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Notre Dame graduate student Mallika Sarma has done fieldwork in the mountains of Nepal and the forests of Congo. She’s traveled to remote villages accessible only by helicopter, speedboat, or days of hiking. She dreams of conducting research in space. All in search of data on how humans adapt to extreme environments.

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Music has the power to inspire, to sustain, and to build community. And students and alumni of Sacred Music at Notre Dame’s Calvin M. Bower Doctor of Musical Arts program are playing a vital role in re-energizing the church and the academy through sacred music. With tracks in choral conducting and organ, the program offers an academically rigorous curriculum with a wide range of opportunities for performance, academic, and community engagement. The latest step forward for the DMA program is a generous gift from James and Molly Perry to endow and rename it in honor of Calvin M. Bower, professor emeritus of musicology.

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Ailbhe Darcy’s new volume of poetry, Insistence, has been shortlisted for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize in Poetry.   Darcy, who received both her MFA in Creative Writing from Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in English, with an Irish Studies graduate minor, now lives in Wales.  A poet, a critic, and a professor, she teaches contemporary Irish poetry and literature at Cardiff University.…

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This year, the Graduate School launched a new experiential training program focused on leadership skills and social responsibility. Leaders Advancing Socially Engaged Research, or LASER, is aimed at Notre Dame doctoral students in their 3rd or 4th years of study, and is intended to complement students’ individual research pursuits in their various fields. This year’s cohort consists of seventeen students completing individual LASER projects and hailing from each of the Graduate School’s four academic disciplines (engineering, humanities, social sciences, and science). …

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Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway program, facilitated through Notre Dame International, is announcing its second annual seminar in Rome for Notre Dame graduate students in the humanities who want to learn to work with Roman primary sources. Successful applicants to the program will receive up to $3500 to cover their expenses.…

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Earlier in October, Valerie Sheares Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University, addressed a packed crowd in the Jordan Auditorium in the Mendoza College of Business as the inaugural Kathleen Cannon, O.P. Distinguished Lecturer. Her topic was “impostor syndrome,” a psychological condition of self-doubt that afflicts high-achieving individuals, causing them to view their accomplishments as flukes and to fear they will be uncovered as frauds in their fields. Ashby shared how she overcame impostor syndrome through steps outlined by expert Valerie Young, and she urged the audience to adopt Young’s strategies. Without overcoming impostor syndrome, Ashby explained, students miss opportunities for leadership…

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GIS Day at Notre Dame — Call for Proposals The Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, the Center for Research Computing, and the Center for Social Research invite you to submit proposals to present at the annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day symposium.…

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