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Megan McCullough, now a second- year Notre Dame civil engineering graduate student, counts her visit to Thailand after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami as a turning point in her life.

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p(image-right). !/assets/21527/ftt_clapper_thumbnail.jpg(Screen Captures: The Minor)! The University’s "Department of Film, Television, and Theatre":http://ftt.nd.edu/major (FTT) will launch a new graduate minor in screen cultures beginning in Fall 2010. The minor—a non-degree, credit-bearing course of study—was approved at the Graduate Council meeting of January 25, 2010.

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p(image-right). !/assets/20981/kaneb_thumbnail.jpg(Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning)! Each year, the Kaneb Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program provides up to four advanced graduate students from the College of Arts and Letters with a mentored experience of research and teaching at a prominent liberal arts college or research university. This year, Maria Arenillas, Courtney Luckhardt, and John Hess are being hosted by the University of California-Davis, University of Glasgow, and Harvard University, respectively.

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On January 22, the Graduate Student Union hosted Notre Dame’s second Graduate Research Symposium in the Jordan Hall of Science.

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Associate Dean Laura Carlson announces new professional development webpages, databases, and calendaring options.

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p(image-left). !/assets/19995/black_eoe_journal.jpg(Black Equal Opportunity Employment Journal)! For the second year in a row, the Fall 2009 issue of the _Black Equal Opportunity Employment Journal_ has listed the University of Notre Dame as one of the top colleges and universities for African Americans.

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Students in the "Ph.D. in Literature Program":http://phdliterature.nd.edu at Notre Dame approach their work from transnational, transdisciplinary, and theoretical perspectives, completing an innovative course of study that requires proficiency in multiple languages. For Damiano Benvegnù, one of those languages is Italian, although his recent research illustrates how it could easily count for two.

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John Rothlisberger, Notre Dame Ph.D. candidate in "biology":http://biology.nd.edu, is beginning a prestigious "Presidential Management Fellowship,":https://www.pmf.opm.gov/HProgramOverview.aspx in which he will be applying research skills developed with Professor David Lodge to the critical problem of aquatic invasive species.

Read More about John Rothlisberger, Biology Ph.D. Candidate, Works to Implement the $475-million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative