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Each day, millions of people leave their birth countries forever. Sometimes those who emigrate are forced to leave behind important identification and medical records. As a result, they face barriers to receiving care for chronic illnesses or mental health conditions. Now, thanks to the work of University of Notre Dame doctoral student Maria Caterina “Cat” Gargano, a free user-driven digital platform is available to store and protect migrants’ essential health information.

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Although two hundred years have passed since the development of the first antimalaria treatment and over 140 years since…

Read More about Global Health graduate researcher Henry Kamugisha works to reduce malaria in the Ethiopian Highlands

Nine University of Notre Dame graduate students will compete for $4,500 in prize money during the annual Shaheen Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The competition will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 28) inside Jordan Auditorium at the Mendoza College of Business on campus. It is open to the public.

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Kellogg Institute doctoral student affiliate Laura Neftaly López-Pérez has been awarded a 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRIG) from the American Political Science Association (APSA). She is one of 24 recipients nationwide.

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The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) have announced the call for applications for their annual summer Ph.D. course on international mediation. 

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The Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab is pleased to announce the selection of five Notre Dame graduate students for its Tech Ethics Graduate Fellowship program. After a competitive application and evaluation process, the students were selected based on their outstanding research proposals on topics such as fair methods of evaluating human labor in the digital age, the efficacy of privacy policies, and the role of technological advancement in violent conflicts. 

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What’s really out there? William Cramer, a postdoctoral research fellow with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been asking this question since he was 10 years old, reading all the books about astronomy that his library offered.

Read More about Seeing Stars: How postdoctoral fellow William Cramer investigates light in galaxy systems

Now serving as the associate director of performance quality improvement and compliance at St. Vincent de Paul in Louisville, Kentucky, Greer Hannan ’09, ’14 MNA, ’15 M.Div. reflects on moments of “aliveness” that inspired her to serve those on the margins.

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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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Karla Gonzalez Serrano, postdoctoral scholar for the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health, has always wanted to join a team that helps doctors provide better care. “There are a lot of physicians in my family, and I have always wanted to help them have the tools that they wish they had to provide better care in their communities,” Gonzalez Serrano explains.

Read More about Notre Dame postdoctoral scholar working to improve cancer diagnosis through groundbreaking technology

Four alumni from the Ph.D. program in mathematics have recently received Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) awards.

Read More about 2024 NSF LEAPS-MPS Awards

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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The Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy) at the University of Notre Dame has selected eight exceptional graduate students from a pool of twenty-three outstanding applicants to receive fellowships to advance research in specific areas important to creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future for all.

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