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Graduate Student Gordon Duddy Selected for SCGSR Program

Author: Rebecca Hicks

Gordon Duddy, a second-year graduate student working in the laboratory of Professor Jon Camden, has been selected for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. This program provides funding for students to conduct a portion of their thesis research at a host DOE laboratory and in collaboration with a DOE scientist. It also gives the student access to tools and instrumentation at the National Labs. Eighty-six students were selected from across the country to participate in the program.

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The summer sky is orange and tree branches linger around the outline of the Golden Dome.

Notre Dame’s Berthiaume Institute welcomes its 2024 cohort fellows

Author: Brett Beasley

The Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health (BIPH) recently welcomed its cohort of eight doctoral student fellows for the summer of 2024. Selected students will train alongside leading Notre Dame faculty conducting interdisciplinary biomedical research.

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Notre Dame Publishing Boot Camp 2024

Notre Dame Press hosts Publishing Boot Camp for graduate students

Author: Notre Dame Press News

On May 13–16, 2024, the University of Notre Dame Press hosted their second Publishing Boot Camp for graduate students in the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. This intensive, four-day program was held in Hesburgh Library and blended seminar-style instruction, hands-on learning activities, and guidance from publishing professionals to enable students to explore career options in scholarly publishing and publishing their own work.

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Kroc Institute Ph.D. students meet with the Keough School of Global Affairs’ Maura Policelli and various DC stakeholders to discuss their pathways from academia to practitioner-based positions at the Keough School’s Washington office.

Professional avenues outside the classroom: Peace studies Ph.D. students visit DC

Author: Lisa Gallagher

The Kroc Institute’s renowned joint Ph.D. programs, which integrates the study of peace with one of six traditional disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, prides itself on creating graduates who become scholar-practitioners and academics. To help foster students interested in developing policy-related or non-faculty careers, three current Ph.D. students, along with the director and assistant director of doctoral studies, Caroline Hughes and Kathryn Sawyer Vidrine, made the trip to Washington, DC April 24–26, where they met with Kroc Institute and other Notre Dame alumni working in those fields.

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The moon over Golden Dome and Basilica.

Strength in key doctoral programs prompts Notre Dame's election to Universities Space Research Association to advance space exploration research

Author: Brett Beasley

Based on the strength of key doctoral programs in science and engineering, the University of Notre Dame has been inducted into the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). Founded in 1969 under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the U.S. Government, the USRA is a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology, and engineering. The USRA consists of 120 universities that work together to advance space-related education, research, development, and operations around the world.

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Occupy protesters are pictured in Oakland, California, in 2011. The movement, known for its slogan “We are the 99 percent,” criticized mainstream political parties for representing the interests of the rich. It was part of a global wave of anti-partisan protests that have disrupted politics in recent years. Photo by Brian Sims via Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons.

Graduate student co-authors new research showing how elites leverage anti-party protests to disrupt politics

Author: Josh Stowe

Protest movements that reject political parties have an unintended consequence, according to research co-authored by Ann Mische, associate professor of sociology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, and Tomás Gold, a Notre Dame Ph.D. candidate and Ph.D. Fellow at the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies: They empower savvy politicians, who channel them to shake up the status quo. The findings provide a framework for understanding recent global political realignments and offer lessons for activists who want to make a meaningful impact. 

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MSGH student meets with mothers and health workers at Bagabaga Clinc, Ghana

Notre Dame graduate student researcher identifies a mix of factors behind decline in exclusive breastfeeding in Ghana

Author: Christine Grashorn

As global rates of exlusive breastfeading rise—showing corresponding measurable health benefits for infants—Ghana has seen a significant decline over the same period. Sarah Frick, a 2024 graduate of the Master of Science in Global Health (MSGH) program at the University of Notre Dame, worked with adviser Yenupini Joyce Adams of the Eck Institute for Global Health, Ghanaian mothers, and health care workers in the Sagnarigu Municipal region to research the puzzle of this concerning downward trend. 

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2024 Graduate School Commencement Ceremony, Saturday, May 18, 2024

Graduate School degree recipients encouraged to embrace the future, take up baton of ‘saving the world’

Author: Erin Blasko

Keynote speaker Sabine Hadida encouraged students to embrace the future and take up the baton of “saving the world” during the Graduate School’s annual commencement ceremony Saturday (May 18) at Notre Dame Stadium.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Eleven Notre Dame students, alumni awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Author: Erin Blasko

A dozen current or former University of Notre Dame students—including two ND-PREP participants—have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, with an additional nine singled out for honorable mention for the award.

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ND Law and Graduate School to host Legal History Colloquium: Call for Papers

ND Law and Graduate School to host Legal History Colloquium: Call for Papers

Author: Notre Dame Law School

With the financial support of the American Society for Legal History, Notre Dame Law School and the University of Notre Dame Graduate School will host the ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium during the 2024-2025 academic year.

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Testing emotional resiliency: Graduate psychology student Katie Edler aims to improve mental health

Author: Office of Brand Content

Katie Edler, a graduate student in psychology, conducts an experiment in emotional regulation where she asks children between 6 and 8 years old to complete a simple puzzle with 20 large pieces and then leaves the room.…

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Keough School establishes two new doctoral programs

Author: Renée LaReau

Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs has established two new doctoral programs in sustainable development and peace studies. The peace studies and sustainable development programs will enable doctoral students in the Keough School to examine from different perspectives the intersection of poverty, the environment, violent conflict and peace. Both programs will enroll students beginning in fall 2025.

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How postdoctoral researcher Seth Koren makes sense of the universe’s mysteries using physics

Author: Madeline Schlehuber

Billions of years ago, the very early universe was incredibly hot and dense — conditions could only be described as extreme. Today, physicists attempt to recreate these conditions using enormous accelerators, detectors and colliders to get particles up to the high energy that existed long ago.…

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From the army to anthropology: Postdoc’s path to peace-and-justice research has been a journey

Author: socialconcerns.nd.edu

Helal Khan’s path to becoming an anthropologist who researches peace and justice has taken him all over the world. In his home country of Bangladesh, Khan was an army officer stationed along the Myanmar…

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Guiding the next generation: Philosophy professor Michael Rea receives Arts & Letters Graduate Student Mentorship Award

Author: Mary Kinney

Michael Rea is the Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy, director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion, and recipient of the 2024 College of Arts…

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Dr. Rebecca A. Wingert, director of graduate studies for the Department of Biological Sciences, celebrates doctoral students and winners of the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Caroline Lara (L) and Nicole Weaver (R).

Kaneb Center and Graduate School present Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards

Author: ND Learning

Earlier this month, Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and the Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame hosted a ceremony recognizing the 49 winners of the 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards.

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