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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.

Spanish Ph.D. student presents research at Harvard conference in Brazil and Argentina
Alejandrina Tinta Segovia Maria Alejandrina Tinta Segovia, a…


Master of Global Affairs Class of 2026 arrives at Keough School
The Master of Global Affairs Class of 2026 includes 42 students from 27 countries. They are pictured above with…
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Claire Bowen (ACMS '15 M.S., '18 Ph.D.) elected American Statistical Association (ASA) Fellow
Claire Bowen '15 M.S., '18 Ph.D. Claire Bowen, ACMS ('15 M.S.,'18 Ph.D.) was elected as an American Statistical Association…

Reinforcing the ideal of being a force for good after ESTEEM
Aaron Molloy '2017 M.S. Alumni Spotlight: Aaron Molloy, ESTEEM Class of 2017 The ESTEEM…
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Studying American religion and healthcare: Five questions with Cushwa postdoc Angela Xia
Angela Xia, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow with the Cushwa Center. Angela…

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

Studying Indigenous-Catholic pilgrimage: Five questions with Cushwa postdoc Melissa Coles
Melissa ColesMelissa Coles, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research associate with the Cushwa…

Peace studies and history alumnus Khan Shairani named US Department of State Critical Language Scholar
University of Notre Dame alumnus Khan Shairani has been selected for the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program.

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

Athena in Action event connects graduate students in philosophy with mentors
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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Graduate Student Gordon Duddy Selected for SCGSR Program
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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Thirty-four students and alumni awarded Fulbright grants
Nearly three dozen University of Notre Dame students have been named finalists, and another eight alternates, for the 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The finalists include 26 undergraduate students and eight graduate students.
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Notre Dame’s Berthiaume Institute welcomes its 2024 cohort fellows
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 Press hosts Publishing Boot Camp for graduate students
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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Professional avenues outside the classroom: Peace studies Ph.D. students visit DC
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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Medieval Institute alumna Lauren Whitnah '14 Ph.D. named dean of Nashotah House Theological Seminary
Concluding a competitive national search, Nashotah House Theological Seminary has named Lauren Whitnah, Ph.D., as its next dean.

Strength in key doctoral programs prompts Notre Dame's election to Universities Space Research Association to advance space exploration research
Based on the strength of key doctoral programs in science and engineering, the University of Notre Dame has been inducted into the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). Founded in 1969 under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the U.S. Government, the USRA is a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology, and engineering. The USRA consists of 120 universities that work together to advance space-related education, research, development, and operations around the world.

Graduate student co-authors new research showing how elites leverage anti-party protests to disrupt politics
Protest movements that reject political parties have an unintended consequence, according to research co-authored by Ann Mische, associate professor of sociology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, and Tomás Gold, a Notre Dame Ph.D. candidate and Ph.D. Fellow at the Keough School’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies: They empower savvy politicians, who channel them to shake up the status quo. The findings provide a framework for understanding recent global political realignments and offer lessons for activists who want to make a meaningful impact.