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The symposium, hosted by the Graduate Student Union and supported by the Graduate School and the Colleges of Engineering, Science and Arts and Letters, showcases the accomplishments of the Graduate School's four divisions in Engineering, Humanities, Science and Social Science.

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A unique departmental approach to graduate students’ professional development is paying dividends for Notre Dame’s Department of Sociology. Over the past two years, more than 18 students have published a book, article, or book review in a peer-reviewed journal—for a combined total of 26 articles, three books and two book reviews. Nearly half of the publications have appeared in top-ranked journals.

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"Joan F. Brennecke":http://cbe.nd.edu/faculty/show/jfb/, the Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been elected a member of the "National Academy of Engineering":http://www.nae.edu/ (NAE) for her innovation in the use of ionic liquids and supercritical fluids for environmentally benign chemical processing.

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A new graduate program designed to fill the need for registered patent agents will admit its first class this fall after gaining approval in late January. The one-year program, a Master of Science in Patent Law, will train students with a science or engineering background with the additional skills necessary to pass the Patent Bar exam.

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Jean-Baptiste Thibault, who received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2006, was one of seven General Electric scientists and engineers to be named a recipient of the Edison Pioneer Award in 2011.

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A multi-university research group which includes several University of Notre Dame faculty and graduate students, has recently published a paper detailing new work on the analysis and dating of human bruises. The research, which is funded by the Gerber Foundation, will have particular application to pediatric medicine, as bruise age is often key evidence in child abuse cases.

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Post-doctoral fellow Errol Philip made history this fall when he became the first two-time winner of a prestigious American Psychological Association graduate student award—just the latest in a long list of accolades.

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Notre Dame psychologist Nicole McNeil recently received a three-year grant from the Institute of Education Sciences for her research in factors affecting children's understanding of mathematics.

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In July 2012, scholar, conductor and interdisciplinary artist Carmen-Helena Tellez will join the University of Notre Dame as a professor in the "Department of Music":http://music.nd.edu/ and in the "Master of Sacred Music":http://theology.nd.edu/graduate-program/master-of-sacred-music/ program in the "Department of Theology":http://www.theology.nd.edu.

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A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame have demonstrated a novel DNA detection method that could prove suitable for many real-world applications. Physicists "Carol Tanner":http://physics.nd.edu/people/faculty/carol-e-tanner/ and "Steven Ruggiero":http://physics.nd.edu/people/faculty/steven-t-ruggiero/ led the team in the application of a new technique called laser transmission spectroscopy (LTS). LTS is capable of rapidly determining the size, shape and number of nanoparticles in suspension.

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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 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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p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/52531/mark_alber_comp.jpg(Mark Alber)! An interdisciplinary collaboration of six researchers, including four from Notre Dame, have received a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study the interplay of motility mechanisms during swarming of the bacterium _Myxococcus xanthus_. Their study is essential to understanding how millions of bacteria function in real environments. "Mark Alber":http://physics.nd.edu/people/faculty/mark-alber/, the Vincent J. Duncan Family Professor of Applied Mathematics and director of the "Center for Study of Biocomplexity":http://nd.edu/~icsb/ at the University of Notre Dame, is principal investigator of the team.

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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.

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

Lauren Rich, a Ph.D. candidate in Notre Dame’s Department of English, has been awarded a 2011–12 American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women for her research on food in early 20th century British and colonial fiction.

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p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/48192/wiest_olaf_web_comp.jpg(Olaf Wiest)! NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a cancer without a cure, and one that affects all age groups. NMC is a rapid-growth disease with an average survival time of four and a half months after diagnosis, making the development of clinical trials for potential therapies or cures for this cancer difficult, to say the least. But difficult doesn’t mean impossible, and "Olaf Wiest":http://newsinfo.nd.edu/for-the-media/nd-experts/faculty/olaf-wiest/, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, is one of a group of collaborators studying the effects of a specific molecule (JQ1) on the trigger that controls the growth of this form of cancer.

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

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

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p. The sixth annual symposium on Notre Dame Environmental Education and Research (NDEER) will be held Wednesday (Oct 10) from 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in the Universitys McKenna Hall auditorium. p. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Energy Center, the Office of Research, the Seng Foundation Endowment for Market Based…

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Funds are provided through three different endowments to allow graduate students to travel around the world for conferences, workshops, research and many other opportunities.

Read More about More Than $175,000 In Professional Development Awards Distributed In 2010-11