Neil Arner

Biography

The Rev. Dr. Neil Arner is a 38th-grader who continues learning as a professor after earning six academic degrees in mathematics, biology, moral theology, and philosophical theology from Georgia Tech, Princeton Seminary, Yale Divinity School, and Yale University. Before becoming an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), he fostered interfaith reconciliation in postwar Sarajevo for two years. He has published articles and delivered academic papers before international audiences on philosophical, biblical, ecumenical, and scientific theology. He won and helped administer interdisciplinary grants worth more than $4.5 million.

Arner joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 2013. As Associate Professor of the Practice in the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, he teaches interdisciplinary courses on biological and computer sciences, literature, ethics, and theology. As Associate Director of the Moreau Program, he helps design and equips faculty to lead a first-year seminar and a senior-year capstone that encourage all undergraduates to live well. As Faculty Director of Programs for Scott Scholars and Stamps Scholars, he promotes the intellectual and vocational formation of student leaders in these communities.