAFEiwAnodBLD1Mci0BXQcNIYDJhRevO1MGXrwI2VCERwLibA18Pk9PWDfkWUbKGhoCfBAQAvD_BwE">Mellon Foundation</a>, addresses the "overlooked reality of obststric violence through art and literature workshops - cafecitos (little coffees) - that bring together women, artists, and scholars." </p>
<p>Read the full article <a href="https://www.humanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.edu/news/cafecitos">here</a><strong>. </strong></p>MacKenzie Rizzotag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1547892023-07-17T11:05:00-04:002023-07-26T10:16:39-04:00MCAN Hires GLOBES Graduate, Elischia Fludd, as the Organization’s Next Executive Director<p>The Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) has hired recent GLOBES graduate, Elischia Fludd, to lead the organization as its next Executive Director.</p> <p>“Elischia has a deep background of executive leadership in the non-profit space as well as a host of expertise that we believe will benefit…</p><p>The Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) has hired recent GLOBES graduate, Elischia Fludd, to lead the organization as its next Executive Director.</p>
<p>“Elischia has a deep background of executive leadership in the non-profit space as well as a host of expertise that we believe will benefit MCAN’s efforts to advance equitable building decarbonization and the transformation of our economy to a clean and just energy future” -Janet Bowser, the President of MCAN’s Board of Directors.</p>
<p>The Massachusetts Climate Action Network is a 501(c)3 non-profit acts as a facilitator of municipal-level action throughout Massachusetts. They foster connections and communication with local chapters and work at the state and regional level to advocate for policies and programs that will benefit local municipalities and their citizens.</p>
<p>Learn more about MCAN <a href="https://www.massclimateaction.org/home">here</a> and read the full press report on Elischia’s hiring <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/524677/press_release_mcan_hires_elischia_fludd_as_the_organization_s_next_ed.pdf">here.</a></p>
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</a>MacKenzie Rizzotag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1544702023-07-10T13:00:00-04:002023-07-10T12:54:39-04:00Reilly Center Adjunct Professor, Robert H. Latiff’s book "Future Peace" wins Bronze Medal at 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. <figure class="image-left"><em><img src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/522767/robert_latiff_1.jpg" alt="Robert Latiff 1"></em> <figcaption>Major General Robert H. Latiff (Retired), Ph.D.</figcaption> </figure> <p><em>Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War</em> is the sequel to Latiff’s 2017 book <em>Future</em>…</p><figure class="image-left"><em><img src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/522767/robert_latiff_1.jpg" alt="Robert Latiff 1"></em>
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<p><em>Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War</em> is the sequel to Latiff’s 2017 book <em>Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield </em>and “questions our over reliance on technology and examines the pressure-cooker scenario created by the growing animosity between the United States and its adversaries, our globally deployed and thinly stretched military, the capacity for advanced technology to catalyze violence, and the American public’s lack of familiarity with these topics”.</p>
<p>The book won the bronze medal in the category of Science & Technology at The Foreword INDIES Book of the Year awards, which recognize outstanding books from independent and university presses, as well as self-published books. </p>
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<p>“Latiff suggests that national militaries build machines they do not and cannot entirely understand and whose behavior they may not be able to predict within the complex interactions comprising modern warfare. . . . Anyone interested in national and international security should read this book, from citizen scholars to politicians to specialists in military affairs.” —<em>Choice</em></p>
<p>Retired Major-General Robert Latiff has taught the popular course “Ethics of Emerging Weapons Technologies” in the Reilly Center’s Science, Technology, & Values (STV) Program for several years. The course, which fulfills the second Philosophy requirement, will be offered again in Fall 2023, co-taught with Dr. Patrick Gamez, Director of the Reilly Dual Degree Program in Engineering and Arts & Letters.</p>MacKenzie Rizzotag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1536262023-05-24T14:40:00-04:002023-05-27T09:52:41-04:00HPS/GLOBES student Josh Tonkel on teaching STV course: "Interdisciplinarity Begins in the Classroom: Teaching a Course on Technology and the Environment"<p>How can we equip students to address the social and environmental impacts of new and emerging technologies such as Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, or electric cars? And perhaps more importantly, how can we prepare them to address the impacts of technologies yet to be developed?</p> <p>When teaching…</p><p>How can we equip students to address the social and environmental impacts of new and emerging technologies such as Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, or electric cars? And perhaps more importantly, how can we prepare them to address the impacts of technologies yet to be developed?</p>
<p>When teaching my course on “Technological Revolutions and Environmental Change” this past semester, I hoped to answer exactly these questions. No matter their major or future career path, students will constantly interact with technologies. As future engineers, business leaders, marketing executives, policy makers, or even just as members of the public, students need a proper and critical understanding of the technology’s place in society.</p>
<p>But where can students acquire these multifaceted understandings?</p>
<p>These perspectives can sometimes come from personal interest or classroom instruction in traditional disciplinary departments, but the most effective way to stimulate interdisciplinary understandings of technology is to provide specific instructional settings for students to engage with these perspectives. This past semester, teaching in the Science, Technology, and Values minor of the Reilly Center, I was able to offer that opportunity for a group of 18 incredible undergraduate students.</p>
<p>My experience teaching this class solidified two ideas for me:</p>
<p>1) interdisciplinary understandings of technology are crucial for future members of the workforce and 2) these understandings must be conveyed alongside students’ traditional disciplinary education by offering classes dedicated to interdisciplinary conversations</p>
<p><strong>Engineering in Practice: The Value-Ladenness of Balloon-Powered Cars</strong></p>
<p>The most important lesson I tried to convey to my students was that because technologies are shaped by people, technologies are never value-neutral. My students learned this for themselves when I tasked them with designing and building balloon-powered cars early in the semester. Before they began construction, I set forward a number of objectives they could pursue such as “Fastest Car,” “Most Endurance,” “Safest Car,” and “Most Innovative Design.”</p>
