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The Kroc Institute welcomes its 2024–2025 cohort in the Ph.D. in peace studies program.

Kroc Institute welcomes five new Ph.D. students, names fellowship recipients

Author: Lisa Gallagher

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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Visiting a coal mine in Zabrze with friends from Polish class

A year in Poland prepares Ph.D. student for research into Polish American history back home

Author: Gavin Moulton

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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Top photo: Kristina Hook (second from right), an expert on the Russian-Ukraine war, recently testified before the bipartisan Helsinki Commission in Washington, D.C., briefing policymakers on the extensive environmental damage caused by the conflict.

Keough School graduate Kristina Hook, an expert on the Russia-Ukraine war, informs policy on conflict’s environmental damage

Author: Josh Stowe

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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Institute for Ethics and the Common Good announces 2024-2025 cohort of faculty and graduate fellows

Author: Laura Moran Walton

The Institute for Ethics and the Common Good (ECG) is proud to announce its faculty and graduate fellows for the 2024–2025 academic year. The cohort includes six residential faculty fellows from top universities and five Notre Dame graduate fellows. Each fellow…

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Keona Lewis, assistant provost for academic diversity and inclusion

Keona Lewis, assistant provost for academic diversity and inclusion, brings an anthropological perspective to creating a more welcoming academic environment

Author: Cidni Sanders

This article is a part of the DEI Practitioner Spotlight series, featuring the work of professionals and experts across the University who are working to advance DEI initiatives within their home units and departments. If you have a story idea about a person or program, please email the Office…

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Athena in Action organizers Elizabeth Harman, Elisabeth Camp, Meghan Sullivan, and Sara Chan stand together on a balcony with the Dome and Basilica in the background.

Athena in Action event connects graduate students in philosophy with mentors

Author: Laura Moran Walton

Athena in Action: A Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy brought together a group of 35 graduate students with 13 women faculty mentors for three days of substantive philosophical discussion and professional advice sessions.

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Gordon Duddy

Graduate Student Gordon Duddy Selected for SCGSR Program

Author: Rebecca Hicks

Gordon Duddy, a second-year graduate student working in the laboratory of Professor Jon Camden, has been selected for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. This program provides funding for students to conduct a portion of their thesis research at a host DOE laboratory and in collaboration with a DOE scientist. It also gives the student access to tools and instrumentation at the National Labs. Eighty-six students were selected from across the country to participate in the program.

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The summer sky is orange and tree branches linger around the outline of the Golden Dome.

Notre Dame’s Berthiaume Institute welcomes its 2024 cohort fellows

Author: Brett Beasley

The Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health (BIPH) recently welcomed its cohort of eight doctoral student fellows for the summer of 2024. Selected students will train alongside leading Notre Dame faculty conducting interdisciplinary biomedical research.

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Notre Dame Publishing Boot Camp 2024

Notre Dame Press hosts Publishing Boot Camp for graduate students

Author: Notre Dame Press News

On May 13–16, 2024, the University of Notre Dame Press hosted their second Publishing Boot Camp for graduate students in the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. This intensive, four-day program was held in Hesburgh Library and blended seminar-style instruction, hands-on learning activities, and guidance from publishing professionals to enable students to explore career options in scholarly publishing and publishing their own work.

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Kroc Institute Ph.D. students meet with the Keough School of Global Affairs’ Maura Policelli and various DC stakeholders to discuss their pathways from academia to practitioner-based positions at the Keough School’s Washington office.

Professional avenues outside the classroom: Peace studies Ph.D. students visit DC

Author: Lisa Gallagher

The Kroc Institute’s renowned joint Ph.D. programs, which integrates the study of peace with one of six traditional disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, prides itself on creating graduates who become scholar-practitioners and academics. To help foster students interested in developing policy-related or non-faculty careers, three current Ph.D. students, along with the director and assistant director of doctoral studies, Caroline Hughes and Kathryn Sawyer Vidrine, made the trip to Washington, DC April 24–26, where they met with Kroc Institute and other Notre Dame alumni working in those fields.

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