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Graduate School Honors Four Graduating Doctoral Students with the Shaheen Awards

Published: May 24, 2018

This year’s winners boast cutting-edge research accomplishments in their fields, as well as notable publication records, national recognition, talent for teaching and mentorship, and dedication to the community.

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Graduate School degree recipients encouraged to practice empathy, ‘insist on reason and evidence’ in judgments and decisions

Published: May 24, 2018

Author: Erin Blasko

The University of Notre Dame Graduate School held its annual Commencement Ceremony Saturday (May 19), handing out 286 doctoral degrees and 500 master’s degrees and presenting several awards to distinguished members of the Graduate School community.

Mark Summe Wins 2018 Notre Dame Shaheen 3MT® Competition

Published: April 25, 2018

Author: Aaron Bell

Mark Summe presents during 3MT®. Mark Summe, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, won the 2018 Notre Dame Graduate School Shaheen Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®) on Monday night in Jordan Auditorium.…

Louise Richardson, vice-chancellor of Oxford and recipient of an honorary degree at Notre Dame's 2018 Commencement

Oxford vice-chancellor Louise Richardson to speak at Graduate School Commencement

Published: April 23, 2018

Author: Nora Kenney

The Graduate School’s annual Commencement Ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 19, at 10:00 a.m. in the Compton Family Ice Arena. During the ceremony, the University will confer 286 doctoral degrees and 500 master’s degrees, as well as present several awards to distinguished members of the Graduate School community.

2018 Shaheen 3MT® Engineering Finalists Named

Published: April 13, 2018

Author: Aaron Bell

Three 3MT® finalists were named out of nine competitors on Wednesday night in DeBartolo Hall at the College of Engineering qualifying round. Mark Summe (Chemical Engineering), Xunzhao Yin (Computer Science and Engineering) and Diya Li (Chemical Engineering) were chosen to represent Engineering at the finals in Jordan Auditorium on April 23 at 5 p.m.

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23 students and alumni win NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awards or honorable mentions

Published: April 12, 2018

Author: Nora Kenney

The fellowship provides three years of financial support in the form of $34,000 annual stipends and $12,000 cost-of-education allowances to the fellows’ graduate institutions.

Winners Declared in 2018 3MT^® College of Science Qualifying Round

Published: April 12, 2018

Author: Aaron Bell

Cool temps did nothing to chill the heated competition among College of Science Shaheen 3MT competitors Tuesday night at Jordan Hall of Science.

Arslan and Oyekole-Smith Named Humanities Without Walls Fellows

Published: March 26, 2018

Author: Nora Kenney

Two Notre Dame graduate students in the College of Arts and Letters have been named 2018 Humanities Without Walls (HWW) pre-doctoral workshop fellows, Caitlin Smith-Oyekole, a fourth-year in English, and Sevda Arslan, a second-year in Anthropology.

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Psychology Ph.D. candidate Tony Cunningham named Cross Scholar for leadership promise

Published: January 15, 2018

Author: Erin Blasko

University of Notre Dame graduate student Tony Cunningham is among seven recipients of the 2018 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, presented annually to the most promising future leaders in higher education in the U.S.

AAUW Campus Action Project: Promoting Women Leaders in STEM

Published: December 06, 2017

Author: Hannah Babbini

The Graduate School has recently joined forces with campus partners from AWIS-ND, GradSWE, and the Postdoc Women’s Group to submit and win a Campus Action Project Grant from the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

Call for Nominations: Graduate School Commencement Awards

Published: November 13, 2017

Author: Nora Kenney

Each year, the Graduate School presents several major awards at Notre Dame Commencement. These include the James A. Burns, C.S.C. Award, the Director of Graduate Studies Award, the Graduate Administrative Staff Member Award, and the Distinguished Graduate Alumnus Award. Last year, the Graduate School also conferred the inaugural Notebaert Award.

Irish and Notre Dame STEM students encouraged to apply for a Naughton Fellowship

Published: November 12, 2017

Author: Joanne Fahey

The University of Notre Dame has opened its annual competition for the Naughton Fellowships. The prestigious international fellowships provide funding for exceptional Ph.D., masters, or undergraduate students with an aptitude for the STEM disciplines to complete research or study in Ireland or at Notre Dame.

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PhD Fellow Working in Rio Favelas Wins Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship

Published: November 08, 2017

Author: Elizabeth Rankin

Kellogg Institute PhD Fellow Stefanie Israel de Souza (sociology), who is also a 2017-18 Kellogg Dissertation Year Fellow, has been awarded a $20,000 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

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Astrophysics graduate students witness first-ever detected neutron star collision

Published: October 17, 2017

Author: Deanna Csomo McCool

Third-year physics graduate students Kaitlin Rasmussen and Devin Whitten were settling into their observation work in August on the 2.5-meter Irénée du Pont Telescope atop a rocky mountain in Las Campanas, Chile, scouring for a type of star enhanced by a set of reactions called the rapid-neutron capture process, or r-process. What they witnessed instead is being described as one of the most significant discoveries in astrophysics.

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Nigam Takes Second at ACM Student Research Competition

Published: October 17, 2017

Author: Nina Welding

Aastha Nigam, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, placed second in the graduate division of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Student Research Competition held Oct. 4-6 during the recent Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, Fla.

Sarah Lum Wins Graduate Research Fellowship Award from the National Institute of Justice

Published: October 10, 2017

Author: Nora Kenney

The fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is one of ten 2017 recipients of the high-profile Graduate Research Fellowship in STEM from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

Notre Dame Receives Grant from Council of Graduate Schools for PhD Career Pathways Study

Published: August 29, 2017

Author: Aaron Bell & Nora Kenney

The Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) for participation in the PhD Career Pathways Project. Supported by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation (NSF…

Harper Cancer Research Postdoc Receives Highly Competitive Career Development Award From NIH/NCI

Published: August 01, 2017

Author: Valli Sarveswaran

Dr. Tyvette Hilliard, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Sharon Stack, Director of Harper Cancer Research Institute, has received a highly competitive 5-year K01 Research Career Development award from the NIH/NCI.

Notre Dame Graduate School Program Earns ALE Conference Honors

Published: July 19, 2017

Author: Aaron Bell

The 2017 Association of Leadership Educators Conference has recognized The University of Notre Dame Graduate School’s Ethical Leaders in STEM program with the Distinguished Innovative Practice Award for its unique leadership training model for future leaders in STEM fields.

Developing the gold standard for efficient diagnostics

Published: June 12, 2017

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Notre Dame researchers are improving the speed and practicality of detecting disease.