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🌱 How Notre Dame’s Eck fellowship lets Ph.D. students focus fully on research

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Notre Dame’s Eck fellowship lets Ph.D. students focus fully on research
  • How Notre Dame scholars are unpacking the Pope’s AI encyclical
  • How new coaching hires could reshape Notre Dame men’s basketball

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  • Friday: Mostly sunny and breezy, with a high of 81 and low of 60 degrees.
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📰 News we're reading

1. Eck Institute's Ph.D. fellowship helped anthropology student advance global health research (nd.edu) — A Notre Dame-based Ph.D. fellowship at the Eck Institute for Global Health is helping graduate students, including anthropology researcher Prakash B K, dive deeply into global health questions like caste and health inequities. The program, run through Notre Dame Research, offers funding, mentoring, and networking across campus, with the next application cycle opening in spring 2027 for students whose dissertation work connects to health.
   

2. Magnifica Humanitas: Human Dignity in the Age of AI (nd.edu) — Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center is convening campus theology and law experts to unpack Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. Local residents can hear Notre Dame scholars explore how AI, ethics, and Catholic teaching intersect, with moderator Margaret McManaway guiding a wide-ranging conversation on justice, labor, and technology.
   

3. Men's Basketball Announces Staff Updates (bvmsports.com) — Notre Dame men’s basketball, based right here in town, is reshaping its coaching staff, promoting longtime assistant Mike Farrelly to associate head coach and adding three new staffers. Head coach Micah Shrewsberry hopes the mix of internal promotions and fresh experience will boost on-court results and recruiting, potentially shaping the Fighting Irish teams you’ll be watching in coming seasons.
   

4. Indiana ALICE report shows working households struggle to afford basics (wndu.com) — A new ALICE report, analyzed in part by a University of Notre Dame data expert, shows more than 1 million Indiana households can’t afford basic necessities, with Elkhart and St. Joseph counties especially strained. Even many employed families are just one emergency away from crisis, as rising living costs and federal program cuts outpace the federal poverty line.
   

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