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Introducing Katie Sparrow, postdoctoral fellow in Rome
Katie Sparrow is a "5 + 1" postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway. While in…
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Grace Arntz-Johnson receives U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award
Grace Arntz-Johnson, a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has received the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award.
The award supports research opportunities at DOE laboratories for graduate students pursuing critical energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges.
Strategic Framework student town halls announced
The University has organized three town hall sessions this fall for students to learn more about the recently…
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Biology postdoc wins annual Lightning Talk Competition title
Tolulope “Kay” Kayode holds the Lightning Talk trophy Postdoctoral researcher Tolulope “Kay” Kayode won…
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ND graduate and professional students share how HBCUs helped prepare them
Historically Black Colleges and Universities have filled an important role in the U.S. educational landscape for generations. Over the years, a number of Notre Dame’s graduate and professional students have arrived in South Bend by way of an HBCU.
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Kroc Institute master’s students advancing human rights at the United Nations in Geneva
The University of Notre Dame’s master of global affairs students have been actively advancing gender equality and the rights of women and girls at the United Nations through field placements at UN Women in Geneva.
MSE fellowships support four interdisciplinary graduate research projects
Notre Dame’s Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) fellowship program will support four graduate students – two in the College of Science and two from the College of Engineering – during the 2023-2024 academic year.
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Courtney Luckhardt '11 Ph.D. wins prestigious fellowship in Tübingen
Courtney Luckhardt '11 Ph.D. In July we posted the great news that one of our Ph.D. candidates, Jeffrey Berland, would…
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‘This is a moment for Notre Dame’: University celebrates historic accomplishments
On Tuesday (Sept. 5), in front of a crowd of 450 faculty and academic staff members gathered in DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s Leighton Concert Hall, University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., dedicated his annual faculty address
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The 2023 Notre Dame-Bielefeld Exchange welcomes German students to Notre Dame for academic dialogue and international collaboration
Continuing its legacy of international exchange, the University of Notre Dame-University of Bielefeld Transatlantic Workshop met again this May at Notre Dame. Over three days, graduate and faculty workshop participants discussed 18 diverse projects that touched on many places and historical times, from religion in 18th-century India to defense production in the Midwest up to the end of the Cold War.
Kroc Institute welcomes five new Ph.D. students, names fellowship recipients
Five new students representing four disciplines have arrived to the Kroc Institute as part of its interdisciplinary doctoral program in peace studies in fall 2023. Incoming students were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants from around the world. These students join the Institute’s 26 other doctoral students, for a total of 31 students in the 2023–24 academic year.
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Notre Dame panel to shine light on current and historical significance of HBCUs
When the University of Notre Dame hosts Tennessee State University (TSU) this weekend (Sept. 2), it will be the first time in program history the Irish will take to the field with a Historically Black College and University (HBCU).
Several campus and community events are scheduled to commemorate the historic matchup — beginning with “The Historical and Current Significance of HBCUs,” a panel discussion highlighting the vital role HBCUs have and continue to play in higher education in the United States.
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Now open: Naughton Fellowships to study or conduct research in Ireland
Now in its fifteenth year, the prestigious fellowship program provides Notre Dame undergraduate and masters-level students the opportunity to conduct research or complete a program of study in Ireland as well as for Irish students to study or complete research at Notre Dame.
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Brianna Lynn Wimer named 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow to address computing needs of vision-impaired people
Brianna Lynn Wimer, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow. The fellowship recognizes graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields.
Isabel Güiza-Gómez awarded GWIS National Fellowship
Kellogg Institute doctoral student affiliate and Kroc Institute Ph.D. candidate Isabel Güiza-Gómez has been awarded one of nine National Fellowship by Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) this year.
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Robotic sea turtle mimics uniquely adaptable gait
Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, electrical engineering doctoral student Nnamdi Chikere and undergraduate John Simon McElroy, a Naughton Fellow from University College Dublin, have designed and built a robotic sea turtle, which they are testing in varied environments on Notre Dame’s campus. Their robot mimics a real sea turtle’s propulsion: its front flippers move it forward while its smaller hind flippers allow it to change direction.
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