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<p>Through this activity, my students found that even in benign cases like balloon-car design, engineering involves inherent value judgments. Would they use more expensive materials to create a more structurally sound and safer vehicle? Would they value speed over safety so that they could win a race against their classmates? Would they try to create the most “innovative design”? What does “innovative" even mean?</p>
<p>In a writing exercise later that week, my students described how the goal their team pursued affected the design of their car. Explaining that her team was pursuing the award for “Most Innovative Design,” one of my students said in her paper, “My team preferred to attain this award over winning fastest or most budget-friendly car so our choices also influenced our final product.” She argued that this demonstrated “the notion that technology is heavily value-laden.” I couldn’t have said it better myself!</p>
<p><strong>We’ve Seen This Before: Lessons from the History of Technology</strong></p>
<p>In addition to that engineering activity, most of my course consisted of readings analyzing historical moments of rapid technological change. As Mark Twain supposedly said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” And though no two moments of technological change are the same, it’s naive to suggest that the present moment of rapid technological advancement is completely unprecedented. Building on the lessons of the balloon-powered car activity, these readings presented historical examples that further demonstrate the value-ladenness of technology and the impact that technology has had on the natural environment.</p>
<p>I pushed my students to move past trying to memorize the history I presented to them and instead asked them to find any relevance these historical stories may have for our present moment. These are the important lessons students should pull from history when they think<br>
critically about the potential impacts of emerging technologies.</p>
<p>My students excelled at this, drawing connections in class discussions and writing assignments. Many students saw the experience of the nineteenth-century Luddites as a lesson to be applied to current debates about AI replacing jobs, showing the value of understanding the cultural and social dimensions of opposition to new technology. Based on a reading about early pollution regulation in eighteenth-century France, students found that environmental harm is sometimes accommodated by society in pursuit of other goals like industry, profit, and innovation. I suggested to my students that this offers a poignant example of how the values of political leaders and scientific experts continue to shape the environmental impacts of technological systems.</p>
<p>Reinforcing the main point of the class, these lessons from the history of technology show that values were and remain integral to debates about the social, cultural, and environmental impacts of technological change.</p>
<p><strong>Where We Go From Here: Applications Beyond the Classroom</strong></p>
<p>While interdisciplinarity may begin in the classroom, it certainly shouldn’t end there. So in the final days of the semester, I had my students prepare presentations that took the lessons of the course and applied them to the potential future of technological change. By focusing on topics like circular economy perspectives, the environmental impact of agricultural technologies, and the pros and cons of nuclear energy, the students masterfully demonstrated that the lessons we find from historical moments of technological change can influence our discussion of future technology. Every group spoke to the advantages that sustainable perspectives can provide, but importantly, they also acknowledged, much to my delight, the challenges presented by values embedded in current technological systems. Rather than making change seem hopeless, this realistic recognition of the challenges facing innovations of the future prepares students to take these interdisciplinary approaches of understanding technology back into their home departments and careers.</p>
<p>By providing a dedicated space for future engineers, business leaders, and policy makers to obtain the skills needed to critically assess future innovations, classes like those offered in Notre Dame’s STV minor equip our students well. I was honored to be a part of this work this past semester, because through interdisciplinary programs like this, our students can be prepared to face the complex challenges of future technology.</p>Joshua Tonkeltag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1535782023-05-23T12:27:00-04:002023-05-23T12:28:44-04:00HPS Alum Publishes Book<figure class="image-left"><img alt="Sarah Naramore" height="400" src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/483759/sarah_naramore.jpg" width="267"></figure> <p>HPS Alum (18), Sarah Naramore's  <em>Benjain Rush, Civil Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic</em> will be out next month with the University of Rochester…</p><figure class="image-left"><img alt="Sarah Naramore" height="400" src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/483759/sarah_naramore.jpg" width="267"></figure>
<p>HPS Alum (18), Sarah Naramore's <em>Benjain Rush, Civil Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic</em> will be out next month with the University of Rochester Press. In conjunction with the book the Library Company of Philadelphia has invited Dr. Naramore to give a virtual fireside chat at 7PM eastern on June 15<sup>th</sup> the details are here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://support.librarycompany.org/event/fireside-chat-medical-independence-how-benjamin-rush-created-american-medicine-1769-1813/e469240&source=gmail&ust=1684944782452000&usg=AOvVaw0AyMRta3aUuAQOy5Uvueqw" href="https://support.librarycompany.org/event/fireside-chat-medical-independence-how-benjamin-rush-created-american-medicine-1769-1813/e469240" id="m_-717230829404942054LPlnk777223" target="_blank">https://support.librarycompany.org/event/fireside-chat-medical-independence-how-benjamin-rush-created-american-medicine-1769-1813/e469240</a></p>Tori Daviestag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1533312023-05-15T09:47:00-04:002023-05-15T09:47:22-04:00A&L faculty member and three students earn 2023 Graduate School awards<p><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">The Graduate School is honoring the following people from the College of Arts and Letters Arts: Robert Goulding with the </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Dick</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">and Peggy</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Notebaert Award; <span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Susanna De</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Stradis with the</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Shaheen</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Award in the Humanities; <span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Luiz Vilaça with the</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Shaheen Award in the Social Sciences; and </span></span></span></span></span></span>Ester E. Aguirre</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Alfaro with the Social Justice Award.