As a junior at the University of Notre Dame during the 1989-1990 academic year, Terrence Ehrman had settled into his major in biology. With a special interest in ecology, he took a spring course—stream ecology—with a recently hired assistant professor, Gary Lamberti.
That course inspired Ehrman to join Lamberti’s lab for his senior-year research project, and the study set both men on a path for a mentor-mentee connection, but grew into a collegial friendship rooted in shared passions for ecology and spirituality. Now a Holy Cross priest, Fr. Ehrman, ’91 holds a master’s degree in ecology, a master’s of divinity, and also a doctorate in systematic theology, while Lamberti is now Nieuwland Professor Emeritus of Aquatic Science and continues to run a lab in Galvin Hall.
Read more about their lifelong connection, where matters of faith fuse with the substance of science.
Originally published by at science.nd.edu on January 27, 2025.