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Call for Nominations: Graduate School Commencement Awards

Author: Nora Kenney

Each year, the Graduate School presents several major awards at Notre Dame Commencement. These include the James A. Burns, C.S.C. Award, the Director of Graduate Studies Award, the Graduate Administrative Staff Member Award, and the Distinguished Graduate Alumnus Award. Last year, the Graduate School also conferred the inaugural Notebaert Award.

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Irish and Notre Dame STEM students encouraged to apply for a Naughton Fellowship

Author: Joanne Fahey

The University of Notre Dame has opened its annual competition for the Naughton Fellowships. The prestigious international fellowships provide funding for exceptional Ph.D., masters, or undergraduate students with an aptitude for the STEM disciplines to complete research or study in Ireland or at Notre Dame.

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Astrophysics graduate students witness first-ever detected neutron star collision

Author: Deanna Csomo McCool

Third-year physics graduate students Kaitlin Rasmussen and Devin Whitten were settling into their observation work in August on the 2.5-meter Irénée du Pont Telescope atop a rocky mountain in Las Campanas, Chile, scouring for a type of star enhanced by a set of reactions called the rapid-neutron capture process, or r-process. What they witnessed instead is being described as one of the most significant discoveries in astrophysics.

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Harper Cancer Research Postdoc Receives Highly Competitive Career Development Award From NIH/NCI

Author: Valli Sarveswaran

p(image-right). !/assets/244059/150x/hilliard_pic.jpg(Tyvette Hilliard 18k jpg)! Dr. Tyvette Hilliard, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Sharon Stack, Director of Harper Cancer Research Institute, has received a highly competitive 5-year K01 Research Career Development award from the NIH/NCI.

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Free Mango Languages Account Now Available to Graduate Students and Postdocs

Author: Aaron Bell

p(image-right). "!/assets/238753/200x/mango_button_01.png(Mango Button 24k png)!":https://inside.nd.edu/task/all/mangolanguages Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures (CSLC) has partnered with several campus entities to offer a free Mango Languages account to everyone with a Notre Dame email address.

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Graduate School Degree Recipients Encouraged to Adopt ‘Newspaper Test’ of Personal and Professional Integrity

Author: Amanda Skofstad

Dick Notebaert – chairman emeritus of the University of Notre Dame Board of Trustees and retired chairman and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications – told the University’s Graduate School degree recipients during Saturday’s (May 20) Commencement Ceremony that everyone needs a coach on the path to success, and he offered insights gained from two of his own mentors.

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