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">One <span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Arts and Letters faculty member and three students</span></span> are among the Graduate School's annual award-winners for the 2022–2023 academic year.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Robert Goulding, director of the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science, and director of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, is the winner of the</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Dick</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">and Peggy</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Notebaert Award<strong>; </strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Susanna De</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Stradis ’22, Ph.D. from the Department of History, is the recipient of the</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Shaheen</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Award in the Humanities; <span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Luiz Vilaça, Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Sociology, is the recipient of the</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Shaheen Award in the Social Sciences; and </span></span></span></span></span></span>Ester E. Aguirre</span></span><strong style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Alfaro, Master of Arts candidate from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is the winner of the Social Justice Award.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="white-space:normal"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal">In addition, the </span></strong><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Graduate School named the other following award-winners:</span></span><strong><span style="font-weight:normal"> Monica C.</span></strong> Regalbuto<strong><span style="font-weight:normal"> '89 Ph.D., is the recipient of the Distinguished Graduate</span></strong> Alumni <strong><span style="font-weight:normal">Award; </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight:normal">Patricia A. Champion, Ph.D., is the recipient of the James A. Burns, C.S.C., Award; Mark Anthony</span></strong> Caprio<strong><span style="font-weight:normal">, Ph.D., is the winner of the James A. Burns, C.S.C., Award; Laura M.</span></strong> Alderfer<strong><span style="font-weight:normal">, Ph.D. candidate from the Graduate Program in Bioengineering,is the winner of the</span></strong> Shaheen <strong><span style="font-weight:normal">Award in Engineering, and Megan</span></strong> Vahsen<strong><span style="font-weight:normal">, Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Biological Sciences, is the recipient of the</span></strong> Shaheen <strong><span style="font-weight:normal">Award in Science</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">All the award-winners will be formally recognized for their achievements May 20 at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony at Notre Dame Stadium. Below are profiles of the A&L winners. For full award-winner profiles, refer to </span></span><a href="https://graduateschool.nd.edu/assets/516087/gs_awards_citation_book_2023.pdf"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration-skip-ink:none">The Graduate School 2023 Commencement Citation Book</span></span></span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">. </span></span></p>
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<p><strong>Robert Goulding, Ph.D., is the winner of the Dick and Peggy Notebaert Award</strong> which honors a faculty member or administrator who has had a significant impact on graduate studies at Notre Dame. Since 2016, Goulding has been the director of the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), and since 2017 the director of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, of which HPS is a part. In those roles, he has demonstrated outstanding thoughtfulness and creativity in meeting program-specific challenges and in innovating new support structures for graduate students. These include: creation of the Reilly Center Fellowship, an award allowing top-tier Ph.D. students the opportunity to pursue additional study or research at outside universities in the early stages of their dissertation; building a new concentration within the HPS curricula; attracting additional faculty to HPS; and revamping a weekly student reading group colloquium into a forum focused on presentations and discussions about the work of HPS scholars.</p>
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<p><strong>Susanna De Stradis ’22, Ph.D. from the Department of History, is the recipient of the Shaheen Award in the Humanities.</strong> De Stradis is an award-winning historian of religion whose widely published scholarly work has upended and reframed traditional understandings of the complex interplay between American Catholicism, democratic values, notions of religious freedom, and mid-twentieth-century Vatican authorities. <span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">In fall 2020, De Stradis was among the first cohort of scholars to access the newly available records of Pope Pius XII’s pontificate (1939–1958) at the Vatican Archives. Her findings in Rome received a great deal of attention from scholars around the world and led to significant publications in both Italian and American journals, as well as in public-facing venues such as </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><em style="font-style:italic">Commonweal </em></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">and </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><em style="font-style:italic">The Immanent Frame.</em></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Current University provost Dr. John T. McGreevy served as De Stradis’s adviser and considers her a true rising star in the field. “Few U.S. scholars have her linguistic capacity and intellectual drive,” he said. “Virtually no one is as well positioned to deepen our understanding of both global history and global religion. Eventually, everyone at Notre Dame and the Graduate School will bask a bit in her reflected glory.”</span></span> She is a postdoctoral research associate at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. In the fall, she will take up an appointment as assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.</p>
