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Doctoral student Austin Wyman ’23 was young when a relative's mental health crisis hit home. Lack of accessible care led to an episode that left his family reeling. Now, Wyman is working to ensure other families don’t experience that kind of tragedy as Notre Dame builds a new clinic to advance research, education, and clinical care to address mental health issues.

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Stefano Toso '23 Ph.D. (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) Stefano Toso '23 Ph.D.…

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Five new students representing five different disciplines have arrived at the Kroc Institute this fall as part of its interdisciplinary doctoral program in peace studies. Incoming students were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants from around the world. These students join the Institute’s 27 other doctoral students, for a total of 32 students in the 2024–2025 academic year.

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For eight months, Gavin Moulton, a Ph.D. student in the Department of History, studied Polish at the University of Wroclaw in support of his dissertation research on Slavic culture in the Rust Belt.

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Kristina Hook '19 M.A., '20 Ph.D. is a scholar-practitioner specializing in genocide and mass atrocity prevention. In this conversation, she discusses her education at the Keough School and how it prepared her for a policy-relevant career working to understand and prevent atrocities, including what she has learned from her extensive study of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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Westin Sterling Smith, a third-year Ph.D student in Spanish, served as a co-panelist and workshop member in the ALCES XXI Conference of 2024 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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