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Valerie Hickey, a 2000 graduate of the International Peace Studies Master’s program at the University of Notre Dame, received the Kroc Institute’s 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award on November 1.

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“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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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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