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<p><strong>Luiz Vilaça, Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Sociology, is the recipient of the Shaheen Award in the Social Sciences. </strong>Considered a rising star in his field, sociologist and doctoral candidate Vilaça has directed his research toward explaining the causes of anti-corruption prosecutions. His remarkable success in being published — seven publications in total, with several more on the way — underscores the impact that his research has already had on the field of sociology, as well as on public policy. <span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">His mixed-methods dissertation examines the case of Operation Car Wash in Brazil, a series of anti-corruption prosecutions that resulted in the conviction of hundreds of business executives and politicians. In it, he draws on 120 interviews with prosecutors, detectives, judges, and politicians involved in corruption investigations, as well as on survey data and an original dataset of corruption cases from the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice. </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-position:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Erin McDonnell, co-chair on Vilaça’s dissertation, said his research brings a fresh perspective to the issue: “Luiz’s work is at the cutting edge of policy-relevant social science. He moves beyond a decades-long tradition of documenting and lamenting corruption to break new ground on analyzing what can actually be done by organizational actors to tackle corruption where it is endemic.”</span></span>Following graduation, Vilaça will begin a position as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. In fall 2024, he will take up an appointment as assistant professor of sociology at Bowdoin College.</p>
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<p><strong>Ester E. Aguirre Alfaro, M.A. candidate from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, is the winner of the Social Justice Award </strong>that is given annually to a graduate student in the Notre Dame community who has tackled complex societal issues through his or her scholarship, teaching, and service. Aguirre Alfaro has demonstrated a tireless commitment to fighting for the marginalized — in particular, immigrants and families from Latin America — both during her master’s program at Notre Dame, and in the years preceding it. She has worked for nonprofit groups in Texas to protect and advance the rights of asylum-seeking immigrants at the border and has served as an educator for underserved student populations. While at Notre Dame, Aguirre Alfaro took on a position as assistant project coordinator with the Shaw Center for Families and Children as part of its ongoing Seguimos Avanzando project, one of the largest studies of the Mexican population in the United States. In this role, she recruited families into the study, served as a bilingual assessment coordinator, and assisted in the coding of qualitative interviews about migrant experiences of discrimination and parenting. Vanesa Miseres in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, said Aguirre Alfaro has uniquely fused scholarship and service: “Ester has a distinguished profile of a student who knows how to bring her academic training to a practical sphere and serve the community.” This fall, Aguirre Alfaro will begin a doctoral program in Hispanic studies at the University of British Columbia.</p>
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<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Eric Heath</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://graduateschool.nd.edu/news/graduate-school-honors-2023-alumni-faculty-and-student-award-winners/">graduateschool.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">May 10, 2023</span>.</p>
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<p class="attribution"> </p>Eric Heathtag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1530872023-05-08T09:42:00-04:002023-05-15T09:43:16-04:00GLOBE Graduate Student, Elischia Fludd, publishes policy brief on Indiana coal ash groundwater contamination<p>Elischia Fludd, a GLOBES and <a href="https://keough.nd.edu/master-of-global-affairs/">master of global affairs</a> graduate student majoring in sustainable development, conducted research on the impact of coal ash waste on groundwater in Indiana. </p> <p>The research breaks down the types of coal…</p><p>Elischia Fludd, a GLOBES and <a href="https://keough.nd.edu/master-of-global-affairs/">master of global affairs</a> graduate student majoring in sustainable development, conducted research on the impact of coal ash waste on groundwater in Indiana. </p>
<p>The research breaks down the types of coal ash byproduct as well as the effects these products can have on human and environmental health. The brief calls for stricter regulation on coal ash disposal and offers potential solutions for disposal and treatment measures. </p>
<p>“Indiana has the largest amount of coal ash ponds in the United States. Exposure to coal ash contaminants induce adverse health symptoms that progress into life-threatening conditions such as cancer and major organ complications. Where health is threatened, so is labor, and purchasing power. Coal ash contamination is a public health issue that requires immediate action to prevent an incapacitated society and to maintain regional economic stability. This policy brief yields 8 recommendations that the state of Indiana can adapt throughout its municipalities which include how to address coal ash disposal and treatment, initiate healthcare measures, engage civil society and private sector actors, strengthen regulatory frameworks, and implement a public education campaign.” </p>
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<p>Read the full brief <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/515747/policy_brief_coal_ash_groundwater_contamination_in_indiana_efludd_final_1_.pdf">here</a>. </p>MacKenzie Rizzotag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1520952023-03-31T12:46:00-04:002023-04-10T08:43:06-04:004th Annual Indiana Science Communication Day: Out of the Lab and into the Statehouse<p dir="ltr">What are our duties as scientific researchers? How can we help to serve our communities and communicate science to those who make decisions for our communities?</p> <p dir="ltr">These questions prompted Notre Dame’s Science Policy Initiative to host the first Annual Indiana Science Communication…</p><p dir="ltr">What are our duties as scientific researchers? How can we help to serve our communities and communicate science to those who make decisions for our communities?</p>
<p dir="ltr">These questions prompted Notre Dame’s Science Policy Initiative to host the first Annual Indiana Science Communication Day (INSciCommDay) 5 years ago. That first INSciCommDay, 15 students attended. Three INSciCommDays later on March 20th 2023, 24 graduate students from four different universities across Indiana began traveling early in the morning and arrived at the statehouse to speak with their lawmakers about topics ranging from adult autism, antibiotic resistance genes, cancer, and more. This incredible professional development opportunity allowed graduate students from across Indiana to gather at the Indiana statehouse to communicate their research to policymakers and gain experience engaging a non-scientific audience.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Participants were urged to call and email the lawmakers representing their districts in the weeks beforehand to set up meetings with their lawmakers during the event. Many participants had never called their state lawmakers before, and this process helped to reduce communication barriers and marked the beginning of what will hopefully be long-term collaborative relationships. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Senators and representatives from both political parties attended the event, seeking out their constituents among the crowd. But the action was not isolated to poster sessions-a group of students from Purdue got a behind the scenes tour of the House Floor, and other students arranged one-on-one meetings with their lawmakers to talk about research and policy. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We know that research universities provide huge benefits to their states: they positively influence economic development, human capital, knowledge expansion and innovation, and societal well-being and quality of life. According to the most recent data from the National Science Foundation, Indiana universities in particular invested over $1.6 million dollars yearly in research & development across all STEM disciplines, fueling critical discovery and innovation.</p>
