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López-Pérez awarded APSA 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant

Author: Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Kellogg Institute doctoral student affiliate Laura Neftaly López-Pérez has been awarded a 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRIG) from the American Political Science Association (APSA). She is one of 24 recipients nationwide.

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Students and professors from the Summer 2023 Kroc Institute/PRIO international mediation course in Oslo, Norway

Opportunity for doctoral students to study international mediation in Oslo, Norway

Author: Kate Chester

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) have announced the call for applications for their annual summer Ph.D. course on international mediation. 

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Tech Ethics Lab announces inaugural cohort of graduate fellows

Author: Tech Ethics Lab

The Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab is pleased to announce the selection of five Notre Dame graduate students for its Tech Ethics Graduate Fellowship program. After a competitive application and evaluation process, the students were selected based on their outstanding research proposals on topics such as fair methods of evaluating human labor in the digital age, the efficacy of privacy policies, and the role of technological advancement in violent conflicts. 

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Seeing Stars: How postdoctoral fellow William Cramer investigates light in galaxy systems

Author: Madeline Schlehuber

What’s really out there? William Cramer, a postdoctoral research fellow with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been asking this question since he was 10 years old, reading all the books about astronomy that his library offered.

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Becoming fully alive: Greer Hannan '09, '14 MNA, '15 M. Div. applies problem-solving and philosophical skills to help others

Author: Allie Griffith '17, '19 M.Ed.

Now serving as the associate director of performance quality improvement and compliance at St. Vincent de Paul in Louisville, Kentucky, Greer Hannan ’09, ’14 MNA, ’15 M.Div. reflects on moments of “aliveness” that inspired her to serve those on the margins.

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Notre Dame a top producer of Fulbright students for 10th straight year

Author: Erin Blasko

The University of Notre Dame is a top producer of Fulbright students for the 10th consecutive year, according to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which administers the Fulbright Program on behalf of the U.S. Department of State.

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Notre Dame postdoctoral scholar working to improve cancer diagnosis through groundbreaking technology

Author: Christine Grashorn

Karla Gonzalez Serrano, postdoctoral scholar for the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health, has always wanted to join a team that helps doctors provide better care. “There are a lot of physicians in my family, and I have always wanted to help them have the tools that they wish they had to provide better care in their communities,” Gonzalez Serrano explains.

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Notre Dame Rome inaugurates Graduate Research Fellowships in Rome

Author: Costanza Montanari

The Graduate School, in partnership with Notre Dame International and the Center for Italian Studies, is offering semester- and year-long dissertation research fellowships at the Rome Global Gateway to advanced humanities Ph.D. students in the College of Arts and Letters. 

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2024 recipients of the Patrick ’90 and Jana Eilers Graduate Student Fellowship for Energy Related Research and the John ’00 and Karla Forgash Graduate Student Fellowship for Solar Energy Research.

Eight graduate students receive fellowships from ND Energy to advance energy-related research

Author: Barbara Villarosa

The Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy) at the University of Notre Dame has selected eight exceptional graduate students from a pool of twenty-three outstanding applicants to receive fellowships to advance research in specific areas important to creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future for all.

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Graduate student health care subsidy to extend to spouses and children

Author: The Graduate School

When the Strategic Framework was introduced in August, excellence in graduate education and research were identified as essential to the University's ability to be the leading global Catholic research institution. In alignment with that vision, Mike Hildreth, dean of the Graduate School and vice president and associate provost for graduate studies, announced on December 12, 2023 the health care subsidy for eligible graduate students will be expanded to cover spouses and children.

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Envisioning greater accessibility

Author: Jack Rooney

By the time Danny Fritz ’22 M.S. and Riley Ellingsen ’22 M.S. graduated from the 11-month ESTEEM master’s program at Notre Dame, they had co-founded a start-up, earned seed money to start developing their innovative product, and now dedicate themselves to expanding accessibility options for people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.

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Connor Moore, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Graduate student Connor Moore named Meenakshi Narain Graduate Scholar at the LPC

Author: Shelly Goethals

Department of Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Connor Moore has been named a Meenakshi Narain Graduate Scholar at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Physics Center (LPC) for 2024. This program is aimed to support exceptional graduate student from U.S. Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) institutions.

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First-year master of sacred music student Uche Aghulor.

MSM voice student Uche Aghulor wins first place in Upper Advanced Classical category at National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) student auditions

Author: SMND

Soprano Uche Aghulor, a first-year student in the MSM voice studio, won first place in the Upper Advanced Classical category at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) student auditions. The auditions took place at Butler University in Indianapolis on November 4th, 2023.  

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CCCG postdoctoral research scholar co-hosts Academia Tocqueville in France

Author: Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government

This past summer, Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government (CCCG) Postdoctoral Research Scholar Luke Foster co-hosted Academia Tocqueville, a ten-day seminar in Paris, France studying French political thought at the cultural, historical, religious, and intellectual levels.

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Kellogg Ph.D. affiliates develop program of Catholic leadership and service in Africa

Author: Kellogg Institute for International Studies

“We have heard the long-expressed hope – spoken with great passion by popes, bishops, and other Church leaders, especially in the West – that the future of the Catholic Church…

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The ESTEEM class of 2024.

Meet the students putting the "Irish" in the Fighting Irish for the ESTEEM class of 2024

Author: Notre Dame ESTEEM

Discover how the talented students in the ESTEEM class of 2024 from Ireland are making a substantial impact at the ESTEEM program at the University of Notre Dame. Each student brings a unique perspective to the table, demonstrating the versatility and breadth of the ESTEEM program.

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