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Grace Song Swihart, Ph.D. candidate in history

Q&A: Ph.D. student Grace Song Swihart examines visual culture to better understand U.S.-Korea relations

Author: Beth Staples

Grace Song Swihart, Ph.D. candidate in history This Q&A is part of an ongoing series with Arts and Letters graduate students. Read more Q&As with graduate students and faculty members here. For history…

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Tech Ethics Postdoctoral Fellowships

Technology Ethics Postdoctoral Fellows Program advances emerging voices in the field

Author: Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center

The Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND TEC) earlier this year prioritized the creation of the Technology Ethics Postdoctoral Fellows Program, appointing Georgina Curto Rex, Cody Turner, and Carolina Villegas-Galaviz as its inaugural cohort of fellows.

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Giulia Maria Gliozzi Wilkins, Ph.D. candidate in Italian

Ph.D. candidate in Italian is awarded the Grandgent Award of the Dante Society of America

Author: Charles Leavitt

The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to announce that Giulia Maria Gliozzi, a first year PhD student in Italian Studies at Notre Dame, has received the Grandgent Award of the Dante Society of America for the best essay submitted by a graduate student.

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Lenai Taylor Johnson '22 MGA

MGA graduate raises awareness of nuclear issues among new audiences

Author: Laureen Fagan

Lenai Taylor Johnson '22 MGA Lenai Taylor Johnson (MGA ’22) isn’t sure how much people know about peace and security issues related to nuclear weapons, but she is working to ensure they know more—even using Instagram and TikTok to broach the topic with younger, more diverse groups.…

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The University of Notre Dame has been ranked as the No. 15 top graduate school for entrepreneurship by The Princeton Review.

Notre Dame ranked among top schools for graduate studies in entrepreneurship

Author: Olivia Poole

The University of Notre Dame has been ranked as the No. 15 top graduate school for entrepreneurship by The Princeton Review as part of its annual “Top 50 Undergraduate and Top 50 Graduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies” rankings. While the University’s ESTEEM Graduate Program, a one-year professional master’s degree conferring a Master of Science in Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship, is the primary driver behind this distinction, the University’s total entrepreneurial profile also includes programming and course work offerings from the Mendoza College of Business and the Keough School of Global Affairs.   The 2023 rankings were announced by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine on Nov. 15.  The rankings are based on data from the publication’s annual survey of more than 300 colleges and universities that offer entrepreneurship studies and programs.

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ESTEEM Graduate Program, University of Notre Dame

Three Notre Dame alumni who are changing the world – powered by ESTEEM

Author: Olivia Poole

Meet Jack O’Meara, Ashley Kalinauskas and Dan Kervick, founders and CEOs of three companies, each having a profound impact on the world. They have one thing in common: All are graduates of the ESTEEM Graduate Program, a one-year professional master’s program at the University of Notre Dame that confers a master of science in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship. 

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Podcast logo: Meeting in the middle ages

From the MI Podcast: Writing a book on used books! Eleonora Celora (Ph.D. candidate) discusses the art of liturgical manuscripts

Author: Medieval Institute

In this episode, hosts Ben and Will sat down with Eleonora Celora, a Ph.D. candidate at the Medieval Institute. Celora's research focuses on hagiography (writing a biography in a way that flatters or idealizes the subject) and its manifestation in Western liturgical manuscripts.

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Eckhart Spalding, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral research associate Eckhart Spalding brings his childhood dreams of discovering other planets to life

Author: Caroline Crawford

Eckhart Spalding, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, develops instrumentation for taking observations of exoplanets: planets that orbit other stars.

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Students in the visual and material culture graduate minor will explore global art and architecture history in addition to image-centered research.

New visual and material culture graduate minor created to enhance A&L students’ research, teaching skills

Author: Beth Staples

The new graduate minor in visual and material culture is designed to enrich the experience of Arts and Letters students in Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, and Ph.D. programs through Department of Art, Art History & Design (AAHD) courses in ancient, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary art. 

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Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Ph.D. student in Peace Studies and Political Science.

Kroc Ph.D. student awarded Alejandro Angel Escobar Prize

Author: Jena O'Brien

Isabel Güiza-Gómez, (Ph.D. student in Peace Studies and Political Science) was recently awarded an Alejandro Angel Escobar Prize in Human and Social Science by Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar for her book, La Constitución del Campesinado. Luchas por reconocimiento y redistribución en el campo jurídico.

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Tom Coyne '99 MFA

Creative Writing MFA alumni spotlight: Tom Coyne ('00)

Author: Paul Cunningham

“It's difficult to overstate the impact that the Notre Dame creative writing program had on my life. I entered the program at age 22, terrified, hoping I could somehow hold my own in workshop. I left with a stack of papers that got me an agent that got me a book deal that became a movie and more books, because Notre Dame gave me the time and community and just enough confidence to chase what I'd been otherwise convinced was an unreasonable life. My mentors at Notre Dame showed me what I did well, but more importantly, they taught me my shortcomings, and that awareness has guided just about every sentence I've written since.”…

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Lauren Walker, master of science student in the ESTEEM program

The ESTEEM graduate program launches new scholarship with support from the Jacobson Trust

Author: Maura Sullivan Hill '11

The ESTEEM Graduate Program has a new scholarship, thanks to financial support from the Jacobson Trust, a Florida-based organization that provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students across the U.S. The first recipient of this $10,000 scholarship is Lauren Walker ’22, who majored in environmental engineering with a minor in energy studies at the University of Notre Dame.…

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Mauna Dasari in June 2022 in Pennsylvania holding a female bull frog as part of her postdoctoral research. (Animals were handled with proper scientific collection permits from the state of Pennsylvania and under IACUC protocols filed with the University of Pittsburgh.)

