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Noted conductor and artist Carmen-Helena Tellez joins Notre Dame faculty

Published: December 26, 2011

In July 2012, scholar, conductor and interdisciplinary artist Carmen-Helena Tellez will join the University of Notre Dame as a professor in the Department of Music and in the Master of Sacred Music program in the Department of Theology.

Ethics Workshop Scheduled For First-Year Graduate and Professional Students

Published: December 14, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

An ethics initiative was passed in 2010 to integrate ethics training into the core curriculum for all graduate students at Notre Dame. One component of that initiative, the workshop will feature small-group sessions and a keynote address from Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the world’s leading authorities on ethics.

Notre Dame Signs Historic Agreement For Graduate Studies in Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

Published: December 07, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Notre Dame and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) have entered into a unique agreement – the first of its kind at Notre Dame – to provide a dual degree to students in the Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences fields.

Student Spotlight: Olukunle Owolabi, Ph.D. Student in Political Science

Published: November 28, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Olukunle Owolabi studies the differences in development and governance between countries with a history of plantation slavery and those with a history of colonial occupation.

English Doctoral Candidate Receives Dissertation Fellowship

Published: November 10, 2011

Author: Joanna Basile

Lauren Rich, a Ph.D. candidate in Notre Dame’s Department of English, has been awarded a 2011–12 American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women for her research on food in early 20th century British and colonial fiction.

Student Spotlight: Sean Walsh, Ph.D. in Mathematics and Philosophy

Published: October 24, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Recent graduate Sean Walsh was awarded the Kurt Gödel Research Prize Fellowship, the highest award in the field of logic.

Student Spotlight: Anne Peterson, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy

Published: October 24, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Anne Peterson is examining the metaphysical properties of organisms and the philosophy of Aristotle.

More Than $175,000 In Professional Development Awards Distributed In 2010-11

Published: October 10, 2011

Author: Kevin Zeise

Funds are provided through three different endowments to allow graduate students to travel around the world for conferences, workshops, research and many other opportunities.

Student Spotlight: Andrew Paluch, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Published: October 07, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Andrew Paluch earned undergraduate degrees in both chemical engineering and mathematics from SUNY University at Buffalo, where he was a Goldwater Scholar.

Three History Ph.D. Students Awarded Fulbrights

Published: September 30, 2011

Author: Joanna Basile

Three doctoral students in Notre Dame’s Department of History have been named 2011 Fulbright Scholars. Max Deardorff, Nathan Gerth, and John Moscatiello will use their Fulbright funding in Russia and Spain to support research that spans education policy, government bureaucracy, and religion.

Student Spotlight: Alejandro Montecinos, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Published: September 29, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Alejandro Montecinos studies the microeconomics of growth and income inequality.