The History and Philsophy of Science Program at the University of Notre Dame will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its PhD program with a conference on September 26-27, 2014. Current faculty and students will be joined by alumni/ae over two days for talks on the history of the program, its former directors, and current work being done by ND HPS PhDs.  Read More

Kate Marshall, Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Assistant Professor of English, has won the 2014 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture for her book Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction Read More

Mark Bourgeois completed his PhD in Philosophy this year at Loyola University Chicago, with a dissertation analyzing the concept of natural function in biology, and comparing it to function in artifacts.  He also has a Master’s in philosophy from Miami of Ohio, and a BA in philosophy and a BS in physics from the University of Illinois. He spent several years as an engineer in the telecom industry, mostly with Lucent Technologies, working on big optical backbone networks before starting his PhD.   Read More