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Notre Dame a top producer of Fulbright students for 10th straight year

Author: Erin Blasko

The University of Notre Dame is a top producer of Fulbright students for the 10th consecutive year, according to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which administers the Fulbright Program on behalf of the U.S. Department of State.

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Notre Dame Rome inaugurates Graduate Research Fellowships in Rome

Author: Costanza Montanari

The Graduate School, in partnership with Notre Dame International and the Center for Italian Studies, is offering semester- and year-long dissertation research fellowships at the Rome Global Gateway to advanced humanities Ph.D. students in the College of Arts and Letters. 

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Brianna Lynn Wimer named 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow to address computing needs of vision-impaired people

Author: Karla Cruise

Brianna Lynn Wimer, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow. The fellowship recognizes graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields.

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Mauna Dasari in June 2022 in Pennsylvania holding a female bull frog as part of her postdoctoral research. (Animals were handled with proper scientific collection permits from the state of Pennsylvania and under IACUC protocols filed with the University of Pittsburgh.)

Collaboration with Graduate School’s Office of Grants and Fellowships leads Ph.D. alumna to exciting and unexpected career path

Author: Eric Heath

Dr. Dasari learned firsthand the delicate dance of partnering with resources on campus, including the Graduate School’s Office of Grants and Fellowships.  Through her many interactions with the office — first as a fellowship applicant and then later as a consultant to other students — she slowly began to see her interests shift, a journey that would eventually lead her to explore a new and unexpected career directly connected to the skills she had honed while working with the Grants and Fellowships team.

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Sean Murphy, PhD candidate in the graduate program in Biological Sciences.

Doctoral student Sean Murphy awarded NIH Fellow Transition Award

Author: Deanna Csomo Ferrell

Sean Murphy, a rising fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has received a prestigious Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Only around 24 predoctoral to postdoctoral fellow transition awards (F99/K00) are awarded each year by the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health.

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Reilly Postdoc, Katharine McCabe, wins Donald W. Light Award for Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology

Author: MacKenzie Rizzo

Katharine McCabe, Ph.D., received the Donald W. Light award for her 2021 article in the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, “Criminalization of Care: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients”. Dr. McCabe is a postdoctoral research associate in Health, Humanities, and Society within the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values.

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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers diverse opportunities for U.S academics, administrators, and professionals to teach, research, do professional projects, and attend seminars abroad.

Twenty-eight Notre Dame students named 2022-23 Fulbright US Student Program finalists

Author: Erin Blasko

Twenty-eight University of Notre Dame students have been selected as finalists, and another seven as alternates, for the 2022-23 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Established in 1946, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program, assisting graduate and undergraduate students with pursuing graduate study, teaching English or researching abroad.

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Eleven Notre Dame students, alumni awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Author: Erin Blasko

Established in 1952, the NSF GRFP offers financial support to graduate students in the form of a $34,000 annual stipend and a $12,000 cost-of-education allowance, as well as professional development and international research opportunities.

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