Collaboration with Graduate School’s Office of Grants and Fellowships leads Ph.D. alumna to exciting and unexpected career path

Author: Eric Heath

Dr. Dasari learned firsthand the delicate dance of partnering with resources on campus, including the Graduate School’s Office of Grants and Fellowships.  Through her many interactions with the office — first as a fellowship applicant and then later as a consultant to other students — she slowly began to see her interests shift, a journey that would eventually lead her to explore a new and unexpected career directly connected to the skills she had honed while working with the Grants and Fellowships team.

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Michelle Sybert, assistant director of University of Notre Dame Press, presents at the inaugural Publishing Boot Camp for graduate students.

Notre Dame Press and Graduate Career Services co-host first ever Publishing Boot Camp

Author: Kathryn Pitts

On August 15–18, 2022, the University of Notre Dame Press and the Meruelo Family Center for Career Development Graduate Career Services hosted the first ever Publishing Boot Camp for graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The intensive, four-day program was held in the Hesburgh Library and provided a rigorous program, hands-on activities, and guidance from publishing professionals to enable grad students to explore career options beyond the faculty track in scholarly publishing.

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Keough School of Global Affairs (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame)

Tom and Molly Duffey endow program for student career development in Keough School

Author: Renée LaReau

Tom and Molly Duffey of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, have made a $5 million gift to create and endow a new student career development program in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. The Duffey Career Development Program will prepare graduate and undergraduate students to compete successfully for professional opportunities and positions that require the skills and knowledge acquired in their Keough School and Notre Dame education. 

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Sean Murphy, PhD candidate in the graduate program in Biological Sciences.

Doctoral student Sean Murphy awarded NIH Fellow Transition Award

Author: Deanna Csomo Ferrell

Sean Murphy, a rising fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has received a prestigious Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Only around 24 predoctoral to postdoctoral fellow transition awards (F99/K00) are awarded each year by the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health.

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ND postdoc Katherine McCabe, Ph.D.

Reilly Postdoc, Katharine McCabe, wins Donald W. Light Award for Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology

Author: MacKenzie Rizzo

Katharine McCabe, Ph.D., received the Donald W. Light award for her 2021 article in the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, “Criminalization of Care: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients”. Dr. McCabe is a postdoctoral research associate in Health, Humanities, and Society within the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values.

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ND postdoc Georgina Curto Rex accepts the AI for Good Track Project Award

Postdoc Georgina Curto Rex Wins AI for Good Best Project Award

Author: Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center

Georgina Curto Rex, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND TEC), and several coauthors won the AI for Good Track Project Award at the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence held in Vienna from July 23–29.

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Shinjini Chattopadhyay, '22 Ph.D.

English Ph.D. alumna pens chapter for The Book About Everything — a culmination of the Global Ulysses project

Author: Mary Hendriksen

For Shinjini Chattopadhyay, Ulysses provides a blueprint for understanding modern life in post-colonial times. The winner of Notre Dame's Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award will begin as a tenure-track assistant professor at Berry College in Georgia this fall.    

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The long-delayed Graduate School Commencement Ceremony for the class of 2020 took place on campus May 28, 2022.

Class of 2020 Graduate School degree recipients encouraged to ‘embrace the uncomfortable middle’ and to ‘seek joy’

Author: Colleen Sharkey

This weekend, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Notre Dame Class of 2020 returned to their alma mater for long-awaited in-person Commencement Ceremonies. The returning students completed their studies in 2020 and had their degrees conferred virtually in the first year of the pandemic. In total, more than 800 students from the Graduate School earned degrees during the 2019-2020 academic year and nearly 80 returned for their on-campus ceremony on Saturday (May 28) in Leighton Concert Hall in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The event was hosted by Laura Carlson…

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Robert J. Bernhard, Ph.D., Vice President for Research

Robert J. Bernhard, vice president for research, to keynote 2020 Graduate School Commencement Ceremony

Author: Erin Blasko

Robert J. Bernhard, vice president for research and professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the commencement address during the Graduate School’s Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday (May 28) at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers diverse opportunities for U.S academics, administrators, and professionals to teach, research, do professional projects, and attend seminars abroad.

Twenty-eight Notre Dame students named 2022-23 Fulbright US Student Program finalists

Author: Erin Blasko

Twenty-eight University of Notre Dame students have been selected as finalists, and another seven as alternates, for the 2022-23 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Established in 1946, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program, assisting graduate and undergraduate students with pursuing graduate study, teaching English or researching abroad.

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Thomas Fuja, Ph.D., will be assuming the role of interim vice president and associate provost for graduate studies and the interim dean of the Graduate School, effective June 1.

Thomas Fuja to serve as interim vice president and associate provost for graduate studies and interim dean of the Graduate School

Author: Cidni Sanders

Thomas Fuja, professor of electrical engineering and faculty director of iNDustry Labs at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed interim vice president and associate provost for graduate studies and the interim dean of the Graduate School, effective June 1. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1998, Fuja conducts research addressing the reliable transmission of information over inherently unreliable and/or constrained communication channels, especially in the context of wireless systems. As faculty director of iNDustry Labs, he plays a vital role in Notre Dame’s collaboration with local industry partners as they seek to thrive in the digital age of manufacturing.…

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