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Dr. Nathan Hatch Selected to Speak at Graduate School Commencement

Published: March 20, 2013

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University and formerly Provost and The Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at Notre Dame, will be the principal speaker on Saturday, May 18, at the Commencement ceremony for the University of Notre Dame Graduate School.

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Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Celebrating the Notre Dame Graduate Community

Published: February 21, 2013

Author: Mary Hendriksen

The inaugural Graduate Student Appreciation Week offers free giveaways and discounts, professional development and wellness workshops, and fun and engaging events for Notre Dame’s community of graduate and professional students.

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Graduate Students as Teachers

Published: February 18, 2013

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Teaching, either as an instructor of record or as a teaching assistant, is a critical component of professional development for many graduate students. To celebrate Graduate Student Appreciation Week, we’re turning the spotlight toward three of the 2012 graduate student teaching award winners.

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Student Spotlight: Stephanie Lyons, Physics

Published: February 18, 2013

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Physics graduate student Stephanie Lyons cannot remember a time in which she was not interested in the scientific world. Her first love — all the way back in the second grade — was the teeming world of insects. Now, though, rather than looking down, her gaze is focused upwards: on the stars.

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Profile: James Fetter, Ph.D. in Political Science 2012 and Current Notre Dame Postdoctoral Scholar

Published: October 30, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

With the critical November elections now upon us, the work of political theorist James Fetter, Ph.D., couldn’t be more timely. Fetter, who earned his Ph.D. from Notre Dame in Political Science in 2012, studies and writes about the virtues of political leadership.

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Poem by English Ph.D. Student and Creative Writing MFA Ailbhe Darcy Featured by The Guardian

Published: September 25, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

A poem by University of Notre Dame English doctoral candidate Ailbhe Darcy is this week’s Poem of the Week in The Guardian.

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Graduate Students Enjoy a Performance of Mountain Heart. . .and the Reception Following

Published: September 24, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Graduate students enjoyed a performance of the six-man acoustic band MOUNTAIN HEART on Thursday, September 20 at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, along with a reception on the terrace following the performance.

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Student Spotlight: Enrique Blair, Electrical Engineering

Published: September 19, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Enrique Blair, also known as Erik, is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering.

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Holly Weiss: Notre Dame Bioengineering Doctoral Student

Published: September 17, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Notre Dame faculty members and graduate students are making huge strides in research that focuses on the ability of adult stem cells to regenerate tissues. These stem cells, which are found in many adult tissues, have shown promise in therapies that regenerate organs as well as those that aim to cure diseases ranging from diabetes to Parkinson’s.…

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Brian M. Baker Named Graduate Associate Dean of Academic Programs

Published: September 13, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Brian M. Baker, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is the Graduate School’s new associate dean of academic programs. He succeeds Prof. Edward Maginn, now chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

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Graduate School and GSU Host a GameWatch at Legends for Students

Published: September 05, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Two hundred graduate students and their guests gathered at Legends on Saturday to watch the broadcast of the Notre Dame football team’s season-opening 50-10 victory over Navy.

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Lionel Pittman, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Published: August 01, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Notre Dame Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering graduate student Lionel Pittman is back on campus after traveling to Mannheim, Germany, for the Open European Championship LEGO Robotics tournament.

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Physics Student Catherine Rastovski Participating At Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Published: June 29, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Physics graduate student Catherine Rastovski will participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Germany from July 1 through July 6.

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Student Spotlight: Jessica Morrison, Ph.D., Civil Engineering and Geological Studies

Published: June 11, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

One of the fortunate few who have a passion and talent for both science and language, Notre Dame geological sciences doctoral candidate Jessica Morrison is quickly making her mark in the world of science journalism.

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Kellogg PhD Fellow Alumni Profile: César Hidalgo PhD ’08

Published: June 01, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Hidalgo, a physicist teaching and researching at MIT, focuses some of his most exciting work in network theory on the important theme of human development.

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Thomas Quinn, MD, Named 2012 Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus and Commencement Speaker

Published: April 12, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Thomas Quinn, MD (B.S. Notre Dame 1969, MSc Notre Dame 1970), professor and director, Johns Hopkins’ Center for Global Health, has been named the Graduate School’s 2012 Distinguished Alumnus and Commencement speaker for 2012.

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Perez-Blanco & Maginn Team Up For Most-Read Physical Chemistry Article In 2011

Published: March 23, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Fifth-year Notre Dame Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering graduate student Marcos Perez-Blanco and his advisor, Prof. Edward Maginn, have authored an article that is the most-read article in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Physical Chemistry B for the year 2011.

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Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners Announced

Published: March 05, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

The Graduate Student Union (GSU) hosted Notre Dame’s fourth annual Graduate Research Symposium on Friday, February 24, in the Great Hall of the Jordan Hall of Science. Winners were selected in each of the four divisions of the Graduate School.

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Student Spotlight: Katherine Ward, Ph.D. Biochemistry, ESTEEM

Published: February 21, 2012

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Notre Dame’s graduate students are a critical part of the University’s research agenda. Not only do graduate students assist faculty with research, they make important discoveries of their own. Katherine Ward, a third-year student in Notre Dame’s doctoral program in Chemistry and Biochemistry who, last year, won a major fellowship from the American Heart Association, is a perfect case in point.

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Ethics Workshop Scheduled For First-Year Graduate and Professional Students

Published: December 14, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

An ethics initiative was passed in 2010 to integrate ethics training into the core curriculum for all graduate students at Notre Dame. One component of that initiative, the workshop will feature small-group sessions and a keynote address from Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the world’s leading authorities on ethics.

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Notre Dame Signs Historic Agreement For Graduate Studies in Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

Published: December 07, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Notre Dame and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) have entered into a unique agreement – the first of its kind at Notre Dame – to provide a dual degree to students in the Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences fields.

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Student Spotlight: Olukunle Owolabi, Ph.D. Student in Political Science

Published: November 28, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Olukunle Owolabi studies the differences in development and governance between countries with a history of plantation slavery and those with a history of colonial occupation.

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Student Spotlight: Sean Walsh, Ph.D. in Mathematics and Philosophy

Published: October 24, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Recent graduate Sean Walsh was awarded the Kurt Gödel Research Prize Fellowship, the highest award in the field of logic.

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Student Spotlight: Anne Peterson, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy

Published: October 24, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Anne Peterson is examining the metaphysical properties of organisms and the philosophy of Aristotle.

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Student Spotlight: Andrew Paluch, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Published: October 07, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Andrew Paluch earned undergraduate degrees in both chemical engineering and mathematics from SUNY University at Buffalo, where he was a Goldwater Scholar.

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Student Spotlight: Alejandro Montecinos, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Published: September 29, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Alejandro Montecinos studies the microeconomics of growth and income inequality.

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Student Spotlight: Brandon Cook, Ph.D. Candidate in Medieval Studies

Published: September 28, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

A linguist and art historian, Brandon studies medieval Italy and the history of cultural exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West through the objects these societies produced.

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Student Spotlight: Katherine Ward, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

Published: September 28, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Katherine Ward, the recipient of an American Heart Association fellowship, studies an enzyme that is a hallmark of inflammation.

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Student Spotlight: Renato Bettiol, Ph.D. Candidate in Mathematics

Published: September 28, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Renato’s main research interests are related to global analysis and differential geometry, particularly applications of analysis techniques to study the geometry and topology of Riemannian and semi-Riemannian manifolds.

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Student Spotlight: Sarah Cotter, Ph.D. Candidate in Mathematics

Published: September 28, 2011

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Sarah studies model theory, with a special focus on VC-minimality.

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