Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study University of Notre Dame

The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) supports academic research with a distinctive focus: the active encouragement of scholars and scientists from all disciplines to ask questions about meaning, purpose, and value in relationship to their particular research projects and to deliberately seek to transcend the divide between descriptive questions (the world as it is) and normative questions (the world as it ought to be). Inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, NDIAS seeks to go further in its commitment to the unity of all knowledge in principle. The NDIAS strives to be the first place scholars think of when embarking on major inter- or multidisciplinary projects that seek to relate specialized academic research to deeper inquiry about meaning and morality.