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<p>Communicating our science is challenging, but it is unbelievably necessary and undeniably our responsibility as researchers. Scientists, like our elected officials, have a duty to serve our communities. Does your science have an impact on Indiana and beyond? Do you want to share your science with the world? Keep an eye out for the 5th Indiana Science Communication Day in 2024. We will see you there!</p>Emma Thrifttag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1518422023-03-21T09:21:00-04:002023-03-21T09:22:35-04:00Reilly Postdoc, Katharine McCabe publishes article<p>The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published an article co-authored by Reilly postdoctoral researcher, Katharine McCabe. Titled "Incidence of Newborn Drug Testing and Variations by Birthing Parent Race and Ethnicity Before and After Recreational Cannabis Legalization,"…</p><p>The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published an article co-authored by Reilly postdoctoral researcher, Katharine McCabe. Titled "Incidence of Newborn Drug Testing and Variations by Birthing Parent Race and Ethnicity Before and After Recreational Cannabis Legalization," the article sheds light on racial disparities in newborn drug testing and provides insight into how the legalization of recreational cannabis may have affected these disparities. McCabe is a Reilly Center Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health, Humanities, & Society. </p>
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<p><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2802124">Incidence of Newborn Drug Testing and Variations by Birthing Parent Race and Ethnicity Before and After Recreational Cannabis Legalization</a></p>
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<p>"Thirty-seven US states and the District of Columbia mandate reporting newborns with suspected prenatal substance exposure to the state, and punitive policies that link prenatal substance exposure to newborn drug testing (NDT) may lead to disproportionate reporting of Black parents to Child Protective Services. The impact of recreational cannabis legalization on racial disproportionality in NDT is unknown."</p>MacKenzie Rizzotag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1502462023-01-12T11:20:00-05:002023-01-12T11:21:32-05:00Reilly Grads: ND Founders Profile #126: This Engineer turned Entrepreneur FouNDer Is Big on Building Things—from T Shirts to Companies<h2><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwetzel2/" target="_blank">JOHN WETZEL</a></h2> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Company Founded:</strong></td> <td><a href="https://www.charthop.com/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=linkedincompanyhomepage" target="_blank">Gather</a></td>
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<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">When the time came to choose a college to attend, John Wetzel, a native of Dallas, Texas, appeared to be following in his dad’s footsteps to the University of Notre Dame. However, the real attraction was a unique five-year dual degree program that combined Engineering with Arts and Letters. “I really enjoyed design and didn’t want to be boxed in to engineering entirely. Notre Dame’s Reilly Dual Degree program treated both disciplines equally. So I applied.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Once on campus, Wetzel’s passion for design soon converged with entrepreneurship. As a freshman he teamed up with roommate and fellow engineering student, Mike Flanigan, to construct one of the most impressive lofts ever seen in St. Edward’s Hall. Buoyed by this success, he and Flanigan launched a pop-up business at the start of sophomore year building lofts for other dorm mates.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">His eyes roll at the memory, “While our classmates were enjoying syllabus week,</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">we were making daily trips to Home Depot in Mishawaka for building materials and then constructing lofts all evening. We built a loft a day for the first 10 days</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">. </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">It was crazy.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">The desire to create—and sell—things that were cool and interesting led Wetzel to The Shirt Project, a Notre Dame tradition that began in 1990 as a way to raise money for campus social clubs. Each year, one T-shirt</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">design is created and then sold by students. The annual tee has become the student body’s uniform of choice for home football games. During the spring of his freshman</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">year, Wetzel created the</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">design for the 2012 version of The Shirt.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">“That was pretty special,” he says. “Not only was it the 125</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"><sup>th</sup></span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> year of Notre Dame football, but we</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">also went on to play</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">for the national championship that year.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Although the Irish didn’t walk away with the crown, The Shirt Project did score nearly $1 million in sales. Buoyed by the fundraiser’s win, Wetzel stayed with The Shirt Project through his junior and senior years as vice president and then president. His passion for entrepreneurship was cemented.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Graduation presented Wetzel with a fork in the road: follow the traditional high-powered career path launched in the Bay Area or New York City or do his own thing. Not to be boxed in, he applied for a two-year fellowship with Venture for America, a nonprofit founded by Andrew Yang that gives recent college graduates first-hand experience with high-growth companies in emerging startup ecosystems.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">“I was chosen for the 2016 cohort of college graduates. Venture for America is an intense dive into entrepreneurship. While I was with the program in Cleveland, I was introduced to BoxCast, a live video streaming startup, and offered a job. I never would have found them without Venture for America,” Wetzel explains.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">When he joined BoxCast as a designer, there were just 17 employees. He started designing connected devices and hardware and then segued into software. “As a small company, there were lots of opportunities to do and learn. I worked with sales, marketing and engineering, learning the fundamentals of running a business. It was empowering. Eventually, we grew to 30 people.