Making Good Understood
We convene a multidisciplinary community to develop compelling responses to the most pressing ethical issues of our era.
Fellowships
Current Fellows
Meet our 2025-26 ECG Fellows.
Their Work
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Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Center for Virtue Ethics
Supporting preeminent scholars whose research advances human flourishing in both moral and spiritual contexts, facilitating the development of undergraduate courses exploring topics such as justice and the common good, and deepening the ethical formation of Notre Dame students and faculty.
Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab
Promoting broad-based, far-reaching interdisciplinary research, thought, and policy leadership in artificial intelligence and other technology ethics by engaging with relevant stakeholders to examine real-world challenges and provide practical models and applied solutions for ethical technology design, development, and deployment.
This changing world will confront humankind with enormous new moral problems of unprecedented proportion and consequences … it will take a very special kind of university to direct change in such a way that humans do not destroy themselves and their world … It is this kind of institution that Notre Dame aspires to be.
—Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
Notre Dame is one of the most trusted universities in the United States. No institution is better positioned to foster reasoned, constructive conversations rooted in the Catholic ideals of respect for human dignity and the unity of knowledge, and guided by the rational ideals of adherence to evidence and consistency in argumentation. And no institution is better positioned to develop students who approach the world with openness, with curiosity, with compassion, and with moral courage.
—Rev. Robert Dowd, C.S.C.
Virtue ethics tells us that the moral life is not simply about discrete actions properly performed, nor about achieving laudable results in the world, but about becoming a certain kind of person.
—Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
Media Mentions
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South Bend Tribune
Notre Dame hosts summit exploring role of faith, humanity in age of AI
September 26, 2025
In the summit's keynote speech on Tuesday, Sept. 23, Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College professor of philosophy and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, said DELTA is a faith-based framework for approaching AI. Sullivan said AI is revolutionizing how people view ethics — in a way similar to how the atomic bomb presented hard ethical questions during World War II. But unlike the atomic age, she said, Christians haven't been involved in conversations about digitalization and the advent of AI.
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OSV News
Notre Dame summit aims to bring Christian values to AI revolution
September 24, 2025
The university’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and its Ethics Initiative teamed up to host the Notre Dame Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing on the Notre Dame campus from Sept. 22 to 25. Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., opened the summit with a Sept. 22 Mass at which he was the principal celebrant and homilist, with university president Father Robert Dowd, a Holy Cross priest, concelebrating.
During her Sept. 23 keynote address, Meghan Sullivan — professor of philosophy and director of both the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative — said that “discernment is required … more than ever” with the acceleration of AI in an era of “technological triumphalism.”