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Theology Doctoral Students Win International Honors

Author: Kate Cohorst

Three Ph.D. candidates in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Theology have recently been awarded prestigious fellowships from organizations such as the American Academy in Rome, Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, the Dolores Zorhab Liebmann Foundation, and the Louisville Institute.

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New Graduate Minor Focuses on Screen Culture

Author: Susan Love Loughmiller

p(image-right). !/assets/47592/ftt_logo.jpg(Department of Film, Television, and Theatre)! A new graduate minor in screen cultures hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, offers participants a background in theory, methods for approaching film study, and ideas for integrating film, television, and new media into their teaching and scholarship.

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Physics Graduate Student Katherine Rueff Selected for Inaugural Joint Brazil-U.S. Physics Workshop: Exploring the Nature of the Evolving Universe

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Katherine Rueff has been selected as one of 11 United States students to participate in the first Brazil-U.S. Physics Student Visitation Program funded by the American Physical Society.

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Six Notre Dame graduate students win Fulbright Awards in 2011 competition

Author: Gretchen Busl

A record number of six students in the Graduate School have earned coveted grants in the 2011 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition. The Fulbright Program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide and provides nearly 1,500 U.S. students the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research abroad for one year.

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Students in new global health graduate program evaluate Haiti cholera project

Author: Shannon Roddel

Incoming students Annette Ruth and Lindsey McAlarnen, who will join Notre Dame's new Master of Science in Global Health degree program in the fall, are in Haiti with Eck Institute member and project leader Juan Carlos Guzmán to evaluate cholera programs implemented after the deadly fall 2010 outbreak that began in the aftermath of the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake.

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Remarks of Associate Dean Barbara Turpin on the Occasion of Her Retirement Luncheon

Author: Barbara Turpin

_Following are the remarks shared by Dr. Barbara Turpin at the retirement luncheon held in her honor on May 16, 2011._ I would like to talk a bit today about the ways in which I think I have changed the Graduate School over the past 21 years, and a bit about the ways in which the Graduate School has changed me.

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Graduate School Commencement Address

Author: William G. Gilroy

p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/41192/tim_roemer.jpg(Timothy Roemer)! _Delivered at University of Notre Dame Graduate School Commencement ceremonies, Saturday, May 21, 2011_ Good morning everyone. Thank you, Dr. Burish for that nice introduction. Thank you Father Jenkins and Dean Sterling for giving me the opportunity to be here today and to be part of your graduation ceremony. Walking onto this beautiful campus gives me the same excitement that I had 40 or 50 years ago when I would visit my grandfather here. So thank you for letting me wake up my personal echoes and feelings about this great school.

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Ambassador Roemer Delivers Graduate School Commencement Address

Author: William G. Gilroy

p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/41904/5.21.11_grad_school_roemer_1_.jpg(Timothy Roemer Prepares to Speak at Graduate Commencement Ceremonies)! The University of Notre Dame’s "Graduate School":http://graduateschool.nd.edu recognized 288 master’s and 159 doctoral degree recipients and presented several special awards during Commencement ceremonies today (Saturday) in the North Dome of the Joyce Center. Timothy Roemer, United States Ambassador to India, delivered the "Commencement address":/news/22032-graduate-school-commencement-address-2/. He also was recognized as the recipient of the Graduate School’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.

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Bill Carbonaro (Sociology) and Shari Herman (Physics) Awarded Inaugural Graduate School Honors

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Greg Sterling, Dean of the Graduate School, has announced the winners of two new awards in the Graduate School—one to recognize an outstanding director of graduate studies and the other to recognize an outstanding graduate administrative assistant. The awards, he says, were created to recognize exemplary contributions in graduate studies at Notre Dame.

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Timothy Roemer, U.S. Ambassador to India, To Deliver the 2011 Graduate School Commencement Address

Author: Mary Hendriksen

p(image-left). !/assets/38928/roemertjoff170.jpg(Tim Roemer)! Timothy Roemer, Distinguished Alumnus of 2011, will deliver the Commencement address at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony on May 21, 2011, 10 am. in the North Dome, Fieldhouse.

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Graduate and Professional Students Celebrate Carnival at the South Bend Museum of Art

Author: Mary Hendriksen

p(image-left). !/assets/37435/king_boy_and_dog_in_boat.jpg(Dwight King, "Boy and Dog in Boat")! University faculty, staff, and graduate and graduate professional students celebrated Downtown South Bend's _Carnival_ night at the South Bend Museum of Art on Friday, March 4 from 5:30–8:00 PM.

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