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Wetzel also developed an appreciation for the Midwestern approach to launching and growing companies. “BoxCast was lightly capitalized so we had to be very resourceful,” he says. “When we opened a new office, I was put in charge of managing the design. We scored free cubicles from a company that was shutting down, and</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">at one point, I was driving a forklift loaded with cubicles </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">on the streets of Cleveland. Later, I was side-by-side with the CEO building desks. The company was very thrifty and got things done.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">While at BoxCast from 2016 to 2019, Wetzel spend a couple of weeks in San Diego during Cleveland’s brutal winters. Realizing how easy it was to continue working as a product</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> manager despite being 2,000 miles from his office, he became an advocate for remote work. “I believed remote work would be mainstream in five to ten years. I even charted what business would look like if 30 percent of the workforce was remote by 2023. Remember, this was pre-COVID. I had no idea what was coming.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">With this prediction, Wetzel and a couple of friends— Alex Hilleary from BoxCast and Brooks Sim e from Venture for America—started brainstorming startup ideas around the remote work trend. They identified ten ideas before whittling it down to a few to pursue. One of the first was global payroll solution for companies with employees in different countries. There are now several unicorns in the space, but payroll was not their skillset.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Next, the friends began looking at how human resources (HR) operates within remote work environments. “Remote workforces need structure to operate effectively. Culture doesn’t just happen. Processes have to be installed. These things don’t happen automatically,” Wetzel says. “We interviewed hundreds of companies with remote or semi-remote workforces to better understand their challenges and uncover opportunities for a business.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">As they dove deeper, they learned the weak link was in the human resources tooling. They didn’t have the software to support widely distributed workforces traditionally served with face time between management and front-line workers. Wetzel saw a niche for an HR tech solution.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">In 2019, Wetzel, Hilleary, and Sime co-founded Gather and began building a solution for companies to better manage key HR functions for remote workers. They participated in a pre-accelerator with Venture for America in Cleveland. It wasn’t a walk in the park either. They had no funding. They built a first product then scrapped it after three months. After eight months</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">, </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">they launched a new product during the global pandemic lockdown in spring 2020 and began onboarding clients.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Despite a seemingly solid product-market fit, getting Gather off the ground was still excruciatingly difficult. Admits Wetzel, “Doing a software startup in Cleveland is hard. The world doesn’t look at Cleveland and think tech.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">The saving grace was being accepted into Y Combinator’s Summer Class of 2020. With the pandemic lockdowns in full force, the three-month program was, ironically, held entirely remote. Still, Y Combinator’s immersion into entrepreneurship and all things startup proved invaluable.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">“Coming from Cleveland, we had few connections in the Bay Area. Y Combinator gave us access to a powerful network and funders on the West Coast. It also gave us huge credibility. Y Combinator was key to making connections. The name alone opens doors to first meetings,” Wetzel says. “It also helped that Covid had accelerated the seismic shift to remote workforces and companies were really struggling with how to adjust.” </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">The Gather team’s time in Y Combinator allowed them to fine tune the Gather offering. Basically, they replaced tedious manual coordination of HR functions like onboarding new hires, employee milestones, and offboarding that had become more complex in a remote environment, with thoughtful, easy to use automation. Gather leaned on Slack, a digital communications platform</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><em style="font-style:italic"> </em></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">designed to be faster, better organized, and more secure than email. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">As Gather began to scale, Wetzel and his co-founders quickly learned that selling into company HR departments is a lengthy process. With no big venture capital money and a slow path to growth, they had to be creative to break through. They did it by inviting a number of people they didn’t know but had identified as potential customers to dinner in New York City. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">“We were really hustling to win our first customer,” Wetzel says, “and we knew we had to build relationships and hosting</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> a</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">dinner was the perfect way to do that</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">. </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">One of the people who came became our first paying customer and later our largest customer. They were phenomenally happy with Gather.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Having raised less than $1 million in capital, the Gather team leaned into their Cleveland roots for traction. “Our approach to growth was definitely Midwestern. We were scaling Gather slowly, methodically and being capital efficient,” Wetzel explains. “Still, we needed more capital. When we tried to raise a seed</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">round in August 2021, the venture firms didn’t like our niche, which was smaller companies, or our controlled approach to growth. Without additional funding, we either had to bootstrap Gather or exit. We decided to look for an acquirer.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">An introduction from an investor</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">led them to ChartHop, another HR technology startup that aggregates employee data in one place to give companies a single, real-time digital space to create greater transparency and alignment in organizations. Gather’s emphasis on automated workflows to support key moments in the employee experience would complement and enhance ChartHop’s platform. But were they the right fit?