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Psychology Locks Two of Three Finalists in Arts and Letters 3MT Prelims

Author: Evan Bryson

!/assets/191602/al_finalists_small.png(al_finalists_small)! Yesterday evening’s "College of Arts and Letters":http://al.nd.edu/ "Three Minute Thesis (3MT)":http://3mt.nd.edu/ Prelims netted three finalists from a pool of seven competitors. Tony Cunningham (Psychology), Laura Bland (History and Philosophy of Science), and Caroline Hornburg (Psychology) will go on to compete against finalists from the "College of Engineering":https://engineering.nd.edu/ and the "College of Science.":http://science.nd.edu/

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Graduate Student Travels to Nepal to Design and Construct Housing for Earthquake Victims

Author: Carrie Gates

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/186436/phaup_with_bamboo_icon.jpg(Kevin Phaup)! Kevin Phaup, who is pursuing a master’s degree in industrial design, went to Nepal last summer to conduct research for his thesis project—designing stronger, safer, cost-effective temporary shelters for refugees and victims of natural disasters. While there, he worked with Hope for Nepal, an organization co-founded by Assistant Professor Ann-Marie Conrado, to construct temporary shelters, permanent homes, and schools after an April 2015 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people and displaced more than 3 million.

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Record highs for Notre Dame research funding

Author: Joanne Fahey

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/175504/200x/2014_ceees_300.jpg(CEES Professor Amy Hixon works with an undergraduate researcher in her Stinson-Remick lab)! The University of Notre Dame has received $133.7 million in research funding for fiscal year 2015. This is an all-time record for the University and $20 million more than last year.

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PhD Fellow Returns to Chile to Make a Difference

Author: Alexis Palá

p(image-right). !/assets/167442/alejandro2.jpg(alejandro2)! Former Kellogg PhD Fellow Alejandro Montecinos is motivated to create change in his native Chile and other developing economies. In January, PhD in hand, he returned to his hometown of Viña del Mar to continue with his research as an assistant professor at the Universidad de Adolfo Ibáñez.

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Graduate School Awards 2015: Distinguished Alumnus, Faculty, and Staff Awards

Author: Mary Hendriksen

p(image-right). !/assets/165382/christopher_roberts.jpg(christopher_roberts)! During Commencement season 2015, the Graduate School bestowed four prestigious awards: the Distinguished Alumnus Award; the James A. Burns, CSC Award; the Director of Graduate Studies Award; and the Graduate Administrative Staff Member Award.

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Graduate School Celebrates Its Degree Recipients at Commencement 2015

Author: Mary Hendriksen

p(image-right). !/assets/165363/5.16.15_grad_school_ts.jpg(5)! The University of Notre Dame Graduate School recognized 437 master’s and 245 doctoral degree recipients and presented several awards during Commencement ceremonies Saturday (May 16) in the Compton Family Ice Arena.

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2015 Naughton Fellowship Awardees Announced

Author: Joanne Fahey

Twenty-one winners of the Naughton Fellowships were announced today by the Graduate School. The research fellowships were awarded to undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. students from Notre Dame and from Ireland. This year’s winners from Notre Dame represent three Notre Dame Colleges and Schools, including Arts and Letters, Engineering, and Science. Seven graduate students were among the awardees.

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Student Spotlight: Anthony Ruth, Physics

Author: Evan Bryson

p(image-right). !/assets/163560/screen_shot_2015_05_05_at_11.26.22_am.png(screen_shot_2015_05_05_at_11)! This spring, Anthony Ruth was selected as the recipient of a prestigious 2015 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, one of the most selective and most well-funded graduate student research fellowships in the United States. In a very real sense, his work will be used for space missions.

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Sarah Edmands Martin wins Walter Beardsley Award for thesis installation "The Princess & The Beast"

Author: Evan Bryson

p(image-right). !/assets/162210/martin_thumbnail.png(martin_thumbnail)! Sarah Martin, a third-year graduate student in the department of Art, Art History and Design, received the Walter Beardsley Award from the Snite Museum of Art for her thesis installation _The Princess & The Beast_. Charles Loving, Director of the Snite, presented the award during the opening reception for the 2015 Thesis Exhibition, held the evening of April 10.

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Noted Scholar Jane McAuliffe to Deliver the Graduate School Commencement Address

Author: Mary Hendriksen

p(image-right). !/assets/162197/excerpt_mcauliffe.jpg(excerpt_mcauliffe)! Jane McAuliffe, a scholar of the Qur’an and early Islamic history, and director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, will deliver the Commencement Address on Saturday, May 16, at the Commencement ceremony for the University of Notre Dame Graduate School.

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ESTEEM student to compete in Global Venture Labs Investment Competition

Author: Gene Stowe

Christopher Cali, an "entrepreneurship master’s (ESTEEM)":http://esteem.nd.edu/ student and a 2014 science-business alumnus, is part of a team that will compete in the Global Venture Labs Investment Competition in Austin, Tex. in May. The group, Enlightened Diagnostics, Inc. (EnDx), "qualified at a regional competition in February at the University of Louisville’s Brown-Forman Cardinal Challenge.":http://science.nd.edu/news/56320-enlightened-diagnosis-win-second-place-in-cardinal-challenge/

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