Graduate School Awards plaques, shown in grayscale.

Graduate School honors 2024 alumni, faculty, and student award winners

Author: Eric Heath

The Graduate School is pleased to announce its annual award winners for the 2023–2024 academic year. These awards include: the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award; the James A. Burns, C.S.C., Awards; the Dick and Peggy Notebaert Award; the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Awards; and the Social…

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Graduate School Awards

Graduate School honors 2023 alumni, faculty, and student award winners

Author: Eric Heath

The Graduate School is pleased to announce its annual award winners for the 2022–2023 academic year. These awards include: the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award; the James A. Burns, C.S.C, Awards; the Dick and Peggy Notebaert Award; the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Awards; and the Social Justice Award. The award winners will be formally recognized for their achievements at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony to be held at Notre Dame Stadium on May 20.

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The Graduate School held its opening reception for the annual Solarium Art Show, FREQUENCIES, on March 8, 2023.

Art studio and design MFAs open their work to campus in Graduate School’s annual Solarium Art Show

Author: Eric Heath

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students in the University’s studio art and design programs unveiled their latest work to the campus community on March 8 at the opening reception of this year’s Solarium Art Show in Bond Hall. An annual collaboration between the Graduate School and the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, this year’s exhibition — titled FREQUENCIES, in a nod to the “vibrational energy” of this year’s pieces — featured nine students across a variety of visual disciplines

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Left to right: Isaac Angera, voted People's Choice winner; Mariama S. Dampha, second-place winner; and Alex Boomgarden, first-place winner of the 2023 Shaheen 3MT Competition (3MT®).

Alex Boomgarden wins 2023 Notre Dame Graduate School Shaheen 3MT®

Author: Eric Heath

Alex Boomgarden, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Biological Sciences, won the University of Notre Dame’s 2023 Shaheen Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®) on Wednesday, March 1. The event — jointly sponsored by the Graduate School, the Meruelo Family Center for Career Development, and Graduate Student Government — was held on the stage of the Jordan Auditorium in the Mendoza College of Business.

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Ph.D. candidate Will Beattie

Ph.D. candidate from the UK takes road less traveled to ND, launches Medieval Institute podcast

Author: Eric Heath

“Everything is better with a heavy metal soundtrack.”  This might sound like an odd statement coming from a medievalist who spends his days poring over ancient manuscripts of sermons.  But like many elements of Ph.D. candidate Will Beattie’s unorthodox life journey, somehow it all makes sense.

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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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