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Wetzel liked what he learned about ChartHop’s founder and CEO Ian White. “Ian is a two-time founder and there was fantastic fit between our products. ChartHop had recently raised a $35 million Series B in the second quarter of 2021 from </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Andreesen Horowitz and other top investors. This gave me confidence that ChartHop was the right company for continuing to grow Gather. I’m very grateful the deal came together when it did in March 2022. </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Today, Wetzel is a senior product manager at ChartHop. Surprisingly, transitioning from co-founder and CEO of his company to a management role with another has had significant upsides. “It’s definitely less stressful,” he says. “I just got married and want to start a family so it’s a great time for more stability.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Wetzel offers this advice to college students who want to start a company straight out of college: Don’t.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">“I knew as a student at Notre Dame that I wanted to start a company, but I didn’t have an idea. More importantly, I didn’t have the context of what it took to start a business. I would encourage college students and new graduates to work for a startup up. Look for apprenticeships like</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">Venture America. Go find your way by listening and learning with someone else’s startup. Another way to learn is to embed yourself in the startup community; you will literally learn by osmosis,” he says.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">“I know I’ll start another company in the future and it will be even better because of my experience with Gather and now ChartHop,” Wetzel adds. “For now, I’m focused on helping ChartHop grow</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">and</span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-style:normal">building a family.”</span></span></p>
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<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Melanie Lux</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://ideacenter.nd.edu/news-events/news/nd-founders-profile-126-this-engineer-turned-entrepreneur-founder-is-big-on-building-thingsfrom-t-shirts-to-companies/">ideacenter.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">December 07, 2022</span>.</p>Melanie Luxtag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1499862022-12-20T10:11:00-05:002022-12-20T10:11:53-05:00German major uses language skills to help Notre Dame engineering professor unlock 93-year-old brain research<p>In the fields of neuroscience and neuroanatomy, scholars often cite a 93-year-old paper that examines the thickness of cortical folds. The problem, at least for an English-reading audience, is that this knowledge has always been hiding in plain sight. The article was written in German but never fully translated — until now, thanks to a Notre Dame College of Engineering professor and a Class of 2022 graduate with a deep understanding of the language.</p><figure class="image-right"><img alt="Maria Holland" height="366" src="https://al.nd.edu/assets/494612/300x/maria_holland.jpg" width="300">
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<p>In the fields of neuroscience and neuroanatomy, scholars often cite a 93-year-old paper that examines the thickness of cortical folds.</p>
<p>The problem, at least for an English-reading audience, is that this knowledge has always been hiding in plain sight. The article was written in German but never fully translated — until now, thanks to a Notre Dame <a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/">College of Engineering</a> professor and a Class of 2022 graduate with a deep understanding of the language.</p>
<p><a href="https://engineering.nd.edu/faculty/maria-holland/">Maria Holland</a>, an assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, recently bought the rights to the paper, “The Influence of the Curvature Occurring in the Folds and Turns of the Cerebral Cortex on Cortical Architecture,” which is one of the signature works of the Dutch neuroanatomist Siegfried Bok.</p>
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<p>“This is an important paper that has influenced a lot of work and could influence more work, but a lot of people weren’t able to read it,” she said.</p>
<p>The 1929 paper assists Holland’s ongoing research, supported by a National Science Foundation grant, to examine the brain’s cortical thickness.The effort could identify evolutionary, developmental, and pathological changes in brain morphology that could inform new ways for early diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders.</p>
<p>The project began in 2019 when Holland asked Notre Dame’s <a href="https://germanandrussian.nd.edu/">Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures</a> for recommendations of students who could do translation work. Andrew Fulwider ’22 was on the list, and when Holland noticed he was majoring in German and engineering, she knew he was the ideal candidate.</p>
<p>The translation process was extensive. Fulwider worked through about 100 pages of German text during his sophomore and junior years. The translation sessions spanned a year and more than 100 hours.</p>
<p>“I feel like I’m contributing to the dissemination of knowledge which would otherwise not be disseminated,” said Fulwider, who is now pursuing a master’s degree in sustainable energy supply at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. “These texts weren’t lost, per se, but people didn’t really have access to them. They just had access to what other people said about them.”</p>
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<figcaption>“The Influence of the Curvature Occurring in the Folds and Turns of the Cerebral Cortex on Cortical Architecture,” by Siegfried Bok</figcaption>
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<p>As for how he was able to complete the project, Fulwider credits his <a href="https://youtu.be/iBs_Mwj4Q8I">German-learning experience</a> at Notre Dame.</p>
<p>“I can’t praise Notre Dame’s <a href="https://germanandrussian.nd.edu/german-program/">German program</a> enough. It’s a really well-run department with professors who are deeply invested in the success of their students,” said Fulwider, who earned both a BA in German and BS in engineering through the <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/undergraduate/dual-degree/">Reilly dual-degree program</a>. “Without the German program, I wouldn’t have a shot to do this. I wouldn’t have studied German past a high-school level.”</p>
<p>The fact that the project involves the brain and language seems fitting, given that Fulwider has a handle on language to a point that he can now think in German. </p>
<p>“That ability helps you open different pathways in your brain and helps you think in different ways period,” he said. “It definitely helps with mental flexibility.”</p>
<p>With the translation complete, the journal <em>Brain Multiphysics</em> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666522022000144?via%3Dihub">published</a> the English version in November.</p>
