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Anna Romandash, a woman with long brown hair, speaks into a microphone against a blurred blue backdrop with white text. Her profile is turned towards the left side of the image. She wears a gray blazer and a white blouse with small black polka dots. A partial reflection of the woman can be seen in a transparent blue partition on the right side of the photo.

Resilience amid atrocity: Journalist and master of global affairs graduate chronicles the experiences of Ukrainian people

Author: Josh Stowe

Anna Romandash is an award-winning journalist from Lviv, Ukraine and a 2022 graduate of the Keough School of Global Affairs’ Master of Global Affairs program. Romandash, who works as a research associate at the school’s Pulte Institute for Global Development, continues to report on Russia’s war in Ukraine and how it affects the lives of everyday people. In this conversation, she shares how her education has helped to strengthen her work covering wartime atrocities and documenting the resilience of the Ukrainian people.

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Denise Bruesewitz '08 Ph.D.: a woman with light brown curly hair and black-rimmed glasses, wears a blue sweater as she stands in front of full bookshelves in the back. Her arms are crossed, and she is smiling.

Biological sciences alumna Denise Bruesewitz '08 Ph.D. appointed provost of Colby College

Author: The Graduate School

Biological Sciences alumna Denise Bruesewitz '08 Ph.D. an acclaimed scientist-scholar who is highly regarded for her campus leadership, scientific research, and innovative teaching, will become Colby College’s next provost, effective July 1.

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Dissertation Research Fellowship—Rookshar Myram

Author: Costanza Montanari

Rookshar Myram is the first graduate student who came to Notre Dame Rome with the newly launched graduate research fellowship. She arrived in fall 2024 and has decided to extend her residency for spring 2025. While in Rome, Myram is working on her dissertation on the representation of Christ in the Divine Comedy.

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View of the city from Maddie's apartment in Brazil.

Ph.D. student’s trip to São Paulo offers opportunity for collaboration and growth

Author: Jessie Carson

Before traveling to Brazil to conduct research, fourth-year engineering Ph.D. student Maddie Watson had never been outside the US. A West Virginia native, she was accustomed to her small town, so the buzz and energy of a city like São Paulo was a change of pace for her, one that she welcomed. For Maddie, spending time in the country that her research would impact wasn’t just necessary for her studies—it was a chance for personal growth, too.

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Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow Antônio Lemos publishes new work

Author: Laura Moran Walton

Antônio Lemos, a 2024–25 Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow with the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, has published a peer-reviewed article published in the Journal on Migration and Human Security. Titled "The Theological Foundations of the Right to Stay in Catholic Social Teaching," the article is part of a special issue of JMHS focused on the "Right to Stay"—the right to have the freedom to choose whether to stay in one's homeland or move to a foreign country. 

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