<p>“Most scientific publications focus on original research or on many papers published on a single topic. Our paper was neither of those, but I wanted to make it accessible to other researchers,” Holland said. “In the end, I’m just so pleased that we made this nontraditional publication happen.”</p>
<p class="attribution">Originally published by <span class="rel-author">Pat Milhizer</span> at <span class="rel-source"><a href="https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/german-major-uses-language-skills-to-help-notre-dame-engineering-professor-unlock-93-year-old-brain-research/">al.nd.edu</a></span> on <span class="rel-pubdate">November 28, 2022</span>.</p>Pat Milhizertag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1495952022-12-01T10:26:00-05:002023-07-31T14:06:55-04:00Reilly Postdoc, Katharine McCabe, wins Donald W. Light Award for Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology<p>Katharine McCabe, Ph.D., received the Donald W. Light award for her 2021 article in the <em>Journal of Health and Social Behaviour</em>, “Criminalization of Care: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients”. <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/people/faculty/kate-mccabe/">Dr. McCabe</a> is a postdoctoral research…</p><p>Katharine McCabe, Ph.D., received the Donald W. Light award for her 2021 article in the <em>Journal of Health and Social Behaviour</em>, “Criminalization of Care: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients”. <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/people/faculty/kate-mccabe/">Dr. McCabe</a> is a postdoctoral research associate in Health, Humanities, and Society within the <a href="https://reilly.nd.edu/">Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values</a>.<br><br>Abstract: This research draws upon qualitative interviews with healthcare providers to show how legal interests transform the provision of care. Using the case of drug testing pregnant patients, the findings reveal 3 mechanisms by which criminal-legal interests are assimilated into care. The first, is through a process in which providers frame criminal suspicion in medical terms. This process of "clinicalization" obscures the legal intent of drug testing from patients. In the second process, providers tend to rely on legal risk assessments rather than clinical ones in the face of uncertainty. Finally, provider discretion to test is shaped by criminal suspicion that is explicitly raced and classed. This study demonstrates that when the lines between medicine and law blur clinical norms are subverted and marginalized patients become subject to the double burden of being policed by both medical and legal domains.</p>
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<p>Read the full article <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00221465211058152">here</a></p>MacKenzie Rizzotag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1495032022-11-29T12:20:00-05:002022-11-29T15:04:39-05:00Holmes & Rubin publish article<figure class="image-left"><img alt="Holmes Abigail" height="150" src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/440738/150x150/holmes_abigail.jpg" width="150"></figure> <figure class="image-right"><img alt="Rubin Picture" height="150" src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/308839/150x150/rubin_picture.jpg" width="150"></figure> <p>HPS Ph.D. Candidate Abigail…</p><figure class="image-left"><img alt="Holmes Abigail" height="150" src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/440738/150x150/holmes_abigail.jpg" width="150"></figure>
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<p>HPS Ph.D. Candidate Abigail Holmes and Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Philosophy Hannah Rubin recently published their article "Not so fast with fast funding" <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36190184/&source=gmail&ust=1669809604174000&usg=AOvVaw35bNUDCo1RNRmO7epW_QJf" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36190184/" target="_blank">Not so fast with fast funding - PubMed (nih.gov)</a></p>
<p>In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have become increasingly dissatisfied with how science funding is distributed. Traditional grant funding processes are seen as stifling the creativity of researchers, in addition to being bureaucratic, slow, and inefficient. Consequently, there have been increasing popular calls to make "fast funding" - fast, unbureaucratic grant applications - a new standard for scientific funding. Though this approach to funding, implemented by Fast Grants, has been successful as a pandemic response strategy, we believe there are serious costs to its wide-scale adoption, particularly for transparency and equity, and that the purported benefits - increased creativity and efficiency - are unlikely to materialize. While traditional funding mechanisms are certainly not perfect, scientific communities should think twice before adopting fast funding as a new standard for funding.</p>Tori Daviestag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1484322022-10-10T11:30:00-04:002023-07-31T14:06:42-04:00HPS Alum Awarded Research Fellowship<p>HPS alum Sarah Naramore (HPS 2018) and assistant professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University was awarded a research fellowship from the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine for her project “Nature and Nurture: Endemic Goiter, Geography, and Heredity in American…</p><p>HPS alum Sarah Naramore (HPS 2018) and assistant professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University was awarded a research fellowship from the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine for her project “Nature and Nurture: Endemic Goiter, Geography, and Heredity in American Medicine, 1800-1930.” The project uses endemic goiter – the swelling of the thyroid gland usually due to iodine deficiency – as a lens to unpack and challenge narratives about health and place and early ideas about genetics in the nineteenth century. The fellowship provides research funding to visit multiple libraries and archives within the consortium. </p>
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<p> </p>Tori Daviestag:reilly.nd.edu,2005:News/1475762022-09-01T11:08:43-04:002023-05-24T11:37:20-04:00HPS Alum Awarded Research Fellowship<figure class="image-right"><img alt="Sarah Naramore" src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/483758/sarah_naramore.jpg"></figure> <p>HPS alum Sarah Naramore (HPS 2018) and assistant professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University was awarded a research fellowship from the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology,…</p><figure class="image-right"><img alt="Sarah Naramore" src="https://reilly.nd.edu/assets/483758/sarah_naramore.jpg"></figure>
<p>HPS alum Sarah Naramore (HPS 2018) and assistant professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University was awarded a research fellowship from the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine for her project “Nature and Nurture: Endemic Goiter, Geography, and Heredity in American Medicine, 1800-1930.” The project uses endemic goiter – the swelling of the thyroid gland usually due to iodine deficiency – as a lens to unpack and challenge narratives about health and place and early ideas about genetics in the nineteenth century. The fellowship provides research funding to visit multiple libraries and archives within the consortium. </p>Tori Davies